Mastering Insights with a Mastering Engineer - Colin Bennun / Stooodio Mastering / OOOD
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2020
- Hey RUclips!
So I had an interactive mastering session with some upcoming tracks for my album, and Colin spoke a bit about his approach and thought process when mastering tracks, this is the edited excerpts of our discussion. Hope you enjoy!
If you're looking to get your tracks mastered by Colin, you can reach him here:
oood.net/mastering.html
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Here is a list of the Plugin's which Colin spoke about in the video (Hopefully in order) -
Klanghelm VU-MT -
klanghelm.com/contents/produc...
Acustica Pensado EQ -
www.acustica-audio.com/store/p...
Acustica Ivory4 EQ -
www.acustica-audio.com/store/...
Acustica Ultramarine4 A-27 EQ -
www.acustica-audio.com/store/...
Acustica White2 PEQ2.0 -
www.acustica-audio.com/store/...
Waves C1 Comp SC -
www.waves.com/plugins/c1-comp...
Toneboosters FLX Dynamic EQ -
www.toneboosters.com/tb_busto...
Acustica El-Rey -
www.acustica-audio.com/store/...
DMG Audio Limitless -
www.dmgaudio.com/products_lim...
I think that's everything!
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Mastering Insights with a Mastering Engineer - Colin Bennun / Stooodio Mastering / OOOD
Learning is continuous. I watched some of this just now, 2 1/2 years after it was first published, and I'm amazed at how much my mastering setup has changed. New technology and processes come in, old ones move aside or are refined even further. There is never a good time to stop trying to get better at what you do, so never stop! Keep on keeping on :)
I've come back to this video many times, thanks for doing it. I'd love for you guys to do another one with your updated setup and workflow 🙂
47:28 that's the Stoodio magic right there. I was gobsmacked at how good Colin was able to make the low end sound on the track he mastered for me a while back; beefy but still controlled and well-defined.
Thank you for this video! I've been looking to update my mastering skills after many years and after watching many others, this was the most useful I found. Also Acustica plugins are AMAZING.
Colin has already taught me so much!! Thanks for sharing Dash
Awesome content! Many thanks to Mr. Bennun to take the time for this and also Glitch for hosting him!
Excited for a new album 🙌
i loved it, great insights there, looking foward for more mastering contents, cheers from brazil!
Dash you are so good to us ❤️
and the thing about artists keep they original voices, its a really turning point in psytrance today imo. im digging it about 13 years and the rabbit hole is neverending. theres a lot to learn from this kind of duality beetween patterns and diversity .... i found myself in a process of refinement in sound quality and the knowledge of each step in the music production is the mainframe to figure out how mind blowing is this possibility of being a component or cell in a major environment. the devil is in details! thanks dash and oood for this helpfull conection! and liquid soul for pointing very precise question that also is very important to bringnout how science and art walks together. again thanks!
Really cool and informative video. Thanks guys.
This is great, so much education in a single package, thanks guys!
Fantastic insight guys
Loving this, great video thanks
hey.. thank you very much to both of you. it was a pleasure to watch this and hear the feedback loop between you guys
much apreaciated!!
btw, great track :)
mind blowing!
this is GOLD
Wow bru, really mooi track happening! Thanks for the valuable share btw
cool, i really enjoyed! thanks!
very nice !! that was pretty informative.
This is a great video Dash - nice!
at 5:58 I was thinking "this an amazing psytrance track"
22:50 The Rythmic Metalic Vocal is amazing
Amazing vid🖒
aaaaaahh dude.....thanxx for this info
really great track and interview or lesson ! i know you guys from the facebook group :D when is the track going to be released?
Interesting video. I like the way Colin gets a lot of warmth without sacrificing clarity. It would be interesting to hear him master something in a different style.
Always up for working on good material no matter what the style :)
@41:00 Starting the Realtalk, he's absolutely right
Smaak hierdie video! ek is besig om my eie tracks te probeer bietjie polish en hierdie ballie ken sy storie. thx bro, kief
I ve heard Collins work in the past and he is a great engineer and person . However in this case my main takeaway was the third harmonic. I actually prefer the unmastered version when A/B ing at the end. The mastered version is more controlled but somehow also lost a lot of character...
@19:00 could someone tell me in which Mode the SPAN Analyzer ist? The freuquency spectrum response looks much different than what i use to see, thank you
Type: RT MAX
Block size: 8192
Offset: OFF
Smoothing: OFF
Freq Lo: 10Hz
Freq Hi: 22kHz
Range Lo: -96
Range Hi: 0
Slope: 0
Wondering if anyone has thoughts on the -8Lufs general target thing, especially for music that will be released? I know spotify and others will bring stuff down to -14lufs or so, which might make your stuff sound quieter compared to something mastered around -14lufs.
