The recording budget might be $125,000, but the label would take it off the top before the band saw a nickel.

Without a recording budget, the band were forced to self-finance the project, the costs of which came to an estimated $40,000.

They spent a large amount of the recording budget buying new guitars to improve the tuning.

Although the recording budget was $15,000, they said she could buy the album back for $5,000.

Someone who needs a major-label recording budget to produce quality music is most definitely not an artist.

Given typical recording budgets, I was holding at least a million dollars' investment in studio work, and maybe twice that much.

This was done simply because the band had spent the whole recording budget but only produced half an album's worth of material.

For the album, the band had a much bigger recording budget and more freedom in time.

Without a recording budget, the band was forced to self-finance its debut album.

The album's somewhat tinny sound reflects the low recording budget.