Find sites, or youtube (take care of foolish uploads) where it is explained. This forum is not for education, only if regards certain use of Mixbus.
I mix and master on the go, so my finished mixes can go to albums almost as they are. But naturally if goes to CD it depends mainly on two things:
- Are the songs of the same or similar genree?
- if not they need quite another approach when preparing for album
My way is as follows:
put the mixes after one another in one track or in different tracks but after one another in the timeline. So you can easily jump by the playhead to different songs to see they fit the meters, sound on the master
I put my plugin chain on the master for album and do not change it once set during the process, so the songs all are treated similarly, but I change the song settings , mostly only gain if needed.
The songs have been mastered before alone as I said but if into albums I have another print for them with some 2-3dB headroom to be able to adjust for the album.
If the single songs are of different sample rate then I must do a "for album print" as export in the format of the most songs to be able to put them in a common session thet is eg: 44/24.
I think, for a start for you, it is enough and do some experiment that works for you. No sense to tell what the master chain is because all depends on your gear, plugs, the mixes, your experience......
Care also be taken not to dither, limit, etc twice the same song by accident (when exporting the prints).
Your question to answer in a usable way needs a 6-month course 6 hours every day
I hope some I helped, so maybe only 5 months remained
Happy New Year
Tassy