The BIGGEST Mastering mistake (and how to FIX it) + HUGE Announcement💥
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The colour changing t shirt is crazy 😂🙌
is that just a thing now? I like it.
yeah. I always wait for it.
Dom got master video editing skills as well 🤌
U still love the effect 😂
What kind of magic is this?
When I want to hear something loud, I turn the volume knob. Easy. Dynamics is king.
always go straight to the point
The Crest factor or dynamic range is something I never knew about till this particular mixing engineer on RUclips called Baphometrix totally break down how control the Crest factor,within your mix and and not your master and he blew my mind 🤔🤔,he used clippers,saturation,eq to raise the RMS in the mix at the end he got to -6 lufs without using a mastering limiter on the master🙏 then he concluded that if your dont take care loud transients in the mix and how they sum up.then a mastering limiter will never get that done properly hence you cant get a loud mix.
yeah that series was life changing
Couldnt agree more. Baphometrix clip to zero during mixing stage really is game changing
Love from Jamaica yeah man🎉😊🇯🇲
Can't WAIT to start the courses, very excited. Thank you Dom!! ❤🙏
Hope you enjoy them as much I did making them ❤️
@@DomSigalas this was very much needed since I'm a new Cubase user 🙏🙂↕️
@@DomSigalas
Hey, I don’t know why but Im just now seeing your Mastering Course. I am interested in the Mastering In the Box…are you planning on discounting it again for the holidays (7/4??). Excellent content btw
This would have been a lot more helpful with audio examples that we could hear. However, you explained your premise on mastering quite clearly.
Your shirt changing color is awesome. Distracted me the first time watching the video but amazing lesson taught right here! Thank you!!
This was definately helpful, as it was perfectly explained. Thank you!
Nicely explained .
Thank you for this Dom! I always manage to learn something new every time I watch any of your videos and you truly are a source of inspiration 👍
Thank you very much for these wonderful tips on getting a loud master.
I just watched this to be asked to join for the courses, but the actual problem wasn't fully disclosed.
Because you didn’t understand, you mean.
Yes, too many words for such a simple problem. And very little useful.
Thank you!
Makes sense, a good effect Fx chain and good sound selection combined with soft clipping and compression works great
Dom, MASSIVE thank you on the courses. I just signed up on the Mastering in Cubase one and dropped a comment inside on the intro. I'm looking very forward to this and am grateful for the opportunity to learn from you in detail :)
Not the exclusive age old photo!! 😂
I am about to begin mastering my first project I have been recording since 2021 and I have found your cubase videos so invaluable and helpful every step of the way!
I bought your 80s drum kit a while back but will try to purchase some more of your stuff when I can because I can’t thank you enough in words for how much you have helped me during this process! You’re awesome 🎉
Dom your vids are full of so much amazing information. I learn so much from all of them. Thank you for what you do.
THANK YOU for this explanation! 😁👊
Always love your content Dom. I'll look at your mastering course now for sure.
Miss my home studio right now!!.. Why I listen it just before going to bed 😂
As always, you rock Dom!
Thank you so much!
I got to get your masterclass asap!!
And yeah, the effect on your shirt is really cool!
You’re the best Dom, as always. Thank you 🙏🏻
Mastering Class. Bravo. Looking forward to this. Value 4 value. I will support this course.
Thank you so much my friend ❤
Great advice. I love the idea of automation to remove the crest factor on big peaks.
Great video Dom! Thought you could've talked about and incorporated clipping as well though :)
Would love to hear how you use clippers
Okay, Dom, you had me at "I just released a new course..." Just enrolled and I'm looking forward to working through the course as I master one of my own tracks that I just finished mixing. Super excited, mate! 🤜💥🤛
Thank you so much!
Thank you 🙏
Hello master... once again THANK YOU... and I say it again every time you make me richer...
What a great! Tutorial Dom! Thank you! A lot of what you said is well pointed out. Thank you again!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and in an easy to understand way.
Thanks Dom
boom💥💥💥💥 my problem is now solved ....thank you mr Dom🙏🙏🙏
Thank you always 🔥💯
Thanks a lot because I ALWAYS have this problem!
