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General Policies

Booking, Cancellations, and General Policies: 

  1. When we “hold” dates for you, or you’ve been “penciled” in to the calendar, you have 72 hours (3 days) to confirm those dates AND put down a ~50% deposit on the studio time. If you need more time to sort out your schedule, please let us know. Otherwise, the HOLD will expire, and those dates can be offered to other clients. 
  2. We understand that occasionally plans change.  If you need to cancel a booking, please give us as much advance notice as possible. If your session is between a few hours and 2 days, we need at LEAST 48 hours advance notice, or you’ll lose your entire deposit.
  3. If your session is three or more days, we need at least two weeks advance notice for cancellation. We’ll either refund your deposit, or put it towards a future session, at our discretion. 
  4. If you’ve made a deposit and WE have to move YOUR session because of a scheduling conflict, we’ll do everything in our power to accommodate your needs, or offer you a complete refund. This can happen when (you) have time booked, but a session that’s booking significantly more time has a conflict with the your session. 
  5. Time spent setting up is included in billable studio time. The Studio reserves the right to charge for some breakdown time if it’s incredibly involved and time consuming. 
  6. Sessions start at the booked time – not when the artists arrive.
  7. Payment is due in a timely fashion. Failure to pay all or part of your bill can result in difficulty booking time in the future. 
  8. Overtime can be charged at the end of a 10 hour block (even during a lockout). Q’s overtime rate is time and a half of the staff only rate (i.e. – not the studio time/room fee!). It’s the staff engineer discretion when to start charging overtime, once the 10 hours have been completed.
  9. Master tapes and files are not released until full payment has been made.
  10. For sessions with many musicians and/or complicated/involved setups, we often recommend that an additional staff engineer be hired. This helps sessions move along quickly and efficiently!

Data backup: 

  1. The artists and clients are responsible for their data. Please arrive with at least one hard drive, preferably two. One to work on, and one for backup. 
  2. Q Division will make a good faith effort to backup your data WHILE YOU’RE WORKING at Q DIVISION, as a courtesy, but we are NOT RESPONSIBLE for data loss. 
  3. Q Division CANNOT keep your data indefinitely. We strongly encourage you to start any project with two drives, and then at the end of your project to archive your finished files to at least two drives, which are stored in separate locations. 

Miscellaneous Stuff:

  1. Piano tuning for your specific session is $150 dollars, paid at the time of deposit. The piano is tuned every couple of months, but if you need it retuned for your session, the tuning fee applies.
  2. Some amount of time spent taking breaks, eating, and dealing with technical issues is part of normal studio work. If a session has a catastrophic technical issue or in cases where technical issues eat up a significant amount of time, please notify the studio manager and we’ll EITHER issue a refund or add some free studio time, at our discretion. 
  3. Even in the event of technical glitches, we are not responsible for your or any 3rd party’s expenses – such as travel time or musician’s fees.

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Studio A is open again & booking sessions! We’re deep into over 30 years of recording, supporting, and bringing together the Boston music community.

