Online Audio
Mixing ServiceS
Whether you're a solo artist recording in a home studio or a band tracking in a professional space, your song isn't finished until it's been properly mixed.
While many musicians attempt to mix their own songs, working with a professional remote mixing service can quickly take your track from listenable to radio-ready in a few short steps.
A seasoned audio mixing engineer, Rob Kleiner of Studio Edison has mixed albums and tracks for Labrinth—including the Euphoria soundtracks—Sia, James Blake, Pink Sweat$, Kirby, and many more.
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What Is Audio Mixing &
How Can A Professional
Audio Mixing Service Help Your Music?
What Is Audio Mixing?
Audio mixing is the critical stage where individual tracks—vocals, drums, guitars, synths, and more—are blended into a cohesive, impactful whole. It’s the step where your song truly begins to sound like a record.
How Can a Professional Audio Mixing Service Help Your Music?
A professional mixing service transforms your raw recordings into a polished, radio-ready track by ensuring every element is perfectly balanced, clear, and emotionally resonant.
Studio Edison uses technical expertise and creative judgment to enhance tone, dynamics, and space, making your music sound competitive across all platforms.
Beyond balance, a seasoned mixer can bring out nuances in performance, elevating the vocal, and giving the track the depth and punch it needs to connect with listeners.
6 Reasons
why You Want a Professional Mixing Service Working on Your Music
While home recording technology has become commonplace, mixing is a highly specialized skill that requires years of dedicated practice, critical listening, and significant investment in equipment and acoustic treatment.
Here's why a professional mixing service like Studio Edison is a crucial part of your team:
The experienced, Objective Ear of a Professional Mixer
After spending weeks or months recording, artists become deeply familiar with their music, making it difficult to spot subtle flaws or areas for improvement. A professional mixer brings a fresh, unbiased perspective.
An Acoustically Treated Environment & High-End Monitoring
Professional mixers work in meticulously designed studios with accurate monitoring systems. This allows them to hear your music truthfully, revealing sonic nuances and issues that simply cannot be detected in an untreated home studio.
Add Instant Experience & Expertise to Your Team
Professional mixers have refined their craft over countless hours, working across diverse genres. They know how to achieve competitive loudness, clarity, and impact without compromising the song's integrity. They have a vast library of techniques and creative solutions.
A Pro Brings Specialized Tools & Workflows to the Process
A professional mixing service like Studio Edison utilizes industry-standard software, high-end plugins, and often analog hardware (EQs, compressors) that offers sonic advantages and capabilities beyond what's typically available to hobbyists. Their established workflow is efficient and effective.
More Problem-Solving skills Means Less Fire Drills
A professional can quickly identify and fix mixing problems like frequency clashes, phase issues, or dynamic inconsistencies, leading to a cleaner and more impactful sound in a faster time frame.
a professional mixing service can save you time to focus on being an artist
Outsourcing mixing frees up your time to focus on what you do best—writing, performing, and promoting your music.
What to Expect Working With an Online Mixing Professional
Working with a professional remote mixer is a streamlined, collaborative process designed to give your music a high-quality, professional sound no matter where you are in the world. Here are the typical steps involved:
Preparation & Organization
Before you even contact the mixer, the most important step is to prepare your files.
Ensure your recording and editing are complete and that every track (vocal, drum, guitar, etc.) is clean, correctly named, and starts from the exact same point in time. This is often referred to as "zeroing out" your tracks.
Export all of these individual tracks as uncompressed, high-resolution WAV or AIFF files. Crucially, remove any processing from your master bus, such as compressors, limiters, or EQs. This gives the mixer the cleanest possible canvas to work on.
Initial Contact & Consultation
Reach out to the mixing service via their website, socials, or email.
This is your chance to discuss your project in detail. You'll share your artistic vision, the genre of your music, and your goals for the final mix.
It's incredibly helpful to provide one or two reference tracks—commercially released songs that have a similar sound, tone, or vibe that you're aiming for.
Secure File Upload
Once the terms and quote are agreed upon, the mixing service will provide you with a secure link to upload your prepared tracks. You'll send over all the individual WAV/AIFF files. The mixer will confirm they've received the files and begin working on your project.
The Audio Mixing Process
This is where the magic happens.
The mixer imports your tracks into their professionally treated studio environment.
Using a combination of their expertise, critical listening skills, and high-end equipment, they will meticulously balance your tracks, apply equalization to clear up muddiness, use compression to add punch and cohesion, and apply effects to create depth and space.
They are focused on translating your vision into a powerful and clear final mix.
Review & Revisions
The mixer will send you a draft of the mix for your review.
This is a crucial and collaborative step. You should listen to the mix on a variety of systems (headphones, car stereo, earbuds, etc.) and provide detailed, constructive feedback.
Most professional mixers include a set number of revisions to ensure you are completely satisfied with the result.
