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Pappa E • July 13, 2016
How To Prepare Your Music For Mastering?
Once you are done with the mixing phase and satisfied with the way they have been mixed, it’s time to send it off to the mastering specialist. Before sending off your mixes in CD-R format or through a web upload, below is a list of things you should pay attention to so as to not give your assigned mastering engineer a headache.
- Do not normalize your mixes.
- Do not add compression to your stereo mixes.
- Do not add limiting to your stereo mixes.
- Do not attempt to make your mixes louder than they are. Leave this to the mastering engineer.
- Do not attempt to master your own recordings before sending them off to a mastering engineer.
- Make sure there is no clipping in any of your audio tracks within your song mix.
- Make sure there is no clipping on the master volume for all your mixes.
- Make sure it has been mixed well – a poorly mixed recording will not translate to good mastering results. Read about mixing and mastering.
- Provide your mastering engineer a song-order listing if you are requesting for a Red Book CD Master.
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