How To Prepare Your Songs For Mastering

In this article, we'll show you how to prepare your mixes for mastering.

Here are a few tips on how to prepare your mixes for mastering:

1. Export your files as a .wav or .aiff, 44.1 or 48kHz and preferably 24bit.

2. About 20% of the songs I receive are over level with little or no dynamic range. Don't keep raising your faders higher and higher taking your song to total distortion, trying to match commercial radio volume levels. This process is done in mastering, not in mixing. My article, How Much Headroom For Mastering Should I Leave, explains in detail how to solve this common problem.

3. Common Music Mixing Mistakes I See Daily, tells you what problems to watch for in your mixes. 80% of the mixes I receive suffer from at least one of these common mixing mistakes.

4. Visit my Mastering Prices Page for affordable rate with AMAZING results!

My Best Mixing & Mastering Articles

17 Common Mixing Mistakes To Avoid!

These are the top 17 most common mixing mistakes to avoid. Correcting them will greatly improve your audio mastering results, and make your music sound professional and radio ready.

How To Prepare Your Songs For Mastering

In this article, we'll show you how to prepare your mixes for mastering.

How To Prepare Your Songs For Mixing

In this article, I'll show you how to prepare your songs for mixing.

John Rogers - Danceur Magazine Interview (July 2018)

Since the begining of his solo career in 2008, I mastered over 80 songs with the top French recording artist NYLS. Great pop dance music with a lot of remixes. During his entire career (as of now), I mastered most of if not all the song he released. It was a great pleasure working with NYLS and Nico at Icon Records!

My First Music Video!

Here's the first music video I directed, Mahalin Muli by JAI, released on July 10th, 2018. I also wrote more than half of the script.

Audio Mastering Software Processors

Here are the series of audio mastering software processors I've used on the over 30,000 songs I've mastered since 1999. In this video, I use mostly izotope ozone plugins because it's easier to explain using them. In real-life, I do mix in a few hardware pieces, and a waves plugin.

Mastering Compression Techniques

This video shows one of the more imptotant compression techniques I use in audio mastering. In my audio Mastering Secrets Video Series, I explain everything you need to know about audio mastering.

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