Pre-Export Checklist
The last things to confirm before you bounce the master.
- Auditioned on at least three playback systems — studio monitors, headphones, and a phone or laptop speaker.
- Sums to mono cleanly. No critical part disappears when the stereo image collapses.
- Every individual track meter is in the green. Only the limiter at the end of the chain is doing intentional dynamic work.
- True-peak ceiling at -1.0 dBTP so MP3 / AAC encoding doesn't push you into inter-sample clipping.
- Bouncing at 24-bit / 44.1 kHz (or higher) for streaming. 32-bit float if you're delivering stems for someone else to master.
- Top and tail of the file have clean fades. No clicks, no hanging reverb tails that get cut off.
- Metadata is embedded if your distributor expects it — title, artist, ISRC.