Fort Lauderdale, Florida
We're a small family studio: recording, production, mixing, and voice work, in English y en español. Bring whatever you've got. Even a voice memo is enough to start, and we'll help you turn it into a finished record, at your own pace.
Studio time is $70 an hour. Every price is public, a little further down this page.
Live from the booth · Fort Lauderdale · FL
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You don't need studio vocabulary. Find your sentence below, and the rest is laid out for you: the price, and exactly what happens after you click.
“I have my music. I need a real room.”
$70per hour
Track vocals over your beat, record your instruments, or run your own session on our gear. The rate covers the room, the equipment, and Livan on the board.
What happens: Pick a date on the live calendar. Your first hour, $70, holds it, and it comes off your total.
“I have an idea. I need everything else.”
$800–$1,500per song
From a voice memo to a release-ready master, arrangement and instruments included. No two songs cost the same, so this one starts with a conversation instead of a checkout button.
What happens: Tell Livan about the song. He answers within one business day with a real number. Nothing is paid until you approve it.
“I made a song with AI. I want it real.”
$400per song
Your Suno or AI-generated track, rebuilt with real instruments and studio production. The feel of the original, kept intact.
What happens: Send us the track first, free. Livan confirms it's doable within one business day; $200 starts the work.
Not sure which one fits? Email Livan and describe it in one sentence. Plenty of people write before they book, and nobody gets a sales pitch back.
Our story
In 1993, in Placetas, Cuba, a baby girl was born who the doctors said wouldn't survive: three cardiac arrests, twenty-eight days in a coma, and finally a quiet trip home so her family could say goodbye. Instead, she grew up. She learned to sing. And in 2021, Elizabeth Sánchez, by then an opera-trained soprano, recorded an album about the whole improbable thing and called it Nace Una Esperanza. Hope Is Born.
Here's what almost nobody knows: that album, the one that went on to win Album of the Year at the Premios Redención, was recorded in borrowed rooms. There was no studio. There were just the songs, and more faith than resources. It took five more years of writing and dreaming before hope finally found a home. In 2026, we opened the doors.
Elizabeth still records her music here, and Livan, the producer who has been behind every one of those recordings, now spends his days helping other people finish theirs. That's honestly the part we love most: someone walks in carrying half a song, and walks out with the real thing. If you have one, even if it only exists as a voice memo on your phone, bring it to us. This room was built for exactly that.
From the producer
Livan spent years as a DJ before he ever produced a record, watching rooms full of real people react to real songs, night after night. That education shows up in every session: he starts with what you want people to feel, then builds the track around it, from the first voice memo to the final master.
He plays and programs most of it himself, from keys and drums to bass lines and vocal stacks, and runs sessions in English, in Spanish, or both at once, at whatever pace you need. Reggaeton, full-band salsa, a stripped-down ballad: the rule never changes. It has to move you before it can move anyone else.
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The booth is treated and the mic is a German large-diaphragm condenser. Mostly the job is knowing when to hit record, and when to let you catch your breath and go again. Vocals, instruments, voiceover: you hear it come back clean the moment we play it back.
Nobody shows up with sheet music. Most people bring a voice memo, and honestly that's plenty to start. We build the arrangement with you and play most of it ourselves: piano, keys, drums, the programming. It happens right there in the room, while you watch it turn into a song.
We mix on real faders, not just a mouse. Every part gets its own space. Then we check it on cheap earbuds and out in the car, because that's where you'll really hear it, not on studio monitors.
The last pass. We get it loud enough to sit next to anything on your playlist, without squashing the life out of it. Then it goes out ready for streaming, video, or a CD if you still burn those.
Narration, podcasts, audiobooks, in English or Spanish. We set up the mics and keep the edits invisible: the breaths and the room noise are gone before you notice them. Then we master it for wherever it's going to live.
The room
Slat-wood on the walls, warm light, and enough absorption that nothing bounces back at you. The Williams grand stays on, the house kit stays mic'd, the condenser stays in its shockmount, so an idea can turn into a take without anyone stopping to set up. Livan is on the board for the whole session, and he works with what you bring: hum it, play it badly, show him a voice memo. Nobody here is going to make you feel behind.
