ANALOG ONLINE MIXING
...to make your music spellbinding
David Bowie's 1972 vintage Helios mixing console, analog tape and Mixing HexenMeister Clemens Schleiwies can now magically fatten up your music and give it that fat, sumptuous, warm major label sound that you've been missing. And do it for peanuts. (Well, OK, walnuts).
No more having to defend your thin, flat ordinary sound with lame "..it´s not mastered yet"-excuses. Now, as everyone begs you to tell them how on earth you got your unique voluptuous vibes, you'll be shrugging and waving them off, trying to keep the secret for yourself ;-)
THE SECRET BEHIND THE MAGIC
...the rare vintage Helios console
DAVID BOWIE SIGNATURE
In the 60's and the 70's, the sound produced by Helios Mixing Consoles revolutionized music. No one had ever heard a rich, warm, fat sound like it before. And no one has been able to reproduce it since. All the legendary artists in those days in Europe, and in America used a Helios console. That's one of the reasons their music has become immortal.
MIX MAGAZIN ARTICLE
Only a handful Helios consoles were ever made, and many of them have since been stripped down. The rarity, even in their heyday is why only the top artists got to use them. ´The Beatles used a Helios console. So did The Stones. Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and David Bowie. And I've got the very one David Bowie used to record "Low" and "Heroes". He loved the sound so much that he signed it.
THE HEXENMEISTER
Clemens Schleiwies - Producer, Mixing Engineer, Wizard
I love music so much that it brought out the magic in me. So I can now take nearly any kind of music and mix it into something truly spellbinding. Because I just love big, plump, voluptuous, curvy, warm ... uh - - SOUNDS. OH. That's right, we're talking about online mixing here, aren't we?
Well I love that too.
Spells successfully cast for:
Big Boy, Red Friday, Violetta Parisini, Tuner, Markus Reuter, Isham, Ian Boddy, Aloha From Hell, Amos, One Fine Day, Betty Blitzkrieg, All Is Dual, Natural, Revolverheld, My Flea Circus, Leo Aberer, Anna David, Marc Sway, Columbus, Redundant Rocker, Karen David, Mila Misu, Weather Girls and many more...
THE INCREDIENTS TO CREATE MAGIC
MODIFICATIONS
All of my vintage gear is meticulously restored recapped and modified to better than original specs. Nearly all modern commercially manufactured equipment used in my online mixing studio is modified to improve their performance. All cabling is upgraded to copperfree Sommer and Monster cables.
CONSOLE
Vintage HELIOS discrete console with 40 Olympic style EQs from 1972
32 channels with Mic Pre, 24 Monitor Inputs, 16 Output Busses,
8 Aux Busses,Total of 64 Inputs in Mixdown
RTW Broadcastmonitor
rebuild and modified by Charly Bohaimid
RECORDING
Studer A800 MKIII 2" Tape Machine with 16 Track and 24 Track headstack
Telefunken M15 1/2" Stereo Master Machine
Antelope Audio Studio AD/DA
Burl B2 Bomber ADC
Harisson Mix Bus
OUTBOARD
Vintage API 312 MicPre
API 2500 Legacy Bus Compressor
API 525 Compressor
Audio Design F760 Compressor (8)
Cedar Duo Auto Dehiss
Dangerous Music Bax EQ
Digital Domain DD-2
Earthworks ZDT 1022 Pre-Amps
Foote Control System P3S Compressor (Mastering Edition)
Inward Connections The Brute Compressor
Little Labs VOG (2)
Maselec MXF-1
Pendulum Audio PL-2
Standard Audio Level-Or (2)
Sound Devices MixPre-D
Tech 21 SansAmp PSA 1
EFFECTS
Bricasti M7
Lexicon PCM 42
Lexicon Reflex (2)
Yamaha SPX 990
MONITORING
Lipinski L-707
ASR Emitter 1 Clear Blue
Avantone MixCubes
STAX SR-007MK2
STAX SRM-727II
Sennheiser HD 600
MICROPHONES
Horch RM2J MKII
Neumann KU-100
Coles 4038 matched pair Millenium Edition
AKG C451 EB
Audio Technica AT4033
Beyerdynamic M160 (2)
Beyerdynamic M201
Beyerdynamic M88 NC
Beyerdynamic M67
DPA 4080 Lavalier
Electro Voice RE20
Royer R-121
Roede Lavalier
Sennheiser MD421 (3)
Sennheiser MKH 415 T
Shure SM7 (2)
Shure SM 57 (3)
Shure Beta 87a
Shure Beta 91
INSTRUMENTS
Steinway Grand Piano Model O
Wurlitzer 200A Electric Piano
Kawai VPC-1
Vintage Gretsch Round Badge Drumset 13",16,20"
14" Vintage Gretsch Round Badge Snare
Popercussion BigBass Cajon
Native Instruments Machine Micro
Vicente Tatay Tomas Classical Guitar
Fender Stratocaster "STRAT" from 1980
ESP Viper Guitar
ESP VIPER BASS
Fender Deluxe Reverb II (modified)
Marshall JCM 800 Red Tolex (modified)
Mesa Boogie Mini Rectifier
Grossman Recording Cabinet with Celestion Greenback G12 8 Ohm
Lastgasp Art Laboratories Yongo Superfuzz
Diaz Texas Tremodillo (blue)
Maxon OD808 Overdrive
Boss OC-3 (2)
ISP Decimator
Ctalinbread SFT
Palmer Daccapo
Polymerisationslampe
LET THE MAGIC BEGIN!
