How We Help
Every choir carries music that matters: folk songs passed down, new commissions, the piece your ensemble is known for. Too much of it never gets recorded, or gets recorded badly. Muni Sound exists to change that.
Start the ConversationWe Know the Hurdles
We've sung through them ourselves. Recording that costs too much and feels out of reach. Engineers who don't know the repertoire. The technical maze of capturing thirty voices and an orchestra in a live room, and the bigger maze of what happens to the recording after the session ends.
You shouldn't need an audio degree to get your choir's sound preserved. Bring us the music and the questions; we'll handle the rest. Choir on its own or with orchestra, piano, organ and soloists, we'll record it in a dedicated session or live at your concert or service.
Our Approach
Accessible Excellence
The studio comes to you: your venue, your acoustics, the room where your choir already feels at home. We're based in Los Angeles and have recorded in Austin, Boston, San Francisco and the Philippines, so if your choir is farther away, ask us about travel. We work on a sliding scale, because a good recording shouldn't be gatekept by price. Ensembles with bigger budgets help keep it within reach for ensembles with smaller ones. We explain every step in plain language.
Cultural Authenticity
Kundiman, spirituals, plainchant, or a brand-new commission: we learn how your tradition is supposed to sound before we set up a single microphone. Your sound stays yours.
Comprehensive Support
From pre-production through masters ready for streaming, CD, and vinyl, we stay with the project until it's out in the world. And long after, if you'll have us.
Immersive Audio
The Space Is Part of the Performance
Choral music lives in churches, halls, and open air, and the room is as much a part of the sound as the voices. That's why we record immersive: an eleven-microphone Grace Design array, built to travel, capturing your ensemble and the space it sings in together.
It's how we recorded the Philippine Madrigal Singers in a church in the Philippines, and the LALÒ Ensemble in San Francisco, in a collaboration with Apple: spatial audio and 360° video for the Apple Vision Pro. Never immersive for its own sake: immersive as the most faithful way to carry traditional music out of the room it was made in. If your session or concert is being filmed, we'll hand over audio files your video team can line up with their footage.
“It's the dance of listening to and appreciating the music for what it is, and making sure that you honor the fidelity of the music when you're mastering.”
Jett Galindo, in PLAYBACK MagazineOur Process
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Free Consultation
We talk about your ensemble, your repertoire, and what you want this recording to be.
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Custom Planning
Venue, schedule, and approach, planned around how your choir actually works.
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Recording
A calm session in a space where your singers feel comfortable, with takes until it feels right. For a concert or service, we record it as it happens.
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Engineering
Editing, mixing, and mastering by the same ears that master records for a living.
What You Receive
- Stereo masters ready for digital release, CD and vinyl (and ADM BWF files for immersive projects).
- Most mixes take about three rounds of revisions, and we don't set a strict limit.
- Some projects are done in a month and some take a year. We plan it together ahead of time so it works with everyone's timeline.
- For a filmed concert, audio files your video team can line up with their footage.
- Your ensemble owns the recording and the masters. We'll be proud to share it on our Listen page.
- From your venue, all we need is electricity. We bring everything that's needed to record the music.
We'd really like to hear what your choir is up to.
Write to us at info@munisound.com.