BEFORE YOU HIRE ME

- Please contact me before you hire me or send me your files. I´m always interested in listening to your song before I mix it. Send me your rough mix (and or master) in advance, and give me some guidelines on how you want the sound to be. Maybe you have specific elements in the track you really like, and specific things you want me to improve. So give me your thoughts on what you like, and what you don´t like about the rough mix.

- Sometimes the best solution doesn´t fit the standard. Maybe the music sounds perfect, but the vocals needs some care. Maybe I can give some inputs to the arrangement etc.

- Feel free to contact me and we can work it out together!

- Bounce files in the same format as your session. Usually 44.1kHz 24bit, but no

  dithering or conversion.

- Name the files ( not audio 1, audio 2, etc. )

- Bounce tracks with stereo information in stereo and tracks with mono information  

  in mono.

- Bounce instrument tracks processed if the processing is part of the sound.

  I.g., distortion, bit crush, autotune, pitchshifting, heavy sidechain compression and

  filtering.

  If in doubt you can deliver one file processed and one unprocessed.

- Keep filter automation

- Keep processing on sound effects such at booms, stabs and risers

- Vocal tracks must be tuned but dry and unprocessed unless the processing is crucial

  to the sound. You can deliver one processed and one unprocessed.

- Comp your tracks so that the same instrument or vocal is not spread out on multiple

  tracks such as; lead vocal verse 1, lead vocal verse 2 etc.

- All editing is done beforehand (crossfades, breaks, vocal cleanup etc.)

- If you have many background vocals you can bounce them together in stems.

( Unisone, harm1, harm2 etc.)

- Make sure nothing is clipping and leave 6 db headroom or more.

- Please organise the files in folders, ”Drums”, ”Bass”, ”keys”, ”Gtrs” and ”Vocals"...

- Provide the bpm of the track.

- Remember to check the bounced/exported files before sending them to mix, and make

  sure nothing is missing and everything is playing correct and sounds the way you

  intented it to.

 -Zip and send the files.

- Always include your latest approved rough mix and if possible an

   instrumental mix.

- Give me your thoughts on how you want the sound of the mix to be.

- Include some reference songs for the sound and style of mix 

- Provide the bpm of the track.

- Bounce files as wav 24bit or 32bit Keep your samplerate, usually 44.1kHz, no

  dithering or conversion.

- Name the files ”Drums”, ”Bass”, ”keys”, ”Gtrs” and ”Vocals"... (not audio 1, audio 2, etc.)

- Bounce all tracks processed and keep processing on busses and subgroups.

- Bypass plugins and processing on the masterbus.

- Bypass masterfade. (You can send a mix with masterfade for reference) 

- Make sure nothing is clipping and leave 6 db headroom or more.

- Remember to check the bounced/exported files before sending them. Make sure

  nothing is missing and everything is playing back correctly and it sounds exactly as your

  mix.

- Always include your latest aproved mix and master.

 -Zip and send the files.

- Give me your thoughts on how you want the sound of the master to be.

- Include some reference songs for the sound and style of the master 

- Bounce files as wav 24bit or 32bit Keep your samplerate, usually 44.1kHz, no

  dithering or conversion.

- Bypass processing on the masterbus, especially limiters and clippers.  

- Bypass masterfade. (You can send a mix with masterfade for reference) 

- Make sure your mix is not clipping.

- Remember to check the bounced/exported mix before sending it. Make sure it sounds

   exactly as your mix.

- Zip and send the files.

- Always include your latest aproved mix and master.

- Give me your thoughts on how you want the sound of the master to be.

- Include some reference songs for the sound.