EngineEars is a technology platform designed for and by audio engineers! We offer a range of tools that enable audio engineers to streamline their business processes aiming to create an all-encompassing platform for management, communication, and organization of an engineer’s business. By taking care of the administrative tasks, the platform allows audio engineers to focus solely on making great music.
EngineEars is a technology platform designed for both audio engineers and artists.
For Engineers, the platform is a tool to help manage the business you’re already doing by streamlining storage, organization and transactions to get you back to what you love, creating! You can host your services and showcase previous/current work all in one place, like a digital business card!
For Artists, we house a plethora of talented engineers vetted for quality ready to take on your next mixing/mastering project! We offer many payment options so you can pay the way you want! Communication with your engineer has never been easier, and when finished your files will always be readily available on the platform.
The EngineEars Onboarding experience is designed to provide audio engineers with the necessary information and support to ensure they get the most out of the platform. Led by Founder and CEO, Derek ‘MixedByAli’ Ali, we take the time on a one-hour video call to walk users through the platform and answer any questions they may have. EngineEars aims to make the onboarding process as smooth and straightforward as possible.
We have created a convenient video to help guide you through the platform and learn all that it has to offer step-by-step from beginning to end. In the video we cover everything from setting up a profile to managing projects and receiving payments. Check it out!
Watch the video tutorial below for a complete walkthrough to help you with setting up your stripe profile from start to finish.
Please make sure you are using the correct username or email to log in and that your caps lock key is not turned on :)
Additionally, you can try resetting your password on the Sign In page via the “Forgot password?” option (note that you need to verify your email address by clicking the link we sent you for this to work).
If you still have issues, you can email us and we would be happy to help you get back in.
Email info@engineears.com
Our apologies for any inconveniences this may be causing - we are here to help and want to address any issues that are reported as soon as possible so we can build the best possible platform for our users.
At any time on the website, you can press the ? in the top right corner and let us know you're having an issue. Please describe in detail what is not working for you so that we can best assist you.
Additionally, you can email us directly so we can work with you to resolve the issue!
Email info@engineears.com
Listed below are export and upload instructions for Logic X Pro, Pro Tools, and Ableton to help both parties involved in the project. These are also hosted on the platform when you are in the flow of a project, located in the bottom right corner.
Logic X Pro Full Stems Export/Upload Instructions: HERE
Pro Tools Full Stems Export/Upload Instructions: HERE
Pro Tools 2 Track Export/Upload Instructions: HERE
Pro Tools Engineer Upload Instructions: HERE
Ableton Full Stems Export/Upload Instructions: HERE
Ableton 2 Track Export/Upload Instructions: HERE
Stem Upload Instructions: HERE
Please make sure that you are both, trying to upload the correct file for the stage you are at / hitting the “Transfer Files” or “Send for Review” button when complete;
Artists: For your reference upload, you should upload a single .wav file - For your file upload, you should upload a single .zip folder, that contains all of your individual stems or your Pro Tools / DAW session based on what you have agreed on with your engineer
Engineers: For your mix review upload, and any mix revision uploads, you should upload a single .wav file - For your file upload, once the mix is approved, you should upload a single .zip folder, that contains all mix passes and mixed stems as needed
When you're logged in, you can click on your username in the top right corner and select what you'd like to update.
To edit the visual details of your profile page and set your account type to Engineer, Artist or Producer, use the “Edit Profile” button on the right side of the page when looking at your own profile page.
Thank you for reaching out and showing interest in joining the community!
Click here to Join the EngineEars Community on Discord, where you will have direct access to a vibrant community of musicians including veteran platform engineers that will help guide you on best practices for getting new clients, private discussions and demonstrations on plug-ins and gear, exclusive giveaways, and much more!
You will find the ‘reset password’ option at the bottom of the sign-up page. Also, note, make sure you have clicked the link in the verification email we sent when you first signed up.
Please reach out to us at info@engineears.com if you continue to have issues logging in.
Please make sure you are using the correct username or email to log in.
Additionally, you can try resetting your password on the Sign In page via the “Forgot password?” option (note that you need to verify your email address by clicking the link we sent you for this to work).
If you still have issues, you can email us and we would be happy to help you get back in.
