When going to a pro mastering house...

[Uladine]

Do I bring the songs mixed down to two stereo tracks or leave all the tracks seperate? I record on a PC so it would be tough to brings all the tracks in seperate. If the tracks were recorded at 24/96 would I be able to export the songs to 24 bit .wavs? I'm curious as I want to have my next recording mastered.

 

[int]

Just give them the mix and let them work their magic. Giving them all the tracks is useless, they're not mixing it for you. Call them and ask them in what format they want the mix (CD, hard drive, something else?). The mix is what they need.

 

[Dolemite]

I probably wouldn't take my music anyplace where they wanted anything less than 24-bit files.

Also, read MrLip's thread just below this about his experience with mastering.

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Do I bring the songs mixed down to two stereo tracks or leave all the tracks seperate?

Mastering deals with only final mixes...

If you give someone your seperate tracks then they would have to be MIXED first.... that is not the job of a mastering house....

Bruce

 

[Uladine]

Okay cool thats what I was thinking but I wanted to make sure. I didn't know if I brought in a mix if the engineer would say something like "Theres too much mid in the bass and its swallowing the guitars" But then again I guess that would be my fault and my job to fix it, huh.