Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Mix House Video Trailer Coming soon!

This video will include A-List Producers and A&R's including:


A&R
Riggs Morales- VP A&R Shady Aftermath

Producer
Scram Jones- ( Saigon, Jae Millz, Mariah Carey )
Versatile- ( Fabolous, Oschino )
Vinny Idol- ( Jadakiss, D-Block )
Amadues- ( Camron, Mike Jones, Puffy )

They co-signed us why not get your project mixed and or mastered?


Trailer and updated site coming soon!

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Studio Time


Recording Time
ATTENTION ALL RAPPER'S AND SINGER'S IN THE NEW JERSEY AREA!

ARE YOU AN INDEPENDENT ARTIST LOOKING FOR STUDIO TIME WITH CERTIFIED ENGINEERS?
WELL LOOK NO MORE! MIX HOUSE LLC IS YOUR ONE STOP SHOP FOR ALL RECORDING, MIXING AND MASTERING NEEDS.


*PROFESSIONALLY CERTIFIED ENGINEERS
*PROFESSIONAL STUDIO MONITORS
*32 TRACKS OF DIGITAL RECORDING
*ACOUSTICALLY TREATED CONTROL ROOM AND VOCAL BOOTH
*GREAT HOURLY RATES
*PRO-TOOLS
*WAVES MERCURY PLUG-IN BUNDLE
*Blue Bird Blue Microphone
*Auto Tune 5


Contact info:

Phone: 973.900.5644
Email: info@mixhouseonline.com
Website:www.mixhouseonline.com


-MIX HOUSE STAFF


Mix House LLC


Saturday, July 26, 2008

New Game and Lil Wayne



Video coming soon whats your comments on it?

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Nas Album

This album is more than music.It proves that not only black people but all people need to step to improve society. If you have not bought it yet please support it.It may be our last chance to have real content in music.

Our new addition to the lab!



With it’s unique look and highly versatile performance, the Bluebird has been designed to deliver the same high-quality, no-compromise audio that Blue users have come to expect. The Bluebird is a large-diaphragm cardioid condenser, utilizing Blue’s renowned microphone technology and Class-A discrete circuit.
In a departure from its normally application-specific designs, Blue engineered the Bluebird to be as versatile as possible, with applications ranging from vocals to electric and acoustic guitars, close-miking of drums, drum overheads, percussion, piano, horns, strings, and any other application where crystal-clear sound quality and detail is of the utmost concern. In addition to the microphone itself, the Bluebird also includes a specially designed shockmount - The BirdCage, and a metal mesh pop filter - the BirdNest. So no matter what your sound, the complete Bluebird package offers today’s musician a top-notch recording experience at an outstanding price — all in one nest!




Blue Bluebird Large Diaphragm Cardioid Condenser Microphone Specifications:

  • Acoustical Operating Principal: Pressure Gradient
  • Directional Pattern: Cardioid
  • Frequency Response: 20Hz - 20kHz
  • Sensitivity (1kHz into 2.5k Ohms): 27mV/Pa
  • Rated Impedance: 50 Ohms
  • Rated Load Impedance: Not less than 1 k Ohms
  • Noise Level A-weighted (IEC 651): Not more than 7.5dB
  • Max Output (1% THD into 2.5k Ohms): 12dBV = 3.1V
  • Max SPL (0.5% THD into 2.5k Ohms): 138dB
  • Dynamic Range (2.5k Ohms load): 130dB
  • Supply Voltage (IEC 268-15): +48V phantom power (+35V min.)
  • Current Draw (typical ai +48V): 1.8mA

Blue Bluebird Large Diaphragm Cardioid Condenser Microphone Features:

  • Frequency response: 20Hz - 20kHz
  • Sensitivity: 27mV/Pa
  • 138dB max. SPL
  • Low self-noise specification (>7.5dB)
  • High output level (+12cBV)
  • Class A discrete amplifier circuit
  • Tonal character makes it ideal for recording almost any instrument or vocals

Courtesy of www.bluemic.com

What is Mixing?

Mixing is the process of adjusting the volumes, pan positions, and frequency spectras of all your recorded tracks. Typically, these sound sources are the different musical instruments in a band or vocalists, the sections of an orchestra, announcers and journalists, crowd noises, and so on. Our engineers work in an acoustically treated room using professional studio monitors. Our studio monitors deliver clear highs that don’t fatigue the ears with an integrated and well-defined mid range, which allows our engineers to give our clients a top quality mix. We have Pro Tools along with using nothing but top of the line outboard gear and plug-ins. The waves Mercury Bundle is our prime weapon of choice.


