Top Signs Your Mix Isn't Ready for Mastering | Are You Listening Season 6, Ep 4

How do you know when your mix is ready for mastering? In the fourth episode of Season 6, professional mastering engineer and Berklee professor Jonathan Wyner shares what to watch out for when preparing your mix for the audio mastering stage, including reference mixes being too loud, unbalanced tracks, transients affecting headroom, and more. By the end of this video, you’ll have a solid checklist that you can use to prepare your mix for mastering. Watch all seasons of ‘Are You Listening?’: Get 50% off mastering tools used in ‘Are You Listening?:’ Learn more about mastering with free tutorials: Learn more about Jonathan Wyner: Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:51 1. Your references are too loud 01:39 2. Your lead is inconsistent 02:59 3. Your tracks are unbalanced 04:23 4. It doesn’t sound good loud 05:29 5. Your transients affect headroom 06:55 6. Your tracks are too divergent 08:49 7. There’s too much high-end 10:02 8. There’s too much low-end 12:01 9. Your low-end is unbalanced 13:47 10. You didn’t listen for issues 14:30 Outro #izotope #AreYouListening #Mastering SYNC ID: MB01P1NHZG16LT4