Recording Artists Editing and Proofreading Services

Four people spend an afternoon in a room and a song comes out of it. Three years later it is in an advertisement, there is money, and nobody can agree who wrote the topline — because the only record of that afternoon is a group chat, and two of the four remember it differently and honestly.

We edit what recording artists and songwriters produce — split sheets and session documentation, collaboration and band agreements, producer and featured artist terms, release and metadata documentation, sync licensing correspondence, funding and grant applications, artist biographies and press material, and the letters that resolve a disagreement between people who used to be friends. Our editors work on documents made in rooms where nobody wants to talk about money.

The split sheet is the most valuable document in a songwriter's career and the one most often skipped, and its failure is a record made after the song matters. Splits agreed in the room are administration; splits agreed after a sync is offered are a dispute. We work through these so every person present is listed with what they contributed, since a room contains writers, performers and people who were there, and only the first group has a claim; so the percentages are stated and add to one hundred, because a sheet recording contributions without numbers has recorded a memory rather than an agreement; so the publishing side is separated from the master side, given that these are different rights with different owners and confusing them is the commonest error in a first agreement; so any producer's points or beat-maker's share is written down at the time, as this is the arrangement most often left as a verbal understanding; so the song is identified unambiguously with a working title, a date and a reference to the file, since three songs called "Untitled 2" will exist by the end of the year; so everybody signs on the day, including anyone who says they do not want anything — a nil share signed is worth more than a generous memory; so the treatment of samples and interpolations is recorded with what has been cleared; and so a copy goes to everyone before they leave the building. Sheets written this way keep friendships.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including session material, agreements and unreleased work. We are editors rather than lawyers, publishers or royalty specialists, and we offer no legal advice and no view on splits, ownership or any agreement. What we can do is get the afternoon written down while everyone still agrees.