File Preparation & Submission
When TMS is ready to work on material, the purest and least processed material is always best for any given service. Follow these simple but key points for the best source material:

  - Please refrain from processing tracks before sending them in for mixing keep these points in mind.

   - Do not apply any gain changes, plug-in processing such as compression, limiting or equalization, applying shaped dithering, truncation, bit depth changes, sample rate conversions or normalization to any of the tracks.

  - If you have a special effect in mind for a certain part of a track or the entire track, go ahead and apply it the way you want it to sound. Or, give me instructions on what you are looking for as far as the effect goes. If you do "print" an effect to the track, give me a "clean" version of that instrument track along with the effected version.

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Preparing Files

And for mastering, keep these points in mind:

  - If you are doing your own mixing to send TMS for mastering, most importantly, mix clean! There's no need to try and reach 0dbFS while you are creating a mix. Give your tracks headroom for your plugins. If you are mixing at 24-bits you can have your peaks reach any where from -10, -12 dbFS to around -3 dbFS on occasion. Ensuring enough headroom will keep your plugins sounding at their optimal state and you don't have to worry about clipping your mix or creating to hot of a mix.

  - Refrain from any kind of intro or outro fades, instead send me notes on that with specific times.

 - Refrain from using limiters or maxmizers on your stereo mix. When you are exporting your mix, make sure you are not dithering it.

Audio Format
Use project bit depths of at least 24-bit. Files can be anywhere from 16-bit to 64-bit. I would advise to use 44.1 khz sampling rate. If non-linear processing is performed, I'll upsample as needed so 44.1 khz is all you need for recording. If sending in stereo mixes for mastering, send sampling rates any where from 44.1 - 88.2 khz. 96 Khz is also acceptable.

File Format
Use any of the following formats when submitting files:
AIFF, WAV/Broadcast Wave (ideal), W64, WMA, AU, SND, SD2, CAF, AIF, AIFc, ASF, AU, W64, MPEG, MPG, OMFI, QuickTime 6, WMA9, FLAC.
MP3's can also be accepted IF that is all that is available!

Note for all FTP transfers: please use .zip or .rar to secure your data before transferring.