How To Prepare Your Tracks And Hire A Professional Mix Engineer
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- When trying to find a mix engineer for hire, I look at some ways to ensure you pick the right mix engineer for your project and then how to prepare and send your tracks for mixing.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:17 Managing expectations
02:33 Common mixing deliverables to ask for
03:10 What to send to a mix engineer
03:26 How to prepare tracks for mixing
05:21 What is and isn’t included in a mixing service
06:06 How to export your files
07:29 How a mix engineer uses your reference tracks
08:41 Building a good relationship with your mixer
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-- How To Hire And Send Tracks To A Pro Mixing Engineer --
You’ve saved up some cash and want to hire a mix engineer for your next project. You’ve always wanted to hire a professional mix engineer but feel a bit daunted about what to send to them and how the whole process works.
In this video, as well as recapping on some of the more obvious things, I go over some of the more forgotten considerations that will help you have more confidence when making first contact with an engineer.
Exporting your tracks from your DAW to send to a professional mixing engineer is fairly straightforward in of itself, but what other things do you need to send and what do you need to ask yourself about the different mixes you might need?
Every mixing engineer has their own requirements about the files you send them for mixing, things like naming, bit depth and sample rate and which service you use to send them.
This video will help both you and your mix engineer get the best possible result from your tracks without all the back and forth over email and avoid any misunderstandings along the way.
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What puts you off using a pro mixing engineer? I’m curious to know, tell me in the comments!
Worried about: A mixing engineer having my stems and possibility chopping them up and using them without my permission. Should I have a contact? I was thinking to add a clause that says, they have to delete my files once the job is complete. (Was planning to use a few websites that I found.) Any feed back would be welcome. ( I produce music but want to have a professional do the mixing.)Thank you.
I felt that "don't!"
Sharing all this valuable info for free is so generous, Sara! Thanks so much.
You are so welcome!
Yes to everything, as it should be. Greetins from Mexico City!
Hello, and thanks!
Great Advice. Thank You.
My pleasure!
Hey Sara,
It was a great n pro level guidline toturial. You discussed the whole things so easily.
Hats off to you dear. Keep the work same like that. One day you'r gonna be the best teacher here on youtube.
Love from the core of heart from my side.
I wish if I could have millions of likes and I pour up the all likes for these toturials, for you.
Thank you! Will do!
Great video Sara ! My production has multiple sidechaining and automation everywhere, I fear bypassing all that and is like giving twice the effort for the mixing engineer plus the fear of not having those correctly sidechained as I did on my session.
Yes, where a lot of work has been put in by the producer, it's best to either send the cleaned up session file or print the effected audio on a new track where possible.
Great videos Sara, thank you very much for such great content, a Rock/ Punk distorted guitar vid would be excellent
Anything in particular?
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Treating distorted guitars with Eq, compression, etc so they fit in the mix, that would be cool
Thank you, that was way more than I'd thought a mixing engineer would require and a very enlightening video altogether.
I have a specific question though: do mixers generally perform gain-staging or do they ask you to do this yourself? I was under the impression that's a 100% mixer's job.
A mixer will absolutely gain stage a mix but when recording you need to make sure you are getting optimal levels recorded. Too low and you can get audible hiss from the microphones, too high and you'll get irreparable distortion.
Wow your session is so organized! Would you mind doing a video on your template, if you use one?
Yes I will, I do like an organised session!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Awesome. Thanks! Can't wait to see.
Great informative video! Any chance you can go more in depth on the requirements document?
Yes of course! Email me and I'll send it to you if it helps: sara@simplymixing.com
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing will do! :)
Great once again. How do you send , example two acoustic guitars, trough an aux track? Drums, going to a Drum aux, with parallel comp? The effects sends? Thanking you, in advance.
You'd have to print them as audio to a new track and send that as well
Thanks.@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing
Hi Sara, thank you for the valuable information you are sharing. Regarding voice tuning I agree that this is not the responsibility of the mix engineer to fix it. I may add that sync of tracks neither. However, it happens that when layering vocal multitracks and applying effects there are some inconsistencies appearing like doubling letters before or after a word. My question is which responsibility is to fix this, to fix the right pronunciation of the words when layering? My second question is regarding outcome: what should be asked from a mix engineer as a tangible criteria for the quality of his work? I mean if the song is super loud, clips or has clicks, there should be a common measure agreement on the quality, right?`What would be your suggestion here to guarantee a technical quality? Thank you.
Hi Nikolayy, in my opinion, I'd say that the producer is responsible for the syncing of layered vocals and any pronunciation errors but, in the real world this doesn't always happen, so the mix engineer should be prepared to do those fixes because it reflects badly on the mix if you don't. Communication is crucial here, so that there's no confusion of what's included in the mixers service and what would incur extra charges. Some mix engineers do include that as part of their service and some don't. Clicks from bad edits in a consolidated track needs fixing by re-doing the edit and re-consolidating the file unless the mixer has some noise reduction software to fix it. In terms of quality, a premaster mix shouldn't super loud unless they have boosted the volume for easier comparison to commercial records, ask for the mix without any "fake" mastering. Talk with the mixer about the deliverables and ask for examples of previous work. Hope that helps!
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Thank you Sara for the exhaustive feedback, it helps a lot!
Hi Sara - very informative video! I learned so much. Can we hire you to do the mixing/mastering? I didn't see anything about this. Thx! Christo
Hi Christo, just email me with some details sara@simplymixing.com