This helped me fix the problem with my too loud stabby psybass being the source of my bad mix.
REAPER also had great visualizers and the ReaLimit limiter is also very transparent.
You are an Amazing teacher among teachers
Thank you my friend ❤️
Thanks Dom. The best decision Steinberg has ever done was get Dom on board. I just love these videos and Dom is just doing an amazing work and always fully dedicated and enthusiastic about it. You can't fake that. His explanations and insights are so well communicated and it has helped me incredibly in recent years. Thank you so much for the work you've been doing, Dom.
Thank you so much my friend. You got it right- if I had to fake that it would be a torture 😂
@@DomSigalas Exactly!
Time for the Steinberg Overall Mastering Plugin 😉, like with the vocal chain plugin...
Thank you so much for this video
When the crest factor is as bad as that, I’d just go back to the mix engineer and be like fix it. While that can be addressed in mastering, that’s a major mixing issue.
But if you are to fix that type of crazy peak issue, I think the best approach is manual clip gaining. There are a ton of ways to do this but I find RX super useful for doing this because of the tools in that program make it so much easier to do
That would be my first course of action. But the reality is many people produce and mix their music themselves and cannot necessarily do a better job- or can simply not afford mixing.
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All fair
Dom love your content❤
Watching you from Pakistan.
Wow thank you so much
BRAVO!
Dear all this problem causes the snare, because sum of snare from overheads and room mic channels makes drum loud, so what you can do is to find proper balance or compress the area around 210hz. The same effect does the parallel compression bus with kick, it multiplies kick and snare too and makes it very dynamic and fat. Use limiter on kick and snare tracks to have better mixes
Didn't understand a thing because I was looking at the colour changing shirt all the time...XD
😂😂😂
Mixing>mastering, isn’t it? A well balanced mix doesn’t need a lot of work. Good stuff, Dom.
Maybe 10 20 years ago. If you work with a lot of new artists most likely now a days they’re recording and mixing their own stuff. I’ve had many artists multiple times send me songs that were completely recorded on their phone or ipad and although it’s impressing because feels like yesterday we were happy, we were able to record voice memos when you look at it that way it’s not that bad when you want to be a professional what do you think? It’s still a app not 100% there yet but it will be soon.
What kind of FX samples would be most useful in your productions?
Awesome T-shirt
Thank you Doctor Dom, very good video ! Is it possible to make a video where you create a loud track, mastering it loud with the Cubase LE DAW and recording with the minimum tools ? Low budget for a high quality project ?
Merci beaucoup, thank you.
Avec plaisir
Thanks Dom. How about some videos on how to master for TV?
Very good idea!!!
Can you please make a mixing course??
WAIT!!!.. Dom, @13:30 are you saying to bounce the tracks after brickwall limiting?
OR... Are you telling us to MIX INTO the brickwall limiter?
Always love your presentation Dom. Unfortunately with this one...its for 'listener' that have a an issue with background noise...and leftovers from the 90s. Of course its all so context dependent...but to make a great mix louder, in an audiophile sense, you turn the volume. Crest factor is a weapon, not a problem...and listening (like sitting down with lights dimmed and REALLY listening) to music is an art form all by itself; unnecessarily squishing range and peak forces peeps out of the musical sound stage very quickly in this context. I encourage everyone to, above all set up a decent reference system and AB as much stuff as you can from your mix position, find what really works and just for the sake of the argument compare eg the original of Sledgehammer to a recent remaster...the original has amazing bass and punch because of physics...you cant get something for nothing and despite its age, shows how things are really done with cold hard demonstration of the art. The bottom end of the new mastering is smeared and crowded...actually flaps the sub in a bad way. Great info by Dom but keep your eyes (or ears) open because sometimes 'new' has baggage :-) It suits some genres to smooth everything.
The reason why peeps 'love' 6db of headroom might be because they dont know anything else (for the master slammers in the comments) lol
You are a great contributor Dom...not sure why you dont use wavelab though...such fast analysis tools, especially the statistics tools, make cubase look painful to use.
BTW Where is the vid re: pencil tool?
