Thank you so much! It always bugged me how commercial tracks could fill the peaks-view without sounding terrible. I was always like "What am I missing???" Now I know! Thank you so much for the instruction! I can't wait to apply this knowledge to my tracks!
Really helpful! I used to just compress and increase the volume. I got inconsistency on different mediums. It was embarrassing to keep telling people to listen with headphones so they can hear everything because it didn't sound good on laptop speakers. I'm going to remaster everything I still have.
clipping actually introduces distortion when it as you say "cuts off the peaks". It might be to sublte for you to hear, because we are used to hear that kind of sound. You can however achieve loudness with limiters rather than a clipper. Limiters are not there just for cleaning the ceiling. That's why some plugin manufacturers call them maximizers. If you use them for too much level gain however they will distort just like the clipper. And yes! Clipping is distorting, no matter how you put it. When Mixing you try to avoid clipping, so why not when mastering?
And at the end of the day RUclips is going to normalise the audio if it's too loud...I agree that limiter the way it's used above just distorts the audio and destroys the dynamics within the track. I also note that the most important listening device was left out...the phone which most people use to listen to music now days...
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing this here and I like what I see on your website. I like that you provide a basic seven step process, but also, you make it clear that any engineer has to be flexible and responsive to the peculiarities of a given project. I think you provide what I'd call a good "Mastering Preset" which I can use and then modify as I struggle to improve and develop my skills. Take care. :-)
Excellent video, lots of very good information. Do alot of these pluggins you use translate to other manufactures ie... cubase or studio one etc..? Thanks
Awesome Video thanks for the help! Im using 5orcery as a multiband compressor, how would you go about setting the threshold for each frequency band if there isn't a meter showing the peak. There is a decibel meter but with the threshold at 0 it barely triggers the meter and I'm not sure what the peaks are. Any help would be great thanks!
Hi Rob, Great Video! just a quick Question I really like the song you've used in this video - what the official name of it as I want to add this to my music collection - where can I download it? many thanks.
thanks for the video friend. I have a question, i see that the problem at the end on your master was the lowend. It seems that the lowend is more dominant, how would you go about fixing that? would you use a low shelf? or move up the hipass filter like to 50hz? I am curious as i haven't been able to figure how to go about troubleshooting the lowend and getting it balanced in mastering. Hope u can help. Thanks a lot!!
Hey Rob, Thanks for your video, it was very helpful. I noticed a huge difference in my track in Pro Tools, but when I export the a bounced track as a wav file, the mix is really quiet. Any suggestions on how to keep the same sound I hear in Pro Tools when I arrive at a final wav file? Thanks, Vince
Hey Francisco, I have put together a complete mastering program (it's about 20Gb of videos / pdf's etc.) which you can check out on my site if you're interested - Can't post links here, but just go to the link in the description above, and you'll find it on my site under The Ultimate Mastering Formula tab on the left!
Hey rob, I got a question here. How does one get a stereo mix like you have there in the beginning? Like how does one turn the mix into stereo when exporting it, and not just into a single sound wave?
Hi, I have a question. Should you only master the chorus of the song, or should you include the verses, breakdowns etc as well? I'm new to mastering, and your video helped me understand what plug-ins are used and what to listen for when mastering. Thanks! :)
The short answer is YES. In some ways this comes down to preference, but there are certain things you should stick to - for example, a limiter must ALWAYS be the very last process in your chain. If you're unsure, just follow my basic chain - if you don't want / have something you can just leave it out :)
To my ears I only heard the last several plugins starting with compressor. Honestly, I think you could boil it all down to stereo widen, clip, compress, normalize.
Great video! Just please in future videos do not say "here's with" and "here's without" because your voice cuts through the mix and makes it very difficult for the ears to hear the subtle change/difference because your voice makes the ears take a "sonic snapshot" if you will of the frequency range/content of your voice rather than the track. I mean people may disagree...but I feel that simply clicking on the bypass button is enough and should be visible enough to everyone.
