MASTERING MY MIXES
I include mastering as part of my mixing process. All of my most successful works have been both mixed and mastered by me. You’re welcome to request a mastering-ready file for a song I’ve mixed to have another engineer master it but I discourage you from doing so. Most mastering engineers my clients have paid for were underwhelming and expensive. At best, the resulting masters sounded no better than mine. Most of them were worse.
MASTERING FOR SONGS I DIDN’T MIX
I’ll need from you a 24bit WAV file without master processing on it for each song. Also include a playlist (Apple Music, Spotify or YouTube) of 3+ songs that embody the sound you want to achieve. This will inform choices like the loudness, brightness and low end I use in the mastering process. Keep in mind, mastering processes the entire mix as a whole, not individual tracks. It is a crucial final stage in the process but it’s limited in what it can do to transform the song.