Mixing Engineer w/Studio Looking for Projects

Arlington VA

Description

Hi there! TLDR: I have a very nice studio and I'd like to put it to use making recordings that will be released. I'm interested in anything from recording/mixing/mastering your fully baked songs/tracks to working with a singer/songwriter on making a full release ready track from the ground up. I'm open to all genres but tend to gravitate to funk, hiphop, soul, blues, jazz, RnB and EDM. If you are a vocalist that wants to record/mix vocals over a beat you've found; that is something I have done quite a bit of. I'm 33 years old and I've been playing music since I was 12. At 18 I got into making beats and mixing music. I started building a home studio many years ago and now have better equipment than most of the commercial studios I have toured. I've recently expanded into mastering. I regularly get paid mixing/mastering work but I don't depend on it as a source of income. I am also not looking to charge for mixing/mastering work because I think it creates poorly aligned incentives between myself and the artists I work with. I'd rather feel like a bandmate than a vendor. Perhaps it made sense for mixing/recording engineers from decades ago to be thought of as a vendor because historically the role of the mixing engineer has been primarily non creative. This is certainly not the case with most modern genres of music (especially EDM, Hip Hop, Pop, RnB, etc.) where the mixing/mastering engineers are required to play a creative role in the process. For many of these styles; the producer is more like a bandmember without a songwriting credit than they are like a an uber driver or some other fee based service provider because they contribute to the overall vibe or feel to an album. I think this needs to be reflected in the way the relationship is structured between the producer/engineer and the artist. I'm open to ideas; but I think the best way to do this would be to have an arrangement where I'd get a small cut of any distrokid release so we can think of it as our project rather than a client's project. If this is something that interests you, please reach out to me and let me know a little bit about what you have in mind. I'd be happy to share examples of my work. I'm open to all genres but tend to gravitate to funk, hiphop, soul, blues, jazz, RnB and EDM. My room is fully treated. I have a couple set of reference monitors and a small (but growing) locker of mics. I have about 50 units of rackmounted gear covering most styles of classic compressors (SSL bus comp, vari mu, VCA, FET, Opto, PWM, etc.) EQs, preamps and FX processing all hooked up to a patchbay and a small SSL desk. **************This post does not belong in services offered. That is kinda the whole problem. It's normal for bandmates to ask for a small cut of mechanical royalties. This post should not be flagged.