Preparing Home Recording for Mastering Studios

[poidaobi]

My mates band wants to get their music mixed and mastered.

Now i've followed the procedure. (or have I?)

Basically the one below

http://www.steinbergcanada.com/support/faqs_tips_export_progs.htm


And have all the Wav files in a seperate folder for each song. The engineer will be able to import them to his Computer and program. However, all the audio tracks are being named after the first audio file then attaching a 1 then 2 then 3 up to however many audio tracks I have.

Obvioulsy Im doing something wrong. Anyone know what

 

[Torsis]

Mixing and mastering are two separate things, and should be treated as such.

Low/mid end folks (read: me) do both, but for the same client, they should should be treated independantly (from a $$ standpoint).

Given the info & leaving your situuation as it is:
The mixing/engineer guy needs to know what tracks are what …give him detailed notes on what track(s) are what eg: Song1folder/audiofile1= guits; Song1folder/audiofile2=main vocs; Song1folder/audiofile3=bass, etc

Check with the Eng - he might want you to rename everything before it hits him, so he doesn’t have to deal with it.
Your time vs studio $$ ....you pick (hint: your time is significantly less $$)

 

[poidaobi]

Mixing and mastering are two separate things, and should be treated as such.

Yeah Dude. I know that

Im be sure to tell the band to write all this down for the mixer and mastering studio!

Do anyone know how to fix the problem? Cheers..

The things is .... it's only the audio file name... The track names are there. (eg Guitar, Bass, Drum)...i just though it would be annoying that all the audio files are FOK 1 FOK 2 FOK 3...FOK 45...etc!

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Rename the files accordingly (bass, kick, snare top...), where's the problem ?

 

[Torsis]

Do anyone know how to fix the problem? Cheers..

Short answer: rename the audio tracks.


...figure it'd take the tracking crew (ie: probably you) a LOT less time to do that than to expain the tracks - or write down Track045= 11'th guit solo,left


If you're paying $$ for the mixing dude, then more $$ for the mastering dude, it's really important to do whatever you can to minimize your "out of pocket" expense.

...typically, that means documentation.

 

[poidaobi]

Rename the files accordingly (bass, kick, snare top...), where's the problem ?

No Problem.... But there has to be a reason why it's naming all the files "FOK1 FOK2 FOK3"...

Toxic...we know about doing everything possible to reduce time wasting so that money is saved. Thats just common sense really! I just thought one of you might know how to do this instead of me needing to rename 300 audio files....

Cheers dudes. Thanx for the quick replies!

If no one knows they can rename all the files by referring to the Cubase Project File!

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Mmmmm okay... I remember there's a check box in the Preference menu that has something to deal with "New files get track names" or something like that, you might want to check this then.

 

[poidaobi]

I might indeed!

 

[Torsis]

Poi -
The orig post was "My mates band wants to get their music mixed and mastered." - I figured it was the same guy ....ie: someone like me.

I just gave info from what I'd like/expect/demand from a client.

Since I don't know your schizzle - my response may have fallen into the category of "No shit, Sherlock", but sometimes the obvious is overlooked.

 

[poidaobi]

It's all cool. Thanx both of you for quick replies!

 

[Torsis]

Poi -
Absolutely no problem bro!!

As a side note, I don't believe I said the word "fuck" once in this thread.
Based on my normal dialog, that, in and of itself, is a rarity.

Seeing that's my favorite noun/adjective/verb, I think it's important to point this out to you, and I sincerely fucking apologize for it's ommision.

 

[Kenneth R.]

300 tracks? wow... have fun renaming them!

Yesterday I saved myself a load of time by taking the time (ironically enough) to set up for myself a 'default' template for Cubase so that when I start a new song, all the tracks come preset to a rough setting, ie four rhythm guitar tracks panned appropriately and in a folder called 'guitars', sends and control tracks, and my default EQ settings. of course every song will get tweaked to suit the mixing process, but I find this saves me a hell of a lot of time - and so does having the track names already input so I don't have to type them in later. Every recording made on track Guitar L100 will be labelled as such, and that really helps sort things out in the Pool. This way, when I've got parts tracked and labeled like Guitar R80 Verse 2, I know exactly what's what, and so will anyone else who opens my project. It also helps when I want to delete files to avoid running up 300 seperate tracks all named 'audio 01*'.