Rough Mix With All Instruments: This can be a demo recorded through a microphone of a band playing live, guitars recorded to a metronome, or even pre production tracks from MIDI instruments.
Drumless Track: This is the song without any drums on it. This will allow me to create my drum track on a clean slate. If you have your own ideas programmed please attach those too.
Tempo: Send over a tempo map, or a detailed description of any tempo changes and signatures.
Notes: Please send any notes of ideas you’d like in the song. i.e. Do you want the song to start at 1:24 or do you want a quiet ending? Songs without notes will be programmed as my ears hear it and any changes will count as a revision.
Create files for all individual tracks in your project: This is sometimes referred to as ‘creating stems’. You should create these tracks to all have the same start time and ending. When importing these tracks into the DAW, they should all line up correctly so to not have to hunt down an arrangement.
Render a rough mix: Level out the song to the best of your ability so I can have a rough idea of what the song is supposed to sound like. Attach this along with your tracks.
Organize: Organize and name the tracks accordingly. Make sure you name the tracks correctly. I.E. ‘Kick In, Kick Out, Snare Top, Snare Bottom, Guitar Lead Left, Main Vocal, Backup Vocal Left, Effect Riser Mono’
Project or Tracks: You can choose to send me the entire project or a folder with the tracks and takes you want edited. Be sure to take in consideration to send all aspects of the session (cache files, audio folders, settings, etc.).
Tempo: Send over a tempo map, or a detailed description of any tempo changes and signatures.
Compress or Zip: Zip the files for Windows, and compress the tracks for mac and place them in a folder with the name of the song and the name of your project.
Notes: Please send any notes of ideas you’d like in the song. i.e. Do you want the song to start at 1:24 or do you want a quiet ending? Songs without notes will be edited as my ears hear it and any changes will count as a revision.
Create files for all individual tracks in your project: This is sometimes referred to as ‘creating stems’. You should create these tracks to all have the same start time and ending. When importing these tracks into the DAW, they should all line up correctly so to not have to hunt down an arrangement.
Edit: Make sure the tracks you send have been edited. This includes all aspects of editing.
Volumes: Make sure the tracks do not exceed -6 dB in volume and faders should be set at 0dB. This will handle any issues during the mixing stage.
Additional Tracks: Include DI tracks and any track that has an effect on it rendered along with the unaffected dry track for reference purposes.
Render a rough mix: Level out the song to the best of your ability so I can have a rough idea of what the song is supposed to sound like. Attach this along with your tracks.
Organize: Organize and name the tracks accordingly. Make sure you name the tracks correctly. I.E. ‘Kick In, Kick Out, Snare Top, Snare Bottom, Guitar Lead Left, Main Vocal, Backup Vocal Left, Effect Riser Mono’
Project or Tracks: You can choose to send me the entire project or a folder with the tracks and takes you want edited. Be sure to take in consideration to send all aspects of the session (cache files, audio folders, settings, etc.).
Tempo: Send over a tempo map, or a detailed description of any tempo changes and signatures.
Compress or Zip: Zip the files for Windows, and compress the tracks for mac and place them in a folder with the name of the song and the name of your project.
Notes: Please send any notes of ideas you’d like in the song. i.e. Do you want the song to start at 1:24 or do you want a quiet ending? Songs without notes will be edited as my ears hear it and any changes will count as a revision.