From the course: Digital Release and Promotion Strategies for Musicians

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Readying your finished tracks for master

Readying your finished tracks for master

From the course: Digital Release and Promotion Strategies for Musicians

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Readying your finished tracks for master

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- So once your tracks are actually finished and you're ready to release them it's time to start getting organized. On your screen right now you're seeing the sort of organizational method that we use at My Small Label for getting everything ready for release. So the first thing you're going to want to do is make sure that all of your tracks are in a nice tidy folder, basically we like to label them as Premasters. What this means is that these are the final versions of the tracks before they go to mastering. So all of the tracks are done, the mix downs have been approved, everybody's happy with them, whether it's your track or whether it's someone else's track it's important to designate a folder that has all of the final versions of the tracks in a high resolution so it should be a wave file and it should be at least 16 bit 44.1 kHz sample rate, so it's at least CD quality, and go ahead and put them in a folder and make sure the folder's backed up somewhere because this is really the…

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