Hey Christian - unfortunately I haven't found anything as affordable that does the job. If you're on the fence, just grab a demo from T-Racks website and give it a try!
Not much difference, the same techniques and principals apply, just the way you shape the sound will differ from style to style - for example, dance music tends to have more low end while rock music tends to have more midrange energy because of the electric guitars. Good advice from Beet Phuc - get two or three similar reference tracks and 'model' your sound on that
those two songs you are comparing it to look terrible, just flat fucking bricks.Clipping is never good in audio mastering, more victims of the loudness war SMH
thank you so much... I can't express my graditute for this enough. You are a good man
Thank you so much! It always bugged me how commercial tracks could fill the peaks-view without sounding terrible. I was always like "What am I missing???" Now I know! Thank you so much for the instruction! I can't wait to apply this knowledge to my tracks!
Really helpful! I used to just compress and increase the volume. I got inconsistency on different mediums. It was embarrassing to keep telling people to listen with headphones so they can hear everything because it didn't sound good on laptop speakers. I'm going to remaster everything I still have.
Thank you very much for this awesome Mastering tutorial. You truly are the finest at this, Lad !
clipping actually introduces distortion when it as you say "cuts off the peaks". It might be to sublte for you to hear, because we are used to hear that kind of sound. You can however achieve loudness with limiters rather than a clipper. Limiters are not there just for cleaning the ceiling. That's why some plugin manufacturers call them maximizers. If you use them for too much level gain however they will distort just like the clipper. And yes! Clipping is distorting, no matter how you put it. When Mixing you try to avoid clipping, so why not when mastering?
And at the end of the day RUclips is going to normalise the audio if it's too loud...I agree that limiter the way it's used above just distorts the audio and destroys the dynamics within the track. I also note that the most important listening device was left out...the phone which most people use to listen to music now days...
Using a clipper is a standard mastering technique used by engineers.
Excellent video! Works like a champ. It really brings my mixes alive. Thanks a ton!
Like the intro of the song. Nicely explained
Awesome tutorial. This really helped me a lot. Thanks!
Thanks for a great video ! I found it very easy to understand.
great video rob.. signed up for your next two week course!! :) thanks
that one song by the fray is a hugeee hugggeeee song from a huggee huuuggeee artist that millions of people love.
Great mastering tutoring. Thank you.
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing this here and I like what I see on your website. I like that you provide a basic seven step process, but also, you make it clear that any engineer has to be flexible and responsive to the peculiarities of a given project. I think you provide what I'd call a good "Mastering Preset" which I can use and then modify as I struggle to improve and develop my skills. Take care. :-)
This guy is a f'cking angel on earth :D God Bless you & your family
Thanks dude!, Saludations from Argentina
Excellent video, lots of very good information. Do alot of these pluggins you use translate to other manufactures ie... cubase or studio one etc..? Thanks
Cool...., thank you very much, please make one mixing video.
Good job man...... nice
your videos are soooo helpful to me
Great stuff, thanks!
really cool tips thanks
Cool tutorial, man, thank you a lot!
Wow this was incredibly helpful! Almost made me feel like a spy stealing inside information.. lol thank you so much!
Awesome Video thanks for the help! Im using 5orcery as a multiband compressor, how would you go about setting the threshold for each frequency band if there isn't a meter showing the peak. There is a decibel meter but with the threshold at 0 it barely triggers the meter and I'm not sure what the peaks are. Any help would be great thanks!
Hi Rob, Great Video! just a quick Question I really like the song you've used in this video - what the official name of it as I want to add this to my music collection - where can I download it? many thanks.
Is there another Waves version of the clipper that you used? I don't seem to have that one.
Seven Step Programme? Hmm, sounds like a weight loss programme. Awesome Video. Really Appreciate it! : )
Amazing video thanks bro!
thanks for the video friend. I have a question, i see that the problem at the end on your master was the lowend. It seems that the lowend is more dominant, how would you go about fixing that? would you use a low shelf? or move up the hipass filter like to 50hz? I am curious as i haven't been able to figure how to go about troubleshooting the lowend and getting it balanced in mastering. Hope u can help. Thanks a lot!!