Final Delivery
Once you approve the mix, the online mixing service will prepare and send you the final, high-resolution stereo mix file. This will typically be an uncompressed WAV or AIFF file, ready to be sent to a mastering engineer.
At this point, you have a finished, professional-grade mix of your song.
The Pros of Working with an Online Audio Mixing Service
Working with an online mixing service gives you access to world-class talent no matter where you’re located, removing the limits of geography. Remote workflows are efficient and cost-effective, with files easily shared online and fast turnaround times that keep your project moving.
You also get the flexibility of collaborating on your schedule, while still receiving the same professional quality and attention to detail as an in-person session.
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Professional Online Mixing Services FAQs
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At its core, sound mixing involves taking all the separate elements of a song – individual instrument tracks (drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, etc.), vocal tracks (lead, background, harmonies), and any sound effects – and blending them together. This blend isn't just about setting volume levels; it's a comprehensive process that includes:
Balancing Levels: Adjusting the volume of each track so that no single element is too loud or too quiet, ensuring everything is heard clearly.
Panning: Positioning sounds in the stereo field (left, right, and center) to create width, depth, and separation, giving instruments their own space.
Equalization (EQ): Shaping the tonal qualities of each track by boosting or cutting specific frequencies to remove muddiness, harshness, or to make instruments sit better together.
Compression: Managing the dynamic range of individual tracks and groups of tracks, making them more consistent in volume and adding punch or glue.
Time-Based Effects: Applying effects like reverb, delay, and chorus to add space, depth, ambience, or character to tracks, making them sound more immersive.
Automation: Programming changes in volume, panning, or effects over time to create movement, emphasize certain sections, or ensure clarity for specific elements.
The goal of mixing is to achieve clarity, balance, punch, depth, and excitement, ultimately making the song sound as professional and impactful as possible before it moves on to mastering.
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While often performed by the same person or closely related in the production timeline, audio editing and audio mixing are distinct processes:
Audio Editing: This comes before mixing and focuses on preparing the individual tracks for the mixing stage. Editing involves tasks like:
Comping: Assembling the best parts from multiple takes into a single, cohesive performance (e.g., piecing together the perfect lead vocal from several takes).
Timing Correction: Quantizing or adjusting the timing of instruments to ensure they are perfectly in sync.
Pitch Correction: Tuning vocals or instruments that are slightly off-key.
Noise Reduction: Removing unwanted clicks, pops, hums, or background noise.
Cleaning Up: Trimming silence, removing unwanted sounds between musical phrases, or tidying up track beginnings and ends.
Essentially, editing cleans up the raw materials and prepares them for the creative blend of mixing.
Audio Mixing: This comes after editing. It takes the polished individual tracks and combines them, applying the techniques mentioned above (EQ, compression, panning, effects, automation) to create a cohesive and professional-sounding stereo file. Mixing is about the interplay of sounds, how they relate to each other in the sonic spectrum, and how they build the final sonic picture.
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An audio mixer (or mixing engineer) is the architect of your song's soundscape. They are responsible for:
Translating Vision: Working with the artist and producer to understand the song's emotional core and sonic goals.
Sonic Balancing: Ensuring every instrument and vocal has its rightful place and volume in the mix, without clashing or getting lost.
Problem Solving: Identifying and resolving sonic issues within individual tracks or between tracks (e.g., muddiness, harshness, phase issues).
Enhancement: Using their expertise and tools to make instruments sound bigger, vocals more prominent, and the overall song more exciting.
Creating Depth and Space: Crafting a three-dimensional sound experience through panning, reverb, and delay.
Maintaining Consistency: Ensuring that the mix holds up and sounds good on various playback systems (headphones, car stereos, home speakers).
Technical Delivery: Preparing the final stereo mix file according to technical specifications for the mastering engineer.
Music Mixing vs. Vocal Mixing
While all mixing involves "music," the term "music mixing" often refers to the comprehensive process of blending all instrumental and vocal tracks into a single stereo file.
Vocal mixing is a specialized subset within the broader music mixing process, focusing specifically on how the lead and background vocals are processed and integrated into the overall song. Given that vocals are often the most important element, they receive dedicated attention, involving:
Detailed Editing: Comping, de-essing, breath control, and pitch correction unique to vocal performance.
Vocal-Specific EQ: Tailoring the vocal's tone for clarity, presence, and to avoid clashes with instruments.
Vocal Compression: Carefully managing vocal dynamics to ensure consistency and impact, making every word audible.
Time-Based Effects: Applying reverbs and delays to the vocal that place it in the sonic space of the song without washing it out.
Automation: Precisely automating vocal levels to ensure it always sits perfectly in different sections of the song.
A professional mixing engineer understands the delicate balance required for vocals, ensuring they are both prominent and seamlessly integrated.