Getting best results from mixing to mastering!!

[doclegion]

I was looking to get our CD mastered and wanting to get it to sound good as possible so i figured i would post a question about how i aproach the mixdown. I know about leaving the mainouts alone but do i or should i add any compression or EQing to the individual tracks or just leave them alone as well? My mix is good i just dont want waste time and money going back over it again and again ya know? I never had any work mastered before Thanks

 

[slinky_]

Well, I think mastering is in the end about making the mix even better, so the mastering engineer has to think what´s good for the song. If the mix sounds nice, a pro mastering engineer should know how to deal with it. But... Ofcourse the individual tracks should be compressed even a little, as long as it sounds good, and you´re not just compressing because you have to, not knowing what you´re doing.

I´m starting to repeat myself here Do you have any clips to post, so people could analyze them a bit?

 

[doclegion]

Im not good a posting clips. Something dosent ever work right and nobody listens to it.

 

[Ermz]

Just do what you would normally do, but don't slam the crap out of the master bus. Let the track breathe a bit and the mastering engineer will have more room to work. Make sure to specify to him exactly what sort of sound you are after.