BandMix.com

I used the free version if this site and it worked really well. I met incredible musicians on here, made lasting friends and connections. Hooked up with professionals and got paid, legitimate, and recurring session work. I am a professional musician myself so I think my profile attracted genuine offers. Also received offers from people who weren't good matches or wanted free work but I disregarded or politely declined those.

After I explained that the site did not work out for me, they refused to refund my RECENT auto subscription. Claimed they would give me the credit on account THAT WAS NOT EFFECTIVE.
Save your money for something less useless!

Maybe it was the lockdown, people seem to have varying levels of success on here, but for me it worked out great. I think it really comes down to what you put into it. I added a bunch of music and a detailed description for what I wanted to do and was able to find a really tight group. We even started working on our own material last week. I never would've met these guys without bandmix, so thanks!

It's not for musicians. This is a site only for professionals who want to be in a gigging band. I work professionally and have music as a hobby. This site is not for me and it took me a while and money spent and frustration with the messages that I was paying to use. No real option or chance for connection with other people who play instruments, like music, etc. Waste of everything.

Great facility. Easy to use, very enjoyable experience and quickly found what I was looking for. Will use again in future.

BandMix is not a fair play platform. Apparently Bandmix admin blocks your messages on the messaging feature when you are trying to contact musicians using Premium paid membership. Sent out more than a hundred messages and not one responded, or even viewed my profile until I complained they allowed one view in. So it works if Bandmix don't block messaging from someone they don't like for some reason. One month and cancelled renewal. SAVE YOUR MONEY and a whole lot of frustration.

I did manage to put a band together partly by using bandmix. However the site is not curated and lots of info is out of date. Active over a month ago can mean 5 weeks or 5 years! If you want to send a message it will cost £12 for a 1 month membership. Membership automatically renews so unless you are awake they'll get it twice. New musician notifications seem completely useless, either 10s of miles or counties away, and often lead to inactive members.
Improvements suggested: sort the above and ditch members that haven't been active (logged-in) for 12 months (they may be breaking GDPR rules for not doing so).

Found a great collaboration thanks to it. Highly recommended. Lots of opportunities, will use again as long as they don't ask money for simple profiles.

Absolutely waste of time, effort and money. Most of the posts you see are not real people but bots, fake accounts as no one ever responds back to your messages no matter what you write ask offer or say, and no one ever contacts you. Yet they will keep advertising day in week out month after month year after year, same profile, all active but never responding to your messages or contacting you EVER. You will NEVER find a musician to work with and will spend hours of your life scrolling these ads of FAKE PEOPLE that DON'T EXIST or are the stupidest arrogant wannabe time wasters who get a kick out of advertising themselves just to get messages to make themselves feel popular but who have no intention of following up. Probably because they are useless musicians or not even musicians or using it as a dating site

When looking for a particular talent or to join a band; or just to find people with whom to jam ~ the site is unparalleled. If you're new to Bandmix or are a musician or vocalist who have not provided a sample of audio clips; DO SO. Seriously ~ you're a singer looking to join a pop band and provide no audio snippets?

This is a good website for all types of musicians. A good mix of pros and amateurs on here and easy to filter between them. Got me into the band I'm in now. Worth trying it out.

I have never seen a group of so called musicians that dont answer their adds in the new England area.
Are their egos so big that they like just seeing your band mix add. Really tired of seeing the same adds. If you dont want to answer the add get off the site and give the people that want a good name to advertise. You are affecting the quality and reputation of band mix.

If you ensure your profile is relevant, with good audio or video content, it's very likely you'll be approached by someone looking for what you have to offer. There are a lot of people on the system, but the geographic and keyword searching makes it easy to narrow down the results.

I would emphasise, it really is worth putting the time in to upload at least some audio. So many people don't do that - the service only works for you if you put some effort in.

I joined a month ago tried to contact several musicians with no response. Tried to view my message that I sent to people can't. I am really pissed at this. I can view others and that's all.

I was really surprised that I hadn't heard of bandmix before as I've been a musician for over 20 years and played in a bunch of different groups. Finding the right cat to fill a spot can be a tricky thing. Bandmix is really well organized and allowed us to find some horn players real quickly. Musicians looking to get serious should check it out.

This is a great service for musicians. We were able to find a new guitarist for our band in a couple weeks. Easy to use and fast. We recommend Bandmix.

After a contentious break up with our long time lead singer, we were ready to take a break from music for a while as the thought of searching for a new singer was daunting. One night while browsing the internet, I came across Bandmix and started looking at some local profiles. It was really energizing to see that it wouldn't be as difficult as I thought to find a singer. I created a profile, upgraded and contacted a few guys in the area and one of them was a perfect fit. Killer pipes and best of all no ego, easy to work with. I'll definitely be recommending BandMix to my music friends.

Yeah I know... they have a free version too.

This is a slightly higher tech cartoon version of Craigslist. Yup 99% of the people that use it suck badly at whatever aspect of music they aspire to.

FACT... if you are truly good at playing your instrument and/or singing, and have been at it for a long time, you've already established a dependable network of like-minded peers over the years. People you've played with professionally, or even on an amateur/avocation level. AND... you don't need these crappy internet affinity group subscriber services.

All of us that have been at it successfully in the music world for a while surely already know this.

Gone are the days when people were a bit more honest and objective about their skill level and experience. But these days with YT, FB (and all the rest of the garbage social media), and smartphone, any untalented idiot can put up garbage, or tweak content technically to make it appear as something it's not.

Gone are the days when people made skill and experience judgments quickly and person. Now they'd just rather mentally masturbate behind a PC with protools and doctor content. "GOT A VIDEO CLIP?" Sound familiar?

Bandmix is just another scamming bunch of grifters hiding behind a PC and current technology.

It has worked for me twice now, however services
Are a little pricy... overall I would say it's worth it if you need a particular part of your band filled, both times took about a month too fill our vacancies in my band.

Bandmix wouldn't be making enough greed $$$$$ if they made the site function as it should, because they wouldn't be making money on continual memberships if everyone found band members within 30 days. So they intentionally create lost messages and typical (search for people) website scemes.

it would be better if members had to put up some samples of their work. some folks do, most don't. sort of a crapshoot.

Our band was entirely formed using Bandmix. I found it incredibly easy to use and best of all it works! Just be sure to add pictures and audio clips if you want to get the most responses.

A cheesy site that asks for a lot of stupid info (um 'what gear do you own?') that would only be of interest to people who can't actually play. Charging people to list their details and to be able to interact via the site is crazy (they should list for free and make their money via advertising on the site), and those bs auto emails you get every week claiming that '12 people have viewed your profile this week' are just fiction.