People that mix and/or master as a service

meltedbuzzbox · June 2018

Hello all,

Just canvasing for people that can mix and/or master.
Ideas of prices and examples of previous work much appreciated.

Thanks

Stuckfast · June 2018

I do -- by all means PM me for details etc.

spark240 · June 2018

I use Pete for mastering....

https://www.petemaher.com/

Cirrus · June 2018

spark240 said:

I use Pete for mastering....

https://www.petemaher.com/

I used him last year for an album I produced, nice guy and good work.

@Meltedbuzzbox, do you want a mix engineer, or a mastering engineer, or both? What do you consider the differences between them. Most specialize for one or the other, as the gear and experience needed is different. To the point that I wouldn't totally trust someone who claimed to be able to do both for you; for the simple reason that you can't really master your own mix.

meltedbuzzbox · June 2018

Hello @Cirrus to start with it would be a mixing engineer.

spark240 · June 2018

Assume you have all the tracks recorded then?

octatonic · June 2018

Cirrus said:

spark240 said:

I use Pete for mastering....

https://www.petemaher.com/

I used him last year for an album I produced, nice guy and good work.

@Meltedbuzzbox, do you want a mix engineer, or a mastering engineer, or both? What do you consider the differences between them. Most specialize for one or the other, as the gear and experience needed is different. To the point that I wouldn't totally trust someone who claimed to be able to do both for you; for the simple reason that you can't really master your own mix.

Agree 100%.
People who master their own mixes usually aren't mastering them, they are just making them louder.
It is a different set of ears in a different room that makes the difference.
Most of the time I hand a mix over to a mastering engineer and the artist attends the sessions.
As a mixer I just don't need to.

Cirrus · June 2018

octatonic said:
Most of the time I hand a mix over to a mastering engineer and the artist attends the sessions.
As a mixer I just don't need to.

It's something that always surprises me when it comes time to talk to clients (I don't advertise for work; I don't feel that confident in my skills, but when people ask it's a nice ego boost

) - I explain that I'll help them find a mastering engineer, and they always reply with confusion as to why I can't just do that myself - like I'm admitting a failing. So then I need to explain what mastering is, why someone else should do it...

That's why I asked the question @meltedbuzzbox , sorry if it seemed like I was patronising you - it's just that there *is* real confusion as to what the two processer are, to the point that you'd think "mixingandmastering" was one word if you browsed most forums/ facebook groups these days.

meltedbuzzbox · June 2018

spark240 said:

Assume you have all the tracks recorded then?

In the most part yes. Just adding the final last pieces

andy_k · June 2018

I'm on the journey too, so if you want to try some mixes, drop me a line.
cheers
andy k

Ramirez · June 2018

Hi. I also do this kind kind of work - let me know if you'd like to hear some work that I've done.

spark240 · June 2018

I dont so this kind of work.....but happy to do a remix on your stuff ;-)

PolarityMan · June 2018

octatonic said:

Cirrus said:

spark240 said:

I use Pete for mastering....

https://www.petemaher.com/

I used him last year for an album I produced, nice guy and good work.

@Meltedbuzzbox, do you want a mix engineer, or a mastering engineer, or both? What do you consider the differences between them. Most specialize for one or the other, as the gear and experience needed is different. To the point that I wouldn't totally trust someone who claimed to be able to do both for you; for the simple reason that you can't really master your own mix.

Agree 100%.
People who master their own mixes usually aren't mastering them, they are just making them louder.
It is a different set of ears in a different room that makes the difference.
Most of the time I hand a mix over to a mastering engineer and the artist attends the sessions.
As a mixer I just don't need to.

I think there's a bit of a fashion towards mixing into a mastering chain at the moment so suspect a lot of the guys who deliver mixing+mastering are doing that.

Stuckfast · June 2018

Well, I'd usually 'mix into' an EQ and maybe a compressor too, but I wouldn't consider that mastering as such, just the best way to get the mix sounding as good as possible.

Cirrus · June 2018

Stuckfast said:

Well, I'd usually 'mix into' an EQ and maybe a compressor too, but I wouldn't consider that mastering as such, just the best way to get the mix sounding as good as possible.

Exactly.

And the companies that are selling "mastering" plugins are trying to redefine what mastering is so they can sell it to you in a neat little easy-to-use software package, which totally misses the point of a trusted perspective, fresh ears, a dedicated monitoring environment etc. I'm not saying the mastering plugs aren't useful, but I put them in the same category as any other mix bus processing.

PolarityMan · June 2018

I doubt the trend is driven by final quality, suspect its a cost thing from the clients perspective and a competitive advantage thing from a mixers perspective but i see people talking about it way more than say 5 years ago.

octatonic · June 2018

PolarityMan said:

octatonic said:

Cirrus said:

spark240 said:

I use Pete for mastering....

https://www.petemaher.com/

I used him last year for an album I produced, nice guy and good work.

@Meltedbuzzbox, do you want a mix engineer, or a mastering engineer, or both? What do you consider the differences between them. Most specialize for one or the other, as the gear and experience needed is different. To the point that I wouldn't totally trust someone who claimed to be able to do both for you; for the simple reason that you can't really master your own mix.

Agree 100%.
People who master their own mixes usually aren't mastering them, they are just making them louder.
It is a different set of ears in a different room that makes the difference.
Most of the time I hand a mix over to a mastering engineer and the artist attends the sessions.
As a mixer I just don't need to.

I think there's a bit of a fashion towards mixing into a mastering chain at the moment so suspect a lot of the guys who deliver mixing+mastering are doing that.

Stuckfast said:

Well, I'd usually 'mix into' an EQ and maybe a compressor too, but I wouldn't consider that mastering as such, just the best way to get the mix sounding as good as possible.

Yes pretty much everyone I know mixes into a mix bus compressor and EQ.
For me usually two compressors (Crane Song STC8 & SSL G Bus) and a Massive Passive EQ.
I also tend to widen on the master bus as well.

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