I’ve Started A Mailing List

I’ve finally started a mailing list.

Very exciting stuff, I know. Try to remain calm.

This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while, partly because social media is a bit of a nightmare for anything genuinely useful. You spend time putting something together, post it, and then it either disappears after 24 hours or gets shown to six people and a bot pretending to be a crypto investor.

Lovely.

So I wanted somewhere a bit more direct to share useful stuff with artists, producers and songwriters I’m already connected with, or anyone who’s found my site while trying to figure out how to get their music finished properly.

The plan is pretty simple. I’ll send occasional emails with practical thoughts from the studio. Mixing tips, mastering prep, file export advice, common problems I see when people send tracks over, new resources from the website, that sort of thing.

Basically, the stuff I end up talking about with artists all the time anyway.

Things like:

• should you leave effects on when exporting multitracks?
• what actually matters when sending a mix for mastering?
• why your rough mix is more useful than you might think
• what to send your mix engineer so nobody has to guess what’s going on
• how to avoid the boring technical problems that can slow a project down

Nothing too heavy. No daily emails. No weird “music industry secrets they don’t want you to know” nonsense.

Just useful, practical bits from a mixing and mastering engineer who spends a lot of time helping artists get songs over the finish line.

I’ll probably also share the odd update from the studio, new articles I’ve added to the site, and thoughts on the process of finishing music. Because that’s usually where a lot of people get stuck. Not because the song isn’t good, but because the final stretch can be weirdly difficult.

You’ve lived with the track for ages. You’ve heard it too many times. You’re not sure if it needs mixing, mastering, another production pass, a different vocal take, or just someone to say, “Mate, this is basically there.”

That’s the sort of stuff I want the emails to help with.

So if that sounds useful, you can join the mailing list here:

No drama if it’s not for you. You can unsubscribe whenever, and I promise not to start emailing you every three days about “unlocking your sound”.

Cheers,

Mick