(For MP3 demos, simply email those to PositiveSpinSongs@gmail.com)

To send songs for finishing by Eric:

1. Before you print/bounce:
   • Make sure you leave at least one bar of silence and start everything on bar 2 or 3. Starting on 1 leaves the possibility for issues hearing the starting beat or notes. Also, if we decide to add drums, drummers need a few bars to do a count-off.
   • Make sure to print with enough volume, but nothing slammed. You can do some very light compression but remember that most keyboard sounds are already compressed and I will be compressing again. No mastered tracks please, but just make sure they have some volume. Absolutely NO normalizing.
2. Print/Bounce a 24/48 WAV file for each instrument and vocal track (not stems) from where your songs start.
   (Note: I do NOT need final mixes, bus/sub mixes, or effects channels. I will add effects as I mix. Please build effects into the sound. Unless you want to give me an option on a guitar sound or something. I really just need the tracks that need to be mixed only please and thank you.)
3. Print MONO tracks for every channel unless it is a keyboard sound, loop, or some other stereo file. Kick, Snare, Hat, Toms, Guitars, Bass, etc. These should be mono files.
4. These can be stereo tracks: Drum Overheads, or Room, Piano, Keys, Loops, or anything you record with two mics for a stereo effect may be stereo files.
5. Use only the track name. No song title or your name or any other prefix needed. (So just “Kick” or “Bass” is great. It speeds up the process if I don’t have to rename audio. Again, NO name or song name in front of what the track is please.)
6. Please use proper Capitalization. Capitalize the first letter of each word. Sorry I’m a little OCD about this after finishing two college degrees over the past 15 years. But it is easier to read than all CAPS or all small letters.
7. Use the usual track names. Kick, Snare, Hat, Tom1, Tom2, OH (Overheads Drum Mics), Room (Drum Room Mics), AG (Acoustic Guitar), EG (Electric Guitar), etc.
8. Join/combine all MIDI regions on each Midi track.
9. Name all MIDI regions exactly the same as the track name (ie. CSS Violins I) It’s helpful to have the code of what you used for Orch sounds (CSS, BBCSO, Vienna, etc.)
10. Note: I don’t need MIDI for Damage or FX sounds or one off synth sounds I won’t have. I’ll just use what you’ve recorded.
11. Save a .MID file with the exact same name as the song from your DAW that includes all channels.
12. Send a ZIP file containing all WAVs and the one .MID file

All of that should be in the ZIP is 24/48 (not 16bit or 44.1k!) WAVs of each track and 1 MIDI file.

Please name this ZIP file naming convention: ALBUM_SongName_Key_Tempo with no spaces only underscores. Use good English and put capital letters at the front of each word. This ZIP and the MID file as the only files that should have this name. All the WAV files should be the track name only.

So if the song was for a Rock Album and was called The Champions and it was in C minor and the tempo was 110 the ZIP file would be named ROCK_TheChampions_Cm_110.zip

This is almost exactly what I send to libraries when I send mixes and stems and seems to work really well.

Please send the Zip using the Dropbox Request link I send you only. This puts it into your private folder where I know to find it on my Dropbox.

Do not send via Google Drive, WeTransfer, or other services. They stink. I will give you a Dropbox link to upload to that will deposit your files to your directory on my Dropbox account so they are easy to find.

Thanks very much. With so many people sending us files we need to be as streamlined as possible.

EC