Here’s an article from audio-tuts.com that all you producers and computer musicians might find useful… Not the typical type of music download or artist post that usually graces these pages, but since I’m into this kind of stuff, I thought I would share it for all who might be interested.

I like thinking about mastering as a type of black magic. Filled with taboos and unapproachableness.

Everybody and their grandmother has an opinion about how things should be recorded and mixed, but when asked about mastering most people hush up and shrug. Mastering is a trickier subject to tackle than mixing I feel, and the delicate touch and subtleties a mastering engineer gives to a final mix sometimes sadly goes unappreciated.

However, there are certain things you mixing engineers can do to make the voodoo doctor’s work easier. Mastering takes a few oddball songs that were recorded in various places by various people and makes them sound like they were actually recorded, if not in the same room, at least on the same planet. So help out the mastering process by making sure your mix is ready to be mastered.

You can get the full article outlining these 6 tips here: http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/production/quick-tip-6-things-to-do-before-your-mix-goes-to-mastering/