Online Mixing Services
Mixing with character
Mixing is where your music finds its home. It defines the space your listeners enter when they press play, and shapes the tones and textures they encounter.
I build a world for the song to inhabit, finding a place for every element within it, using a carefully selected set of tools that satisfy my mastering engineer’s ear.
Mixing Portfolio
Natural Sounding Mixes
Like most mix engineers, I work predominantly in the box. But I specialise in crafting natural tones and textures that stand out against the cold, sterile mixes that digital sometimes delivers.
Rather than using hundreds of plugins, I’ve refined the tools I use to a handful of flexible EQs, compressors, and effects I know like the back of my hand. They may not sound exactly like analogue (nothing does), but I’m careful to only use plugins that sound just as organic.
And to ensure a lifelike finish, I tend to run the digital mix into a real analogue mix bus, to get the depth, tone, and vibrancy of real circuitry across the whole mix.
Online Mixing Rates
How much time it takes to mix a song depends on a lot: the number of parts, the quality of the recording, how much editing is required, how much sound design is involved. That’s why I quote for every online mixing job individually – to make sure I can give every element of your recording the attention it deserves. But to give you an idea, here are my online mixing rates for well-recorded, pre-edited material that’s ready to mix as soon as I pull up the faders.
2-5 stems: £100
6-10 stems: £125
11-20 stems: £150
21-30 stems: £200
31-40 stems: £250
41-50 stems: £300
51-60 stems: £350
60+ stems: £400
NB: Double/triple/quadruple/etc.-tracked stacks can usually be counted as one stem for pricing purposes. Online mixing prices include minor editing and restoration, and up to three revisions. Major timing, tuning, and restoration work quoted as needed. Mastering charged separately. No VAT to pay.
Bulk discounts for mixing & mastering
EP deal: 10% off mixing & mastering for bookings of 4-7 tracks
Album deal: 15% off mixing & mastering for bookings of 8+ tracks
Stems are the individual parts within your DAW project. For example, kick, snare, bass, guitar, vocals. Essentially, stems are what we’re blending together while mixing.
Export everything starting at 0 seconds so it still aligns when I import it into Pro Tools.
Feel free to leave your volume and panning as it is as long as nothing is clipping i.e. going over 0dB.
Please provide individual drum parts (e.g. kick, snare) if they’re available.
Files should be 24-bit WAV or AIFF at the sample rate of your DAW project.
A good rule of thumb is: you provide the sounds, I mix them together.
Any effects you consider to be integral to the sound should be left on. That generally means sound design effects like filters, distortions, delays, even reverbs if they define how the instrument sounds.
Anything you’ve added to blend the sounds together – usually EQ and compression – should be removed.
A good analogy is recording electric guitars: the pedals and amp are what you record, mixing is blending that sound in with everything else.
If you’re unsure of anything, you can aways send a dry and a wet version, just flag it in your email when you send them for mixing so I know what’s going on.
Please send stems. I can open Ableton, Pro Tools and Wavelab sessions but we probably use different plugins, so it’s easier to work with WAV files.
Mixing is the process of blending musical parts together. That means processing individual parts like vocals, guitar, bass, kick, snare etc. so they form a cohesive whole.
Mastering is the process of balancing the mix overall, ensuring it fits with the other mixes on an EP or album – making each song part of a whole – and bringing everything up to commercial loudness levels.
Although they are essentially technical exercises, many creative decisions are made along the way that help define the sound of a record.
Your track will be balanced so that all the parts fit into a cohesive whole. It will be a pleasure to listen to, and have its own identifiable sound.
The initial mix you’ll receive will also be unmastered, meaning it will be a good 8-10dB lower in level than commercial releases – you’ll need to turn your volume up!
Many mix engineers send “client mixes” that have already been bumped up in level using a limiter. I don’t believe in doing this as it can be difficult to separate what the limiter’s doing from what’s actually going on in the mix.
The file you receive from me will also be 96kHz. I’ve found that upsampling your stems and working at a higher sample rate results in greater fidelity in the end result – a lot of digital processing works better at 96kHz, and it gives me a better capture from my analogue mixbus chain.
You’re really looking for a producer rather than a mix engineer. But I’m pretty handy with guitars, bass, and programming virtual instruments like drums and strings so we can definitely talk about it.
Remixes aren’t really my bag I’m afraid. I’d suggest hitting up a producer friend and asking them to do it. Do bear me in mind for mixing and mastering though.