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Hit and Run Recording's professional mixing and mastering services
for musicians who do their own recordings. |
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Hear your recordings reach their maximum potential!
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Mixdown Service - Let an experienced pro who uses the right combinations of analog and digital gear, equalize, compress, set the levels, etc, and mixdown to stereo the multitrack recordings you have made at your home digital studio. With this service, you mail us a CDr or DVD with the multitrack files of your music, each song is mixed and the final mixes are provided as 24 bit wav files on a data CDr, ready to be delivered to the mastering facility of your choice. Price: $75 per song*. Contact us via email with "Mixing" in the subject line for more information. |
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| Mastering Service - Mastering is the final stage of the recording process where the tonal equalization balances and volume levels of a collection of songs are raised up to commercially accepted and consistent levels. With this service, you upload your mixes to our server, and we provide the final mastered versions of your mixes on a Red Book standard audio CD along with the P&Q code printout ready to be delivered to the CD duplication facility of your choice. Price: $30 per song* Contact us via email with "Mastering" in the subject line for more information. |
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Mixing and Mastering Package - We offer additional discounts if you choose Hit and Run Recording to do both the mixdown and mastering of your project. With this bundle of services, your collection of songs is mixed, mastered, and the final mastered mixes are provided on a Red Book standard audio CD with necessary code printouts for your duplication facility. Price: $90 per song*. Contact us via email with "Mixing and Mastering" in the subject line for more information. |
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*see pricing chart below for details |
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HIT AND RUN RECORDING'S MIXING SERVICE |
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For your multitrack files to be mixed by Hit and Run Recording: |
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| The audio files you provide can be any standard WAV or AIFF format audio data file: 24 bit, 16 bit (only if your recorder does not have 24 bit ability) with sample rates of 44.1k, 48k, or 96k.
All of the files that make up each of the tracks need to start at the exact same start time and also be a continuous file until the end of the track. For example, compare the two pictures below. The first picture shows how a multitrack recording of a band typically ends up looking - with each of the instrument tracks being made up of numerous pieces of audio (created where ever the record button was hit or edit was performed). Notice how the bass (light blue), drums (orange), guitars (green), and vocals (yellow) each have many separate pieces of audio clips that comprise their tracks. Also notice that some tracks don't start at the beginning of the song.
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In the second picture, notice that all of the tracks now start at the same time (0:00) and there are no pieces of audio - each track is made up of one continuous audio file. All recording software has a function to create a continuous file from numerous pieces (Cubase calls it "Bounce Selection, Pro Tools calls it "Consolidate Tracks"). Each track should also have a unique name that is descriptive of the sound on it. This is the way the multitrack files for each song should be before you burn them onto a CD or DVD to be delivered for our mixdown service. Be sure to add crossfades to your edits before you consolidate the tracks so that there are no clicks or pops at those points. It is important to make sure there are no such unwanted sounds on any of your tracks because our mixdown service covers the mixing of your multitracks - the editing of tracks is not provided. In other words, we mix the individual audio tracks that have been approved, and provided by you. The tracks should also not have any compression or limiting added to them. Along with the individual tracks that make up the multitrack for each song, also include your best stereo mix of that song. Such a mix can be helpful for example if you want the mix we do of your project to have a particular style of effect on a vocal track or guitar track, or maybe you want something done to your multitracks that is out of character for the genre of music being mixed. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions. |
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HIT AND RUN RECORDING'S MASTERING SERVICE |
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After we have confirmed your mastering project order via email, use the FIlebox to the right to send Hit and Run Recording the wav files for each of the songs that you want to be mastered. |
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| Preparing the stereo mixes you have done to be mastered: |
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| The audio files you provide can be any standard WAV or AIFF format audio data file: 24 bit, 16 bit (if your recorder does not have 24 bit ability) with sample rates of 44.1k, 48k, or 96k. It is important that the stereo mix files you provide do not have any limiting or compression. |
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Feel free to contact us if you have any questions. |
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CURRENT PRICES - Note: Not all projects and situations are the same. For example, the Mixing prices below are for the mixdown of typical 16 to 24 track recordings. Projects with less tracks are usually less complex to mix and projects with more tracks and automation are more complex. If your project is not a typical 16-24 track recording, contact us with your information for a price quote.
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