Is there anyone here who can "professionaly" mix a song for me? Will pay the fee

[Mr Music]

ok ill check it out




by the way, what my plan is.....is to find my favourite engineer and ill work with them from the start to the end...in the future etc....there will be more tracks...so ya thats what im doing now....


thanks everyone...

 

[cellardweller]

Wind-bags

I've gotta tell ya... being from downstate Illinois, and seeing the filth them damned Chi-towners pump into the river... I'd not give 'em a plugged nickel.

Cellardwelling Studios on the other hand...
















I am absolutely not serious.

 

[xfinsterx]

Ill mix it for you.
Hit my site and check some of my work.

PM if youre interested.

Thanks.

-Finster

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Update

Mr. Music,

Your requested info is in your PM Inbox..

G.

 

[mixmkr]

just out of curiosity....how come you're not looking for anyone in your city?

these guys who have responded are great and know their stuff....but if I just joined this forum a few days ago, I'm not so sure I'd immediately ask for someone I don't know in another state or country to mix my stuff.

Guess that's just me though. I'd rather go somewhere that I can actually meet the person, see the equipment and maybe sit in on the mix for a bit.

no kiddin'

let your fingers do the walkin', and get out and around an visit your local biznessezz. An internet biz connection can certainly work, but if you are looking down the road as you so say, you ought to find a place that you can get to by car...eh? (or however you get around!) And..don't you want to sit there "silently"?? in the back of the control room while this is taking place?

Naw...send it off and cross your fingers!!

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

And..don't you want to sit there "silently"?? in the back of the control room while this is taking place?

I have many internet clients who send me tracks to mix..... they essentially ARE in the back of the control room because the way I work is to provide clips of the mix for which they can provide feedback on, throughout the process.

One of the huge benefits of automation is being able to recall a mix exactly - so I can switch projects more often than I change my underwear!

I'm not saying that due diligence is not required when choosing a business to deal with - that goes without saying, but technology does allow the client not having to physically be in the same room as the engineer, and still get the same results as if they were!

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Yeah, I operate much as Bruce does. It is a very rare occasion where the client actually sits in on my mixing sessions, even when they are local folk. It's not that I wouldn't welcome them to sit in, but they usually see no need. They get edit and final approval of the mix anyway.

The exception is if I'm working with a producer, of course, but even then when it's a long-distance UPS/Internet/Landline relationship (as many of them are) the producer remains at a distance physically.

But if a person is not acting as producer and "just sitting there quietly", the mixing process can be extremely boring and tedious for them anyway. They seem to much prefer to show up duing tracking. Not only is there more action, but there's more food and drink and people to enjoy.

G.

 

[chessrock]

Usually, anyone who "thinks" they want to sit in on a mixing session will very quickly figure out that it's not particularly exciting to watch.

People forget that it is, after all is said and done, just work. Just like with anything else. Would you want to sit around for several hours and watch a grocery store clerk in action?

I mean ... yea, sure it would be fine if it was all fun stuff like putting wacky effects on things, etc. But for the most part, a typical mixing session is going to involve plenty of unglamorous, non-sexy tasks. Do you really want to hang out while I test out various gate thresholds ... attack/release times on compressors, silence breaths, work out crossover points for multiband compression?

Be prepared to get plenty bored.

Then there's the question of just how effective am I going to be with someone watching me work the whole time? Remember, to the guy mixing, it is "work." It's a job, and I don't know about you, but it gets nervewracking to try and work while someone is looking over your shoulder ... watching, staring, while you pick your nose, scratch your nuts, etc. Just quit staring at me, for cryin' out loud. Go have a smoke, take a walk ... get some food; aren't you hungry?

Pick some coffee up for me while you're at it.

.

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Would you want to sit around for several hours and watch a grocery store clerk in action?

Well, I'll tell you, there is this one little gal at my local Dominick's who in the summertime doesn't like wearing....

But I digress.



G.

 

[xfinsterx]

Usually, anyone who "thinks" they want to sit in on a mixing session will very quickly figure out that it's not particularly exciting to watch.


.

Too true.>>>>>

 

[mixmkr]

yeah...kick the client out the door, or bore them to death testing threshold levels. Ya gotta be kidding?

I wouldn't go to a mixing session for excitement anyway. Excitement is gleaned from spilling your soda on the console and saying..."oops!"
If I was in the position to make decisions in the session(as the artist, acting producer..whatever), that is why I would go. Too bad many engineers find tweaking equipment to be boring..or playing mixes over and over again. Personally, that IS exciting to me. Otherwise, laying asphalt should be another option.

