On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Richard L. Hess wrote: > Look at your hourly rate. Look at how much other stuff you can do > while something else is happening. Look at how long each task takes > and charge accordingly. I believe in a basic pricing structure that > treats everyone the same. When I set up our reformatting/restoration service at the University, I did pretty much the same as Richard suggested in his posting. For our internal (University customers) we started out charging $60 an hour. Local studio rates are about $90-$110 an hour, so, by law, we had to charge more, for our non-university work, as to not to be seen as being in competition with the private sector. While I no longer do any of the transfer work at the University, I do my own work for my label and will, from, time to time, do work for others. Unlike Richard, my rates depend on how much I think I would enjoy the project...and I charge less doing work for friends. I would like to add, that you can get cheaper rates, but if you want it done right, it takes time. When it comes to music, I monitor everything as closely as I would if I was planning to release it. In the "old" days, one needed to monitor both the source and the copy. I recently acquired a collection of tapes which had some Mitropoulos performances I would like to issue. Unfortunately, most of the tapes have drop out which happened during the original transfer from the lacquers...and I don't have access to the lacquers...anyone out there with Mitropoulos conducting Wolpe and the Schuman Judith? Karl