File Preparation & Submission
When TMS is ready to work on material, the purest and least processed material is always best for any given service. Follow these simple but key points for the best source material:

  - Please refrain from processing tracks before sending them in for mixing keep these points in mind.

   - Do not apply any gain changes, plug-in processing such as compression, limiting or equalization, applying shaped dithering, truncation, bit depth changes, sample rate conversions or normalization to any of the tracks.

  - If you have a special effect in mind for a certain part of a track or the entire track, go ahead and apply it the way you want it to sound. Or, give me instructions on what you are looking for as far as the effect goes. If you do "print" an effect to the track, give me a "clean" version of that instrument track along with the effected version.

Preparing Files

 - If you are doing your own mixing to send TMS for mastering, most importantly, mix clean! There's no need to try and reach 0dbFS while you are creating a mix. Give your tracks headroom for your plugins and the master bus. If you are mixing at 24-bits you can have your peaks reach any where from -10, -12 dbFS to around -3 dbFS on occasion. Ensuring enough headroom will keep your plugins sounding at their optimal state and you don't have to worry about clipping your mix or creating to hot of a mix.

  - Refrain from any kind of intro or outro fades, instead send me notes on that with specific times.

 - Refrain from using limiters or maxmizers on your stereo mix. Also, when you are exporting your mix, make sure you are not dithering it.

Audio Format
Use project bit depths of at least 24-bit. Files can be anywhere from 16-bit to 64-bit. I would advise to use 44.1 khz sampling rate. If non-linear processing is performed, I'll upsample if needed so 44.1 khz is all you need for recording. If sending in stereo mixes for mastering, send sampling rates any where from 44.1 - 88.2 khz. 96 Khz is also acceptable.

File Format
Use any of the following formats when submitting files:
AIFF, WAV/Broadcast Wave (ideal), W64, WMA, AU, SND, SD2, CAF, AIF, AIFc, ASF, AU, W64, MPEG, MPG, OMFI, QuickTime 6, WMA9, FLAC.
MP3's can also be accepted IF that is all that is available!

Note for all FTP transfers: please use .zip or .rar to secure your data before transferring.

Will be sent via email with options to pay by PayPal or most major credit cards. Arrangements will be made via email before the start of a project. Before the start of any project, at least 50% of the total fee must be paid. The other 50%, before the final delivery of the tracks.

eDelivery
This is the preferred method. TMS has a secure FTP & you'll be assigned a unique user name and password to your own space for uploading and downloading files. A small & simple client FTP program will be emailed to you. All you do is download it, open it, and click connect. That easy.

Protocol

Revisions

Every mixing, mastering, or restoration project could have up to 3 revision or tweak requests per song that's based on technical changes of the mix or mastering service. After that, revisions will incur a $20 fee per revision request per song. Any client or artist based decision to aesthetically change a track, add or subtract tracks for a given song after the mix incurs a $20 fee per change. This keeps things fair for both parties. Once any project is approved and finalized between TMS and client, then it is finalized. In this case any additional remix or changes incurs full project fees.

Refunds

Please be sure you feel confident about TMS handling the work. Listen to the 'audio' section, think thoroughly before we agree on & start services. Unless TMS screws up, obviously due to the nature of this work, once a project has been started there are no refunds on any work that has been done. Material not worked on yet may be canceled.