Audio-book and dialogue editing is by itself a craft and form of art. Involves editing and manipulating of production audio tracks or dialogue actors, voice-overs, interviews and other tracks recorded on location.

Mix-Notes offers audio editing services for both podcast, interviews, audio books, presentations.

DIALOGUE EDIT CHECKLIST!

• Removal of mouth noises, heavy breaths, stomach noises, studio sounds, explosive noises, clicks etc.
• Tempo/reading pace adjustment to ensure the consistency.
• Recorded interviews, Audio Books, Training & Presentations: Cut unwanted words & sounds like um… er ..coughing, wheezing, etc.
• Removal of unwanted silences, beginning, end, or somewhere in between.
• Remove unwanted words or phrases, or even whole topics.
• Remove noises from the recordings or other unwanted background noise, de-click, de-Reverb etc.
• Add music to your recordings, introduction, conclusion, fade-in/fade-out, low background music.

RATES CHECKLIST!

• A standard editing fee of 35€ per hour applies.
• Basic editing usually takes about 1 or 2 hours of editing. This typically involves cutting out unnecessary silences and noises.
• Advanced editing where more correction is needed takes up a bit more time varying from 2 hours up to 5 hours or more sometimes. (For example when word for word need to be edited)
• For all editing request please send us a sample first and the total amount of time that needs to be edited. This way a more precise quote can be offered.
• If you received a quote for 2 hours of work and eventually it only took one hour to finish the job, you will be billed only for that 1 hour of work.
• All prices are excl. 21% VAT. For EU clients (except Belgium) with a valid VAT number reverse VAT applies. Clients outside the EU no VAT is applicable.

Audio Mixing refers to the process of combining multi-track audio recordings into one final mix, both in a creative and musical way.

A procedure of proper gain staging, checking levels for sufficient headroom, panning, gating, De-Essing, transient design, EQ, compression, saturation, limiting, reverb, delays, special FX, automation and combining all these elements into a well balanced stereo mix.

MIX CHECKLIST!

• Backing up the delivered session, reviewing the rough mix, taking notes, plan out the artistic direction of the mix.
• Organizing the session work-flow, preview the source materials.
• Look for strengths & weaknesses, take more notes, fix tracks that need attention 1st.
• Time alignment of all acoustically (mic’d) recorded instruments.
• Gain staging, panning, separation, create a sense of dimensionality within the stereo field.
• Processing individual elements, strategic/corrective/creative EQ, frequency spectrum, clean up the mud and lets the best parts stand out for space and clarity.
• Create energy & balance through dynamics and let every element stand-out on it’s own.
• Dynamics: Glue, mix-bus processing, energy & balance, De-Essing, transiënt design, compression, limiting.
• Effects: Great sounding dry mix, creative touches of reverbs, delays, harmonizers, flanger, chorus, effects that benefit the song. (Harmonics & Time base FX)
• Additional creative elements: Automation, automating FX, intensity, emotion and movement within the mix.
• Primary mix, gather your feedback, approval/disapproval, revisions.

RETURN CHECKLIST!

Final stereo mixes finalized, properly labelled & mastering ready. 24bit/44.1kHz WAV or any other requested format as 24bit/48kHz up to 24bit/192kHz WAV/AIFF etc.

• Up to 3 revisions of your mix.
• High quality 320 kbps MP3 files as reference. Once revisions are approved the files get finalized & properly labeled for mastering as 24bit/44.1kHz WAV files.
  • (or by request as 24bit/48kHz up to 24bit/192kHz WAV files.)
• Free junior reference master, Massey L2007 Mastering Limiter as 16bit/44.1kHz files.
• If you plan to release your music commercially a professional mastering by a qualified mastering engineer is recommended.
• Mastered files contains all metadata for manufacturing & commercial digital release. (e.g. ISRC codes, (ID3) Text & Artwork encoding  and DDP for reproduction.
• Alternate mixes only €20 per mix. Alternate mixes are; broadcast mix (lead vocals removed), A capella (vocals only), performance mix (instrumental backing track).
• Files will be transferred to you and/or the mastering facility via WeTransfer or a portable media device.

RATES CHECKLIST!

• Rates are based on a flat rate model per song or mix project, based on the complexity of the mix ranging from €200 up to €300 per song.

Before starting a mix it is commonly expected that the tracks are delivered fully edited and mix ready.

• If you prefer to have your tracks edited & prepared for mixing a standard editing fee of 99€ applies with a 3 hour max limit.
• For all additional editing time a 35€ per hour editing fee applies.
• Basic editing usually takes about 3 hours of editing. (Included in our 99€ standard edit Fee)
• Advanced editing where a lot of correction is involved like quantising of drums, sample replacement or vocal tuning takes up a bit more time varying from 2 hours up to 5 hours or more.
• Up to three revisions of your mix are included. Additional revisions: only €25 each.
• A deposit of 50% is required at the start of any editing, mixing work or project.
• Final High resolution files are delivered upon receipt of the remaining balance.
• All prices are excl. 21% VAT. For EU clients (except Belgium) with a valid VAT number reverse VAT applies. Clients outside the EU no VAT is applicable.

