About Mastering sessions

Mastering is about taking your mix to the next level, hence preparing it for distribution

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Complete Editing and Mixing before proceeding to a Mastering session.

The Audio Engineer will:

Adjust the tonal balance of your track.
Ensure that your track level matches industry standards.
Ensure that your track sounds its best, across multiple playing devices and platforms.

You won't be selecting the best takes. That is comping.
You won't be editing any rhythmic issues. That is editing.
You won't be tuning the vocals or any other instrument. That is editing.
You won't be adjusting levels, EQs or effects of individual instruments. That is mixing.

The Stereo Track of your full mix in WAV or AIFF files, at the same sample rate you are using on your mix project. Preferably at 24 bits or using the maximum number of bits allowed by your workstation.
Reference track link - for the Engineer to know what type of sound you're looking for.
Additional Info - any specifications you might want for this particular master.

WAV - 44.1khz/16 bit
WAV - 44.1khz/24 bit
WAV - 48khz/16 bit
WAV - 48khz/24 bit
Mp3 - 320kbps
Optional (upon request):
- DDP (for sending to CD manufacturers)
- FLAC - 88.2khz or 96khz/24bit (Uncompressed)

Keep your peaks close to -0dB. If your peak volume is below -6dB, you're wasting resolution.
Don’t over compress, or hit the limiter too hard. Mastering is responsible for your final volume. Too much compression and/or limiting will not help the mastering process.
As a general rule, the less processing you have on the master bus of your mixing, the better. That said, if you used any processing on the master bus while mixing, don’t change it at the last moment.
Leave at least 300ms of silence at the beginning of the file.
Check how the ending is sounding. You may work on the final fade-out during mastering, but if an instrument is ending abruptly or before others, that can’t be fixed in mastering.

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