Top producers and songwriters
Custom production and songwriting. Bring references or lyrics and our producers will turn them into a finished track. Three rooms in Warsaw, running since 2017.
In short: Bring references, lyrics or just an idea, and a producer and songwriter will turn it into a finished track. Specific people work on it: a vocalist with over a thousand tracks behind him, a classically trained oboist, a songwriter who moves between genres that have nothing in common, and the acoustician of the Polish National Philharmonic. Music production starts from 500 PLN, songwriting from 1000 PLN + VAT, and the final figure depends on how far along the project already is. The brief is reference tracks or a description of the genre.
Custom production starts in very different places. One person walks in with written lyrics and no idea what melody could carry them. Another has a hummed line recorded on a phone and a backing track they have been piecing together for six months.
The only thing that changes is how much producer work separates that starting point from a finished track, and that is exactly what the quote describes.
What decides whether the track lands is above all who sits down to work with you. So below we write who those people are.
What exactly do our producers and songwriters do?
We build tracks from the ground up. In practice that means a few kinds of work that combine depending on what you arrive with.
- Music production - a backing track from scratch in an agreed genre direction, or building out a sketch you already have.
- Songwriting - lyrics and melody. We write the vocal line and phrasing around finished lyrics, and when the backing track is already done and the words are missing, we write lyrics to the music.
- Sound to picture - sound design for film, animation, commercials and short forms: reels, TikTok, Shorts. We mix to picture in 5.1.
We agree the scope up front and work inside it.
What does the brief look like and how does it start?
The brief is short, because that is all it takes. Send us tracks we should take inspiration from, or roughly describe the genre the song should sit in. References tell us more than a description, but either works.
If you have anything more - notes, lines written down on impulse, a sketch of a melody - attach it right away. The more starting material, the less time goes into finding the direction, and that feeds straight into the quote.
The quote depends on how far along the project is, so it only comes out of the brief. That is enough for us to know what we are talking about.
How much do music production and songwriting cost?
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Music production | from 500 PLN |
| Songwriting | from 1000 PLN + VAT |
Prices may vary depending on how far along the project is.
When recording and post-production come on top of production, separate items from the price list apply:
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Recording with an engineer | 200 PLN / h |
| Self-engineered recording | 150 PLN / h |
| Introduction to self-engineered recording | 200 PLN / h |
| Mix with mastering | from 500 PLN |
| Vocal mix | from 400 PLN |
| Mastering alone | from 300 PLN |
| Live version of a track | 50 PLN (Flightcore track) / 100 PLN (outside Flightcore) |
| DDP files for CD pressing | from 500 PLN |
For clients outside Poland we invoice in foreign currencies.
Who works on your track?
Specific people you can know by name work on the track. We are trained musicians, so we talk about a track in the language of music.
- Dister - vocalist, sound designer, producer and engineer, our artistic director. Over a thousand tracks behind him, so “will this hold up” is not a theoretical question for him.
- Sosad - classically trained oboist and multi-instrumentalist. He has stood in front of the microphone himself, so he hears voice production from the performer’s side, not only from behind the fader.
- Idea - songwriter with several hundred tracks to his name, at home in genres far apart from each other. We bring him in on tracks where the melody still has to be found and there are only lyrics so far.
- Sami - engineer and producer, day to day the acoustician of the Polish National Philharmonic. He sharpened his craft at Mix With the Masters seminars with Emile Haynie, a Grammy winner.
- Gery - the founder, who opened the first room in 2017 at the age of 19 and ran the build of every space we have. A film he produced made the 60th Kraków Film Festival.
Some of us teach Sound Creation at the Warsaw Film School, which stands across the street.
The producer running your project owns the direction and makes sure each version moves forward rather than sideways. The engineer on the session takes the DAW off your hands, so the recording flows without pauses for clicking through tools. Being your first listeners, we will also tell you which take is the one, and when you have more in you.
The rule we hold to on a session: we listen, we do not judge. An engineer can be assertive for the good of the track, and does it with a feel for the performer.
At the very end the track goes to someone who was not sitting at the mix. The ear gets used to its own decisions, so mastering here is done by a fresh pair of them.
Who have we worked with?
The list of people we have worked with includes Tymek, Young Leosia, Kizo and Julia Wieniawa. The list does not stop at the Polish scene: Lil Gnar and Lil Skies from the States are on it too, and Asteria drops in from New Zealand regularly. It has added up to 17 platinum and 12 gold records along the way.
We also do things that have nothing to do with rap. The Polish dub for The Amazing Digital Circus on Netflix and for Murder Drones on Amazon Prime was made here, and the Polish National Philharmonic comes to us the same way ad agencies and film companies do.
So the track you arrive with does not have to resemble anything on that list.
What gear do we work on?
We show gear through how someone handles it, so this will be short. We reach for the instruments we have on site whenever a given track calls for it: a Rhodes Seventy-Three, a Sequential Circuits Prophet-1000, a Korg Monopoly, a Roland Space Echo for space, a Kemper Profiling Amplifier for guitars.
We pick the microphone for the voice: a vocal sounds one way on a tube mic and another way on a ribbon. The collection is broad enough for that choice to have real backing.
Three rooms, 154 m² in total, run separately or as one complex. The Studio 1 control room fits 9 people, so there is space for the crew that came along to listen. Studio 2 is intimate, built for working one on one. Studio 3 has large windows and a large-format projector with a screen, which comes in handy when working to picture. You can work on your own computer or on ours.
What do you get at the end?
The result of the collaboration is a finished track, produced in the direction agreed in the brief. We close the scope up front, so you know whether we stop at a backing track with a melody or at a mixed and mastered record.
- Production - a finished instrumental, arranged around your track.
- Songwriting - lyrics, melody and the vocal line.
- Recording - if you record the track with us, the session ends with a rough mix to listen through together, because comping and initial balance already happen during recording.
- Mix and mastering - we usually present the first mix version within 7-10 days of the order. From the fourth or fifth version, depending on the situation, we flag a small surcharge.
At the mix stage we take notes written out as bullet points against timestamps, in the form “02:37 - vocal louder”. We work from the beat stems and use techniques the track will carry: vocal comping, vocal chops, spot delay, reverb tail, filter automation.
We keep the original character of the recording and the artist’s vision. We add co-production elements when they serve the track. Mastering closes the whole thing, and its goal is a track that holds together and works on every playback system: headphones, monitors, a car radio, a phone.
One thing we say plainly at the brief stage: loudness and tonal balance can be improved on any material, but the character of the recording itself stays the one it was made in. So with material recorded at home it is worth cutting the vocal with us - then the whole track goes through the same process from the first take.
How to start?
Write to us and send references or a description of the genre - that is enough for us to come back with a quote. If you have finished lyrics or a sketch of a melody, attach it right away.
We are at ul. Adama Mickiewicza 9/U1 in Żoliborz, Warsaw, 5 minutes on foot from the metro and 20 minutes from Chopin Airport. There is a restaurant in the building.