Mixing & Mastering · For Independent Artists
You can hear it too. Next to the tracks on your playlist, yours sounds smaller, muddier, quieter. Send me your stems and get back a mix and master that holds up on AirPods, in the car, and next to anything on Spotify. Love it, or every dollar back.
From $297 / song · 5 rounds of revisions · 100% money-back
01The 2AM Problem
You know the moment. The song is finally done. You bounce it, name it FINAL_final_v7.wav, and play it somewhere that isn't your headphones.
And it falls apart.
The vocal is either sitting on top like karaoke or buried under the beat. The kick that slapped in your headphones vanishes. The low end turns to mud. Then your song plays right after one from your favourite playlist, and yours sounds smaller. Quieter. Flatter. Somehow less real.
So you do what every artist does. Another YouTube tutorial. Another plugin bundle "on sale." Another weekend of bouncing versions until you honestly can't tell if it's getting better or worse.
Here's what nobody tells you: it's not your talent, and it's not your gear.
Writing, producing and mixing are three different crafts. Mixing is the one that needs fresh ears, a treated room and thousands of hours of reps. After 300 listens, nobody can hear their own song objectively. Not you. Not me. Not the people behind your favourite records. That's exactly why they hire someone too.
02The First Listen
Over 100,000 new songs hit streaming services every single day. Yours gets a few seconds to earn the next thirty.
The cutoff
30sec
Spotify doesn't count a play until the 30-second mark. Skip before that, and it never happened.
The competition
100K+
New songs uploaded every day. Yours is up against every one of them, on the same playlist.
The feedback
0notes
Listeners never say "the vocal is buried." Curators never email you notes. They just move on.
Bad mixes don't get criticized. They get ignored.
03Before & After
Press play, then flip between Before and After. It switches at the exact same moment, so the only thing that changes is the mix. Headphones recommended.
Now playing
Press B to flip
What changed
04The Difference
Plenty of people can drop your stems into a template, slap a preset on the master, and send it back loud. That's not mixing. That's processing. Mixing is hundreds of small decisions about one question: what does this song need so the listener feels what you felt when you wrote it?
What most mix services sell
What you get here
05Who's Mixing Your Song
Most people know me as Trudaloo. I'm a musician and producer before I'm an engineer, so I know exactly what it feels like to spend a year on a song, hand it to a stranger, and hope.
That's why I work the way I do. Before I touch a single fader, I listen to your rough mix. Then I ask the question most engineers skip: what are you afraid of losing?
The vocal take that cracks in the bridge. The weird synth your friends told you to cut. The energy of the demo you've played 400 times. That's what makes the song yours, and that's what I protect.
Then I fix everything else. The mud. The buried vocal. The kick that disappears in the car. The master that's 8 dB quieter than everything on your playlist.
When you message, you get me.
No assistants. No account managers. No mix factory with your stems on a conveyor belt. The person who mixes your song is the person who answers for it, before delivery and after.
06How It Works
Upload your stems, your rough mix, and one or two songs you love the sound of. Tell me what you love about your rough mix and what's bugging you.
Don't know how to export stems? I'll walk you through it in any DAW, step by step.
I live with your song first, then build the mix around what makes it yours. No templates, no presets, no conveyor belt. Your first mix lands in your inbox within 7 days, usually sooner.
You'll get updates without having to chase me for them.
Listen everywhere: the car, AirPods, your laptop, a club system. Send notes in plain English. "The vocal feels far away at 1:12" is perfect. You don't need to speak engineer.
Five full rounds included. Most songs need two.
Get your streaming-ready master in WAV and MP3, plus an instrumental. Upload it to your distributor and hit release, knowing it holds up next to anything on the playlist.
You own 100% of it. No royalties, no splits.
07Artists Who Took The Leap
Ivan is great to work with! Very professional, responsive, and punctual with deadlines & revisions. Was a pleasure having him mix my track and hope to work with him again in the future!
Ivan was such a pleasure to work with, providing me a really professional experience while he mixed my track. He was able to provide a great mix right off the bat and implemented all the changes I requested with a really quick turn around! He's been able to work with my busy schedule and has been extremely patient and understanding. I would highly recommend his services!
