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Joshua Au-Yeung
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Joshua Au-Yeung

Joshua Au-Yeung (professionally known as Chester Sky) is a music producer, composer, director, and software developer. He's published 10+ music albums, directed and composed for films, created board games and dozens of art pieces, and hosts a podcast. He's an instructor of online courses, including best-selling courses on music production and composing for films and video games. His previous book, The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20, reached #1 on Amazon in the Digital Audio Production category.
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Exporting audio for third-party mixing and mastering

If you want your music mastered, but don’t think you have the skills or plugins to do it yourself, one option is to hire a mastering engineer. One benefit a mastering engineer can provide is an independent set of ears. They will hear your song from an outsider’s perspective and may pick up on flaws or ways to enhance your music that you wouldn’t think of.

The mastering engineer will request that you do not put any limiters on your mastering track before sending them the track. They will likely request you leave some volume headroom in the master channel – usually at least 3 db - 6 db of headroom so that they have some volume space play around with. They like it when you give them lots of headroom. The more headroom you give them, the more noticeable the mastering effect will be on the song.

If you want to send a song to a third party to mix or master your music, you should send all the audio from...

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Joshua Au-Yeung

Joshua Au-Yeung (professionally known as Chester Sky) is a music producer, composer, director, and software developer. He's published 10+ music albums, directed and composed for films, created board games and dozens of art pieces, and hosts a podcast. He's an instructor of online courses, including best-selling courses on music production and composing for films and video games. His previous book, The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20, reached #1 on Amazon in the Digital Audio Production category.
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