EDIT: Found in the gain staging vid for anyone else
I totally understand your concerns my friend. But hear me out: all the amazing records of the 50s 60s and 70s etc didnt have the issue I’m showing here so often because these problems were alleviated by the natural compression when people still recorded on tape or through analog gear). The frequency range was way more contained too compared to the super clean and detailed digital recordings.
Tape has natural compression that is also very pleasing to the human ear.
These problems started with digital recording (and lesser mixing skills).
What I show here is non -destructive to the music. It solves a problem.
The number one thing is to keep your ears open as you said. But here I am trying to help people with a super common issue.
I cannot go through all the ins and outs on a short RUclips video. I do masterclasses and courses for this.
And of course I use Wavelab :) but my audience uses primarily Cubase so I try to show them the tricks with the tools most of them have.
I hope this answers your questions ❤️
I missed the 40% OFF! I hope there will be another deal soom! Great content!
No, not soon but get in touch with Lindsay and she might sort you out at courses (at) domsigalas (dot) com :)
0:35 Wow! Dom, you haven't aged a day! (Except for the greys, of course😂)
Most people don't mix with enough crest factor these days. Also peak distribution variance is the thing that we find the most interesting, far more important than the body of the track. The peak distribution of the most played records of all time have that factor in common. Think 12-24dB range from each other. When you reduce the crest factor distro over RMS too much the spread of transient events goes down to under 2dB of spread. This is the equivalent of taking all your midi and putting the velocity at 127 for everything.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. 🎶🎸☮
You are awesome. Thanks for this trick :)
Awesome video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
16 min video to do a -2db limiting at the start of the master chain.
will the course ever have a discount code again Dom? I'm relatively new and missed the offer, thanks
Why not a clipper as first plugin to cut the peaks?
Dry good question! The reason is clipping is a very aggressive process- and the difference is audible. What I show is transparent- you will not be able to tell the difference. Reserve the clippers for later in the process after you’ve massaged those transients so they have to work less with fewer audible artefacts :)
@@DomSigalas okay 😊 thanks for the quick response 👍
thanks this will help me with my dj mixes as well ...subbed peace
Amazing explanation . . . This is the reason why I bought hardware with transformers on it. As you mix into it the peaks are shaved off for you.
Alternatively passing the individual tracks through transformers as if you tracking or recording also help you get really loud.
I really had to buy it to understand how transformers affect the peaks. I was not understanding only watching youtube videos. It was an handson approach for me. Transformer on, peaks shaved nice and sound is full. Transformer off peaks are going everywhere and nothing loud.
Guess all that explain why pro gear with transformers are still loved . . .
So true. Analog gear have this amazing ability to shave off transients in a graceful way❤️
Love from UAE
For the pencil tool trick, how would you feel about going into the audio inspector and using the pencil tool there to redraw the sample peaks to a lower value? Would the main difference be just that one process isn't destructive, as in altering the original file?
Wave Observer by Press Play is a great tool
The compressor gain reduction meter picture on your TShirt is highly out of dynamic control. You should take extra care to use a multiband compressor to take out those colour changes 😂 Just kidding 😂. Very informative and useful advice for every sound engineers out there. Highly appreciated 🎉
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I wish i had your skills Dom.
That's why I make these videos ❤️
Okay Where We can have one about Mixing pop music, and Pop Production Course? Really nice with this one. Congratulations for you and God Bless!
Daaaam, Dom!
Hi Dom
Thanks for all the videos.
Can you post some of the commercial projects you’ve done that you are proud of?
Definitely music for National Geographic/animal planet and films that I’ve scored :)
Hi Dom!
First of all thank you very, very much on your endless teaching passion, yours informations are gems for all of us, keep it coming! ❤❤
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Snare drums are always the culprit, for me
Indeed, they are 90% of the time
What is best way to tame the snare peaks to tighten up the crest factor? Turning it down makes it sound weak in the mix.
