Vinyl to CD

artha

googler wrote: »

Round my way, the going rate for things like hairdressing, sports massage, other health therapies, gardening, workshop services, etc is £35 - 40 per hour. I'd be charging closer to this.

Just a contentious comment and way off thread but do you live in Mayfair? £40 per hour for someone who has been to technical college for a couple of years and therefore thinks they are qualified like someone who has been to university is way too much. If I want any tradesman/artisan type job the maximum I would pay is £20 per hour. Anything more than that then I will do it myself even though I am retired

googler

No, Scotland.

My other half pays £25 for a hair appointment lasting around an hour, and that's not in any of the 'designer' salons, who have scaled charges (higher than this) for a 'stylist', 'senior stylist', 'styling director', 'senior styling director' and 'consultant' ......

The standard labour rate for vehicle workshops around here is £35 - 40 ph. Go to a Jaguar or similar dealership up here and you're looking at £50 - 70 per hour.

Standard sports massage - £35 per hour

Acupuncture - £45 per hour

As I said, if I were doing vinyl dubbing to CD as a business, I'd be charging closer to £35 - 40 than the £10 per hour that the previous poster had suggested.

Mr_Oink

We used to charge £16 per hour between 1997-2005 when we finally stopped offering the service. The average LP would take a little over an hour. It was a pretty mixed lot, but I'd say we saw more 12'' singles than anything else. Whilst you can get loads of stuff that has been remastered on CD, there are lots of 12 inch mixes / remixes that remain on vinyl only and are quite scarce. The service is very niche however and did not warrant us continuing to offer it.

On the subject of time related charges, most of the job is about sitting and listening making notes of any jumps and taking action to remedy that - so the money is earned. If we had a jump in the session we would try and clear that and edit it for a 'good' version. We also used high end equipment that can mostly be mimicked in software now. When we first started offering the service PC's with Pentium 2s and 4gb hard drives were top of the range and a CDr drive cost a little shy of £700. The PC hardware is now cheap as chips but the use of a decent turntable and interface is still very important. If you only have a few records to convert then it makes sense to pay someone else who has decent kit to do it. If you have a shed load of records by the kit yourself and make a project of it.

KillerWatt

artha wrote: »

£40 per hour for someone who has been to technical college for a couple of years and therefore thinks they are qualified like someone who has been to university is way too much.

Attending Uni makes no odds, they still don't know jack until they have done their 5 years time served IMO.
In fact, the last Uni trained bod I met didn't even know how to use a crimping tool (yet his paperwork said he was qualified :eek:)

artha wrote: »

If I want any tradesman/artisan type job the maximum I would pay is £20 per hour.

I might answer the phone for that, but I wouldn't be picking any tools up.

artha wrote: »

Anything more than that then I will do it myself even though I am retired

There are a few jobs that the law says you can't do yourself, so I suspect you will pay whatever the tradesman wants

KillerWatt

Mr_Oink wrote: »

a CDr drive cost a little shy of £700.

My first CD-R drive was £1500, the blanks were just shy of £20 a pop, and there was no such thing as buffer under-run protection.

Mr_Oink

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Mr_Oink

KillerWatt wrote: »

My first CD-R drive was £1500, the blanks were just shy of £20 a pop, and there was no such thing as buffer under-run protection.

The drive was half price when we got it, so that would have made it £1500 prior to that deal. Seem to recall it was SCSI too.

They really were expensive coasters back then, seem to recall we were using WinOnCD/CQuadat or something of a similar name. We were not 'Mac' folk.

artha

KillerWatt wrote: »

Attending Uni makes no odds, they still don't know jack until they have done their 5 years time served IMO.
In fact, the last Uni trained bod I met didn't even know how to use a crimping tool (yet his paperwork said he was qualified :eek:)

I didn't actually mean a graduate coming in to do a tradesman type job, it's more the attitude of "I'm qualified therefore I have a licence to print money". Don't get me wrong however as those who set up their own business are to be applauded but price /hour should reflect real overheads and not just the perceived "going rate" charged by larger operations. I always tend to use one man/small scale operations who charge sensible prices and deliver the same quality as bigger operations

I might answer the phone for that, but I wouldn't be picking any tools up.

Just as well that teachers and nurses don't take that attitude;)

There are a few jobs that the law says you can't do yourself, so I suspect you will pay whatever the tradesman wants

Yes and no. For gas and electrical work I'll generally get someone authorised to do it but,unless it was an emergency, I'll find someone who I might have to wait for rather than the expensive ones who can do it at short notice. Those you have to wait for are generally giving value for money