Clarity
Analog processing that separates the parts instead of smearing them. Every element finds its place and keeps its own air.
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Mixing
The sonic clarity and impact that makes listeners stop everything and turn it up.
Twenty-five years crafting mixes for Sony, Ultra, EMI and BBC Radio 1. From underground techno to commercial house, your music gets the spatial depth and analog weight that makes an A&R stop scrolling. Major-label expertise and a world-class analog rig on every project. Not a plugin chain pretending to be one.
The Room
The Room
This Is What
You’re Working With
You’re Working With
01The Chain
Analog where it matters. Digital where it’s honest.
Every mix leaves the box and comes back through real circuitry. That is not nostalgia. It is the difference between elements stacked on top of each other and elements that each have their own air.
Rupert Neve 5057Analog summing · the front-to-back dimension you cannot get in the box
BetterMaker Mastering EQSurgical precision with musical character · fully recallable
BetterMaker Bus CompressorThe glue that holds everything together
BetterMaker Mastering LimiterPeak control and loudness without the squash
Dangerous Audio Convert AD+Pristine conversion in and out of the analog path
Antelope Orion Gen 3+Studio-grade clocking, monitoring and routing
02The Process
What Actually
Happens
Most engineers hand you a file and a shrug. Here is every step your session goes through, so you know what you are paying for.
Listen Before Touching
Your stems, your references, your notes. I listen all the way through before a single fader moves, and I work out what the record is trying to do. Getting this wrong is how a mix ends up technically correct and emotionally dead.
Day oneGain Staging & Cleanup
Every channel set to a sane level, phase checked, clashing resonances and room junk pulled out. The unglamorous pass that makes everything after it work. If your kick and bass are fighting, this is where it gets settled.
CorrectiveBalance & Character
The static mix. Levels, tone and the decisions about what leads and what supports. This is where the record starts sounding like a record instead of a collection of parts.
The spineAnalog Summing
Out of the DAW and through the Rupert Neve 5057. Separation, depth, and the front-to-back dimension that plugins approximate and never quite reach. Buses shaped through the BetterMaker chain on the way back.
Out of the boxSpace & Motion
Stereo imaging, reverb and delay design, automation that keeps the arrangement moving. A techno record has to breathe over eight minutes on a big rig. That is built here, not bolted on.
DimensionTranslation Check
Mains, nearfields, headphones, a phone speaker, and a club reference level. If it only works in one of those it is not finished. Then you get it, and we talk.
Before deliveryNothing leaves this room until it holds up on a real system.
the standard
Make It Stand Out
Impact
Dynamic control that hits hard while preserving the artistic vision. Weight that survives a big rig and still reads on a phone.
Depth
Three-dimensional soundscapes through professional summing. The front-to-back layer that separates a demo from a release.
03What You Get
Every
Mix
Multi-track balancing with precise detail
Analog summing through Rupert Neve circuitry
Professional spatial design and stereo imaging
Frequency optimisation for every playback system
Dynamic processing that preserves musicality
Mix notes on anything worth fixing at the source
Revisions included: count depends on the tier
24-bit WAV, plus an MP3 reference for the car
04Rates
What It
Costs
Light MixUp to 16 tracks. Analog summing, balance and corrective work. A mix that gets out of the way. 2 revisions · 3–5 days
$250Add to order +
Standard MixFull mix. Summing, spatial design, dynamics tuned for a club system. The default for a single. 3 revisions · 5–7 days
$400Add to order +
Standard + VocalsEverything in Standard plus vocal production: tuning, timing, rides, and the treatment that sits a voice in the record. 3 revisions · 7–10 days
$600Add to order +
Pro MixDeep dive. Sound design, arrangement notes, restructuring where the track asks for it. Unlimited revisions within scope. 10–14 days
$1,000Add to order +
EP and album rates on request. Multi-track projects are quoted as a package, not a multiplication. Rush turnaround available.
05Send It Right
Stem delivery spec
- Format
- 24-bit WAV or AIFF
- Sample rate
- The same rate as your session. Do not convert anything.
- Length
- Every stem exported from bar 1 to the end, same start point, so they line up on drop.
- Master bus
- No limiter, no bus compression, no master EQ. Leave 6–3 dB of headroom.
- Faders
- At unity, unless a move is part of the arrangement. Then print it and tell me.
- Naming
- By instrument. KICK, BASS, LEAD_1, VOX_MAIN. Not Audio 14.
- Effects
- Print reverbs and delays as their own stems where you can, so I can rebalance them.
- Also send
- 2–3 reference tracks, a rough mix, and the BPM and key.
If that sentence meant nothing to you, send what you have. I will tell you exactly what I need and, if it is quicker, walk you through the export on a call. Nobody has ever been turned away for sending the wrong file.
Ready when you are
Start A
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Send stems, a rough and two references. I listen before I quote, and you hear back within 24 hours.