Robert 'Highroller' Mills

Mixing and Mastering Engineer

Robert 'Highroller' Mills on SoundBetter

High Quality and Affordable Top Tier Mixing and Mastering To Help Make Your Music Compete With Commercial Releases. I've Worked on songs from artists such as Allen Stone, BaumXmedia, MERC Music, Madam Snowflake, Ricky Legend, Ryan Cali, and Tytillidie & Xollin, and many more. I am here for the needs of the client and to exceed their expectations.

My love for music goes back to when I was 6 years old sneaking in my parents' vinyl collection. I started djing in 1985 at age 14 then eventually started making beats. I've been studying audio and mixing and mastering for over 22 years and studying the greats such as Bruce Swedien, Bob Powers, Chris Lorde-Alge, Jimmy Douglass, Young Guru, Leslie Brathwaite, Jason Joshua, Ali, Bernie Grundman, Brian "Big Bass" Gardner and many more. Along with mixing and mastering, I also make hip hop (boom bap and trap) and r&b-soul beats and remixes to help take your production to the next level. So if you want high quality mixing and/or mastering and that extra sauce to make your music come alive while preserving the dynamic range, I am the engineer you need to work with whether you make hip hop, trap, r&b-soul, rock, pop, pop-rock, reggae, reggaeton, or funk. You will experience that I have a great work ethic and put special care into working with your music and I am dedicated to making your song the best that it can be while displaying outstanding customer/client services.

Make sure to send a rough mix and/or a reference track along with your multi-tracks as wave files in a zip file when you hit the contact button.

I also do Stem Mastering (approx. 8 buss stems) $200/song.

Click the 'Contact' above to get in touch. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Interview with Robert 'Highroller' Mills

  1. Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

  2. A: I have a self-built 32GB ram and 8GB GPU computer with 1TB M.2 system drive, 2TB SSD storage drive, and 2 1TB backup hard drives with 2 monitors running Voicemeeter Banana, Reaper 7-8, and Audacity. I also have a Tascam US-16x08 interface and a pair of CAD MH510 Headphones. A Reaper user created custom-made proprietary plugins called Tukan plugin bundle which consists of a console channel strip and a buss compressor that can emulate SSL, Neve, or API consoles all in one (I use SSL). On my mixing template, I have a tape plugin and the Tukan SSL channel strip on 96 channels and the Tukan SSL buss compressor on the master channel fx chain with a tape plugin on the end of the chain. Reaper also has a dedicated monitor fx chain. First on that chain is an eq with my own headphone calibration preset; 2nd is a spectrogram analyzer; 3rd is a stereo field plugin; 4th is a lufs meter plugin; 5th is a speaker and room emulation plugin (sort of like the Steven Slate VSX) with 7 of my own speaker presets; 6th is a level ducker with presets set at -8, -16, -24, and -32 dB; 7th is my own custom made car test plugin; then (after a graphic eq with a preset of my personal preference setting) there's a convolution reverb with my own presets for a nightclub, outdoor pa system, living room, boom box, and phone.

  3. Q: What's your typical work process?

  4. A: When I'm doing a mix, I typically bring all the tracks into reaper, listen and gain stage everything at @ -15.5db while checking for things that need editing and for phase issues. Then I route everything to the aux fx and busses. Then I start processing the master channel then mix the drums then the rest of the instruments and then the vocals, adding insert fx where I need them and setting levels and panning. Lastly I process the aux fx and busses.

  5. Q: Analog or digital and why?

  6. A: Analog! Because of its warmth and depth and sound.

  7. Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?

  8. A: My promise to my clients is to do everything in my power to make their product the best it can be.

  9. Q: What do you like most about your job?

  10. A: Just listening and working with music and the whole process of creating a song.

  11. Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?

  12. A: For me, some people knew me as a dj way back in the day. So when I mention the word 'mixing', they think I'm talking about djing.

  13. Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

  14. A: What is it that they are trying to accomplish with whatever song?

  15. Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

  16. A: For a song to be mastered, make sure that the song is not over compressed and leave @ -6 dB of headroom. Mastering can't fix a bad mix.

  17. Q: Can you share one music production tip?

  18. A: Protect your ears, listen at moderate levels especially when mixing and mastering on headphones.

  19. Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

  20. A: Hip Hop and R&B

  21. Q: What's your strongest skill?

  22. A: Mixing and Mastering

  23. Q: What do you bring to a song?

  24. A: I bring my knowledge of different ways how to use the tools that I have to get whatever outcome I need to get for whatever song I'm working on.

  25. Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

  26. A: The Engineers that inspire me. are Bruce Swedien, Bob Powers, Chris Lorde-Alge, Jimmy Douglass, Young Guru, Leslie Brathwaite, Jason Joshua, Ali, Bernie Grundman, and Brian "Big Bass" Gardner. The Producers that inspire me are Dr Dre, J Dilla, Pete Rock, Pharrell, Zaytoven, and Hit Boy.

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Hip Hop and R&B Clips Reel

I was the Mixing and Mastering Engineer: clips 1-6, Remixer: clip 4, Beatmaker: clip 5 in this production

Terms Of Service

3 FREE revisions for each mix and/or master and $25/revision thereafter. 3-5 days turn around time for mixes. 1-3 days turn around time for mastering.

GenresSounds Like
  • Mos Def
  • Justin Timberlake
  • Lil Baby
Gear Highlights
  • Reaper 7
  • Audacity
  • Tascam US-16x08
  • Voicemeeter Pro Banana
  • CAD MH510 Headphones (calibrated)
  • Reaper Tukan Plugins
  • Melda Production Plugins
  • ToneBooster Plugins
  • and over 250 more Plugins
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10% off of 3+ songs for Mixing and/or Mastering. Mixing and Mastering Combo Package 10% off per song