Are you a musician, artist or within a band which is operating on a new music project? This short article is a part of a series made to assist you may have the ideal practical experience every time you are inside the recording studio. The subject for this short article is what do I need to bring to a mixing session at a professional studio. I am going to assume you've recorded your individual song and are going to the studio to perform using a qualified mix engineer. That is an essential question since there is a large amount of confusion around this subject.

If you've recorded your personal song you're probably working with a digital audio workstation (Pro-Tools, Logic, Cubase, Reaper, and so on.) to produce your multi-track recording. So you are going to have various distinctive tracks with various instruments (bass, guitars, kick drum, snare drum, and so forth.) Your mix engineer will need to have each of these tracks individually. There's a few strategies this can occur. A single way is to bring the complete studio session project to your mix engineer and have him or her export the audio files they require.

Nevertheless, if you are employing computer software that may be distinctive out of your engineer then you definitely will have to export or render every track individually to a separate stereo/mono audio file (.WAV, and so forth.). You would do this by soloing every person track and rendering out only that track as a high-resolution audio file. It is vital to render each track for the exact length of one's complete song so everything syncs up properly when your mix engineer opens it up. So even though you might have a vocal track that only plays incidentally via the song, the render of that track must nevertheless be the entire length of time of your song.

A different critical consideration could be the digital resolution you render your files out to. This refers to the sample price and bit depth (most frequently 44.1khz and 16-bits). It is critical to render out in the native resolution, or the resolution at which you recorded your audio/MIDI. Finally it really is vital that none of the person tracks or your master track is clipping or "going in to the red" and that you simply have no effects on the master bus (compression, limiting, etc.) of your renders. Getting a clean render ensures your mix engineer can do the most beneficial attainable job for you. Just copy all of your tracks to a CD/DVD, USB stick or external drive and bring them to your mix engineer.