As a Record Label A&R you can book a recording studio or an engineer for services such as: Recording Sessions, 2-Track Mixing, Full Stem Mixing, Dolby ATMOS, and Mastering.
Steps to book a service:
1. Select A Service
Follow the steps here to search and select a studio or engineer.
- More details on how to book an audio engineering service (mixing, mastering, dolby atmos)
- More details on how to book a studio recording session
2. Booking Details
Follow the steps here to enter booking details for the selected service.
3. Pay to Proceed
There are 2 ways to pay when booking a project or session. You will need to choose one of these methods in order to proceed with the project/session booking.- Pay with Credit Card
- Request Budget Approvals (Direct Billing or PO)
Pay with Credit Card
If you're in a rush to book the service, you have the option to pay with credit card and checkout out seamlessly.
1. On the Order Summary Page, click the Pay with Card button
2. Then click the Checkout button
3. Choose a payment option and enter the payment details (email, name, phone, address etc)
Payment Options
Choose from a number of payment options, including:
- Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard, etc.)
- Debit Card
- Paypal
- Klarna (for splitting payments into multiple installments)
- Affirm (for splitting payments into multiple installments)
- Cash App
- Google Pay
- Apple Pay
Complete the payment process by filling out the required info for the chosen payment method.
Note: Some engineers/studios offer partial payments for their services by requiring an initial deposit to make a booking. When submitting payment, you can choose to pay the total balance upfront or pay the deposit initially, and the remaining balance later.
Refund Policy
- You are agreeing to this policy upon checkout. Click here to read our refund policy.
4. Finish checkout
- Click the 'checkout' button to finalize your order's payment submission.
- If you don't have an EngineEars account (or you are not logged in), you may be asked to confirm a one-time code sent to your entered email or mobile phone number to verify the transaction. Once the code is correctly entered, you can proceed with processing the payment.
- After checkout is completed, you will receive a confirmation email and the booked project/session will appear in your My Bookings page.
👏 Congrats! You have successfully booked your project/session.
Request Budget Approvals (Direct Billing or PO)
If you'd rather pay for the project/session booking via your Record Label's direct billing/PO process, follow these steps below to proceed.
1. Once you have finished entering the details of your booking on the Order Summary page, scroll down to the My Team section
2. Enter emails to invite the relevant team members from your Record Label
Invite Your Team
Label: if not already selected automatically, choose your specific Record Label from the list
Budget Approver: enter email addresses for the individuals/team who are responsible for approving budgets for the project/session. The budget must be approved in order for final asset files to be unlocked for download.
Billing Admin: enter email addresses for the billing admin(s) who are responsible for submitting billing info for the project/session (e.g. the billing info submitter). The billing info must be submitted in order for final stems/files and/or included alts to be unlocked for download.
Collaborators: optionally enter email addresses for any collaborators you want to invite to collaborate on the project/session so they can be notified when files are ready for playback/review, as well as to request revisions, provide feedback notes/comments, and/or approve final files during QC.
3. Request Budget Approvals
Click the 'Request Budget Approvals' button to finalize your booking order submission.Note: Budget Approver email and Billing Admin email are required in order to Request Budget Approval. Enter at least 1 email address in both fields to enable the Request Budget Approval button to be clickable.
You will receive a confirmation email and the booked project/session will appear in your My Bookings page.
👏 Congrats! You have successfully booked your project/session.
NOTE: The payment method "Direct Billing or PO" is only available for booking Mixing, Dolby Atmos, or Mastering projects with audio engineers. In order to book a Recording session or Studio session, you will need to use the Pay with Credit Card payment method.
What Happens Next?
- Budget Approval: your designated Budget Approver will be asked to review and approve the budget request for your booked project/session to begin
- Upon budget approval, your booked service provider will be notified and can begin work
- Begin recording or mixing/mastering work with your booked service provider. Upload files and take advantage of our chat messaging tools to communicate in real-time.
- Track status, share visibility/access with your invited collaborators, review files and submit feedback (e.g. revision requests and time-stamped comments).
- If the artist and/or their team is happy with the finished product, provide approval. Once approved, the engineer will be prompted to upload final deliverables.
- Submit Billing Info: your designated Admin will be asked to review and submit Direct Billing Information for your project/session to continue to QC
- Upon billing info submission, your booked service provider can prep and upload final files
- After the engineer has uploaded final deliverables for the project, you will need to share the project's files to your QC team for review
- QC Approval: Once shared, your QC team will be asked to download, review and approve final asset deliverables to complete and close out the project