The Secret Weapons for Extra Loudness When Mastering Your Music

Wondering, How to get really loud masters like your favourite mastering engineers? This little talked about plugin is the secret sauce to that extra little boost. Whats the difference between compression, limiting and softclipping?
Resources
Air Clipper - air-affiliate-program.sjv.io/eKmEXQ
IK Clip - www.ikmultimedia.com/products...
Music - distrokid.com/hyperfollow/und...
🚀 For less than a starbucks coffee to get access to multiple courses, files, projects, presets & more - www.warriorsound.co.uk/courses
🧠 Learn Mastering - www.warriorsound.co.uk/master...
---- FREE STUFF---
FREE SAMPLE PACK - www.warriorsound.co.uk/soulfu...
FREE MUSIC STREAMING GUIDE - www.warriorsound.co.uk/musici...
-My Studio Set Up-
🔈 Favourite Budget Monitors - bit.ly/MTMiLoud
🎚️ ADAT Interface Set Up - thmn.to/thocf/lv3lsv64u3
🖥️ Only Place to Get My Desk - bit.ly/UndersStudioSetup
🎤 Microphone - bit.ly/IKMicstduio
-My Favourite Music Production Software-
🌊 Extra 10% Off at Waves Audio - bit.ly/WavesBonus
🎛️ My Most Used Mix Plugin - bit.ly/Neutron3
🌎 Ozone 10 - shrsl.com/3sah7
🔊 ProQ 3 - goo.gl/3tpTBD
🌭 NI Komplete - shrsl.com/3qcm0
📼 Tape Plugins - bit.ly/IKTAPES
🔍 ADT - waves.alzt.net/ReelADT
🖖 Split Up Any Audio - www.lalal.ai/?fp_ref=scott38
-My Favourite Business Tools-
📌 Courses and Membership (Kajabi) - app.kajabi.com/r/sfcFEMhd
📩 Grow Your Own Email List (Kajabi) - app.kajabi.com/r/sfcFEMhd
🌐 Website (Squarespace) squarespace.syuh.net/xgEZy
🕸️ Domains (Namecheap) namecheap.pxf.io/jYGg6
💸 Unlimited Music Distribution - distrokid.com/vip/unders
💿 50% Discount for Students with DistroKid - distrokid.com/student/612177
🎥 Stock Footage (Envato) 1.envato.market/15AEnB
▶️ How I Grew RUclips - www.tubebuddy.com/unders
💵 Where I Invest - etoro.tw/3nq7GQu
-Warrior Sound Courses-
📚 On Warrior Sound - www.warriorsound.courses/
📚 On Skillshare - bit.ly/WSCOURSE
📚 On Udemy - bit.ly/WSUdemy
**Disclaimer: Unders is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to www.amazon.com. Some links may be affiliate links but not always.
Disclaimers: all opinions are my own even on paid content, and sponsors are acknowledged. Not financial and or business advice, for entertainment purposes only. Using my own personal experiences.

[@Studio22mix]

Most important if you want to mix loud is knowing that each time you sum signals you are introducing new peaks. If you use busses it’s best to put a clipper on each summing bus that controls just the loudest peaks so once they hit the master bus most of the peaks will be controlled and so the clipper or masterbus compressor doesn’t have to work that hard 😉

[@Unders]

This is only applicable to those also producing their sessions though.
But doing this also adds a LOT of summed distortion too that comes up in the end. Very easy to… “overcook” is the best term I can think of.

[@Studio22mix]

@@Unders Maybe check out mixing clip to zero by Baphometrix and try it out. You’re assuming that you get distortion which you don’t if you clip not more than a couple of db on the summing busses. It’s a proven method for mixing really loud.

[@Unders]

I’m not arguing that it isn’t a method. But that it’s not applicable here. A that it’s very easy to overdo. Softclip adds distortion if you clip even 0.5 of a dB that’s how it works to ease in.

[@primordia8133]

Clip to zero method previously mentioned relies on hard clipping on each channel as well as the buses. The premise being the acculuation of many small clips throughout the project allowing for very little limiting when mastering. It works very well when done well and achieves super loud masters... But yeah get what you're saying.

[@1337murk]

Quite a few mixes in the past utilised converter clipping to achieve similar regarding level