Who: This note is for producers and musicians recording in their own studio
Difficulty Level: 2/5
Purpose: Preparing files for remixing
Mastering is the last chance to get a track right but prior to that sometimes you may want to have a track mixed or remixed by someone else (like me :) ).
You can share your tracks between different software and even different computer platforms (PC, Mac, Linux). Each instrument or voice, whether in audio or midi, should be exported or bounced to a separate audio file (the most universal format is WAV. MP3's are not good enough). In Logic 9 and probably in some other DAWs you have the luxury of being to bounce every track to a separate file with just one menu option. In other DAWs you have to do each track one by one. It is best also to remove any compression from the tracks before exporting. You may also want to remove other effects or plugins but that depends on how crucial they are or how certain you are that they are part of the finished sound.
If you are working in midi on some tracks, you may also want to export these tracks in midi format, i.e. .MID files.
As well as the files, it is useful also to give some notes on your expectations or thoughts on each instrument/voice and for the track as a whole
Each individual instrument or stem will be quite large, too big (20mb - 70mb) to send by email. You may need to send via CD but also see my previous note on FTP. Also see my previous notes on mastering which are also relevant to preventing mistakes in bouncing tracks.
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