Silhouette Music

Getting prepared for mastering takes some consideration:
First and foremost, prevent clipping and leave some headroom to get the best results.It’s important to deliver a mix with maintained dynamic range and transients.
I generally recommend you take off all mixbus compression and limiting. Staying below 0dBFS peak while mixing down to 24bit.

Of course this is just a recommendation for a very personal decision. If mixbus compression is part of your sound, by all means leave it in.*
I don’t mind the peak volume level, as long as it stays under 0dBFS.
If you want to be safe, just peak around -3dBFS.

Another element to pay attention to is +EQ in the 7kHz and 10kHz area, these are typically the “harsh” and “glass” frequencies. Boosting these areas with plugins can have mixed succes. Our mastering studio has got some great analogue equalizers to open up your tracks.

So don’t worry if you feel your mixdown sounds dull when submitting, We will fix that during mastering.

You can also add a self mastered reference mix, this will give us an idea of what you want.