Honestly can't believe I'm watching and learning this for free, this is so valuable for people who are into production, mixing and mastering. I've said this before in a comment but it is truly amazing the work you put into making these videos for people to learn. Also very humble by the artist to give out the stems for people to practice. Everything in this video truly made my day. Keep up the good work!👏
Same here. lol when I get to, say, Mea Culpa (Deadbeat mix) FINAL 17? This one isn’t hypothetical, either. Occasionally, I will add a word that helps identify the main edit. It can help to see the exports at certain places of development, kinda like a timeline.
Michael you should charge more for your level of knowledge! I advice you for 100 £ax 1 or 2 revisions one mastercut! Other for a plus! I mean I understand you level of knowledge,ok you have less equipment but still you can make good quality up to a client's market point! Because you purely can not satisfy the big clientele !you have family and you need to manage more your well time spent 😅
You are the best teacher ever because no one teaches you these in this way, they are always so extra about it but you explain it casually, which makes it incredibly easy to understand. Thank you for this quality content!
Thank you very much for the video Michael and Clo Sur for being so kind for sharing the stems. Those stuff are very helpful for us amateurs!!! It is always great to experiment with commercial level songs by these amazing tutorials / tips / tricks. Brilliant!!! Guys, anyone watching this video please support Clo Sur as well, it is not something we see often!!!
Mixing and Mastering are big problems for me in my own productions, your step by step guides from start to finish helped me out so much, thank you Michael! 💖
Not a professional engineer so these help out a LOT and learning all this for free is truly valuable, so a big thanks Micheal! Your efforts are really appreciated. Clo Sur, Solo Ray, Andy Toy and Chris Szczech, great track guys and big up to ye for supplying the stems!
Hey, thank you for this helpful video! It gets very tricky when u master trap or rap songs where most of the times you want the bass to stand out but you also want loudness. Please consider this genre reference for a future mastering video, it would be very helpful! Thank you again, amazing job!
Thank you Michael! Words cannot express how glad I am to have met you. Been struggling with the essence and purpose of mastering for a long time and that didn't let me understand what mastering was all about or how to go about it. This tutorial answered it all. You're priceless! Really, I love you man♥️
Long time subscriber. Fantastic demonstration! That mix was really well balanced to begin with though. That helped a lot. I hardly ever get mixes like this. Bravo!
Crazy, for a while in my master chain I was using the vintage limiter and then running it through the Maximizer, but I never though to change to IRC III, I was getting that same mud with modern. Looks like it's time to try it again, love that subtle color. Thanks again for the valuable resources!
So glad I've found you young man. Your explanations are so easy to follow and understand. RUclips should treasure you as a true asset. For such a long time I've been trying to accomplish this. Thank you lots kind Sir. 👍
just finished the vdi been watching for a couple years. bout begin trying my hand at mastering my songs and learning how. may as well. thank you for the informative and honest vids man. its helped me so much and we create nothing similar stylistically. big ups!
This is incredible. When I have some free time I am super excited to download the stems and practice along. It’ll be extremely valuable to first try and imitate what you’re doing then try and make some adjustments of my own to see what sounds good.
Like countless other people I wanna join in and thank you for all the videos! It's especially awesome that these lessons apply to pretty much any genre one is producing (I'm mostly doing spacey ambient music, sometimes even electronic rock). Although loudness and compression specifics is a bit different in those genres, the basic ideas are same. In a matter of days my mixes and masters have become way more clear and juicy, thanks to your vids! (tho in my case it's often been "putting out fires" as my source files and sounds can be from years ago and are crappy quality, so I'm not dealing with subtleties but rather major ugly frequencies lol)
Seriously man every-time you post I get excited to produce cause I always learn something new or improve something I already know. I hate that a lot of people who use FL Studio only use it for beats and not a actual recording DAW for different types of music. I use FL Studio for Nu-Metal/Industrial/and Techno. Can’t wait for the next video! Keep killing it
Older FL user here, new abletoneer as well. Fl studio is awesome for beatmaking but ableton has it beat when it comes to live recordings and intuitive features.
Logic Pro definitely upgraded my mixing/mastering game. Pre fader leveling definitely gave me a whole new outlook on mixing. I don’t think fl offers pre fader.
Brother,I cannot tell you how your guidelins means alot to me,you are doing amazing work,from which lots of people are ripping the benefits,I am deeply thankful to you,lord bless you man,❤❤❤..