Mixing is ultimately the key to having high quality music.You have to understand that without it every sound you have whether it being just vocals,kicks or a snar would clash with one another.A speaker is only circle that is limited into pushing out certain frequencies and without the proper leveling and panning along with Compression and EQing it will sound muffled and muddy.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

My personal take on the music industry

This is Ja from the Mix House,LLC. I have alot of mixed feelings as far as music in today's time.We have alot more freedom due to the fact anyone now can have a recording facility.It only takes about $3,000-$5,000.00 to have a decent set up. Set aside the main topic of discussion though is the QUALITY.Why do so many artist want to do it them selves? Is it the lack of drive to actually go out and work for something to get it? Or is it the same lame excuse I DON'T HAVE MONEY ( But you have fresh Jordans on your feet weekly).What ever the case be it's a reflection of you and your music.I feel as though people will only take you as serious as you take yourself.Many serious artist know the importance of having their music properly mixed and or mastered.But it hurts to know that our generation want shorts and cut corners to get ahead.If it was that easy everybody would just be at the top without the grind. IT'S NOT! Do you really think that your the only person with money issues? Get up and grind for yours till you get that budget! Get Management or a team that believes in you and split it! It's ways to go around doing whats is necessary to set you apart from the competition.Bottom line people want to hear quality and trust me you would too.It's too many people recording with clips,pops,discortion ect SET YOUR SELF ASIDE FROM THE REST!



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What is mastering? How important is it?

What is Mastering?

Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the art of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master); the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication). The source material is processed using equalization, compression, limiting, noise reduction and other processes. Subsequently, it is rendered to a medium such as CD or DVD( DATA FILE ).



Our process for mastering at the Mix House,LLC


Our mastering process is definitely up there with the top audio cd mastering studios in he music industry. We use a Pro-Tools HD system utilizing high end A/D D/A converters. We run audio through our Manley Massive Passive EQ, Manley Mastering SLAM stereo limiter and Micpre. Then we bring the audio back into Pro-Tools using our high end A/D converters. Next, we edit the beginning and end of all songs so there will be no noise between your tracks on the final CD. We will create a perfect fade out as well. Finally we bounce the audio to disc so that we can create a master CD-ROM. We only use the highest quality CD-ROM media when creating your master CD.

-Ja


Monday, July 21, 2008

Why do I need to mix my music?

It's evident in today's competitive market place in order to stand out you must invest in yourself!Alot of artist are falling to the way side due to the fact they would rather buy some kicks or go to the club instead of paying for the necessary investments to improve their music.Quality is everything, it represents you and your music.Without it you will just sound like every other musician that doesn't care with the same" I do it myself mentality".I suggest please if you are serious enough and want to make music a long-term career don't skip on the most important part which is post-post production ( i.e mixing and mastering ).




A Few tips on mixing:

1.When listening to music listen compare the quality of yours to any major release.This is your competition not the people at the bottom it's the people at the top.And if they are getting their projects mixed and or mastered why shouldn't you?

2.Have an engineer or producer with a trained ear and technical skill tweak your music! PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS YOUR SELF!

Check any major album it always has a specific engineer for every track done that mixed it.Do you think Jay or Nas know how to EQ? No, let the engineer do his job that's why he's there.

http://www.mixhouseonline.com <---- Your personal engineer when in need.

3.Make sure when you dealing with different studio's to hear the quality they produce along with the price.There are plenty of recording facility's and with the over abundance of "poor quality studios" they set a price that consumer's get use to.It's sad to say but rappers want to cut corners with everything. But you CANNOT put a price on your music! Quantity and Quality you cannot compare.It's like going downtown and seeing an official Polo compared to a bootleg one.Yeah, they both look the same but wash it a couple times and what do you have? The quality shirt is a little more but it will last you longer.Ultimately it just boils down in life how bad you want something and if your in the music industry people will only take you as serious as you take yourself bottom line.


-Ja Mix House Engineer

Mixing Techniques

Make sure that if your recording at a facility you have heard the quality of the music mixed! This is essential to what your product will sound like.Mixing includes a lot of different technical skills along with the trained ear. Compression, EQ, Delay, Reverb ect. are examples of the mixing process. Check back with us to get 1 on 1 on daily tips on how to improve your music.

Mix House,LLC

Mix House,LLC
Mixing and Mastering

About Me

The Mix House, LLC was established in January of 08’. Mix House’s main focus is to improve the quality of independent music along with educating artists on the value of having your project mixed and or mastered. We believe that having certified sound engineers on your project is essential for your music to stand out in today’s competitive market. A lot of artists have the potential to become great but it takes the knowledge and dedication to stand out from the rest and take your music to another level. Mixing and or mastering is the MOST IMPORTANT part of post-production for any genre of music. So why not get it done by the best?