HOW DOES THE SERVICE WORK?
1. Send us an e-mail with the details in the contact section.
2. Once your material is arrived we’ll work our magic and send you the first version of the song.
3. You can approve it or submit tweaks, we’ll then revise the mix for you.
4. Once approved we’ll send you the full quality Master as a .WAV (16bit 44.1k) file and an .MP3 (320kbps) file.
HOW MANY REVISIONS WILL I GET?
3 mix revisions are always included.
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE YOU GUYS TO DELIVER?
Once your material is received it’ll typically take us 1-2 working days.
MY VOCALS ARE A BIT OUT OF TUNE. CAN YOU EDIT THEM?
Absolutely. We use Melodyne and Steinberg Cubase to manually edit your tracks to perfection.
HOW DO I SEND MATERIAL TO YOU?
Send us your files in .ZIP via Dropbox, Google Drive or WeTransfer.
WHO SHOULD I CREDIT FOR NORTHLANE STUDIO’S WORK?
Credits for our work are very much appreciated! Please credit ‘NorthlaneStudio.com’ (e.g. ‘Mixed and Mastered by Norbert Gobor at Northlane Studio’).
HOW GOOD WILL MY MUSIC SOUND?
Our team of sound engineers and producers have many years experience… and great taste. But don’t forget, we’re talking about art here and you’re the artist! Put it this way: if your music is good, we’ll make it sound superb. If your music is bad, we’ll make it sound OK!
WHAT IS YOUR TIME ZONE?
Central European Time Zone (UTC+02:00)
WHAT TYPE OF PAYMENTS DO YOU ACCEPT?
For online payments PayPal is the best way.
DO YOU PREFER A COMPLETE SESSION (Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic Pro, etc.) OR SINGLE AUDIO FILES FOR MIXING?
We actually prefer single audio files! They are much easier to work with and there are no problems with incompatible versions, plugins, or missing audio files.
HOW SHALL I PREPARE AUDIO FILES FOR MIXING?
Consolidate (bounce to disk) each track into solid “flattened” audio starting from the beginning of the session. A ‘flattened’” file is one segment of digital audio that plays continuously from the start of the track to the end. All files must have the same start time of 1:00:00:00
Please save files in their original file format (Wave / AIFF / SDII), original bit depth (16 bit/24 bit) and original sample rate (44.1 KHz/48 KHz/88.2 KHz/96 KHz/192 KHz).
Please leave the tracks unprocessed, there should be no level adjustments, truncation, dither or noise-shaping of the digital signal. All essential (i.e. special effects) plug-ins should be printed to another track.
If you recorded guitars with a amp sim plugin, please ALSO send us the clean DI tracks, so we can move some air and re-amp them through my highly modified rig.
Rename all audio files and try to leave tracks organized in a logical order (drums, bass, guitars, keys, vocals, etc.). Include BPM-Tempo information.
For Mastering Only, just send us a stereo audio file at the best quality available. Please NO LIMITING on the mix bus! Don’t hit 0dB too hard – leave 3 to 6 dBs of headroom for us to do our thing.
For Mixing And Mastering please export multiple tracks from your DAW. We prefer it if you turn EQ, compression, delays and reverbs off. You can leave other effects that have a musical value (e.g. flanger, chorus etc.).
I DON’T KNOW HOW TO PREPARE MY SONG FOR MIXING AND MASTERING
Send your project and we prepare your song for mixing-mastering session, though we charge an additional fee for that.
DO YOU MIX DIFFERENT GENRES (Hip-Hop, Metal, Country, Folk, Reggae, Rock, Pop, Dance, etc.)?
We have mixed and mastered a huge range of musical styles over the years so we have the experience in learning the needs of expression in all major forms of music. For specific mixing details concerning your sub-genre, it’s always better if you can give us as much information as possible about your influences in order to get to the heart of the sound you’re looking for.