In general, you can send me your data via WeTransfer, Dropbox or SwissTransfer to info@fejfelements.de.
It’s best to contact me beforehand to discuss further details.
You can find a detailed overview of data delivery for mixing and mastering here.
The time it takes to complete your project always depends heavily on the current order situation and the scope of your project. As a rule, I’ll complete your project within 3 to 5 working days.
Are you in a particular hurry and your project can’t wait that long? Just contact with me, we’re sure to find a solution!
You can inform me of any changes to your order by email or by WhatsApp. Please let me know in writing and not as a voice message so that I can implement your change requests more easily. We can also clarify this again by phone.
As soon as I’ve received the advance payment for single Mixings or Masterings, I’ll start working on your project. For larger projects such as Mixing/Mastering an album, a deposit of 50% of the invoice amount can be agreed.
You’ll then receive a one-minute test version of your mixed or mastered project from me. Only after you’ve agreed to finalize the project you’ll pay the remaining 50% of the invoice amount (in case of a larger project). Once I’ve received your payment, you’ll receive the complete project.
You’ll find my bank details at the bottom of the invoice in the footer. Please state the invoice number and the customer number as the reason for payment.
Mixing is the step after recording and arranging and is therefore the most important step in the production process. The focus here is on adjusting the volume, the panorama, the spatiality and repairing or eliminating deficits and interference frequencies. The end result is a song (stereo mix) in which the individual instruments harmonize with the vocals or the instruments with each other and have been brought into a good balance.
The aim of mixing is to achieve a balanced overall sound and to give each instrument or voice its own place in the mix. This ensures that each individual element can be heard well and that nothing gets in the way of each other. The basic principle here is that you have to consider individually for each instrument how loud it should ultimately be heard and whether it should be in the foreground or background.
Full track Mixing includes 3 revisions* free of charge. Each additional revision will be charged at €10.00. However, in most cases, no more than 2 or 3 revisions are required.
*Processing fees may apply if:
– Change requests cause a complete or partial reworking of the project with considerable time expenditure without this being known beforehand
– after a period of more than 14 days after receipt of the final mixdown, new change requests or data exports etc. are requested without this being known in advance.
The aim of Mixing is to achieve a balanced overall sound and to give each instrument or voice its own place in the mix. This ensures that each individual element can be heard well and that nothing gets in the way of each other. The basic principle here is that you have to consider individually for each instrument how loud it should ultimately be heard and whether it should be in the foreground or background.
Mastering is the final step in extracting the maximum potential from the audio material and improving the quality of the existing sound material, but above all to enable playback compatibility on as many technical devices and media as possible. A professional sound recording should sound just as good when played back on a small stereo system as it does on the radio or through headphones. A balanced stereo image, good mono compatibility and a balanced frequency response are of great importance here.
Various technical equipment such as filters, equalizers, compressors or psychoacoustic devices are used for this. During mastering itself, it is only possible to a limited extent to change the sound of individual instruments without affecting other instruments in the same song. As a rule, this is the task of mixing. Basically, the better the mixdown, the better the mastering will be.
While all individual tracks of a song are processed during Mixing, the final stereo mix is processed during Stereo Mastering and individual group tracks (stems) such as drums, instruments, vocals etc. are processed during Stem Mastering.
Traditionally mastering is performed from a stereo mixdown. If you’re happy with the mix, Stereo Mastering is the way to go. If instead you’re not 100% happy with your mix and you feel you want to give the mastering engineer extra control over the mix itself Stem Mastering is the best option.
A DDP image or DDPi is effectively a digital glass master CD that is sent to the pressing plant to produce the CD. The DDP image contains besides the mastered audio files all important metadata like CD text, ISRC codes, EAN/UPC, times of pauses between tracks and duration of tracks. The DDP image is transmitted by me as a ZIP file and should be passed on to the pressing plant unchanged. I’m also happy to handle direct transmission to the pressing plant.
For Stereo Mastering and Stem Mastering there are unlimited revisions*.
*Processing fees may apply if:
– Change requests cause a complete or partial reworking of the project with considerable time expenditure without this being known beforehand
– after a period of more than 14 days after receipt of the final mastering, new change requests or data exports etc. are requested without this being known in advance.