Q Division Studios
It’s been five years since Mike Denneen aka The It’s been five years since Mike Denneen aka The Sheriff left the building. Check the link in the IG bio for his discography on Spotify - check it out and let us know where you land… guster, letters_to_cleo, fountainsofwaynesworld, and so so many amazing artists, songs and albums. Photos by Tom Dube (soundslingertom) and Lisa Garner.
Aside from all the rockers, fantastic players, pro Aside from all the rockers, fantastic players, producers, engineers, and musicians we meet, we also host a wide variety of talented artists from other walks of life. Yesterday we hosted Chris and Mel (bgsandsculptures)- award winning sand sculpture artists who were in recording some VO for a future show about their art. It was a treat to hear a little about their craft!  Seen here with chuck.hargreaves and me, mr.distorter. 
Photo captured by intern Mar.
Not just the rug, but recordingstudiodesigner and Not just the rug, but recordingstudiodesigner and soundwallconstruction really pulled this room together and helped get Q3.0 to the cover of mixonlineig (though in all fairness there was a large crew that helped open this place!). If you haven’t heard, our new Studio A is open for tracking and mixing. Read all about it in Mix Magazine, or drop us a line, swing by, or visit the website!
Here’s a Timelapse of the new studio being put t Here’s a Timelapse of the new studio being put together…. 18 months in an easy 37 seconds. That’s chuck.hargreaves on drums recorded by mayorqdiv and put together by me mr.distorter.
theproblemwithkidstoday spent a long weekend in St theproblemwithkidstoday spent a long weekend in Studio A along with veteran (and honorary former townie) producer adamlasus - we're looking forward to welcoming them back in May! jbmoney33 at the board and photos by me, mr.distorter 🙂 
And oh, btw.... 
WE'RE NOW FINALLY BOOKING STUDIO A - STARTING FROM THIS WEEKEND WE'RE FREAKING OPEN AGAIN!
On our (very long) way to opening our doors to the On our (very long) way to opening our doors to the general public (APRIL 15th!) we've been hosting sessions and working out some kinks. willdaileyofficial was kind enough to put up with our incomplete status and brought in a crew of fantastic musicians to track his new album. It was a bit of a trial by fire - we envision this room being used exactly this way - folks together in a room - tracking live, using all of the various acoustic spaces and isolation booths. Will's band included fancyassmusic, rohrjames, valauskased, joewmcmahon, codynilsen, ken.clark.1694, a.sternmusic, brophydrums, with jbmoney33 engineering (and of course alongside Coco - one of the finest studio pups!). They knocked out a bunch of tunes and gave us a real good feel for what's working and what could be better. 
AND - not only did they record a bunch of tunes, they even live-streamed the session a couple of times a day, so folks could tune in and get a front row seat and witness the process - unvarnished, unfiltered. Check out some of these photos that I (mr.distorter) took.
Here's our big news... Studio A is ready! At long Here's our big news... Studio A is ready!
At long last, we’re looking forward to introducing you to our new 2800 square feet of our main recording room.
Q’s Neve 8068 is spic and span - inside and out (more of the restoration story soon), and we have a big - currently lonely- live room that’s waiting to be filled with you. The performance studio includes a large high-ceiling central space, a sizable live isolation room (we’re calling it The Drum Room), and a very dead room we’re calling The Piano Room. We’ve prioritized sight lines between all these rooms and also into the control room. There are two additional small isolation booths for amps, and an area we’re calling “The Inspiration Wall” which we find visually and acoustically… um… inspiring.
So give us a call - after almost two years of working on this space - we’re looking forward to hearing you in it!
FAQ’s:
When?
We’re now booking sessions starting from April 15th and beyond.
Where?
171 Rindge Ave. It's behind 169 Rindge and across from the Reservoir Church.
Parking?
You can reach us easily from three MBTA stops - Porter Square, Davis Square, and Alewife. We have limited parking in our driveway for artists, and there’s a bit of guest/non-permit parking in the neighborhood. More details on our website.
How Much?
We’ve built a brand new facility and put an incredible amount of effort into restoring the Neve, and well - the world’s come a long way since 1986 - so our rates have gone up. BUT - while we’re still building Studio B, we’re offering an introductory rate. Check in with Ed or any of us via email or phone for all the details.
Hey friends! Big announcement coming Wednesday! Hey friends! Big announcement coming Wednesday!
Did you guys know that willdaileyofficial has been Did you guys know that willdaileyofficial has been LIVE STREAMING his actual recording sessions from studio A? He’s live right now and it’s super cool… link in our bio.
So some of the old artwork just won’t make it to So some of the old artwork just won’t make it to a wall in the new studio, no reason it can’t live forever here, right? This is an excellent First Aid For Choking poster from the New York Health department that hung in the B dining room area for a while. It’s worth zooming in for the user mods.
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