Does anyone mix and master for others ?

Have you got a rough mix we could listen to?

synkrotron
how many stems?

9 stems but 2 are the same electric guitar panned hard left and right 
 
Dan 

I'd be happy to give a mix a go over the holidays if there's no rush.

I'll master.
Ignore my PM. It's Christmas.

danbottomburp
Awesome , so that's 3 different examples for me , thanks guys , i am so so appreciative for this 
 
So how would be best to get all the files to you  ?
 
I guess i need to grab my project and the sonar file and send them all right  ?
 
Never shared a project before so no idea whats needed 
 
I,m gonna upload them to OneDrive and then you can grab them from there :) 
 
Thanks again 
 
Dan 

Just need - all 24 bit WAV files, each starting at 00:00:00, no fx, no panning. Note of BPM and time sig(s)
 
Dropbox is good.
 
 

"electric guitar panned hard left and right"
 
You almost never want to pan anything hard left / right. It creates ear fatigue for the listener very quickly and just plain sounds odd. Also, instead of thickening a mix (which is what doubling is usually meant to do), it does the opposite and thins it out. The warmth of the lower mids just seems to disappear along with the heart and soul of the music.
 
A couple of tips:
 
1) Get a good mono mix first. If you can't get it to sound good in mono, it will never sound good in stereo.
 
2) Respect the old adage: "The best EQ is no EQ." Obviously you'll need to EQ things from time to time, but it's far better to track things as well as you can in the first place. Use good headphones while tracking, and if the instrument(s) you're recording sounds like it needs some EQ'ing no matter what mic you use, it usually sounds better to do it at the mixing desk going in than it does using an EQ plug-in after the fact in my experience.
 
3) Watch how you apply stereo effects. I think a lot of people using a DAW will track everything in stereo even if it's a mono instrument (meaning each side of the stereo waveform has the exact same thing on it). Some stereo effects are meant to take a mono wave and give it a pseudo stereo sound. This often gets lost when applying it to a stereo waveform that has duplicate waveforms on each side, so instead you get a mono sound for the most part. You have to experiment with effects to see how they react to various kinds of mono vs stereo waveforms. I think tracking in mono is usually the best way to go when using mono instruments and vocals.
 
You should work on things so you can learn to do it yourself. Mixing and mastering is not difficult. You can do it!

synkrotron
Tracking, Mixing and Mastering are three very different disciplines.
 
If anyone is good at all three, I take my hat off to them...

+1. Kudos to people like Batsbrew, Dan Cumpian, Stevec, Markno999 and daryl1968 (and a few others), those guys have it all nailed down.

synkrotron
Tracking, Mixing and Mastering are three very different disciplines.
 
If anyone is good at all three, I take my hat off to them...

Do you realize that prior to 1964 mixing consoles didn't even have equalization? You put musicians in a good sounding room, recorded them with good sounding mics direct to 2-track tape (or often a mono machine), made some safties, and that was it. Mastering was just a matter of dubbing to a cutting lathe with a limiter in-between to ensure the levels going to disc weren't so strong as to make the needle jump out of the grooves. Some extremely great sounding records were made that way. It's only hard if you make it hard.

batsbrew
pros did it.

Doing something for a living does not make a person good at it. If it does, somebody needs to tell John Gibbons and Mike Matheny. Poopycock indeed.