This list is here to help you help us bring out the best in your music. If you are not able to do all of these these things then let us know and we’ll work with what we have.

Stereo master:

• Please present your mixes without limiting or clipping. Between 6dBFS – 3dBFS of headroom is best.

• If you’ve applied any processing on the main outputs for the effect your trying to achieve for the music, it should be a part of your mix. If you have processing on your mix and it is the sound that you want and like, please leave it on and send a copy with and without it applied.

• We accept WAV, AIFF and CAF files at a bit depth up to 24bit and sample rates up to 96kHz (we recommend 24bit 44.1Khz). Please don’t burn the tracks as an audio CD as this truncates higher quality files to 16bit.

• If you only have the tracks on an audio CD then as a last resort extract the audio as WAV files from the CD using Exact Audio Copy in secure mode and send them over using the means listed below.

• If you have ISRC codes please supply these at the same (don’t know what ISRC means? – its explained below).

We encourage communication throughout the mastering process so don’t be afraid to ask us any questions.

Stem mastering:

• Provide both wet and dry stems. Please only give the elements of the track that you really need to. No more the 24 tracks if you can help it unless we have agreed it before hand.
• Don’t forget to include a reference of a simliar track you like AND your mix of it too.
• Send any production notes with the files, this helps you us to get your  finished music back as quickly as possible.

 Drop your files here or any file sharing service you regularly use such as we transfer and email us a folder link.

Data CD-Rs, DVD-Rs and Memory Sticks are accepted. Specify this and we’ll send you the address to post them to.

• ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is the international identification system (12 digits) for sound recordings and music video recordings.
• Each ISRC is a unique and permanent identifier for a specific recording which can be permanently encoded into a product as its digital fingerprint.
• Encoded ISRC provides the means to automatically identify recordings for royalty payments.
• The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry recommends that all musicians acquire and use an ISRC for all recorded material ready for release. For more information about ISRC contact PPLUK.

• CD-TEXT allows for storage of additional information (e.g. album name, song name, and artist) and is an extension of the Red Book Compact Disc specifications standard for audio CDs. The information is stored in the lead-in area of the CD. Support for CD-Text is common, but certainly not universal.

• DDP is a data format developed that all audio and subcodes necessary to create a Red Book standard CD.
• It is the only format that the majority CD pressing plants will accept if you wish to upload your master as a data file to them, rather than ship them a physical disc. The reason for this is it keeps CD errors to an absolute minimum.

This is strongly recommended if you want to do CD replication.

When you provide us with your registered codes we can create a DDP Project file set to Red Book standard, ready to produce the Glass Master from which your CD’s will be made.

• The final delivery format will be in 16bit, 44.1KHz as a .WAV file (unless otherwise agreed). We will normally supply multiple tracks of the mastered material as a single zip file, although if you’d prefer we can send them individually.

• We can supply them as a DDP on CD or as an .iso image file. This is the Red Book standard ready to produce the Glass Master from which your final CD’s will be made.

• If you would like to receive your tracks as mp3’s please specify this when ordering as it will incur a small extra fee.