Mixing and Mastering Tips

Want to know how much space to leave at the beginning of your mastered track for streaming ?

Setting the silence for the intro of a mastered track

𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚

𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: If you are sharing audio files (not streams) then you are forcing people to download your file and listen to it. Not everyone likes doing this and sometimes that can be the difference between someone listening to your song and not listening to your song.
If you are inquiring about feedback for your song or want to share your song using raw data (.WAV files) then this is the way to go. Just keep in mind some cloud streaming services will not playback 48 kHz but only 44.1 kHz. Also note 16 or 24 bit is not an issue.

𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀: Once you are ready to share your music publically you’ll want to upload it to Streaming platforms like YouTube, Soundcloud, and Spotify. These can easily be pasted in a post and shared with friends, groups.

𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲: This is very important. You can’t just simply be dropping links to your music in any social media group. Many groups consider it to be a form of “spamming”. I can tell you based on experience that hundreds upon hundreds of people are removed from groups daily because they try to promote their music within social media pages and groups. This is very ineffective for a couple reasons.

𝟏- The large majority of people don’t really want to click on random (people that are unknown) links. The harsh reality is they have better things to do and really don’t care.

𝟐- The even harsher reality is group Admins can’t stand that and nine times out of ten don’t even look at your name, they just ban you from the group. Now that might not be the worst part, the worst part is when you go to open your favorite group and find you have been banned from that one too because that particular Admin knows (and talks) with other Admins of other groups.

Your best bet is to share music with your friends, then ask those friends to share it on their timeline. Go to groups where you are allowed to share music and post it there. But do not expect people there to click on your song unless you click on theirs. Be active in that community and pay it forward, you’ll be surprised how it’s paid back.