Find a mixing or mastering engineer
Recorded your song and need it to sound finished? Post a request and hear from mixing and mastering engineers who work with independent artists.
How to find an audio engineer on CollabWav
Post your project
Choose Mixing Engineer or Mastering Engineer, add the genre and say how many songs and stems you have.
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Engineers reply with a message and a sample. Listen to how they treat vocals and low end before you decide.
Send stems, get a mix
Agree the price and the number of revisions, send organized stems and receive your mix or master.
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These are real requests from CollabWav members, newest first. Join free to reply with a message and a sample.
Mixing and mastering are different jobs
| Job | What it does | What you send |
|---|---|---|
| Mixing | Balances every recorded track (vocals, drums, bass, synths), shapes their sound and blends them into one stereo song. | Individual tracks, called stems, plus a rough mix and a reference song. |
| Mastering | Polishes the finished mix so the song is consistent in tone and loudness and ready to release on streaming services. | One finished stereo mix per song, without a limiter on the master bus. |
Many engineers offer both, and some do mastering only. If you have not mixed yet, start with a mix. A master cannot fix a weak mix.
What to put in your request
- How many songs, their genre and roughly how many tracks each has.
- One or two reference songs that sound the way you want yours to sound.
- Your deadline and how many rounds of changes you expect.
- What you can pay: a flat fee per song, a split, a trade or credit.
- A link to a rough mix so the engineer hears where you are starting from.
Get the best result from your engineer
Send clean, labeled stems, all starting at the same point, and a short note about what you like and dislike in the rough mix. Ask for a short test mix on one song before you commit to a whole project. Our guide on preparing stems and demos for a mixing engineer covers file formats, levels and naming step by step.