Professional mixing services

Fandango Recording provides professional mixing services across Costa Brava, Barcelona, Girona and for remote clients from all Europe and online mixing. Our studio offers professional audio mixing using a hybrid analog and digital approach. Mixing is the process of putting everything together to get great balance, frequency range, panorama, dimension, dynamics, and interest.

All instruments have to be heard properly, and there has to be a fit in between them. The song gets to be round, polished, with a good sense of 3D space. In theory, this sounds simple; the reality is much more complicated. Every instrument carries different amount of energy in the frequency bands and they must be worked out so they don’t cancel each other and sound naturally. They must be placed in space, both panning, depth and height. The voices or leads have to stand out.

The mixing engineer identifies the song’s driving element (for example, in disco the kick is everything, or in jazz the melody and the musical dialogue between musicians), understand the arrangement and then, using panorama, EQ, dimension (effects), dynamics (compression, gating, limiting) starts to build the mix from the bottom up. He follows the direction of the song and makes sure it has groove and it captures a listener's interest. Professional mixing requires also editing, like vocal editing (pitch correction, intonation and breathing reduction), noise removal from tracks, drums enhancement or replacement.

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What sets us apart when it comes to mixing...

Experience

Fandango Recording provides mixing services for almost 30 years, doing mixes for different styles of music, from rock, jazz, latin, blues, country, classical and alternative to EDM, hip-hop and movie and video soundtracks. Florin is a very skilled engineer with a lot of experience and knowledge, not only as a mastering and mixing engineer, but as a music producer too. He is a former musician who dealt with many genres of music and has a great dedication and attitude for music and musicians.

Top notch acoustics

Maybe the most important thing on the mixing process equation is the room acoustics. The room influence over the perception of sound is huge. We invested a lot of resources to create a room that has a fantastic response, it is basically +/- 3dB versus the ideal curve established by Bruel&Kjaer and a resonance time much better than the standard. I have posted the graphs in the FAQ section.

The professional equipment

We mix in a hybrid analog digital manner, using a plethora of famous summing boxes, equalizers, compressors, and effects; also, the monitoring system is exceptional, of the highest quality in the recording industry. Please check the equipment page to see all the details.

Communication and follow-up

One thing that sets us apart from the competition is the way we work when it comes to mixing: once the mixing is done and paid, you take the mix and listen to it for a week or so on the audio systems you are familiar with. So many times, clients complain that they did the mix into another studio and they are not happy with it. I am not sure it's the studio or the clients to blame, but I am sure that in music everybody has their own view: what I personally like a lot may not be your cup of tea. Music is a very personal and subjective thing, and communication is key! Three free revisions are included with every mix.

Once you have the mix and listen to it, you can write down a list of the things you may want adjusted, then come back to the studio or email us for online mixing, and we work together to implement the changes. I will do the changes as requested, as I understand that each artist has its own vision, and my job is to make it a reality. There is no ego in this process; the only important thing is to bring the artist's concept to life. I found that this strategy of finishing a mix gives the best results and clients are happier and more content. Of course, when the artist has its own music producer it is easier, as the producer knows what he wants, as he is in charge with the sound and the direction of the mix.

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