#Ddp audio export how to

#Ddp audio export how to

It's too much to learn on-the-job (and too much to get wrong) over the course of one high importance and highly time critical project.Дon't think of going to a mastering engineer as 'outsourcing' but rather going to a professional that knows a very particular set of skills for a very particular job that you don't know how to do.

Unfortunately, as there are no exotic eqs and compressors and it's easy to make mistakes at this part of the process it's part of the very unglamorous side of mastering that no one really sees or cares that much about.ДЇor what it's worth I used to be a full time mastering engineer (had to give up due to an unfortunate long term illness that nibbled at my hearing) and my advice is: if you've never made a CD before at this level then go to a mastering engineer. You still have to create a CD in your mastering DAW (so you place the individually mastered tracks, decide on fades, make sure the starts and ends don't fall inbetween CD frames, place index markers, etc.) but, once that's all been done you write a DDP rather than burn a master CD. It contains the exact same information and data that is created when you create a CD master but it is arranged in digital folders and is not dependant on a physical disc (so you can zip it up and send it over the web or transport on a USB stick or whatever). As the wiki text bot has pointed out here, a DDP (or DDPi) is a digital mastering format.