@@SevenSinsChoppershere are a few pointers:
1. Make the rest of the instruments more assertive and rich (compression, saturation- it depends on the music)
2. Add a bus compressor to your snare and drum bus
3. Don’t rely on the snare peaks. Try adding parallel compression to the drum bus so that you can give body to the drums without raising the transients. This will be perceived as a louder and bigger drum sound overall. Just the transients don’t help- we are evolved to perceive something as loud if the loudness has duration
4. Clip your drums if the music calls for it before you go into mastering.
Just a few things but that’s why I decide to make courses for these sorts of things :)❤
Does the mastering capabilities of cubase compare to the T-RACKS? Because I mean I literally just dropped the T-Rack plug in on something and like wow it sounds 30 to 40% more full...
I would really like to see some cubase templates or something that could do something similar with a mixed down track..
Hi Dom !
Love your videos man ❤
Do you have a mixing course as well?
I Started mastering pretty young... maybe 12 or 13. It's a Hard habit to break. Relationships and marriage sometimes help, or sometimes increase the need for mastering.It's illegal in my home cumtry... thus my leaving to the great nation of Whatwashingon D.C. Long live Pizza Parlors!
I get peaks with electric bass playing style fluctuations a lot. So to compensate i don’t just record one bass track i record di bass and mic the amp with two separate gain stages so if he stabs the bass i can refer to the quieter track to avoid distortion. Not always a luxury depending on field recording equipment input channel capacity of course.
Find whatever works for you ofc, but +typically+ you'd solve that with a compressor. (Generally, an opto.. like an LA2A clone...)
So…I’m not 100% sure on what you mean…are you saying mix into a limiter on mix bus or to put a limiter on the tracks that have the peaks? Thanks for the info.
Awsm lesson
Fatso is great for musically taming those peaks. The UA Fatso plugin is great, but the hardware (ELI or UBK) is better.
I liked even before watching
Why you didn't do that with a clipper? the t-shirt is sick
I wouldn’t suggest a clipper at this stage at all. It’s not “wrong” but it’s a way too drastic and audible process.
It’s like going for a hair trim and the hairdresser also dyes your hair. :)
If you follow this strategy you can add clippers later and they’re going to process with more transparency later on. This works on every music genre, if you start adding clipping to certain genres of music you’re asking for trouble :)
@@DomSigalas thanks
The best master is well mixed song.
Are you using a clipper ? I think it s better than a limiter because it doesn t alter dynamic. Also you can solve the problem track by track, or groups. Better before the mix file
Awesome sauce, as usual. Too tall? Brickwall. 👍
Nice one Dom. Channeling your inner Tom Lubin with the colour-changing shirts?
Hey, I guess the supervision plugin is not available in Cubase 10.5? It's really time for me to upgrade 😅
Yes I’m afraid so 🤣
You explain the mastering without music playing this is worse video that I've waisted my time on it 😂
I am surprised the course not using wavelab..
Don't understand the difference with compression.
This is good. You shouldn’t be able to hear the limiting I do on this video :)
I didn't understand how to avoid or solve this problem in the mix. Anyone can explain?
Hi Dom I hope you are doing well, we love all your videos, can you show us how you set up Cubase preference to make Cubase work smoothly. with fewer dump files
Contact Steinberg support. They should be able to help.
Hello
While I appreciate Dom's insight, this "crest factor", as it's being referred to, is not necessarily a "bad or wrong" thing. This depends entirely on the music, which we are not hearing. If anything, this lets us know that the dynamics have been maintained and the mix was at least not brick walled (over compressed or limited on the master bus), which is a very good thing. This will at least enable the mastering engineer to work with it. It may or may not be a bad mix. I have encountered both experiences, where visually, it appears whatever is causing the peaks, might be problematic. I would contend that judging a piece of music simply by the graphic, before even hearing it, is at the very least odd, with the possible exception of it being brick walled, which would require remixing in most cases.
Hey Dom, thank you for all you do, you're amazing. I am not a mastering engineer and have only really my own music to master. I use Cubase 13 Pro, but have been looking at Wavelab 12, I was wondering if I need it given your courses use Cubase and don't mention Wavelab. I appreciate your Steinberg affiliation, but would really appreciate an answer to this.
So well explained video. Thanks