My last 5 radio singles....a question for Mix Engineers.

[ALifeOfRhyme]

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[nickynicknick]

Why do you need someone to do it on spec?

[Jay Kahrs]

There are always options!

Shopping the record as a 'finished product' that's already been mixed & mastered is one of them, or shopping as an 80% finished product and getting money for mixing...

AFAIK ~ none of the 'big name' mixers are doing spec work. Could be wrong on that but I don't see how they'd take it when too many people are willing to pay $5k a song & they can knock two a day off the desk...

[FossilTooth]

Originally Posted by Jay Kahrs

AFAIK ~ none of the 'big name' mixers are doing spec work. Could be wrong on that but I don't see how they'd take it when too many people are willing to pay $5k a song & they can knock two a day off the desk...

Well, if you're talking about the top 5 mixers in the country, no they don't really do spec mixes.

However, there are plenty of mixers who will turn in a single spec mix to place a bid on an album project.... as long as that project already has funding.

I don't know of any serious mixers who I think would do a spec mix so someone could shop a song to for funding. I suppose dedicated mixers tend to be a different breed than dedicated producers in that sense.

[Jay Kahrs]

Originally Posted by FossilTooth

Well, if you're talking about the top 5 mixers in the country, no they don't really do spec mixes.

That's the 'crew' I was referring too.

FWIW ~ Outside of that handful I can't think of anyone who's getting $4000 per song to mix. It's more like 10-20% of that...

Mastering rates pay much better these days.

Really crazy when you think about it...

[Jay Kahrs]

Originally Posted by FossilTooth

I don't know of any serious mixers who I think would do a spec mix so someone could shop a song to for funding. I suppose dedicated mixers tend to be a different breed than dedicated producers in that sense.

That's not really I what I meant there...

Sometimes when a self/indie funded record is approaching the "done" point; most overdubs in place and there's an overall "big picture" in rough shape... It's not all that uncommon to shop the rough mixes around to labels and find someone to maybe "buy" the finished record as a product and fund additional monies to 'finish' the mixing and see the project to completion.

Obviously, that works for projects that are geared towards some kind of distribution network & doesn't work so well for self/indie releases...

I'm wondering what "radio capable" mixer is.

It's not the first time I've heard those words roll off someone's lips. Or fingers in this case...