These terms govern your use of the DeepSound Audio website. They are short by intent, because a studio website does few things: it describes the studio's work, it answers questions, and it lets you send a project brief.
Using this site
You are welcome to read every page, link to it, and quote short passages with a credit to DeepSound Audio. You may not copy the site wholesale, republish it as your own, or present the studio's writing as another studio's work. The text, layout and graphics here were prepared for this site and belong to the studio.
The comparison page
The page that compares audio workstation environments is a factual, technical reference. Product names appear there only to identify the environments being described, in a manner the studio considers a fair, nominative use. The comparison is provided for information; it is not advice, a recommendation, or a statement of affiliation with any of the producers named.
Sending a brief
When you send a project brief you are asking the studio to consider your enquiry. You are not placing an order, and the studio is not obliged to take the work. A commission begins only when terms are agreed in writing between you and the studio, and those agreed terms take precedence over anything on this website.
No guarantee of availability
The studio works on a small number of projects at a time. Describing a service on this site does not promise that the studio is available to take it on, and dates discussed before a commission is agreed are indicative rather than binding.
Accuracy
Every effort is made to keep the pages accurate and current, but styles, schedules and technical details change. If a description here differs from what the studio tells you directly, the direct answer prevails. The studio is not liable for a decision taken on the basis of a page that has fallen behind the facts.
Links out
This site links only to its own pages and to the studio's email address. It does not link to outside destinations, and the studio is not responsible for the content of pages elsewhere on the internet.
Ending access
The studio may change or withdraw any part of this site at any time. Nothing here creates a continuing relationship beyond the terms agreed for a specific commission.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute that cannot be resolved between the parties is handled in the courts of that jurisdiction.
Questions about these terms go to the production office at [email protected] or 88 Harborline Avenue, Suite 412, Boston, MA 02110.
Reasonable use of the site's material
We are glad when a producer quotes a page here in a meeting, links to it from a production note, or sends a description of our process to a colleague. What we ask is that the studio is named as the source and that the meaning is not bent. Lifting whole sections into a competitor's site, or presenting our writing as a generic industry text, is not something we can allow.
The comparison page is offered in the same spirit: use it, cite it, disagree with it, but do not treat it as an endorsement from any party. Product names identify the environments being described and nothing more, and the independence notice on that page applies here as well.
Changes to these terms
These terms are reviewed as the site changes, and any revision is dated when it takes effect. A commission agreed before a change is governed by the terms in force when it was signed, not by a later version. The studio keeps a copy of each revision so there is no doubt about which wording applied to which project.
If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest remains in force, and the studio will replace the affected part with wording that carries the same intention and stands on its own.