How to prepare and export your track for mastering.

guidelines

  • Please ensure there are no effects, compressors, limiters etc on your master channnel

  • Be sure to allow some headroom for mastering. -6db is standard practice, but as long as nothing is peaking above 0db we’re all set

  • Export a couple seconds of silence at the end of your track to catch any reverb tails

  • Export as 24bit wav file, 44.1kHz sample rate

  • Make sure dither is set to ‘No Dither’ and Normalise is OFF

  • If using Google Drive to submit files, please set the folder to allow access before sending (How To)