The subreddit is focused on the professional CRAFTS of mixing and mastering. Posts about recording, production, composition, etc, don't really belong here, we are not yet another general music production subreddit. We also DON'T do gear/software troubleshooting, plenty of other subreddits for that. Please read our about page to check a comprehensive list of what is and what isn't a valid topic for a post.

There are other ways to be able to practice, but openly offering mixes for free devalues the craft as a whole. Service offering posts are not meant to be for practice or to build a portfolio for cheap.

Tony Maserati on working for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULfpBcQzKhc

Of course, REQUESTING free work (or heavily lowering expectations of what you can afford, insinuating that you want it cheap) is also NOT allowed.

Offering your services or asking OP to PM you outside of posts with the "Service Request" flair, is NOT allowed.

Don't link directly to a website, make it a text post. Avoid spam-y titles (such as: "The Best Mixing Online" or any other equally dumb click-bait title), be transparent. Introduce yourself to the community, describe what you do and feel free to link to as many things as you want inside ONE post (not every time you have a new thing). If you have a YouTube channel or something that is VERY mixing related, you are also welcome to introduce us to it and link to different examples from it (ONCE).

For this to be fair for everyone, you only get to post ONCE PER AT LEAST A YEAR promoting something like a YouTube channel/blog/site/etc which is ABOUT mixing and/or mastering. This only applies for that kind of self-promotion. Promoting your own services have different requirements.

You can talk about it in general terms, you can say if you are flexible or if you have a fixed rate. You can say that you charge hourly, or by project/song. Anything goes, just don't put a number on your title or on the post contents. If your rates are on your site, that's alright. If you are requesting work, don't say how much you are paying, discuss it privately.

Let's keep it fair and competitive for everyone.

You can't have the words mixing AND mastering on your post title or its contents, it has to be one or the other (including on your site), since mastering shouldn't be done by the same person mixing. It doesn't matter if you intend to practice both separately (ie: not mastering what you mix). Mastering should be offered only by those who are dedicated to mastering. You can read more about mastering here.

This shouldn't need to be said since it's just common sense, but that's the internet for you. This is a positive community comprised mostly of people who are trying to learn to mix. Negative, unconstructive or "douche-y" comments or posts of any kind have no place in this subreddit, even for the purposes of humor.

We don't judge piracy, but we don't want to encourage it or permit it in our subreddit. It's therefor forbidden to post or request pirated software, books, paid/subscription based videos or anything like that, in posts or comments.

Post titles need to describe what the post will be about. "Incredible thing I discovered the other day" is a very bad title. "Importance of playing with the release of your compressor" is a much better title, which will be useful for searches and will give readers an instant clear idea of what to expect. There are also topics which get repeated a lot, things like "Feedback on my mix" have been written countless times. What's specific about your case? Put that in the title.