Mastering to compete with professionally produced tracks

[Tarekith]

A lot of people think professional mastering is all smoke and mirrors, but some of us do know what we're doing


Drop me an email, I'll send you the complete file. tarekith at gmail

[antifmradio]

i have a simple question for you here my man

what headphones are you using when you produce this track AND play it back BEFORE exporting (mixing it down)

Also, when you saved (exported the track) what did you do? <--- explain the steps you took for that part.

[poizone]

I'm using a set of Koss UR-20 headphones I picked up for $20 on newegg. They were half off, the driver response was great, and once I replace the cable with a 3.5mm jack (Cause I wear cables out like nothing) they'll probably last forever.

When I export, I find the last audible part of the song, set an empty clip there and then hit export. My export settings are defaulted to 32-bit WAV (No dithering, anti-aliasing, etc). After that, I'll open up audacity and make a 320kbps MP3 with the proper ID3 tags for the song and upload to soundcloud, add the .wav to my live set, or import it into my library in iTunes from the .wav.