Hip Hop Mixing and Mastering Services

Hip Hop Mixing and Mastering Services

Whether you’re a vocal hip-hop/rap artist or producer / beat-maker, having a high quality industry standard sound is more important than ever. Mixing and mastering is a craft that not only takes time—it also takes money, invested in plugins, equipment, and education.

No matter what DAW (Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton, etc.) you use,—no matter whether your recording in your home studio or paying a sound engineer to record you at a local studio—music production and creation require 1 of 2 things:

1. Learning how to mix and master on your own (can be time-consuming and costly)

OR

2. Hiring a professional to mix and master your music for you, using skills they’ve spent years refining (costs per project, doesn’t take up your time)

You Don’t Have Time to Do Everything

Essentially, if you have adequate time to learn, and have money for courses, plugins, and equipment, you will save money in the long run by learning how to mix and master on your own.

Say you work full-time, and you’re bootstrapping your music career…In this case, paying someone to mix and master for you might be the best option. Your limited spare time can be spent creating music and working on your marketing and promotion.

Hip Hop Mixing Services

Mixing is 95% of the job. Professional mixing is the process of working with all individual tracks—whether it be 2 or 200—and making things sound good.

This process includes panning, equalization, reverb, pitch correction (autotune), compression, setting volumes, and so much more. Your audio engineer works to make sure everything sits within the mix as it should. Audio mixing really is the most important step, and mastering is the cherry on top.

Hip Hop Mastering Services

The mastering process is the cherry on top. Your mastering engineer takes your mixed song and applies various effects—from mastering compression and final EQ, to stereo-widening plugins. The perceived volume of your track is significantly increased.

Together, your mixing engineer and your mastering engineer can take your song straight from the recording studio and make it radio-ready for the radio, iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud, and more.

Why Should I Hire Someone to Mix & Master for Me?

Music producers spend years refining their craft. It’s no different for mixing engineers or mastering engineers.

If you’re interested in learning how to mix and master, great! But know that it will take years to refine.

If you’re like most artists, you’re probably much more passionate about the creative process itself and less interested in the technical aspects involved in mixing and mastering.

How to Send Your Song for Mixing and Mastering

1. Recording

This step is obvious—but there are some minor details and mistakes you should avoid.

Don’t Record Too Loud

Don’t allow your microphone levels to get too high. If you record with your levels too high, your recordings will “clip.” Clipping means that the tops and bottoms of your waveforms are cut off.

Clipping creates distortion. While there is software that can repair damaged waveforms, but they’re expensive, and it’s not offered by all mixing and mastering engineers.

Record Multiple Takes

Not just so you can find and use the best one—but so your mixing engineer can layer your voice on the hook. Record 2 doubles (emphasis on the rhymes) so your mixing engineer can make your verses pop.

Don’t Keep the Low-Quality Recording

In other words, don’t just send all of your takes with the intention of your mixing engineer to pick the best one—as the artist, that’s your job. Unless you’re sitting in the studio with your producer, you’ll need to be the shot caller with which takes sound best.

2. Exporting

Export a Reference Track (Optional)

If you’ve added your own effects and created a certain feel or vibe for your track, and you want your mixed and mastered track to reflect that, export your track as a reference.

Turn Off Your Effects

Turn ALL of your effects off of your individual tracks and the master track (with the exception of any pitch correction, if you like how it’s sounding).

It’s vital that you send your tracks completely raw so the mixing engineer can start from scratch.

Be sure to check the master bus for effects and turn those off as well.

Export Individual Tracks

When it comes to mixing, your engineer needs the individual tracks of your song. At a minimum, this includes all of your vocal recordings. But if you also have the stems (wav trackouts) to the Beat you’re using, that will help take the quality to a whole new level—especially since not every producer has properly mixed their own Beat.

3. Sending

Export your files to one folder. Right click the folder, and select “compress.”

Use a Gmail account to send your files. Every Gmail account comes with 15GB of Google Drive storage, allowing you to easily email large files.

Send your compressed folder (.zip) and reference track (.mp3 or .wav) to mixing@jbzbeats.com.

One Bundle to Take Your Song to a New Level

We offer online mixing and mastering in one affordable package. Simply send us the individual wav files (stems) of your song, and we will Mix AND Master it and make it ready for any platform you wish to distribute it.

While we specialize in hip hop and rap, we can also mix and master Beats R&B, Reggae, EDM, Indie—and really any genre you can think of. We have years of experience, and satisfaction is our guarantee.

Pricing

We offer our Hip Hop Mixing and Mastering Services in one package. We charge a flat rate of $99 per song.

Take your past projects and future projects to a brand new level—see how JBZ Beats’ Hip Hop Mixing and Mastering Services can transform your music.