Hey Rob,
Thanks for your video, it was very helpful. I noticed a huge difference in my track in Pro Tools, but when I export the a bounced track as a wav file, the mix is really quiet. Any suggestions on how to keep the same sound I hear in Pro Tools when I arrive at a final wav file?
Thanks,
Vince
Hey Francisco, I have put together a complete mastering program (it's about 20Gb of videos / pdf's etc.) which you can check out on my site if you're interested - Can't post links here, but just go to the link in the description above, and you'll find it on my site under The Ultimate Mastering Formula tab on the left!
Thank you very much!
Hey rob, I got a question here. How does one get a stereo mix like you have there in the beginning? Like how does one turn the mix into stereo when exporting it, and not just into a single sound wave?
Hi, I have a question. Should you only master the chorus of the song, or should you include the verses, breakdowns etc as well? I'm new to mastering, and your video helped me understand what plug-ins are used and what to listen for when mastering.
Thanks! :)
great... thanks
HD ?? awesome bra !!
very good video! thank you :)
is this just for rock songs or can i use this mastering info on hip hop , pop ,r&b and other music
So they shoot movies with foam? :) Great vid!
Does it matter which plugins we add in first? I am using Reaper btw. Thanks! This video has bee REALLY helpful
The short answer is YES. In some ways this comes down to preference, but there are certain things you should stick to - for example, a limiter must ALWAYS be the very last process in your chain. If you're unsure, just follow my basic chain - if you don't want / have something you can just leave it out :)
such a shame that youtube video compression nerfs the sound quality. a lot of the changes you make can't be heard at all even on my studio monitors :/
excellentissimo
Awesome (y) Thanks alot. :)
I like to take this into a more deeper training how can I do it
Years and years ago, I'm sure I was always taught to normalise the track as a final step. Is this now redundant?
Best vid ever
To my ears I only heard the last several plugins starting with compressor. Honestly, I think you could boil it all down to stereo widen, clip, compress, normalize.
Great video! Just please in future videos do not say "here's with" and "here's without" because your voice cuts through the mix and makes it very difficult for the ears to hear the subtle change/difference because your voice makes the ears take a "sonic snapshot" if you will of the frequency range/content of your voice rather than the track. I mean people may disagree...but I feel that simply clicking on the bypass button is enough and should be visible enough to everyone.
what is the name of editing program
Are there any alternatives to theT-Racks soft clipper?
Hey Christian - unfortunately I haven't found anything as affordable that does the job. If you're on the fence, just grab a demo from T-Racks website and give it a try!
Thanks man! Your video gave some awesome results, btw!
Are there any free stereo wideners out there? I just don't have 300 to spend on the one you got right now.
Yeah - check out "UpStereo" (Google it), there's a free version :)
Thanks so much man, I will right now. I must also say, you are a great teacher and have helped my production skills sooo much. Keep up the great work!
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Maztering music whith samples is diferent that real instruments ?
You have experience with latino music?
Not much difference, the same techniques and principals apply, just the way you shape the sound will differ from style to style - for example, dance music tends to have more low end while rock music tends to have more midrange energy because of the electric guitars. Good advice from Beet Phuc - get two or three similar reference tracks and 'model' your sound on that
Im back Rob
28k views 610 subs? Whats up with that?
can you do it in adobe 3.0 pleaseeeee
Can you provide you email
SPEACHLESS... THANK YOU
"It was a little embarrassing." :58
I know, it really is embarrassing that they mastered their track too loudly.
those two songs you are comparing it to look terrible, just flat fucking bricks.Clipping is never good in audio mastering, more victims of the loudness war SMH
You trying to seduce us?
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Thanks for the tips, keep up the excellent tutorials
awesome vid bro! thanks!!!