Too many "chiefs"...yeah... I understand that theory. Maybe as an engineer you may know how to get a "better" sound than the client. You better hope so to stay in business. But as an engineer putting on the producers hat (as your decision only) when you think you know what sounds better than the client. ... that is another discussion.


Obviously some agreements/roles/client desires/goals..etc.. ought to be reached before a single knob is twiddled.

But everyone here knows that.

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

I wouldn't go to a mixing session for excitement anyway. Excitement is gleaned from spilling your soda on the console and saying..."oops!"
If I was in the position to make decisions in the session(as the artist, acting producer..whatever), that is why I would go. Too bad many engineers find tweaking equipment to be boring..or playing mixes over and over again. Personally, that IS exciting to me. Otherwise, laying asphalt should be another option.

We're talking about two different things here. If there is a producer attached to the project, or the artist is acting as producer, then yes, of course they'll be in on the mixing sessions and probably making most of the decisions; in those cases the engineer is just acting as the interface between the producer and the equipment more than anything else.

What we were talking about was the client coming in and watching a mixing session where the engineer is basically in charge of the mixing production. We're not saying that the engineer finds it boring, we're saying that watching an engineer work is boring. In addition, in such cases it its neither in the client's or the engineer's interest to have a lot of conversation going on during the session ("What are you doing now and why?") because all that does is distract the engineer and add to the client's billable time. If they do which to "be involved" in that way, they need to understand that it will slow the process and cost more. Otherwise, if they keep quiet and let you do your job, you'll have an engineer sitting there twiddling knobs and pushing mice around and a bored client quietly sitting behind him wondering if he should read the Mix magazine on the coffee table a third time while he's waiting.

G.

 

[Farview]

I can tell my client is bored when he starts watching video tapes of my old band from 15 years ago.

 

[mixmkr]

We're talking about two different things here. If there is a producer attached to the project, or the artist is acting as producer, then yes, of course they'll be in on the mixing sessions and probably making most of the decisions; in those cases the engineer is just acting as the interface between the producer and the equipment more than anything else.

What we were talking about was the client coming in and watching a mixing session where the engineer is basically in charge of the mixing production. We're not saying that the engineer finds it boring, we're saying that watching an engineer work is boring. In addition, in such cases it its neither in the client's or the engineer's interest to have a lot of conversation going on during the session ("What are you doing now and why?") because all that does is distract the engineer and add to the client's billable time. If they do which to "be involved" in that way, they need to understand that it will slow the process and cost more. Otherwise, if they keep quiet and let you do your job, you'll have an engineer sitting there twiddling knobs and pushing mice around and a bored client quietly sitting behind him wondering if he should read the Mix magazine on the coffee table a third time while he's waiting.

G.

your statements match 100% with what I think also. Nice post.

 

[remco]

Go ahead and visit my web site, if you'd like:

www.moonunitsound.com

You can listen to examples of stuff I've done there, as well as rates, etc.


I don't normally pimp like this, by the way. I just think a much better mix can be made in Bucktown. All they have on the South side are drunk Irish folk singers and rappers.

He chess there is no gear listed on your website, on purpose ??

Remco

 

[Mr Music]

ok so no more people

great

thanks everyone

i will start having my stuff mixed September-October

So i will contact one of you (who I thought would be the best for what I need)

and it will be nice working with you!

you guys were very helpful...

 

[Ronan]

Usually, anyone who "thinks" they want to sit in on a mixing session will very quickly figure out that it's not particularly exciting to watch. ... Would you want to sit around for several hours and watch a grocery store clerk in action?
.

I solved that by having Playstation in the lounge (including a good DVD selection) and my studio shares a wall with a bar with pool tables.

 

[shawnag]

Hello! I need the same thing. Please message me if you can help.

 

[kcearl]

dude if you want a song mixed dont keep digging up old threads...start a new one titled "can anyone mix a song for me?"


now your other posts says you want it recorded...what do you mean? you havent recorded it? or you want a song mixed?

I think people will mix it if you have the tracks, and the are of decent quality...as for recording them for you? well thats a long shot Id reckon

 

[guitaristic]

Please tell me who you are so i can contact you...

I am not interested in some "im still in training, so ill charge you cheaper"

thank you so much...

I'll do it for $1,000 if you let me put a 3 minute long rap verse in the middle of the song...