HIP HOP MIXING & HIP HOP MASTERING

Hip-hop, rap and trap thrives on a dynamic bass foundation in the mix, popping drumslike kick or snare and direct vocals. By over 20 years of experience When mixing hip hop / rap and trap songs with a wide variety of styles, we can implement your projects perfectly and ensure a fat hip hop sound for your instruments and vocals! Style variations like 90's OldSchool Hip Hop, Crunk, Trap, Dirty South, UK Drill or Newschool are no problem for us!

The difference to other productions will be audible! Not only through a controlled bass range, but also through powerful and clear vocals.

We would be happy to advise you on the timbre of your song or Hip-hop and rap beats. Step by step we go through your music tracks and explain to you where there is space in your frequency range to incorporate effects. Also on the topic Gain stageing we will be happy to answer your questions to all mixers and producers and to help where we can so that nothing stands in the way of the later master.

Vocals are an important part in urban music such as hip-hop and rap. Often vocals can only be recorded and edited with compromises, which can be traced back to the lack of equipment, the right room or the necessary mixing skills. But often they are too Instrumentals too clutteredthat there is hardly any space left for rap vocals. Here, too, we are at your disposal as a competent contact with regard to ways to improve your instruments or the settings of kick, bass, compressor or your voice.

We also offer on request Hip-hop mixing lessons online or in our studio. With your DAW and our technology, you can identify problems with samples or when mixing your music and learn in which frequencies you can reduce dynamics so that your voice, your instruments such as kick have a decent sound and your song with the big productions keeps up and has a similar frequency response.

Mixing tips on the topic Vocals recording can be found in our blog area. So that you succeed in the next productions of your hip-hop and rap tracks or beats and your mix itself balanced, transparent and powerful listens.

DRILL RAP MIXING

Chicago Drill Rap - Origin and History

The Chicago Drill Rap originated in the second half of 2, as the number of murders rose unusually suddenly in the first half of the year and was concentrated in a few neighborhoods in the city. Some of the young people living there took this form of rapeseed in order to make the prevailing conditions heard.

UK Drill Rap - Origins and History

The UK drill rap originated a little later than the Chicago drill and contains influences like from British grime. As in Chicago, riots and acts of violence were the order of the day in some areas of London, from which this collective rap emerged. In contrast to the Chicago drill, the UK drill is mostly rapped with stabbing rather than firearms.

Proper editing of Chicago and UK drill rap

Drill rap in particular benefits from a pronounced sub-bass range, popping drums and a vocal that is usually well above the beat. This requires a certain amount of compression in order to be able to build up the maximum pressure within the title. Digital devices or plugins are therefore difficult to implement. Especially the sub-bass range below 60hz is extremely important for the title to perform well on all systems. The sub-bass should form the foundation evenly across the entire track. To this one To be able to judge correctly, measured and optimized acoustics are of the utmost importance!

Thanks to our many years of experience with artists from all over the world, we can implement your projects perfectly! Regardless of whether UK Drill, Trap, Grime or Chicago Drill, with the analog online mixing from Peak Studios we achieve a powerful, warm, transparent and rich sound with a lot of pressure in the voice and bass range.