Actually mate it's the opposite, mastered to -8 will generally still sound bigger than something mastered to -14 even if both are pulled down to -14
-8 is a good target for certain tracks and genres but you don't always need to hit -8. It vastly depends on track and how far that track can be pushed without getting too squashed or losing punch.
really dam good master. This guy is good. Also a great mix though
Yeah the mix was pretty great from the start.
Hi Dash, thanks for sharing this process. I'm just curious as to what's going on there regarding his chain? Is he working inside Reaper or Cubase?
Hi Teesdalien, I use Reaper, with lots of custom actions and scripting to automate the more tedious aspects.
@@ColinBennun Thanks for getting back to me and sharing your insights Colin. Took quite a bit away after watching this. Excellent video.
Awesome vid! Does anyone know what analyzers he is using?
SPAN, Digicheck, Waves Dorrough, Spectrum Lab, FLUX Studio Session Analyser, and a Marantz EQ515 hardware hifi unit.
A while back I put together a pack of the freely-available elements of my analysis suite, you'll find it here:
drive.google.com/open?id=16ZcIeClsBdIA73xtoTJGgY_qFXkbskzK
Personally I prefer the unmastered, but it's very subtle and probably my age and hearing suck so I like it a touch brighter
I find a surprising amount of psy these days is mixed/mastered with much more top end than is comfortable to me. Even worse, I was recently involved in a discussion with someone who was putting forward the idea of deliberately mastering tracks with far too much top end so that the people on the dancefloor who had damaged their hearing in the past, would be able to hear it nice and bright like they used to. It's absolute madness. Putting too much tops in a mix/master can risk adding to the damage people cause to their hearing by listening too loud, and no matter what the current fashion is I don't want to play that game.
@@ColinBennun our ears are way too used listening bad sound systems on party vs comercial mastering pumping high ends.......we need to be back on dynamic standards
Which DAW is used here, because I don't think it's cubase but I can't really understand which one it is... Thanks
It's Reaper, using the iLogic v2.5 skin
Wow, so many plugs.😲 To be honest unmastered version doesn't sound that bad, in mastered v. i just hear more of lows, it sounds punchier for sure. Was surprised that he didn't use that many of the Waves plugins. Just taking a little bit from here and there, details really matter. Do you never tweak some already made presets tho... just a little bit, preset usage might not to be considered as a very creative behaviour, but still...
Waves stuff is decent, but I never heard the major appeal - to my ears their is a clear difference in the quality of the Acustica stuff, it's pricey tho. I do often use presets, but from the ones I make. I find it makes the production quicker if you know what you want to put where, rather than preset-hunting :)
In a mastering context, presets don't make much sense as every track is different. If the production is consistent enough across an artist album, I'll sometimes use the mastering chain for the last track as the starting-point for the next, but that's as far as I'll go for most things. Also, Waves is OK but IMO there are better-sounding tools for most tasks.
Sonarworks, get it
I don't listen to anything here without it. In this case it's in the monitoring FX of my DAW setup
303 likes! Thanks for the viedeos man!
Hi there Dash. Anyway you can do a mastering video with not so expensive plug ins?? The acustica ones are killer but super expensive to get...izotope 8 + waves + fabfilter ...maybe?
Could you explain the thing with the eq-ing at the major 3rd? Big difference tho
Most psytrance basslines use a sawtooth oscillator, and this includes harmonics which include the 10th note of the major scale, ie. 1 octave + 1 major 3rd above the root note. If your track is in a minor key, this harmonic can clash with the minor third of the scale, and become a source of unwanted dissonance, so it can help with clarity to attenuate it so it's not distracting any more. Best done in the mix rather than the master, and - like everything - important not to overdo it.
@@ColinBennun i've found out that doing a small cut there results in more clarity by trial and error. now i know the reason and it makes perfect sense. thanks for the explanation (and indeed for responding to people here in the comments at all)!
@@ColinBennun presumably that would only work for a psytrance track with a one note bassline throughout. As soon as the note changes so would the frequency of that harmonic and you would end up chasing the harmonic around for each note?
@@DaveBessell yes. However depending on the track, that area of the spectrum is often one that can benefit from a wider, more gentle dip as a build up of energy around 200Hz can cause muddiness.
Track name please?
This is my track "Glitch - Reality Science"
@@DashGlitch thanks a lot,great track,best of luck to you!
Splitting plugins over 2 tracks rather than 1 definitely does not help with CPU usage...
It definitely has done for me. The rig I used in that video is incapable of running my masteing chain on one single track, but handles it fine when split over 2 tracks.
Mastering is like the hippocratic oath, the goal is to do no harm.
Where the South african mastering engineers at?
Here
lol I hate mastering. Can't hear shit after hours of producing the track. Doesn't matter if I take time between mixing and mastering. I get way too used to how it sounds to hear where things could be improved.
Which is exactly why it's better to send it to a mastering engineer. :-)
Yeah honestly prefer the premaster.
Anyone read this as "mastering your colon!"...now that i hear its psytrance..maybe appropriate..as psy really triggers ibs for me..no bass drops..so i get zero follow through !!