Leaving fadeouts to mastering

[awilliams]

Soon I will be in the mixing stage of my project and since most of my tracks fade out at the end, I wonder how common it is to let the mastering engineer do the fadeouts instead of the mixdown engineer. I'm working with Cubase 5 and a computer workstation. I would imagine the mastering people are better equipped to do these fadeouts more smoothly.

[tmix]

Please leave the fades for the ME.
He can do a better job of it. When They start compressing and and otherwise altering the mix it also changes the potential time that is needed for a smooth fade (usually longer). They will be listening at loud volumes at high definition for a really smooth tail. It screws things up when they are trimmed too quick.
Another equally important thing is to leave some header space at the beginning. Particularly if it has a sample of ambient hiss or track hiss for them to sound print in the event they need to do noise removal.

You are on the right track!

Tom