The mixing phase involves several steps, including track cleaning (reducing breaths and monitoring feedback), handling sibilances and plosives (using noise gates and de-essers),audio and MIDI quantization, equalization (subtractive or additive, M/S), compression (full-band, multiband, parallel or sidechain), the reamping, effects (delay, reverb, saturation, harmonic excitation, etc), track balancing (volume and pan), automation of parameters, creating the final mixdown via analog or digital summing ...
Some of these operations will be essential, others will only be justified based on the intrinsic quality of the tracks.
Track rendering may also require additional audio restoration such as hiss reduction, click and crackle removal, elimination of hum or other distortions of any kind are handled within this framework.
The role of mixing is to create a harmonious blend of the individual tracks that make up a song. Its goal is not to achieve maximum loudness or calibration for various playback systems; these processes occur at a later stage called mastering.
Mastering finalizes and optimizes your music to ensure perfect playback on all major platforms (CD, DVD, SACD, internet, radio, TV, etc...). To do so, many interventions must be undertaken, such as creating fade-ins and fade-outs, control of the dynamic range by full-band or multiband correction (compression / de-compression / expansion / de- expansion), the widening of the stereo image by matrix-encoding and decoding of the Middle-Side/Left-Right components of the signal, the brickwall limiting, checking mono-stereo compatibility and correcting phase correlation as necessary, bit-depth reduction with dithering ...
Mastering can be performed either from the stereo mixdown or via stem summing.
The studio is calibrated according to Bob Katz’s K-System standard (83 dB SPL, C-weighted, slow response)
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Please avoid submitting tracks in .mp3 format; .wav or .aiff files are preferred. We accept sampling rates from 44.1 kHz to 192 kHz, in 16 bits, 24 bits or 32 bits float resolutions.
Remember to consolidate each audio region so that sounds intended to start at, for example, the third verse, do not play from the beginning when imported into our DAW.
When you export your tracks, please leave at least 6 dB of headroom,to give us sufficient margin for further processing. For the same reasons, do not normalize your tracks.
To avoid confusion, please rename each track that make up your project by instrument name, and name the folder with the project name and tempo (BPM).
You will receive extracts to evaluate our work, request changes, or confirm delivery. Even though our studio offers online mixing and mastering, you will receive dedicated and personalized feedback throughout the entire process.
No advance fee is required to order. You only pay if you are satisfied.
Sharing files is done via the online file sharing service of your choice. Once you've sent us the link by email, we will confirm its good reception.
Feel free to get in touch to discuss your project !
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