Sharing the love of music and education with the youth in our cities

Today I had the pleasure of turning down cash because a client didn’t have the correct wave files from the previous engineer. The artist was using pro tools which most people use these days but didn’t have the files mixed down individually to waves. I always suggest if you ever plan on taking your files to another studio make sure when the mixing engineer is burning your master files they export them as wave files also. In all DAW’s (software programs) you are able to select the option to mix down to wave files. The reason this is so important is because the file extension can’t be read by other DAW’s. If the new DAW can not read the file extension the new engineer can not load the tracks. It’s very important to have access the individual tracks to properly mix the song.

Bottom line, make sure when you leave with the DVD of your session you also leave with the wave files of each track!