Break Out

Into The Wild

DO NOT BUY THEIR IMIX SERVICE! Utterly terrible, even by day 1 amateur iMixing standards.

What a joke of an experience. I submitted 4 songs for their iMix service and this cost me a whopping £2k, which other music schools have since laughed at me for doing so, like Manchester's SEM. But I was determined to have a professional sounding quality for my first EP. I found Metropolis online and submitted my stems for iMixing, hoping their reputation and the big money equates to quality.

What came back was so horrific, I asked for multiple changes and then cancelled after the third song. I was forced to buy Izotope software, which I used to iMix the songs myself from scratch. And you can tell the difference between mine and theirs is night and day in quality. And I'm not even a Mixing engineer. 

Any music producer can hear that their attempts are utter trash. Each track is very muddy. There is no excitement and presence. The chorus of Near Me is extremely muddy. Where is the bright studio separation of the stems? Break Out chorus is horribly muddy, lacking excitement and if you could see the waveform, it has been clipped like it has been pushed on the limiter in mastering stage, rather than mixed. The chorus of Into the WIld is lacking energy. All 3 are utterly awful.

While on reflection mine may lack a little bass, you can hear the difference is of much higher quality than theirs. Mine is lively, bright, exciting, and the placement of the stems is balanced and appropriate. There is no mud. This is the purpose of stem mixing.
And I wasted £1500 finding this out. Don't make my mistake

I was intending to use their iMastering service but immediately knew not to risk this when I heard the iMix returns. 

I also have emails to prove all of the following statements

- they bounced stems with noticeable clipping clicks across a track, showing no care to check before sending
- simple vocal mixing such as taking pronunciation of 'p' and 'b' in vocals not adjusted correctly e.g. reducing volume
- poor email correspondence where a week would go by with no email reply at times, with no out of office messages. I had to loop in other staff to find out what was happening to my mix

I asked for my money back but they said the service was done, which as you can hear is an utter joke. Do not be like me and be scammed. 

I have in email that their "turnaround per track is up to 15 days". I ordered in April and the third track was only finishing in June, two months later! To a really poor standard.

Avoid, avoid, avoid

Metropolis - iMixing studio review - see description and comments

First trap track, using Logic pro; produced mix and mastered best I could over a couple of days, off of a demo I liked. 

Grateful for any feedback. Free download!

can't forget you

Can't Forget You - free download!

Turned a demo idea around today into a full track, with an upbeat, Ibiza pool party vibe.

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silk

Silk - free download - Ibiza Pool Party style Track

A chilled, upbeat trap track, well suited for travel vlogs. Free download.

Contact to use on your travel Vlogs.

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Losing Myself - new chilled Trap track - free download!

Made both the music and the trailer, see it on www.swiftleigh.com

Stranger Things PLUS VIDEO!

Remake the music set to the original video, just for a short 1 min video clip - see www.swiftleigh.com

Rick Ross Hustlin' Remake PLUS VIDEO!

Remixed Justin's song as a clip, set to video on www.swiftleigh.com, I let the vocals breathe with a simple backing because of the great harmonies in the original acapella

As Long As You Love Me - Justin Beiber Remix PLUS VIDEO!

Remixed part of Ed Sheeran's Shape of You, and placed onto the video - can see on www.swiftleigh.com. I chopped up the original video to fit the shorter piece of music

Shape Of You - Ed Sheeran Remix PLUS VIDEO!

Video here:
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I took the remix competition stems, kept and chopped the vocal, some of the drums, and added the rest. Mixed and mastered myself. For the video I chopped up existing Ultra movies from Final Kid (love them) and 80 clips were chosen to make the video. I did both the remix and video across a week, and I really enjoy making audio for visuals only, hence the desire to make the video after the remix was done.

I love checking out all the other Keep on Rockin' remix submissions! The ideas are really great in this competition, such creativity. Also really inspired by the mix and mastering, a lot of them are so clean, punchy, great eq and spacial placement. Very inspiring

Really enjoy the energy in this one and was fun to make, learnt a lot regarding ducking frequencies through sidechain across higher bands to let the vocals come through and not compete with the flute sound. The song is strong in mono, as I mixed it in mono until the very end.
Still a lot more to learn with mix and mastering, all good though, enjoying it all.

Thanks for checking it out, enjoy your day!

Laidback Luke & Pyrodox - Keep On Rockin' - Swiftleigh Remix PLUS VIDEO!

I created this summer track over the weekend and chopped existing clips from the amazing Tomorrowland 2018 Aftermovie. You can view on swiftleigh.com. Hope you enjoy!

Tomorrowland Aftermusic PLUS VIDEO!

I made this piece of music in an evening and chopped the existing Bali 2016 Aftermovie made by the brilliant Final Kid to vid my track. 

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Hope you enjoy!

Bali Edit PLUS VIDEO!

Enjoying remixing both audio and video. Final video results hosted on www.swiftleigh.com

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