How To Prepare Your Tracks for Mixing (The Complete Logic Pro Method)

My complete guide to how to best prepare and export your tracks in Logic Pro to send to a professional mixing engineer. We walk through all of the nuances and situations that may come up during this process and how to provide your mixer with a clean, well organized group of tracks that will make you one of their all time favorite clients.
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[@jeffhirata]

Thanks for this video! So helpful! I just sent tracks to my mixer and I followed these instructions exactly.

[@sangstersounds]

Awesome! You are very welcome.

[@jimhouston5332]

Thanks Chris! so clear and super helpful and easy to follow

[@sangstersounds]

You are welcome! Glad to help!

[@samnarjinary]

Good job explaining it properly to the world.

[@sangstersounds]

Thank you so much!

[@AdamRay-pg1ej]

Great video mate! Thank you for being so straight to the point. Have subscribed.

[@sangstersounds]

Thanks so much! Glad to have you here!

[@pierluigi.ferrari]

This is the only decent guide to exporting tracks for mixing that I've found on TH-cam. Thanks a lot!

[@sangstersounds]

Thanks so much! Glad to help!

[@LloydJeffersonIV]

Amazing video man thank you so much

[@sangstersounds]

You are very welcome!

[@FLH3official]

Thank you for this very informative video.

[@nathanielcooper7184]

This is a tremendous tutorial. Straight to the point, super informative, thoughtful suggestions. Thanks for making this video!

[@sangstersounds]

Thanks so much! I am glad you found it helpful

[@DaniDune]

Thanks a lot. At the point and very well explained. For rookies like me this video is gold. Cheers

[@alvis501]

Excellent explanation

[@sangstersounds]

Thanks so much!

[@2sanctuarylab]

Thanks Chris for the concise and straight forward run through.....a great review!

[@sangstersounds]

You are welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful!!

[@julioreyesdieck]

Thank you so much for this video, Chris!

[@sangstersounds]

You are welcome!!

[@musicbypenn]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 great info!!

[@sangstersounds]

Thanks so much!

[@alfasonicstudios]

Cool, informative, organized content. Good job!

[@sangstersounds]

Thanks so much!

[@davidleary5639]

Very useful .Thanks .

[@sangstersounds]

You are welcome!

[@DerickDJMcelveenJr]

Thank you I’ve been trying to get rid of that underscore line for years lol.

[@sangstersounds]

You are welcome! Glad to help. That underscore is so annoying!!

[@bapisynthesizerghazalsinge429]

❤🙏🏼🙏🏼🌹

[@sangstersounds]

Thanks!

[@adavis1420]

Thanks so much for this! How do I get mono drum files from midi vst's? I don't want stereo files for mono drums like kicks, snares ect..

[@sangstersounds]

You are welcome! I would change the track in Logic to mono with the button next to the input before exporting. If you are using a multi output drum vst you can also choose the option that includes mono aux's for your kicks and snares. Hope that helps!

[@michaelnilsson4764]

Just curious: The gain staging that is done before exporting the tracks (set between -6 and -12dB), doesn't that undo all the balancing of instruments that you did while composing/writing the song? Just to serve as a reference e.g if I want the drums to be more subtle than the rest or any other part to be emphasized.

[@sangstersounds]

Great question. Yes it would. This is something you would want to discuss with your mix engineer. In the case that you had very specific balances in mind for your tracks, they may want you to leave those intact when exporting your multitracks. Or they may just want to know that info and recreate it themselves during the mixing process. Hope that helps!

[@michaelnilsson4764]

@@sangstersounds Well, I'm doing everything myself from A to Z, so I'm mainly curious what the different levels should be at during the various stages from composing, to mixing and to mastering the final output. All my tracks are usually originating as MIDI, where I do processing and EQ directly while composing.

[@jezs4008]

Why am i not able to share my Master copy MP3 after loading it into itunes?

[@sangstersounds]

How are you attempting to share it? You should be able to drag and drop it like a normal file if using dropbox/google drive or similar.

[@jezs4008]

@@sangstersounds I did try simply pulling it or dragging out of iTunes to the desktop…but it would not at all.. not sure what’s happening…it’s an MP3 file

[@somedude1901]

Any idea why my tracks are exporting directly to my trash when I do this? I'm selecting a folder on my desktop for the export location, but it's going to my trash folder every time lol.

[@sangstersounds]

Wow that is very strange. I have never experienced that before. My two thoughts would be maybe you don’t have permission set up correctly to allow Logic to access your hard drive in system preferences or maybe your hard drive is out of space. Hope that helps!

[@somedude1901]

@@sangstersounds actually did find out it is indeed the hard drive space! Appreciate the response

[@sangstersounds]

@@somedude1901 Awesome! Glad you figured it out!