Here are 8 simple guidelines to ensure you get the best results in mastering: 1. No limiting or mastering plug-ins on your mix buss. Please don’t try to make your songs louder by Normalizing, adding Compression or using a Limiter. These methods prevent us from giving you the loudest, punchiest master you can imagine. Don’t worry. We’ll make it loud. But we need room to work. 2. Give yourself -3 to -6 db of headroom. Never go into the red on the Master Fader Meter. Going into the red means it may have already clipped, leading to digital distortion. Keeping your mixes at -3 to -6 db leaves us maximum headroom so we can give you a quality, finished product. 3. Record at the highest bit rate possible.A 24 bit rate is ideal because it gives more headroom. For example: 44.1k 24 bit, 96k 24 bit, and so on. Regardless, always send us what you’ve recorded at. If you recorded at [...]
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