MIXING

You can experience online mixing and mastering just like you was working in the studio with Them Sounds. Every detail of your vision you provide to the engineer will contribute during the mixing process. The whole project, from mixing to stemming, will be done the right way and you will receive exactly what you need in the end. Every mix we do gets the same quality effort as the one before.

Pricing

Ranging from: £35 – £250. Our prices are determined by how many individual tracks (stems) are in your project.

Turnaround

4 – 8 Days

The Complete Process

Below you can read through the complete process that every song, no matter size or style, goes through when we are tasked with the job of making your song sound great. Each step below is included with every mixing purchase at no additional cost.

1. Pricing

We wanted to make our prices as fair as possible. There are many different songs and song types. Each song requires different workloads. Some songs have 100 tracks and some songs may have 10 total tracks, Some songs just need vocal mixes and others just need background noises cleaned up (i.e Podcasts). We wanted our customers to be able to tailor their cost to exactly what their song needs, per song.

Our pricing is based on the size of your song. In other words, your track count determines the cost of your song. A song with 10 tracks is priced differently than a song with 100 tracks. But, what’s great about our service is that no matter what size your song is, it will always receive complete A – Z treatment. You can read more about included treatments below.

When you’re ready to purchase, you will be directed to our “purchase form”. This form allows you to select every detail about your song(s) and select which options you’d like to include with each specific song if you happen to be purchasing more than one. With this, you’ll be able to tailor your project to fit your budget. If you have any questions please feel free to ask beforehand.

2. Editing

As soon as your song files come into our inbox, we download and setup the session. From there, we go through each individual kick, snare, guitar, vocal, etc.. and clean the clicks, pops, hums, and anything else that isn’t suppose to be there!

In this stage we will start to determine if there are any tracks we’d like you to resend or even in some cases re-record. We want to make sure everything we have will contribute to making your song sound great, not worse.

3. Timing Corrections

This is where the song really starts to come together, especially songs that are recorded with a full band playing together. First, all the drums are aligned. This sets the base foundation for the rest of the song. All other instruments and vocals are then aligned into the drums (unless requested otherwise). If your song doesn’t have any drums, the most important element will be Time Corrected first and then used as the foundation for everything else.

This can make for a pretty dramatic difference with Before and After at this stage. It can take a song from amateur sounding to sounding professionally performed.

4. Pitch Corrections

After everything in your song is aligned and sounding together, we move on to the Pitch and Note Corrections. This includes your vocals, basses, keys, guitars, etc..

Each elements is opened up in one of our various pitch editing programs and tweaked. We are meticulous with this process and use pitch correction with our ears, not our eyes. We never lock any pitch moves to a grid (unless requested otherwise) and always consider how everything sounds together, not in isolation.

Light autotune may be used after the initial manual pitch correction process is complete to really lock in the small subtleties. Autotune may also be used an as effect if the sound of the song calls for it!

5. Drum Replacement/Layering

In the stage, we listen to the recordings of the drum kit/samples. Are they mic’d correctly? Are they mic’d well? Are they in tune? Can we hear the full body of the kick and snare? Can we make them hit and snap?

We determine if the drums need help. Sometimes all we need to do is add another kick and another snare. Sometimes, we need to replace the kick completely. There are times where we feel that the kick and snare supplied sound great but we could really use better Toms or Crashes. At this point we will begin modifying these elements to ours and your satisfaction.

6. Mixing

In this step, we do everything we can to make your song sound the best it can. Our mixing process is in-depth with many years experience and includes everything you want in a good mix, like punch, clarity, depth, space and separation. We love getting creative, so we always approach your mix asking ourselves what are the client needs and what will bring them to life.

We are big on getting a more analog sound, so we focus on using lots of analog simulation plugins from UAD, Acustica Audio, Softube and many more.. Along with a few analog outboard units and Summing, we can really dial in the sound we’re pleased with while still allowing us to be very easily adaptable to revisiting the session later down the line for revisions or changes if requested by the client.

After all of the above we offer up to 2 recalls free of charge for any changes that might need to be made.

Mixing

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