MixThisNow.com came online November 2015 but has a team of professional audio engineers with decades of experience. All mixes are performed at NJsound.com with its industry standard state of the art equipment including a $65,000 Amek Big 44 and Antelope Orion 32. We also have invested thousands of dollars in all the best plugins in the industry. MixThisNow.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Biter
a Corporation that has been servicing the needs of people in the digital age since 1998! Know that when you choose MixThisNow.com you will receive the most professional and expert service available anywhere. What is Analog Summing and why should I care? Today music is mostly produced in small home studios that are completely digital and sterile. Although plugins have come a long way in recent years to try to emulate analog there is nothing like running your stereo mix through a console that adds warmth and color to your sound. Many artists use analog summing services to remaster and add that little extra character to your sound that everyone will crave! Try our analog service once and we are sure you will use it again and again. What do I need to do to submit a mix? Well this is simple, compress or zip your stereo mixdown, pro-tools, logic pro, FL studio project and email it to us ( [email protected] ). We will let you know we’ve received it and start processing your request as quickly as we can. We receive orders from around the world every week and our team of engineers work hard to ensure you get everything you want and then some. If you have any special requirements for your song please be as descriptive as you can in your email message. This will help the whole process tremendously. What is mastering and why is it important? Mastering is the final stage of audio production. Typically the process to records songs is, record the audio at a quality studio like NJsound Studio, mix the song using an online service like MixThisNow.com and then once all of your songs for the project are recorded and mix master them for release. We recommend that you do NOT master songs one by one but rather master them once your entire project is mixed and ready to be released. This ensures a uniform audio feel for the entire project and will provide a much more professional product to the public. Our mastering services are overseen by a team of audio engineers with decades of experience in the music industry. We will treat your project with the personalized attention that you deserve ensuring your single, EP or album makes its maximum impact to everyone who loves music like we do! Do you have promotional services? Bitera Corporation founded by John Cannon back in 1998 has built an ecosystem that is so comprehensive and complete it blows everyone’s mind. He has over 100 domains on the Internet and recently in the past few years released a half a dozen domains that are making great inroads to help music artists get heard. His most popular site is VeryCoolTunes.com with over 700 music reviews, other sites like HotPopular.com, TalentLure.com, MusicLives.in, and amusicpromoter.com are coming along nicely as well. John Cannon has been using the Internet and published his first web page back in 1991 when the web was still in its infancy. Today John and his team are helping people locally and from around the world do amazing things! Join a team that knows how to get things done and try this new service today! I know you said to email [email protected] but I have no idea how to send my tracks…
We accept all types of file sharing services like Google Drive, Dropbox, WeShare and others. We are in the process of setting up our own DropBox like server but it is still in the works. Once we have that system setup we will have an internal file sharing service for our audio and video production services. Until then we ask that you send the items to [email protected] using your favorite file sharing service. If you need personal assistance please contact us today, we will be glad to help! Terminology:
Raw Track:
Edited (unless otherwise specified), unmixed, mono/dual mono (only stereo track should be keyboards) tracks. This is pretty much how the instrument was recorded without anything else being done to is besides editing. Only exception is guitar/bass track where a DI track should be included with the mic’d amp track
Stems:
Edited, mixed (either slightly or heavily), stereo tracks. This is groups of instruments put together. An example is Drums (including all components of the kit), Rhythm Guitars (both left and right), Backing Vocals, Lead vocals, etc. More in depth stems like Kick, Snare, Toms, Overhead, Room, Left Guitars, Right Guitars, etc. are also acceptable but subject to additional fees, please contact us for a custom quote. Vocal Tuning ( Auto-Tune ):
Making sure that the vocal track is in key with the rest of the song. Just about every song in the current era of music has some amount of vocal tuning done to it. It can be either subtle or extreme. Hip Hop music uses vocal tuning with a distinctive style, if you are looking for this please make sure you let us know when sending your raw track. If you are looking to perfect a vocal without any special styling or effect this is what we do by default so you don’t need to let us know. We have been using this amazing program by Melodyne for years now and it has returned excellent results. This is a must for any serious recording artist. Editing:
Picking apart individual takes to make the best performance, making sure everything is in time. It’s an in depth process that prepares each track for the mixing stage. Mixing:
Putting all the pieces of the song together so that everything fits well together and is balanced. Mastering:
The final step in the music making process. This takes songs and polishes them into their final form adding overall compression, eq, limiting and other effects. Analog Summing:
Taking raw tracks/mixed tracks or stems and putting them together using analog gear to add that classic analog characteristic to audio; often described as warmth, depth, and width. This process is either used to make stems for further mixing/mastering or a single stereo track ready for the mastering process.
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Best Practices:
Number your tracks. Start every track with numbers no matter what. Example: “001 kick”, “002 snare top”, “003 snare bottom”, etc. This will ensure that everything is where it’s suppose to be and that nothing is lost or misplaced. Label your tracks according to what instrument it is and not the person that is playing. Example of this is “006 Bass DI” and not “006 Jimmy” or something like that. This will ensure that nothing gets mixed up and that the mixing process goes smoothly. Use the same track numbers and names for each song and make notes on a song-to-song basis. This means that “001 kick” is “001 kick” and “006 Bass DI” is “006 Bass DI” for each track to help expedite the process. Put any additional instruments or layers at the end of each song and label them as such so that the core of every song is the same. This is where notes come in handy. Leave a doc, txt, or pdf file with each songs stating if anything is out of the ordinary with the particular song like extra vocal layers, extra guitar tracks, added synth, etc. Make sure that not audio is clipping constantly. Keep it in the green or in the yellow (AT MOST) the more headroom the better. Digital clipping isn’t anywhere near as musical as analog clipping could be and it could ruin a track and it will severely slow down the mix process. Make sure you have crossfades/regular fades in place for EVERY edit that is done. This ensures that there are no added clicks and pops that have to be addressed, any unwanted clicks and pops will slow the process down. Have dry tracks along with processed tracks. This is to ensure that there is an absolute backup in case anything goes wrong or a different direction needs to be taken. An example of this is DI guitar/bass tracks in addition to Mic’d amp/processed tracks. Consolidate all tracks. This is to ensure that everything starts at the same point and makes it so that nothing can be shifted out of place in the export process. Once consolidated export tracks in WAV format at a minimum of 44.1kHz/24-bit. We support up to 192 KHz and 16/24/32 bit depths. Do not export everything as a single stereo track. Keep everything on it’s own. Tempo maps. Have an accurate tempo/time signature change maps included with each song. This is usually done as a Midi file, and adding markers is a plus (labeling parts to a song). Do NOT put all songs into the same folder. Put songs in different folder and number them just like tracks. Editing. Mixing is making everything fit right not putting takes together or making sure things are in time. This includes pitch correction unless otherwise noted. Each project can be edited as well as mixed for an additional fee.
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How to prepare your songs for mastering:
Have your track already edited and mixed. Make sure your track isn’t clipping and has a decent amount of headroom available. Do NOT process your master bus/master fader
This means no compression, limiting, eq, or other. Make sure it is exported at the highest quality possible.