FILE PREPARATION CHECKLIST!

All sessions get mixed in Pro Tools 2019. No matter which DAW you use like Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Live etc. use this guide to assist you in preparing your session files.

• Label your tracks! This is a vital step to identify the tracks.
• Clean up your tracks! Clean up unwanted noises, bad edits, pop & clicks etc.
• Pitch & Timing corrections! Pitch & timing correction is time consuming, not really a part of the mix process but can be done on request.
• Turn off ALL processing & effects! If you performed some track processing (eq, comp, fx etc.) please turn them off before you render/consolidate the tracks. If the processing is critically important to the mix, please render & name both versions. (e.g. Kick Dry & Kick EQ-COMP, Synth Dry & Synth Delay etc.)
• Consolidating Tracks, aka. Rendering: Regardless of what DAW you use, the files required to mix are the tracks from start to finish, all audio tracks need to start at the same time.
• Select all tracks from start to finish. (Consolidate tracks, render or bounce in place etc.) This step is essential for lining up the audio files in the mix session timeline.
• Exporting audio files: After the tracks have been rendered, export the audio files. In Pro Tools use “save copy as”, and activate the tab with “selected tracks only“. Choose the preferred format, drive location and hit save. In other DAW’s use the export files command. In all scenarios save the files in a folder named “ARTIST-SONGTITLE“, zip the folder for easy transferring the project files.
• Choose the right Formats: (e.g. WAV, AIFF, 16/24/32bits bit-depth, 44.1Khz, 48kHz sample-rate up to 24bit/192kHz.) Typically the export format is the format that the session was recorded in. MP3’s are not accepted or suited for mixing!

Should you have any further questions, let me know when we discuss your session!

FILE TRANSFER CHECKLIST!

• Deliver your project files via CD/DVD/USB, portable HD or through online file transfer services like WeTransfer.
• WeTransfer offers up to 2GB of free file-sharing per transfer.
• For multiple mix sessions, place your files in separate zipped project folders. (e.g. ARTIST – SONG)
• Should it be that 2GB provides insufficient space per song, you can subsequently create 2 or more audio file folders to deliver your files. Alternatively a WeTransfer Plus account allows you to transfer up to 20GB in one go, the downside is a signup and per year @ 120€ or 12€ p.m.
• Other file transfer services for the audio & video industry like Avid cloud collaboration platform.

RATES CHECKLIST!

Editing Dialouge:

• A standard editing fee of 35€ per hour applies.
• Basic editing usually takes about 1 or 2 hours of editing. This typically involves cutting out unnecessary silences and noises.
• Advanced editing where more correction is needed takes up a bit more time varying from 2 hours up to 5 hours or more sometimes. (For example when word for word need to be edited.)
• For all editing request please send us a sample first and the total amount of time that needs to be edited. This way a more precise quote can be offered.
• If you received a quote for 2 hours of work and eventually it only took one hour to finish the job, you will be billed only for that 1 hour of work.

Editing Music:

Before starting a mix it is commonly expected that the tracks are delivered fully edited and mix ready.

• If you prefer to have your tracks edited & prepared for mixing a standard editing fee of 99€ applies with a 3 hour max limit.
• For all additional editing time a 35€ per hour editing fee applies.
• Basic editing usually takes about 3 hours of editing. (Included in our 99€ standard edit Fee)
• Advanced editing where a lot of correction is involved like quantising of drums, sample replacement or vocal tuning takes up a bit more time varying from 2 hours up to 5 hours or more.

Music Mixing:

• Rates are based on a flat rate model per song or mix project, based on the complexity of the mix ranging from €200 up to €300 per song.
• For the mix I assume that the tracks are delivered fully edited and mix ready. Alternatively, the sessions can be edited & prepared mix ready at a standard €99 editing fee.
• Up to three revisions of your mix are included. Additional revisions: only €25 each.
• Upon request alternate mixes can be printed at small charge of €20 per mix. Alternate mixes are; broadcast mix (lead vocals removed), A capella (vocals only), performance mix (instrumental backing track).

Payments:

• A deposit of 50% is required at the start of any editing, mixing work or project.
• Final High resolution files are delivered upon receipt of the remaining balance.
• All prices are excl. 21% VAT. For EU clients (except Belgium) with a valid VAT number reverse VAT applies. Clients outside the EU no VAT is applicable.
• Payments can be made through bank transfer mentioning the invoice reference number.