How To Make a PREMASTER (The CORRECT Way!)

in this tutorial I'll show you how to properly prepare a mix for mastering in other words a pre master when your track is finished and you have everything mixed down it's time for mastering you can master the track yourself or use one of the available online mastering services such as Lander a mastered and so on or you can send it to a mix engineer to have her mastered in any case before you start the mastering process you'd need to make sure that everything checks out that all the levels are good and everything is sitting well in the mix when the track is mastered and released there's no going back before you send your track to be mastered make sure that you don't have any mastering effects on your master channel such as compression or limiting automated effects such as filtering reverb and so on are perfectly okay though it's essential that you have enough Headroom a pre master should have at least three to six decibels of headroom it doesn't really matter if you have five or ten the important thing is that there's room for the engineer to work if the track peaks at zero or above then the engineer will basically have nothing to work with most engineers will ask for three to six decibels of headroom that's also a good amount of headroom if you choose an online mastering service it's a good idea to drag your exported pre master back into your DAW to make sure that the waveform checks out and that there are no inconsistencies verify that the low energy sections are more dynamic than the high energy sections when the track is mastered everything will get pulled up so in order to ensure that the breakdown in such remain dynamic it needs to be quieter than the drop before you send your track to be mastered I recommend using a limiter on your master Channel temporarily you can then gradually increase the levels and see how it affects the dynamics throughout your track [Music] this can help you avoid any unpleasant surprises when you get your track back from mastering if you feel that some elements end up sounding very differently or the breakdown sounds too loud for example then you can go back and make some adjustments before sending it out to be mastered this is a good way to partly simulate what the mastering process will do to your mix just make sure to disable the limiter when you're done last but not least make sure that the file format is correct always export it in a lossless format I recommend exporting it as a high quality WAV file mp3 files are smaller in size but you lose quality so you don't want to use that for your premaster most people use 24 or 32 bit here 16 bit will be required if you intend to put it on CD I recommend enabling high quality for all plugins and select the highest quality option here I'd like to thank our patrons for their ongoing support and as always if there's any specific tutorial you'd like us to make or if you have a question just let us know in the comments below thanks for watching

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Length: 3min 34sec (214 seconds)

Published: Fri May 15 2020