#Creating stereo master track professional

Most DAWs will import your files in alphabetical order. There are several things you can do here to make this go quickly and avoid issues.įirstly, go through your session and number your tracks. Getting your tracks imported into the DAW of choice for your chosen mix engineer. In my experience, this step is the first obstacle.

#Creating stereo master track professional

The following 5 steps will help you save a lot of time, money and headaches when you are ready to send your tracks to a professional mix engineer. The last thing the mixer wants to be doing is wasting hours of time arranging the session in to something that makes sense and working things out in terms of tempos, where things need to go, editing etc. If you are sending your tracks to someone to get them mixed, they want to do just that, mixing. If you can save the professional you have hired to mix your tracks hours of time, it will be more cost effective for you in the long run on the project and ultimately will make the process much smoother for both parties. It will come as no surprise to some of you that time is money in this industry. As a result, I have had numerous sessions from artists where there have been a few phone calls, emails and social media messages back and forth trying to get to a point where I can start to do the job for the client. As a mix engineer myself in this day and age, a lot of sessions get sent over to me online.