Our Terms of Service

Ownership of work rendered is transferred upon full payment for services.

The raw recording files of any session will remain the property of GNA Recording Studio until full payment is made for the recordings, unless otherwise agreed upon. GNA Recording Studio reserves the right to withhold these files until the agreed upon payment is made. If any offer is made by the studio to engage in providing services with reduced or no monetary compensation for those services, it is with the understanding that GNA Recording Studio may use such materials in commercial ways such as, but not limited to; promotional materials, demonstration or education purposes, selling of rights and reproduction etc. unless otherwise negotiated. When there is no monetary compensation, intellectual and mechanical rights are transferred to GNA Recording Studio unless otherwise explicitly negotiated. If only a fraction of the monetary compensation is received, in lieu of full payment, the remaining fraction is compensated for by the same fraction of ownership of both intellectual and mechanical rights of the work(s). I.E if only 50% payment is received, GNA Recording Studio Retains 50% of the intellectual and mechanical rights of the work(s), unless otherwise negotiated. In this case the client is solely liable for collecting their proportion of any revenues achieved. When only post production services are rendered all previous stipulations apply however GNA Recording Studio may not retain any ownership of the raw recordings themselves as they did not provide this service but in accordance with the aforementioned stipulations, can still avail of the potential commercial aspects of the work(s). GNA Recording Studio always retains the rights of the ‘DAW session’ itself for educational purposes under ‘fair use’.

Services rendered must be paid for.

GNA Recording Studio offers mechanisms for payment to make the financial aspect of recording and the hiring of other services more manageable such as 50% up front and 50% before the delivery of the final product for smaller projects or breaking payment up into structured payments for bigger projects. If the client avails of any of these payment mechanisms, it is obligated to pay the remaining balance once services are rendered completed. E.g. if GNA Recording Studio contacts the client that their mix is completed and invoices said client for the remaining agreed upon amount, the client cannot refuse to accept the final product to prevent having to pay for the services rendered. The clients choice of refusing the deliverables does not supplant their obligation to pay for the services already rendered for those deliverables. The payment of the first instalment is an agreement of contract for the project in question. If a price for a project has been agreed, the client can opt to not continue with the project at any given interval. The price for the project was arrived at with the understanding of guaranteed work, thus interrupting this contract may leave the client liable to pay for the real price of the rendered services to that date. Alternatively if more services have been rendered at the point of termination than has been compensated for through payment, GNA Recording Studio has the right to claim the remaining amount in a final invoice.

Refunds

Refunds will be granted for services that are not rendered, either fully or partially. If a discounted project price is agreed upon, only it’s ‘project value’ will be deducted, not the full list price for such service. Exclusions to this are in person bookings. The length of the booking must be paid for in full, not the time used by the client. Booking length is determined by the amount of time requested to be reserved by the client, not the amount the client wishes to use on the date in question. As such, a client cannot book a full day of recording, use half of it and then request the other half of the day be refunded to them.

Booking fees are non-refundable.

When an ‘in person booking’ is made, GNA Recording Studio reserves the right to retain the full amount of the fee made to secure the booking when cancelled on short notice. When the fee type on the supplied invoice is referred to as ‘booking fee’ and is a partial or full payment, it is understood that this type of fee is non-refundable. This is to recoup potential lost earnings from late cancellations. Late in this context is defined as a period of 7 days before the reserved date, eg. A booking scheduled for the 30th of March must be cancelled no later than the 22nd of March before the end of business hours on that day.

GNA Recording Studio reserves the right to cancel or end sessions for parties or an individual.

The studio reserves the right to cancel or end sessions from clients that are deemed to exhibit abusive, derogatory or otherwise discriminatory behaviour towards staff or other people involved at the studio or on the grounds either in person or through all forms of digital communication. This right is also reserved for abuse of the premises in both its structure and grounds and any and all equipment or property therein.

GNA Recording Studio reserves the right to compensation for destruction of property.

Insofar as is reasonable, the Studio reserves the right for compensation for damaged or destroyed property that is not part of normal wear and tear e.g. worn out drum heads or guitar strings. Where reasonable measures are not taken to avoid such damage e.g. drinks containers that can be spilled not being kept away from valuable electrical equipment or unnecessarily dangerous or reckless behaviour is exhibited, the studio reserves the right to be able to claim full compensation for such damages.

No smoking within the studio.

To preserve the sensitive equipment being used within the studio, we reserve the right to eject individuals who do not comply with our no smoking policy in accordance with Term 5.

Minors are the sole responsibility of their legal guardian.

GNA Recording Studio and it’s staff are not responsible for the behaviour of legal minors, who must be accompanied by at least 1 legal guardian or person(s) who will assume the legal position as such, to ensure both their safety and the integrity of the property they interact with. The same rights are reserved by the studio as in Term 5, where the legal responsibility lies with the individual assigned legal responsibility for the minor in question.

Stipulations of revisions included in post production and recording services.

A revision is defined by alterations made to the final product supplied by GNA Recording Studio, so that it may more closely align with the clients desired outcome. It must be preceded by the supplying of detailed notes by the client(s) for such revisions so a reasonable attempt may be made at the revision being executed. Three revisions are included in the price for both mixing and mastering services individually, even if purchased as one package. These revisions include changes to volume, panning, automation, loudness, EFX, dynamic range & tonal balance. Recording new parts is not a revision and will be charged at the rate for that service and may also incur new charges for mixing should be new part(s) be of a substantial enough nature where more than 1 hour is required to integrate them to the mix. For remote recording services one revision is included. Revisions for remote recordings must be supplied promptly, within 24 hours of files being delivered to the client, with clear directions including things like a clearly written explanation of where and how changes are to be made. A musical reference may also be included. Exclusions to this are when external session musicians are hired on behalf of the client by the studio or by the client(s) themselves. The session musician and studio must be compensated for this additional time in this case.

First payment is acknowledgement of these Terms of Service.

It is the responsibility of both the party issuing payment and the party or parties that attend the studio, if these are not one and the same, to have read and understood these terms. It is assumed that this is the case upon the successful payment of the supplied invoice. Ample and fair opportunity is provided to the client(s) and other involved parties to have read these terms, the link to which is clearly provided in email communications. It is the responsibility of the client(s) and other involved parties to have reasonably modern devices and requisite settings to be able to have these options displayed as they are intended to be. These Terms of Service are also clearly located at the footer of the website for easy access across all webpages at www.gnarecordingstudio.com. Those in communication with the studio via email are welcomed to read these terms before committing to paying for and availing of these services, either partially or in full. Failure to read these terms before booking is not grounds for a refund and will be rejected by the studio, with no limitation as to the proximity of the request to the date of the booking.