Engineers, email info@engineears.com
Artists, email artistrelations@engineears.com
An audio engineer's dream. A platform that becomes the hub for the everyday management of your career.
We provide a homepage for you to have people view your past work, credits, services, and bio then book you directly on the platform. Handling payments to make sure you are paid on time, every time you finish a project.
Showing you an overview of your finances, booking analytics, schedule ahead, and more. Truly giving you a birds-eye view of your business.
Once you sign up and create your Engineer Profile you’re automatically placed on the waitlist and you aren’t required to do anything else. There are currently thousands of engineers on the waitlist. Please allow time as we are diligently working to make sure every engineer who joins the platform has an amazing experience.
Once we are ready to onboard you, you’ll receive an email inviting you to join a mandatory onboarding call hosted by MixedByAli.
We are currently allowing limited access to be a verified engineer on EngineEars, so we can be as involved as needed in any project and give focused attention to any issues that arise.
By doing this, we can make sure we stay on track to develop & build the best platform for you. If you haven't already, you can join the waitlist by creating an account and setting your account type to Engineer (via Edit Profile after signing up)
We will reach out once it is your turn to be onboarded.
Upon sign-up, we will not be supplying you with projects directly. We encourage engineers to merge their work from off the platform. This allows engineers to quickly become verified, resulting in more exposure on the platform. Note, once your profile has been built up, it is possible to receive work from an artist/client looking for an engineer through our search feature as well as the Find My Engineer feature.
EngineEars goal is to improve your workflow in any way we can. We pride ourselves in making it easier for engineers to acquire payment, communicate project details and timelines, and display their portfolio - as well as offer exposure and promotion.We also offer tools and education as we have partnered with iZotope and Dolby to give our users plugin bundles and certification courses to help take your career to the next level.
We hope this helps you as you begin your journey with EngineEars! If you have any other questions or concerns please reach out to us at info@engineears.com. We are here to help!
Unfortunately, we are unable to give an approximate time. We are working tirelessly to see all engineers onboarded.
In the meantime, here's a little more information on our onboarding process. Once you sign up and create your Engineer Profile you’re automatically placed on the waitlist. There are currently thousands of engineers on the waitlist. Please allow time as we are diligently working to make sure onboarding happens in a timely manner.
Once we are ready to onboard you, you’ll receive an email inviting you to join a mandatory 30-minute Onboarding Call hosted by MixedByAli.Once onboarded, In order to be verified you’ll need to complete 2 projects and acquire a 4+ star rating for both for them to be submitted for internal review - internal review could take up to 2 weeks.
If you pass the review, you’ll be verified. If not we’ll provide feedback and you’ll be able to submit projects in the future for review.
Please allow up to two weeks for our panel of experienced engineers to review your projects. We will reach out on the next steps of the process.
If there are any questions or concerns you have about the verification process, please reach out to us at info@engineears.com
To make changes to your services scheduling preferences:
1. Go to your profile and select the service for which you would like to change your availability for.
2. If no changes need to be made to pricing - press "save package" and it will take you to the window that allows you to edit your schedule.
3. Press "save preferences" to lock in the changes made to your schedule.
At this time we recommend posting the promotional assets you received in the onboarding deck. For users that have not only posted the assets but also stuck to the schedule, we have seen great results.
Also, consider reaching out individually to artists who might need your services. Going forward, we will continue to grow the EngineEars brand and reputation which will help bring you more clients organically.
We also encourage engineers to bring their existing clientele from off the platform, in order to truly benefit from all of the management tools the platform provides. This also allows engineers to quickly become verified, resulting in more exposure on the platform.
Continue building your career as an audio engineer! Transitioning existing clients to the EngineEars platform is very easy.
We are diligently working to assure you are onboarding in a timely manner. We will reach out to you when it is your time to join EngineEars.
Also, you can click here to become a part of the Discord Community where you will have direct access to veteran platform engineers that will help guide you on best practices for getting new clients, private discussions and demonstrations on plug-ins and gear, exclusive giveaways, and much more!
You can now send files through the messenger via the platform mid-project! (send files in .zip format to send through the chat)
Also, you now have the ability to re-upload either the mix or the reference at the review step if any mistakes were made.
No, Uploading completed sessions conflicts with the Onboarding process. The two projects you submit for verification must be new projects that take place on the EngineEars platform.
