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Copyright

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Delivery Specs

COPYRIGHT MATERIALS
All files sent to PARADOX Music LAB, LLC must be your own original works, fair use or if copyrighted by a 3rd party, you must provide documentation stating you have rights of use. PARADOX Music LAB, LLC reserves the right to refuse service to anyone with or without reason.

ZOOM MEETING RECORDINGS

Consultation meetings are meant to gather project information before service begins. These meetings are done using the Zoom video conference software. Furthermore, consultation meetings will be recorded and those recordings will be stored by the Zoom corporation for use by PARADOX Music LAB, LLC and its employees for note recall purposes. In some cases part of the services may require additional Zoom video meetings, which may also be recorded.

REFUNDS

Refunds are handled in the following circumstances:

1) If services are started but not complete. The partial upfront fee will not be refunded. The remaining fee will is longer due.

2) If service has been completed. No Refunds are available.

WHO WE ARE

Paradox Music Lab, LLC operated by Craig Scott Frost offers music production services.
Our website address is: http://www.paradoxmusiclab.com

WHO WE WORK WITH

This website is operated and hosted with WIX.

Payments go through Stripe.

File transfers and cloud backups are through DropBox.

Mix reviews and revisions are handled by Samply.

COMMENTS

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

MEDIA

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

COOKIES

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

DELIVERY SPECS
Please include a lyric sheet (.PDF or .TXT) with designations for what you consider to be the Verses, Choruses, Pre-Choruses, Bridge, etc. as this will help with communicating revisions later in the process. It would also be helpful to include the song's tempo here if a click track was used along with the key the song is in and any modulations that take place.

If your song contains multiple lead or featured vocals and ad-libs, please make sure what you want featured and when is noted on the lyric sheet.

GENERAL PREP GUIDELINES

Please only send the tracks you’d like in your song/project. Specific takes should be decided before sending files for mixing.
For new mixes, please send consolidated MULTITRACK files, not STEMS. The MULTITRACK contains the original files you recorded. All clips on a track should be consolidated into one file.
STEMS stand for STEreo Mix and are files that have already been processed and mixed down from the original multitrack.
All files must start at 0:00.
Please double-check all edits for clicks and pops before consolidating files for export.
Please do not clean your tom tracks for acoustic drum recordings.
If you really want to clean them, please make sure you don’t remove the sustain of the drums or cut off the attack of the drums.
Track Naming & Numbering
- Please name all Audio Tracks in your DAW before recording and/or exporting. (ex. Kick In, Kick Out, Snare Top, etc.)
  If possible, it is helpful to organize these with two digit numbers at the start of the name (ex. 01 Kick, 02 Snare, etc.) to keep files organized.
- Please keep names as simple as possible. For example, “12 guitar" or “14 gtr" or "17 gtr solo".
- When possible, please label drum overheads and rooms with the side of the kit they are on relative to specific cymbals and/or drums (ex. OH-Hat and OH-Ride or OH-Floor Tom.)
- Make sure all Lead Vocal tracks are specified as “Lead”.
  Live recordings featuring multiple songs and/or lead singers should include a document listing song titles with their specific lead singers (as named in the files) and song start times in the session.
- When sending multiple songs for mixing, please make sure the same file/track naming conventions are used on each song.
Please include/record any Click and/or Cue tracks used during recording. If you have requested stems for live performance use, we will use these to create proper stems.
If there are specific plug-ins you are using to achieve a sound, please make sure and print these to a separate file noted as “processed”. Please leave the original file in there, too, labeled as “original”.
If you have a sound you love and created by blending multiple tracks such as multiple mic's on a guitar or bass, please print that blend to an additional file, but also include the original tracks grouped together. The original tracks should be named logically (ex. gtr 1a, gtr 1b, gtr 1c) and the blend should note it is a blend (ex. gtr 1 blend).
Please label your song's folder with the Song Title, Tempo, Sample Rate, and Bit Depth.
Example: TheBestSongEver_118bpm_48k_24b
Please include a rough mix of your song(s) with your tracks if you have one available. Live recordings should include the FOH mix.

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