How to Prepare Your Mix for Mastering + Recommended Export Settings

Learn how to prepare your mix correctly for a mastering engineer. Discover the export settings you should use when exporting your songs, along with other tips to ensure the mastering process runs smoothly.

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0:00 - Intro
1:30 - 1. Include Silence
2:04 - 2. Remove Master Bus Processing
3:12 - 3. Fix Mix Issues
4:54 - 4. Leave 6 dB of Headroom
6:41 - 5. Use the Right Export Settings
9:44 - Outro

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[balderma]

Thank you for this information. Exactly what I needed! I subscribed to your channel.

[scrupulousness.]

I love your videos, thanks for great tips!
Can you also inform us on choosing headphones(for mixing, mastering, tracking)?

[ZekeMagnar]

Thanks for this video. I had a question with regard to the 6 dB of headroom: As long as no individual track is distorted, can you simply bring down the volume of the master channel to -6 dB? Or do you need to bring down the volume of each individual channel? Or does it not matter?

[ctk]

So do I export all of the audio files or export them so they are all one file

[ignyification]

you're giving people wrong information, mastering is always 44.1K not that what you're saying