Mixing is the stage after recording and producing your music where an engineer takes all the individual multitracks and balances them together to make a single, great sounding track.

Mastering is the stage after mixing and the final stage before release, an engineer takes the mixed track and adds the finishing touches to ensure it will sound great on whatever sound system it is played back on.

You can find a detailed mix preparation guide by clicking HERE

The most important steps are:

1. Turn off all unessential effects processing on your multitracks and disable all master bus effects.

2. Make sure all multitracks are the same length and don't contain any audio you wouldn't want in the final master.

3. Export your tracks to a minimum sample rate of 44.1 kHz and bit depth of 24 bit.

4. If possible include a rough mix in your upload to serve as a guide for mixing.

Export your mix without any limiting on the master bus and with all unessential master bus effects turned off. Leave at least 3dB of headroom and bounce down to a WAV or AIFF file with a bit depth of at least 16bit and a sample rate of at least 44.1kHz.

After placing your order you will receive a confirmation email containing an upload link for your files.

Yes, please message Mick via the contact page with details of your project and he will get back to you with a custom discount code.

Yes, pitch correction is available for an additional fee at checkout.

Yes, backing vocal time alignment is available for an additional fee at checkout.

Yes, drum sample layering is available for an additional fee at checkout.

The turnaround time varies from project to project but a general estimate would be five days for a mastering order and fourteen days for a mixing order.

Absolutely, all orders come with the option of three revisions free of charge.

All orders come with three revisions free of charge where any issues with the mix or master can usually be resolved. In the unlikely event that these issues cannot be fixed and you are still not entirely satisfied with the mix or master you may request a partial refund of 50% of your order price.

While analogue gear is an enjoyable luxury, the unfortunate reality of analogue is that it’s much slower than digital and is much more expensive to invest in, run and maintain. The cost of these issues inevitably gets passed on to you, the client. Meanwhile digital or ‘in the box’ mixing has made such strides in the last couple of decades that it is now hotly debated as to whether there is in fact any sonic benefit at all to mixing analogue, indeed, industry veterans such as Andrew Scheps and Michael Brauer now mix exclusively ‘in the box’. With this in mind all orders will be mixed and/or mastered solely digitally in order to keep fees as low as possible.