MP3 is far from standard in pro audio circles. It may be the favorite amongst families and friends who want to share free music, but it's just a toy for most pros.Why would i ever need to use anything other then just the standard Mp3 file for bouncing my projects? why does logic give me so many options?
WAV is a bit-by-bit exact representation of the whole signal, with no data compression at all. Generally speaking, you pretty much can't get much better than that*and the wav file is best quality? so if i work in wav files making it sound better in high quality, it will sound better when it gets converted to MP3 when i want to share it?
There is no way to "un-mix" a final master mix. You may be able to add tracks after the fact by bringing the stereo file up in a daw and recording new tracks alongside it. It might be kind of difficult to get them to sit properly in the mix, especially if there are a lot of mix-bus or other global effects added. If you want to be able to change the actual mix significantly, you'll want a separate file for each track (or maybe group of tracks, called a "stem"), and you will need a DAW to mix it back together.I'm about to go into a local studio with about a dozen originals - just me singing and playing an acoustic guitar. What I want is to wind up with:
1. A high quality digital master I can use down the road to add other parts/tracks to as needed. Exactly like a multi-track master tape.. only in a digital format on CD or Flash Drive.
2. A version of the above I can email to some band members which they can use to write their own parts to and be emailed back to me.
I've got a couple of questions:
Do I need to have mixing software to split the tracks apart again, or will my two tracks be forever ONE track for my purposes of emailing?
He'll know. Probably .wav in the sample rate and bit depth that the project is in.What file format should I ask the engineer to create my Master in?
If you expect to be able to add tracks both from you and your friend and mix them back together properly I would stick with .wav (just one file type). Compressed files like .mp3s sometimes come out a slightly different length from the .wav depending on how they are decompressed, and the tracks your friend sends back could run at a slightly different speed from what you've done or are trying to match it to. .wav is sample accurate as long as everything starts at the same 0 time mark.Will I need one file-type for the Master and another for the email version?
we keep saying that one should use Wav all the way through a project, well, when using logic (or anything else but i mainly use logic) does the project run at a set uh file type?
because i know that when i bounce it gives me the option. but what kind of files are the regions as im working in them? i might be wording this way crappy. idk.