Top Signs Your Mix Isn't Ready for Mastering | Are You Listening? Season 6, Ep 4

How do you know when your mix is ready for mastering? In the fourth episode of Season 6, professional mastering engineer and Berklee professor Jonathan Wyner shares what to watch out for when preparing your mix for the audio mastering stage, including reference mixes being too loud, unbalanced tracks, transients affecting headroom, and more. By the end of this video, you’ll have a solid checklist that you can use to prepare your mix for mastering.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:51 1. Your references are too loud
01:39 2. Your lead is inconsistent
02:59 3. Your tracks are unbalanced
04:23 4. It doesn’t sound good loud
05:29 5. Your transients affect headroom
06:55 6. Your tracks are too divergent
08:49 7. There’s too much high-end
10:02 8. There’s too much low-end
12:01 9. Your low-end is unbalanced
13:47 10. You didn’t listen for issues
14:30 Outro

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