This enables us to streamline the process and have audio experts review the A/B comparison right on an internal portal.
Yes, all artists and clients you work with need to create an account to book you.
Note, for artists, this process is fairly simple as all they need to create an account is an email address and password.
This is to ensure that there is no confusion behind communication or payments, as well to give each of your projects proper customer service.
If you are working with a label, send us the project information at info@engineears.com and we will personally reach out to all parties involved to ensure a smooth process using EngineEars.
You have three options to make this happen.
1. Create a discount on an existing package - go to the service itself and ‘create a discount link’.
2. Start a project on the dashboard and go through the steps to set up the project. Once you get to the final overview price page, you are able to overwrite the total package price to an agreed-upon rate.
3. On your dashboard, you can use the Promo Code card to manage custom promo codes for artists to use for discounted rates when booking.
It's your responsibility to pay your required personal taxes when you receive earnings from us (we do not withhold any funds for income tax purposes).
By signing up for Stripe connect, you do enable automatic tracking of your payouts so you can easily export your earnings at any time for tax purposes.
Once you are onboarded, we have partnered with Stripe to allow you to withdraw directly to your bank, if supported by your country.
To do this, you can update your payment/bank information by clicking in the top right corner and choosing "Manage Payments" When you are ready to cash out funds for a completed project, click "Cash Out" on your Earnings card on the Dashboard.
You have the option to accept or reject any project that is booked with you. The artist is able to provide the reference for you to help you make this decision!
Yes, you can offer both mixing and mastering services separately on EngineEars.
All memberships are given the capability to create multiple services.
- Full Stems Mixing
- 2-Track Mixing
- Mastering
- Dolby Atmos Mixing (If certified & verified on EngineEars)
In order for an artist or client to book you on the platform, they are required to pay upfront.
EngineEars will then keep the payment(s) in escrow until the project is complete.
If the artist or client has chosen to pay using the Klarna option, EngineEars will pay you out all funds upon project completion and collect the Klarna payments separately.
Please reach out to us at info@engineears.org as early as possible so we can get involved & begin an internal investigation to offer the best remedy for the situation.
The iZotope Bundle & the Dolby Atmos course are updated monthly.
Please allow us to reach out to you with the following.
Note, you must be verified through EngineEars to have access to the Dolby Atmos Course.
In order to receive the Dolby Certified Badge on your profile, please send any certifications along with the ADM Wav File, Binaural Render, and Stereo Master of Two mixes you completed yourself to info@engineears.com, and our team of Certified Dolby Atmos Engineers will review your work for Certification Consideration.
We will reach out to you with the results!
We democratize access to quality engineering for artists globally by allowing you to book and collaborate with any verified engineer on the platform. There are 3 main types of Engineers; Tracking (Recording) Engineer, Mixing Engineer, Mastering Engineer.
Tracking Engineers facilitate your recording process.
Mixing Engineers use the stems from your tracking engineer, and the stems or 2-track beat from your producer. They balance & blend all the levels and frequencies of these stems - this gives each sound the space it.
Mastering Engineers use the final mix to make all levels the same across all listening devices / platforms.
Listed below are the differences between a 2-track mixing project, full-stem mixing project, mastering project, and a Dolby Atmos project:
A 2-Track mixing project is a stereo-mix (contains 2 speakers, a left and a right) that contains an already bounced instrumental and stemmed out vocals (stemmed out = multiple files). The engineer will have less control over each individual element within the beat/instrumental as it is bounced into one file - however, the engineer will have complete control over the vocals.
A Full-stem mixing project is also a stereo-mix (contains 2 speakers, a left and a right) - this is the most common mix you see/hear. The engineer has complete control over each individual element as both the instrumental and vocal files are sent stemmed out.
A Mastering project is the next step after the mixing process, it’s the process of preparing and optimizing recorded audio for distribution. The goal of mastering is to ensure that the audio sounds consistent across different playback systems and to make it as loud and impactful as possible without introducing distortion or other audio artifacts. For mastering, the engineer will only need the mixed-down, final version of the project in a high-resolution format such as WAV or AIFF.
