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Yep.
You need to decide whether you are going to serve yourself, or serve your music.
Looking at the circumstances as you laid them before, if you mix it yourself, you'll be serving yourself and not your music. You'll gain some mixing experience at the expense of your music. That's pretty much it.
If you choose to serve yourself, this production of yours will not benefit from it I can guarantee you. May be the next one will (with the experience of "what you shouldn't have done" feeling that sinks in sometime later), but certainly not this one.
But on the contrary, if you have someone better than you mix it under your artistic direction, you'll be serving your music, which will eventually serve you.
I mean, if you have a label that's ready to toss up money for a proper mix, it's obvious that you have done a great job in producing it already. I suggest you don't blow it in the last step by succumbing to your own "no-one-else-can-know-my-music-better-than-I-do" ego.
They do.
A mixer better than you can in fact open a lot of doors in your music during the mix that you even yourself never knew that they were there. It happened to me.
But then again, it's your money, your music, your call.
Whatever you choose, don't regret your decision later. You asked, and I just told you my experience.
M.
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