6 Things Your Mix Needs BEFORE Mastering

Mastering is the final step before releasing your music. But what should you be doing to make sure your mix is ready for mastering?

Getting the best master possible means making sure your mix is finished and ready.

There’s a few things you need to do before you submit your track to an automated mastering service or to a mastering engineer.

In this video Isabelle shares everything you need to know about preparing your mix for the mastering stage.

00:00 How to prepare your mix for mastering
00:39 Make sure your mix is good
01:34 Don’t put a limiter on your master bus
02:42 Check the low-end of your mix
03:45 Leave enough headroom
04:32 Keep your mix at its original sample rate
05:06 Get rid of clicks, pops, silence and use crossfading

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#mixing #mastering #howtomix

[LANDRmusic]

Real talk. Are your tracks master-ready? Let us know if these tips help!

[JakeG]

Now that's what i call a damn good video. She rules. Hands down best producer presenter on YouTube. (my hands are down because they have been stapled)

[bassManDavis]

You done it again Isabelle! Such a great presentation and full of really useful tips. Just love your videos, you never fail to please. Keep em coming sweetie x

[strawberrysky]

wow, this was massively helpful! i legitimately enjoyed watching it too, which i didn't expect considering a lot of this information is new (and confusing) to me. isabelle has the perfect personality for these vids, plz do a million more!

[Zenvo-uutm]

Leave a dynamic headroom, not a level headroom, if it s at -6 and dynamically squashed, it's way worse than a dynamic mix peaking at -1. The mastering engineering will simply gain stage it with a gain trim . As long as it's not digitally clipping and fairly dynamic u re good to go even at -0.5 . But then again when property gain staging earlier in the mix chances are you re already peaking at relatively lower levels.

[evil_in_your_closet]

This video was superhelpful - its nice to have someone talk about and give a few tips to prepare for mastering!
But what i REALLY wanna say is this:

To whoever came up with the idea of using the TNG-Opening for the Intro:
I EFFING LOVE YOU! <3

[Reggi_Sample]

Get a VU meter and aim for 0 to +4. Do this and you will be in the ballpark just make sure your peaks aren’t clipping.
This isn’t just about gain staging for mastering but gain staging before going into an Analog plugin emulation IS A MUST

[altermoremusic]

It's the most funny video about mastering I've ever seen for now 😀 Thanks for the reminder. I try to follow all these points.

[LukeBass]

Presenter is a gem! Great tips...looking forward to seeing moar

[mojekh]

Many thanks for all the tips Isabelle, I am now exactly before mastering stage and this was very helpful:-)

[DANNY-zvuk]

Awesome video!! Entertaining and Informative! Haha

[Boykotron]

List of things:
1.Kick
2.Snare
3.Bass
4.OTT
5.OTT
6.Legendary Vintage Warm EQrator

[fastronaut]

This video has me cracking up! Lots of great information; thanks so much. Love it!

[totosoapcity]

Love you Isabelle.This is a great and useful sum up for everyone.

[Salkinmusic]

A trick I’ve learned is to turn your master down to -6db when making and mixing your track.
Then export to wav and master it in a new project 😊

[vivianvaidya]

All the Love from India... thanks a lot for the video dear... liked it a lot...

[Wiznarski]

This is quite literally perfect advice

[darianray]

Loved the videos soooo much to learn! Cant wait to put what I learn into effect. Thank you for the help ..

[dvbg]

Will be implementing these during my pre-mastering stage

[onkel_muetze]

😂😂😂 As you shot the little Achmed (he reminds me of him 🤭 …um…you know, Jeff Dunham and his little hand puppet😅) I thought you could be my workmate.😂😂😂 Super cool video an very informative. Thank you!!!🙏🏻