Service Details & File Preparation

Mastering Service Details

Contact us or submit a completed Beats & Caffeine "Project Form".
Prepare your files to be sent - Please read 'Preparing Files For Mastering' below
Deliver your stereo mix files: After you receive the mastering confirmation WhatsApp text and email, you can upload a folder containing the WAV files of your songs. The folder containing your mixes should be "compressed" (zipped) before uploading. You can use any type of file transfer service such as DropBox & Google Drive.
Payment: Payment of the price quoted in the confirmation email can be securely made via BIBD Online Transfer. Upon receipt of the payment and the zipped folder containing the unmastered mixes of your project's songs, the mastering would be completed within 7 business days and you would receive an email with a download link of your mastered mixes for review.

FILES PREPARATION: Services

Contact us or submit a completed Beats & Caffeine "Project Form". After you have submitted this Project Form, you will receive a confirmation WhatsApp text and email. The confirmation email will also have information about delivering your multi-track files to us.
Prepare your files to be sent in - Please read Preparing Your Files For Mixing
Deliver your multi-track files: After you receive the mixing confirmation email, you can upload the folders that contain the multi-track files for each of your songs. Each folder should be "compressed" (zipped) before uploading. You can use any type of file transfer services such as DropBox or Google Drive.
Payment: Payment of the price quoted in the confirmation email can be securely made via BIBD Online Transfer. Upon receipt of the payment and the zipped folders containing the multi-track WAV files for your project's songs, the services would be completed within 7 business days and you would receive an email with a download link of your mixes for review.
Review of mixes: Upon your confirmation via email that the MP3 review mixes are good and you want no mix modifications, you will be emailed a download link to your 24-bit mixed files.
If you selected both B&C's mixing and mastering services on your project form, upon completion of your project, you will receive a 16bit, 44.1kHz WAV master.

Recommended file formats for mastering: The files you provide to be mastered can be any standard 24 bit (or 32bit) WAV audio data file with sample rates of 44.1k, 48k, or 96k. 16-bit files are acceptable if your recorder does not have the 24-bit ability.
Remove any limiters, compressors, maximizers, or equalizers on your mix bus: Before exporting your mix as a WAV file to be uploaded for our mastering service, it's important that you remove any signal processing such as limiters, compressors, or equalizers on your mixer's stereo bus inserts. Also, set your dithering rates to match your mixdown bit depth, keep your peaks below - 3dBfs, and please don't normalize the final mix file. This ensures that the stereo WAV file(s) that you will be uploading are at a good starting point for the mastering process.
Name each of your unmastered mix files with the actual song title. The song's unmastered data file name will also be used for the naming of any mastered MP3 files of that song.
Electronically send me the "zipped" folder for each song to be mixed via DropBox or Google drive. Do that after you have received the confirmation email for your project and made payment via BIBD Online Transfer. Then you can send in the zipped folders that contain the songs you want to be mixed and/or mastered.

File Formats - The audio files you provide can be any standard WAV or format audio data file: 32 bit, 24 bit, or 16 bit with sample rates of 44.1k, 48k, or 96k.
All of the files that make up each of the tracks need to start at the exact same start time and also be a continuous file until the end of the track.
Each track needs to have a unique name that is descriptive of the sound on it.
See the Mixing and Mastering price chart for editing and noise reduction price options. The tracks should also not have any added compression or limiting added to them.
Electronically send me the "zipped" folder for each song to be mixed via DropBox or Google drive. Do that after you have received the confirmation email for your project and made payment via BIBD Online Transfer. Then you can send in the zipped folders that contain the songs you want mixed and/or mastered.
After you have approved mp3 versions of the mixes via email, the final mixes and/or mastered mixes will be mailed to you.