Don Gunn
Don Gunn
Mixing/Recording Engineer
I work on all styles of music and utilize my studio, The Office, as well as many fine rooms here in my city, such as Studio Litho, The Hall of Justice, London Bridge, Avast! Recording and The Red Room.
Operating out of Seattle, I'm happy to travel for projects or utilize any of the fine facilities this city has to offer. I regularly work out of Studio Litho, The Hall of Justice, Red Room, London Bridge, and Avast! among others.
I also have my own studio, The Office, a single-room facility in which I do the majority of my mixing, but it can also be used for tracking smaller-scale projects. Read more
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After years of mixing my own tracks, I came to the conclusion that it's by far my weak spot — and having finished a new album, having launched a company, and being the parent of a toddler, I knew there was no time to learn to do a quality job on it. (Most electronic musicians mix their own tracks and think of recording/mixing engineers as only focusing on bands with instruments.) I've been following Don on Twitter for years (found out about him via Sean @ ValhallaDSP) and decided I'm not going to waste any more time. Hiring someone with decades of experience doing it, on hardware meant for mixing and recording, who works in a room designed for the job, seemed like the right move. And it was! Don not only glued my mess of an album together, but also brought it to life. He carved out room for everything to breathe, rode faders to bring attention to elements that would give way to others (versus my static levels throughout phrases), and challenged me with creative elements like off-time delays that I never would have considered.
Shawn HazenI always worry about trading actual files back and forth with someone else—how is that process? How "native" are your tracks—do you have to bounce anything down? Strip off effects first, etc to give him the blankest canvas? I love the idea of not just getting fresh ears on something but having those ears capable of taking the song to the next level! I just worry that the state most of my tracks are in (weird plugs, local samples, crazy automation) would make it difficult to share them in any useful way with someone else...Don made it easy, he can talk you through all that (plus, you're neighbors). I sent him (mostly) dry stems, then my reference mix of "here's my crappy mix drenched in FX but you can hear what i am going for". Some stuff I left treated heavily, but only turned off EQ, delay, and reverb, and some i left the delay or reverb on if i was using it for sound design or instrumentation. But the bigger picture is that for every track he treated the collaboration like a conversation ("how's this?") and as we got from track 1 to track 7 he started nailing down exactly what i was going forOh cool—that sounds like a great way to work. If I can get my act together with this new project, I'll get in touch and see how he could help. Thanks!What does Don charge for a song, or album mix project?Hey Jeff! I think his pricing is dependent on the project, but we worked out a price of $1,600 for my project, which came to $200 per track. I provided him with dry and wet (some reference, some baked) stems and we did a lot of back & forth to get the mixes right for me. He brought a lot of things to the mixing stage that I wouldn't have thought of. So that pricing could be contextual to my case...but there you go!
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