No need to travel to a studio: the sound engineer streams the instrumental live, you record your vocals from home, and every take comes back perfectly in sync with the production. You work in real time, as in a booth, with someone directing you.
Choose your engineer, check their availability and book a session at a time that suits you, at the rate shown on their service.
Before the session you install the Melo app, connect your microphone and headphones, and run a level and latency check with your engineer.
Your engineer streams the instrumental, you sing, they listen and direct you in real time. You stack takes exactly as you would in a studio booth.
Every take comes back in studio quality, aligned to the instrumental. You pick the ones you keep and download them ready for mixing.
This is the problem Melo solves. In a standard video call, the instrumental reaches you with a variable delay: you sing in reaction to that delay, and the take arriving at the other end lands offset, with drift that accumulates across the song. Melo records your voice locally, on your machine, in studio quality, and knows exactly where in the instrumental each sample was captured. The network only carries monitoring and conversation; it never touches the file. Your engineer therefore receives a track aligned to the production sample by sample, with no manual nudging and no drift to fix. That is what separates a real session from a file exchange: you work together, live, and the result goes straight into the mix.
Less than most people assume. A decent microphone into a USB audio interface, closed-back headphones and a stable internet connection are enough for a usable session. Closed-back headphones are not optional: open headphones or speakers let the instrumental bleed back into the microphone, which makes mixing impossible afterwards. As for the room, find the least reverberant spot in your home — a bedroom with a bed, curtains and an open wardrobe usually beats an empty living room. Move away from bare walls, switch off anything that hums nearby, and prefer a wired connection over Wi-Fi where you can. Your engineer reviews your setup at the start of the session and helps you fix what can be fixed before the first take.
You leave with raw, uncompressed vocal tracks at their original recording quality, aligned to the instrumental. Depending on what you worked on, that can include the lead, doubles, ad-libs and backing vocals as separate tracks. You can move straight on to mixing, with the same professional or another one from the catalogue, or take the files away to process yourself. Everything stays available from your Melo dashboard after the session.
A microphone and an audio interface, closed-back headphones so the instrumental does not bleed into the take, and a stable internet connection. Your sound engineer checks your setup at the start of the session.
No. Your voice is recorded locally, at studio quality; only the monitoring goes over the network. It is the local, uncompressed file that is then used for the mix.
Yes. Many sound engineers offer recording, mixing and mastering on the same profile: you can stay with the same person from the first take to the master.
Yes for a recording session. If you do not have one, you can first commission a composition or a production from a beatmaker in the catalogue.
The hourly rate is set and displayed by each engineer. You book the duration you need and pay on booking — no quotes, no studio hire on top.
One to two hours usually covers a single track, technical checks included. Allow more if you are recording several songs or a lot of backing vocals: finishing early beats cutting a session short.
No. A furnished room with soft materials and no large bare surfaces already yields perfectly mixable takes. Acoustic treatment helps, but it is not a prerequisite for recording a vocal.
Since your voice is recorded locally, a network drop interrupts monitoring, not capture. You reconnect and carry on: the takes already recorded are not lost.
Yes, by stacking takes one after another, exactly as in a studio. Each pass is recorded on its own track, which leaves the mix free to balance the layers however you want.
Yes, a dedicated Melo application, to be installed before the session. It handles local capture, instrumental monitoring and synchronisation. No digital audio workstation or extra licence is required on your side.