08The Guarantee
Maybe you've been burned before. The Fiverr guy who went quiet the second the payment cleared. The "pro" service that sent your song back with a preset on it, then told you revisions cost extra. The one that kept half your money because you'd "already used a revision."
Those stories are everywhere. They're the reason most artists never hire anyone at all. So here's how it works here instead.
You get five full rounds of revisions. If you still don't love your mix, you get 100% of your money back. Not 50%. Not store credit. Every dollar.
You're not gambling on a promise. You hear the result first, and you only keep it if it's right.
Revisions are where a good mix becomes your mix. Every round gets the same care as the first.
Not right after your revisions? Full refund. No forms, no runaround, no "goodwill" partial refund.
No royalties, no points, no splits, no credit demands. You pay once and own everything.
You'll know your delivery date before you pay, and you'll never have to chase me for an update.
09The Investment
Up to 30 stems
$297/song
Most singles. Vocals, a beat, and a handful of instruments.
Up to 60 stems
$397/song
Bands, big arrangements, stacked vocals and layered productions.
Full mix and master, five rounds of revisions, and a 100% money-back guarantee. On both.
USD. Not sure how many stems you have? Send them anyway. I'll count.
Every mix includes all of this. No upsells:
Releasing an EP or album? Ask about multi-song pricing.
10Straight Answers
Still wondering about something? Ask me directly. I answer every message personally.
Then we fix it. You get five full rounds of revisions, and I take every note seriously. If after that you still don't love it, you get 100% of your money back. Not a partial refund, not credit. Every dollar.
Not unless you ask me to. Your rough mix is my brief. Before I start, I'll ask what you love about it and what you're afraid of losing, and I protect exactly that. My job is to make your song sound like the best version of itself, not like my song.
Most of the songs I mix were recorded at home, so you're in good company. I'll clean up noise, harshness and room sound, and get the vocal sitting right. If something genuinely needs re-recording, I'll tell you before you pay, not after.
AI mastering polishes a finished mix. It can't fix one. It won't notice that your vocal is buried in the second verse, that your kick and bass are fighting, or that the chorus needs to open up. Master a muddy mix and you get a louder muddy mix. I mix and master, so the problems get fixed where they start.
Not at all. Stems are just each track of your song exported as its own audio file (vocal, kick, bass and so on), all starting from the same point. I'll send simple step-by-step instructions for your DAW, whether that's FL Studio, Ableton, Logic, Pro Tools or anything else. Get stuck? Message me.
Yes. A stereo beat plus your vocal stems works, and I'll get a great result. If you can get the separated beat stems from your producer, I'll have more control and the mix will hit even harder.
Every separate audio file you send counts as one stem, mono or stereo. A lead vocal, a double, two adlib tracks and a 2-track beat is five stems. Most singles land well under 30. Bands and big productions usually need the 60-stem option.
Your first mix arrives within 7 days, usually sooner. Revisions come back within 2 to 3 days. Working toward a release date? Tell me up front and we'll plan around it.
No. You pay once and own 100% of your song and your master. No royalties, no points, no splits, no credit demands.
A streaming-ready master in high-resolution WAV and MP3, plus an instrumental version. Need a clean version, an acapella or a performance version? Just ask.
I keep your project archived for at least a year after delivery. If you need a tweak or an alternate version later, it's easy.
Because a $50 mix you can't release costs you $50, plus the beat, the studio time, the cover art and the promo budget you were about to put behind it. You're not buying a file. You're buying a song you're proud to release, with five rounds of revisions and a full refund if it isn't right. The $50 option can't promise you that.
You pay through a secure checkout once we've confirmed your song is a good fit. And because of the money-back guarantee, the risk sits with me, not you.
11Let's Start
Tell me about your song. I'll listen to your rough mix, reply within 24 hours with my honest take, and tell you exactly what I'd do with it. No pressure, no obligation.
Protected by the guarantee. Five rounds of revisions, or every dollar back.
P.S. If you skipped straight to the bottom (fair), here's the whole deal in one breath: send me your song, and I'll mix and master it until you love it, with five full rounds of revisions. If you don't love it, you get every dollar back. The only way you lose is if your song stays stuck on your hard drive.