Ready to get that FAT SUMPTUOUS WARM major label sound? Alright, these are the next steps to online mixing...
STEP 1
Click "Book Online Mixing Now" and you'll be redirected to PayPal where you can book your magic online mixing session. Please enter the amount of songs you want to have mixed and checkout. You now have the HexenMeister's attention.
STEP 2
After payment is received - (Thank you) - hey, wizards can't cast spells for free - otherwise the magic won't work. After that's out of the way, you'll be given a private Dropbox folder where you can upload your audio files.
STEP 3
I'll take your files from the secure Dropbox and transfer them to 2" analog tape and then work my magic on them with enchanted ingredients like the Helios console and outboard gear like Neve and API. Whoa! Online mixing Abra Cadabra!
STEP 4
I'll send you your magic back to you on an MP3 via Dropbox. When you play it, be sitting down. Magic has a powerful effect on people. Listen very intently. And more than once. You have the whole day to tell me if there's anything you'd like to change. And I'll revise and tweak the mix to satisfy your request.
STEP 5
I'll send back your re-magicked MP3. The online mixing magic is all yours. We repeat until you'll give your enthusiastic final OK. But remember I can only do this once or twice. More than that and the magic begins working against itself and my studio will blow up. It's happened before. I don't know why. Magic just works that way.
STEP 6
I`ll send you the unmastered high resolution 24Bit/96Khz files (main-version / instrumental / half-playback) for mastering - PLUS a mastered version (Yes you heard right! You will get a analog mastering for FREE as a bonus! And remember, there is no limit on online mixing magic. Come back anytime.
A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES OF
ONLINE MIXING MARVELOUS TO MAGICAL
Here are a couple of sound samples switching back and fourth between after online mixing and before online mixing. Before and after snippets are level matched so no trickery on your brain due to the “louder is better” illusion.
MASTERING THE MAGIC?
As a bonus you`ll magically receive a analog mastered version FREE of charge which fully complies with the latest "Mastered for iTunes" (24Bit/96KHz) standard as well as the CD mastering standard (16 Bit/44,1KHz)!
The files you receive are ready for digital release or CD manufacture. Of course, you will also receive the unmastered version of the final inline mixing files in case you wanna use an external mastering engineer.
OK, WIZARD WHAT`S THE DARK SIDE
OF ALL THIS MAGIC?
Analog online mixing of one song costs 527 EUR. Included is FREE analog mastering and all costs for analog tape usage. I also offer a mastering only option for 127 EUR and a analog stem bounce offer for 67 EUR for those of you who just need to borrow my magical analog chain for a drum bus or vocal track.
Please also read my very fair 100% money back guarantee below the price chart!
STEM BOUNCE
67 € /stereo
Antelope DA / Burl Bomber AD
Vintage Helios Console
Telefunken 1/2" Analog Tape
ONLINE MIXING
527 € /song
Full blown analog mix
FREE Mastering
Includes analog tape usage
ONLINE MASTERING
127 € /song
Loud & punchy
Tape compression
24Bit/96KHZ & 16Bit/44,1KHZ
REFUND POLICY
It's Practical Magic, painless and simple.
Bookings can be canceled for a full refund until the evening before the scheduled online mixing session.
If you do not absolutely love my magic and if you're not completely satisfied with how big, warm and punchy your new mix sounds, then I don't deserve your money.
So, listen to this refund offer:
Within 60 days, have the track mixed again by one of the following mixing engineers:
Andy Wallace, Bob Horn, Bruce Swedien, Butch Vig, Charles Dye, Chris Lord Alge, Chuck Ainlay, Dave Pensado, Dave Way, Ed Cherney, Elliot Scheiner, Frank Filipetti, Jack Joseph Puig, Jay Baumgardner, Jimmy Douglass, Joe Barresi, Joe Ciccarelli, Kevin Killen, Mark Shipley, Andrew Scheps, Michael Brauer, Russel Elevado, Ryan Hewitt, Steve Albini, Tony Maserati,
...and if you like their mixing better than mine, send me a copy of their mix
and I will cheerfully give you a 100% full refund of my online mixing fee!
It's so fair and down to earth, you'd hardly believe any magic was involved at all.