How Should I Send My Beats To An Artist?

[BoomDraw]

Hi guys, I'm an amateur producer just starting out and I'm starting to get requests to do productions for artists. So my question is this, the instrumental that I send, should it be mastered or unmastered? Because I know that I'm supposed to do my mix and leave -6db headroom for the mastering stage, but if my beat is already finished and mixed do I send it to the artist unmastered with the headroom still there? Or do I get it mastered and then send it to them for them to just add the vocal?

[Tarekith]

Unmastered, the mastering is the last stage once the artist adds their vocals. And send a wav file, not an MP3, don't know why beat makers insist on sending MP3's for this sort of thing

[calgarc]

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Oh I would send them both a mastered and an unmasterd version. this way they can see your vision. also its a sin to use masterbus comps among other things lol

in the past i have had to send groups... so i would send my leads, drums,bass etc... groups to them and they would do a final mix/master of it. it all depends on the label

[cerius]

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