What do you think would be a good...
prof_rockwell
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...rate to charge people to transfer their vinyl to CDs? Getting my freelance game on lock...I was thinking $15 per album, so that would cover transportation cost to pickup and dropoff, time, and materials (i.e. blank discs)
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- gear expertise
- gear wear & tear (cart/needle/computer/etc)
- time calibrating your gear/software to the record - AKA setup - (15 min)
- time inputing/supervising the recording process (30-50 min/album)
- time normalizing/editing/cutting record - (15-30 min, depending on skips, pops, etc)
- time mastering/burning files to CD - (15-30 min)
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approx 75-125 min
= flat rate of $50 lp, $25 flat fee for pops/click repair
if my setup was that complex, I'd do $50, but I just record to an audio CD-RW, import to my laptop and burn an audio CD from iTunes so it will have all the ID3 info and cover art.
well sure, but that's why I'm marketing this service to all the non-technophiles on craigslist. Plus, it's basically free money to listen to records, and if they got some hot shit, I can keep a copy for myself. It hit me when I was transferring that Puerto Rican record in the other thread last night, cause a lot of fools have records but no record player....
Yessir, I do. Sounds like a good hustle. GL.