In the room
Industry-standard sessions, mixed on real faders
Clean conversion and headphone mixes for full-band tracking
The vocal chain: shockmount, pop filter, patience
Tuned, mic'd, and played in a treated live room
For writing, arranging, and late-night ideas
The tracking headphones every studio trusts
How it works
Live availability on the calendar. What you see open is genuinely open, Monday to Saturday.
$70, one hour at the studio rate, and it comes off your total. Confirmation lands by email right away.
Within 24 hours, to talk through the song before you ever load in.
48 hours before your session: the exact address, parking, and who to text when you pull up.
Focused takes at your pace. The balance is paid in studio, and your files go home with you.
Pricing
Every price on this page is the real price. Studio time books online with a date on the calendar, AI recreations start by sending us your track, and full productions start with a conversation and a personal quote from Livan.
First-time clients can use FIRSTSEED15 for 15% off.
$70per hour
Most single-song vocal sessions take 2 to 3 hours.
For artists and producers who already have their music and need a professional room to record it in. Track vocals over an existing song, record instruments you bring, or run your own session on our gear: the rate covers the studio, the equipment, and the session itself.
Included in every hour
Today: your first hour, $70, holds your date.
At the session: the rest, after you've heard the room.
$800–$1,500per song
Final price depends on the complexity and genre of your project.
One song, carried from the first idea to a release-ready master. Livan brings years of production experience and works closely with you through every step, so the finished song matches your vision and holds up next to anything on the radio.
From beginning to end
Today: nothing. Livan confirms your quote first.
Then: a 50 percent deposit holds your dates.
$400per song
Half to start, half after you've heard the full preview.
Made a song you love with Suno or another AI tool? We recreate it professionally with real instruments, real production, and studio-quality recording: the feel of your original idea, lifted to a version you can proudly release. Minor customizations and adjustments can be discussed for each project.
What you get
First: send the track, free. Livan confirms it's doable.
Then: $200 starts the work; the last $200 after you've heard the full preview.
If it isn't right, you aren't stuck.
If the room isn't the right fit in the first thirty minutes, we stop and refund your deposit, no argument. Plans changed instead? Reschedule once with 48 hours' notice. Deposits are only held for late cancellations and no-shows.
Need something that isn't on this list?
Mixing an outside track, a podcast, voice work, or a project that doesn't fit a box: write to us or talk to Livan directly and we'll figure it out together.
Settling a balance or paying a quote from Livan? Pay online with card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay.
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Questions
You don't need to have it all figured out. Bring the idea, and whatever helps us hear it: a reference track or two, the lyrics or script, a rough demo if you have one. We'll find the rest in the room together.
Yes. Mixing and mastering for outside tracks is quoted per project; email us what you have and we'll come back with a clear number.
Studio sessions are held on the calendar with your first hour as the deposit; the rest is paid at the session. Production projects are held with a 50% deposit once Livan confirms your quote. AI recreations start free, and the $400 is paid in two halves.
It's a private studio in Fort Lauderdale, so the exact address goes to confirmed bookings only: it arrives by email 48 hours before your session, with parking and who to text when you pull up.
Reschedule once with 48 hours' notice, free. Deposits are only held for late cancellations and no-shows. And if the room isn't the right fit in the first thirty minutes of your session, we stop and refund your deposit, no argument.
Full productions and AI recreations include two revision rounds, structured and specific. Anything beyond that is agreed on before the work is done.
You do. Full rights transfer on final payment; the studio may ask permission to share short clips as portfolio work.
Full productions and AI recreations typically deliver within one to two weeks, depending on the project. Session files from studio rentals go home with you the same day.
Streaming-ready masters plus stems on request, through a private download link after final payment.
Siempre. Sessions, direction, and delivery are available fully in Spanish, English, or both in the same room.
Tell us what you're making, and we'll figure out the right session together: a date, a clear price, and a prep checklist so you walk in ready. We're in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The exact address is shared once your session is confirmed.
contact@hopeisbornstudio.com
