A new online service has been launched by a group of four high-profile mix engineers and producers. Online Music Mixing is a pretty apt name for the new venture, which allows artists and recording engineers to send their multitrack audio to one of the four engineers (about which more shortly), or for slightly less money an unnamed engineer, who will then deliver a completed mix.
Similar online services have proliferated massively of late (though most tend to centre on mastering, rather than mixing), but there is a risk associated with these solutions: the skills and credentials of whoever works on your music aren’t always easy to ascertain. Not so with Online Music Mixing: the four main engineers are Nick Terry (whose client list includes the Libertines and Klaxons), Dave Pemberton (who has worked with Goldfrapp, Groove Armada and Motörhead), Dan Hulme (who has worked in-house at Strongroom Studios and Miloco, and mixed tracks for Roots Manuva and Girls Aloud), and Ian Dowling, who engineered Kasabian’s West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum album, and has worked with KT Tunstall and many others. So when you send your songs off to get mixed, you can rest safe in the knowledge that your music will be in good hands!
There are three services on offer, at three different price points, depending on who you want to engineer your track (a CV and biography of each engineer can be found on the Online Music Mixing web site, so you can choose the engineer who’s best suited to your style of music). To get your track mixed by Nick Terry and Dave Pemberton costs £450 per mix, a mix by either Dan Hulme or Ian Dowling will set you back £300, while a mix by an unnamed engineer costs £175. The anonymous engineers, according to the Online Music Mixing web site, all work in major UK studios and have plenty of professional experience, so even with this option you’re guaranteed an accomplished mixer.
Recently, they have also started offering mastering services, of either complete mixes or stems. For the former, one track will set you back £40, and an album (of up to 14 tracks) will cost £500 — including PQ and ISRC coding, track ordering, and a Redbook CD master or DDP image file. Stem mastering is offered at £80 per track. For more information about these services, including delivery file formats and such, check out the Online Music Mixing web site.