A Dolby Atmos mixing project contains a 7.1 speaker setup (7 positioned speakers and 1 sub) which allows the engineer the ability to place and move sounds in a 3D environment with more precision, allowing for even more creative possibilities. The Dolby Atmos mix is useful when the song is already mixed in stereo, allowing the engineer to take the sound to the next level by repositioning the sounds to particular speakers, such as left, right, center, side, rear, or overhead speakers.
In conclusion: Choosing a 2-track mixing project will give the engineer control over the sonic quality of only the vocals. A full-stem mixing project will give the engineer more control over the quality of all files being mixed. A Mastering project will mainly allow the engineer to have control over the volume of the track across different playback systems. The Dolby Atmos mixing project will allow the engineer to creatively make changes, however, they will not have the technical mixing abilities they would in a full-stem or 2-track mix.
We suggest that you don't book your project until you have all needed stems and are ready for mixing.
If you and your engineer have already decided on a schedule, then after you book just email us at artistrelations@engineears.com to let us know!
Yes! Just email us at artistrelations@engineears.com and let us know if you would like to cancel your project.
The balance will be reflected in your account within 3 - 10 business days.
We will reach out to you with alternative mixing engineers available in your budget. Then, we can transfer your project over to them so your mixing process can begin.
Alternatively, you can be refunded if you wish to rebook with an engineer at a later time.
A reference track is your rough mix - it's usually the export of the song you got from your tracking engineer, or that you export from your DAW.
A reference track lets the engineer hear what the full song sounds like with all the parts put together.
Once you book a project, you will be prompted to upload your reference track as a single .wav file.
Then, once your booking is accepted by the engineer you will be prompted to upload all stems, and these should be together in 1 .zip folder - NOT INDIVIDUALLY.
Stems are the exported audio files that come out of the DAW (Digital Audio Workspace) used by the recording engineer, or producer.
Full-Mixing: all individual instruments on separate tracks, giving more control over the mix
- will be individual tracks, exported from a DAW, for each element of the song. All vocal elements (lead, backgrounds, adlibs etc) and all instruments that make up the instrumental will be solo'd and bounced out as a .wav audio file. Each sound is on its own track. Effects (FX) can also have their own track.
- If you booked a Full-Mixing Package: you upload multiple instrumental files along with your vocal stems (lead vocals, your adlibs, backgrounds, and any effects)
2-Track : a instrumental (beat) that has all instruments on one bounced out exported track, with vocal stems
- All vocal elements of the song (lead, backgrounds, adlibs etc) will be individual tracks with all beat / instrument elements being bounced out as a .wav audio file . All vocal elements and all instruments that make up the instrumental will be solo'd. Each sound is on it's own track. Effects (FX) can also have their own track.
- If you booked a 2-Track Mixing Package: you upload one instrumental (beat) file along with your vocal stems (lead vocals, your adlibs and backgrounds, and any effects)
If a song has explicit words, you receive an explicit ‘main’ and an additional ‘clean’ main.
If the main has no explicit words, then you receive a ‘main’ and no clean version is needed because the main is already clean.
Yes, you would need to upload both a stereo master as well as a Dolby Atmos mix that would go to Digital Service Providers.
Once the scheduled date for the mix arrives the engineer begins mixing the process usually takes up to 2 days.
For your mix review(s), after a period of 3 days past its deadline if you & engineer aren't in communication, or we haven't heard from you - the project may be moved forward so your engineer can upload your final project files and complete the project.
- If you need more time, we completely understand - just reach out to us at artistrelations@engineears.com and please make sure to communicate with your engineer in your EngineEars chat.
- Additional revisions can be added, for a percentage of the base rate, once the project is completed. Please just reach out to us if you would like to add one.
Our priority is getting you a high-quality mix you are satisfied with! If you are not happy with the mix, reach out to us at artistrelations@engineears.com and our internal review team will conduct an investigation.
Depending on the result of this investigation, we can offer a remedy with your current engineer, or we can transfer your project over to a new engineer, or issue a partial or full refund on a case by case basis.
We’d love to help show you how simple and efficient the process is to start a New Project and get your records mixed by one of the many talented mixing engineers that are listed on EngineEars.
Just email artistrelations@engineears.com answering the questions below and we can start by sending you some engineer profiles to select from within your budget.
- What is your budget per record?
- Is the record a 2-track instrumental and vocals, or a fully tracked-out beat and vocals?
