5 Steps To Prepare Your Songs For Professional Mixing

As a mix engineer myself in this day and age, a lot of sessions get sent over to me online. As a result, I have had numerous sessions from artists where there have been a few phone calls, emails and social media messages back and forth trying to get to a point where I can start to do the job for the client.

It will come as no surprise to some of you that time is money in this industry. If you can save the professional you have hired to mix your tracks hours of time, it will be more cost effective for you in the long run on the project and ultimately will make the process much smoother for both parties.

If you are sending your tracks to someone to get them mixed, they want to do just that, mixing. The last thing the mixer wants to be doing is wasting hours of time arranging the session in to something that makes sense and working things out in terms of tempos, where things need to go, editing etc.

The following 5 steps will help you save a lot of time, money and headaches when you are ready to send your tracks to a professional mix engineer. Continue reading “5 Steps To Prepare Your Songs For Professional Mixing”

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Graham has turned from being an engineer who began mixing my online act Shmolts, to a close friend and now a mentor and teacher. I have been working with him for a year and I have reached a stage where I send him the stems and he knows what to do. And that’s quite rare with engineers these days. You need people like Graham in your projects because you want your engineer to work ‘with’ you and not ‘for’ you. In Shmolts’ case, it’s even harder because it isn’t really a band but a remote online collective. i.e. I write songs and I have it recorded at different places/ studio/ home-studios either locally or internationally. And you need a talented engineer like Graham to get the best out of what you’ve recorded.

Without him, I don’t think I could do this. He is in-fact a part of Shmolts.

Thanks G. You are a legend.

Jay Serrao

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