How To Prepare Your Tracks And Hire A Professional Mix Engineer

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

What puts you off using a pro mixing engineer? I’m curious to know, tell me in the comments!

[@waynegomillion8046]

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.

[@suitestheband]

I only choose mixing engineers whom I am already extremely familiar with and am a fan of their work. So my only fears would be the engineer phoning it in or subbing it out to someone else without telling me.

[@maartenonno]

Thank you for this video.. The words with which you opened were delivered so kindly and melodiously that I was drawn in just because of that-truly a plus! Furthermore, your explanation was clear, and throughout the rest of your message, there were specific words you used and melodies in your speach that really stood out and differentiated yourself.. I enjoyed it a lot! 😏

[@luisgallardo1945]

Sharing all this valuable info for free is so generous, Sara! Thanks so much.

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

You are so welcome!

[@uzimatele]

I felt that "don't!"

[@dreamland7553]

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.

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Thank you! Will do!

[@juanchis.investigadorsonoro]

Yes to everything, as it should be. Greetins from Mexico City!

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Hello, and thanks!

[@Guitarmfig]

Great videos Sara, thank you very much for such great content, a Rock/ Punk distorted guitar vid would be excellent

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Anything in particular?

[@Guitarmfig]

@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Treating distorted guitars with Eq, compression, etc so they fit in the mix, that would be cool

[@reidhauke3389]

Thanks a lot. Do you know how tp find mixers and mastering eng. for specifig genres? Streaming killed the credits list

[@suitestheband]

I still use allmusic or discogs for credits on popular music. If it's less popular - I will just send an instagram message or an email to the band or management directly. You'd be surprised how many people will reply and tell you who they used. Everyone likes money, haha.

[@toolondaboards]

Wow your session is so organized! Would you mind doing a video on your template, if you use one?

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Yes I will, I do like an organised session!

[@toolondaboards]

@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Awesome. Thanks! Can't wait to see.

[@vlakanas]

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.

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

You'd have to print them as audio to a new track and send that as well

[@vlakanas]

Thanks.@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing

[@FriskyVase]

Great informative video! Any chance you can go more in depth on the requirements document?

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Yes of course! Email me and I'll send it to you if it helps: [e-mail]

[@FriskyVase]

@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing will do! :)

[@Somedei]

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.

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

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.

[@waynegomillion8046]

Great Advice. Thank You.

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

My pleasure!

[@somzmusic]

You have such a great voice! You could do ASMR. You also somewhat sound like Philomena Cunk. Think it's the accent.

[@nikolayy8520]

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.

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

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!

[@nikolayy8520]

@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing Thank you Sara for the exhaustive feedback, it helps a lot!

[@englishetc.5762]

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

[@SaraCarterSimplyMixing]

Hi Christo, just email me with some details [e-mail]