I don’t think after recording two songs at different studios you would want to think about mastering quite yet especially if you plan to do more songs.
When you decide who you will record with then you can look about mastering.

Deciding who to record with is your first task.
What you may want to do is after recording the song or 2 in the manner you described is take the tracks from the “looser” to the studio you would want to do the rest of the recording.

You would want to find out if they are using the same software program to do the laying of tracks (that is if they are using a software studio). If they are using the same program then you could request that they provide you with a bundle file or the initial file that contains all the track separations, audio and midi information. Word processor example: if both parties have MS word, and the original file was created as an RTF document, they can transfer the files as an RTF document.


If however, the two studios have different software programs that they work with, what the party who you will not be recording with could do if willing, is to export each track whether music or vocals as wave files. And then the person who you will be working with can import each wave file in to different tracks in their recording software. Word Processor example: If one party has a Word Processor program MS word and save the initial file as RTF and the other party has as a Word Processor program Word Perfect, the person who has Word can save the document as a text (.txt) file that would be a file common to both programs.


You would need to pay attention to the mix of both studios to see if you like the mix
How does each musical track interact with the vocal tracks.


Alternatively, if your keyboard has a sequencer, you could record the style with you playing the chord changes as a quick record. And then you could mix the music yourself and then record the music as one track. But that would depend on how much editing capability your keyboard sequencer has and how comfortable and confident you are with mixing the music yourself.

Just my opinion

[This message has been edited by to the genesys (edited 07-26-2005).]