Mastering question..

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shinealight

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When you're ready to get all your mixes mastered, do you need to give the mastering engineer each seperate track? Or just the mixdown?

I would ask this to the engineer themselves, but we have yet to get to that point. Also, does anybody have any suggestions for mastering studios in the Greater Toronto Area? (A good description of our sound is Stones influenced rock)
 
Just the mixdown. sometimes its a good idea to make several mixes, with the vox up, vox down and so on.
 
Lacquer Channel is a top mastering facility in the Toronto area.......
 
shinealight said:
When you're ready to get all your mixes mastered, do you need to give the mastering engineer each seperate track? Or just the mixdown?
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On 2 of the current mastering projects I'm working on I asked the studio to send me stems (submixes) as I was unhappy with the stereo tracks. On one it was a stereo pair of guitars and everything else, on the other it was drums and everything else.

It has definitely been working out better that the original 2 track versions as I can get in and shape/compress the elements differently. It has particularly helped on the one were the drums were separated. The cymbals and hats were a bit too sibilant while the main track needed a bit in the 5-6K area. Being able to control these separately allowed 2 eq settings to be used so that both problems were fixed rather than compromising on or the other.
 
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