Are you a musician, artist or in a band that’s engaged on a brand new music undertaking? This text is a part of a collection designed that can assist you have the perfect expertise each time you're within the recording studio. The subject for this text is what do I have to carry to a mixing session at an expert studio. I'm going to imagine you've recorded your personal tune and are going to the studio to work with an expert combine engineer. This is a crucial query as a result of there’s quite a lot of confusion round this topic.
In the event you've recorded your personal tune you're possible utilizing a digital audio workstation (Professional-Instruments, Logic, Cubase, Reaper, and so forth.) to make your multi-observe recording. So that you'll have a number of totally different tracks with totally different devices (bass, guitars, kick drum, snare drum, and so forth.) Your combine engineer will want every of these tracks individually. There's a few methods this will happen. A technique is to carry all the studio session undertaking to your combine engineer and have her or him export the audio recordsdata they want.
Nevertheless, in case you are utilizing software program that’s totally different out of your engineer then you’ll have to export or render every observe individually to a separate stereo / mono audio file (.WAV, and so forth.). You’ll do that by soloing every particular person observe and rendering out solely that observe as a excessive-decision audio file. It's essential to render each observe to the precise size of your full tune so all the pieces syncs up correctly when your combine engineer opens it up. So even if in case you have a vocal observe that solely performs by the way by way of the tune, the render of that observe ought to nonetheless be all the size of time of your tune.
One other essential consideration is the digital decision you render your recordsdata out to. This refers back to the pattern fee and bit depth (mostly 44.1khz and 16-bits). It's essential to render out on the native decision, or the decision at which you recorded your audio / MIDI. Lastly it's essential that none of your particular person tracks or your grasp observe is clipping or "going into the purple" and that you don’t have any results on the grasp bus (compression, limiting, and so forth.) of your renders. Having a clear render ensures your combine engineer can do the very best job for you. Merely copy all of your tracks to a CD / DVD, USB stick or exterior drive and carry them to your combine engineer.