Bouncing a stereo mix

You have worked really hard on your composition, arranging, and final mix. You are almost ready to send your baby out into the world. Or are you? Perhaps you want to send the individual tracks or combinations of them to another engineer.

Either way, you will first want a stereo mix for yourself, or as a guide to the engineer as to what you are envisioning.

You may consider, if you have not already, whether or not you want a fade out at the end of the track instead of a more abrupt ending. Fade outs can be quite long or quite short, depending on how you want it to sound.

In the following screenshot, you can see that for this song, I automated the stereo output to do a very short fade:

Figure 16.1 – A short automated fade out

The stereo output will be added to the bottom of the track list if you either assign it to an automation mode, or in the Mixer, you select it and go under the Options menu and choose Create Tracks, or...