So much to review and learn in this. Feels like a summary and application of what I have been learning the past couple of years and I know I will be using this video for reinforcement and referencing in future. Many thanks
Hey man... You know what..I never knew how to use FL studio... But since I watched the video you uploaded on how a beginner can use FLs.. it really helped me a lot.. And now I at least can make a beat but not perfect.. so I'm still learning.. That's why I like watching all your totorials..👍👍💪
Could you please make a video about mixing and mastering a badly recorded live performance? For example when the vocal mic captured some of the drums as well. That would be very helpful!
Hello In the mix I've been following you since I started producing my own songs last March, 2021. Your contents helped me alot understanding the basic mechanism to complex functions. Thank you so much❤
do you have a video to better explain sample rates and export settings? I figured we could all gain some knowledge with that as well , a video diving further in depth.
Wow.......what a fantastic track and song. I will definitely take Michael's techniques to heart. I may download these stems and maybe try a remix........
Brother can you please do complete tutorial for how to master in FL Studio (Only use Stock plugins & All Genres) with how to tonal balance (without tonal balance control plugins )
I know you’re not a plugin guy, and all respect for that, but I do like that you are using Acustica Audio stuff now, their plugins just sounds better in many situations, but you have to live with the fact that the daw/computer just can’t handle too many instancies of their plugins! 😉 Great vid, Thanks!
Wait so if the track loudness is reaching -6 LUFS and spotify limits down to -14 LUFS isnt it going to sound very different when streaming? What exactly happens to parts of the song that are way above -14 lufs when streaming on spotify ?!
Spotify doesn’t limit down to -14. Only on some playback systems where the user has selected loudness compensation will some gain reduction be applied. On most systems I tested, this plays back at the full loudness on Spotify.
This is a super great video but it has left me with so many questions because it's such a different approach to mastering from the last video Firstly, if the bass is the problem, shouldn't we reduce it during the mixing process? essentially reducing the bass means changing the frequency content of the song, which is as far as I know something you need to do during the mixing process, and even tho it might be something you can fix, do you really want to change the mixing engineer's vision of the mix? (as for changing the frequency content he was aiming for) Second, can't you just link the bass to another channel and add it after the compression? so that the bass won't be a part of the compression and that it'll only affect the instruments. Maybe you can use a separate compressor on the sub as well, but considering the fact that usually, the sub-area is consistent, why would it be a problem to the whole mix? it's essentially like adding a consistent signal to the mix, not including the kick. Lastly and it's about the limiter itself, I've seen loud tracks that have a ton of bass, while still sounding clear, there has to be a way to achieve it without sacrificing reducing the bass level (and no the tracks were not distorted), maybe they've used just a better and a more transparent compressor, or limiter? Despite all of these points, I do know that usually Synthwave tracks like yours tend to have less bass, so it might be the reason why you did that, and if it is it makes total sense, and it was super informative to see that approach to mastering. Every walkthrough you make brings in something new to learn, so keep doing these, it's awesome :)
Thanks for another amazing tutorial if you want volume them as close as possible to check mix vs master I'm using loudness penalty which you recommend in your videos before it works nicely for me to know how much db i have pull down on my exported master
Good LORD that is crunched to hell and back. I can see why you keep sprinkling disclaimers throughout the video. This is *definitely* not the mastering you wanna do for every track, but only if you're after a very specific sound. That's impressive. I feel that it loses a lot of dynamics, but it is very "present", which is cool. Good job, mate!
Thank you so much, I’m so happy when people can see a different way to do something and not immediately criticise it. It’s very crunchy, but that was the idea here. Thanks again!
I have a question, what's the reference file format(quality, bitrate etc) and from where do you source it? Are the levels of the reference track before uploading or after uploading to streaming platforms? Now a days, it's harder to get a high quality reference tracks. And the low quality references are just useless in terms of mastering.
There's no doubt in my mind that you're a talent, when it comes to both mixing and mastering. - So I'm dying to know, why aren't you selling mixing services? I looked through your website, and saw only mastering services. - Can't wait to see the next videos like this, will be looking forward to 'em! 😎
I don't mean to reply on Michael's behalf, but he used to do mixing and mastering but recently I heard him say that he found so much joy in mastering that he wants to concentrate on that more. Doing what you love the most is prolly what he is trying to do. The website has been revamped very recently, so it is likely the most up to date source.
Hey man, how do i colour multiple recorded clips on playlist in a way that i get to see the those " coloured clips" in the the channel rack to group them easily before sending them to a muxer track?
Hi Michael, could you do a future review of the PSI Audio A23's that you have? I own the A21's and i love them but i am always curious how these compare to the bigger version. The A21 are outstanding, so the A23s should be endlevel. Just a video idea. Thanks and best regards, Tim
Hey! Awesome video thank you so much for making these step by step vids! I was wondering if you could just use the same limiter twice? Does that work? I have ozone elements and I was wondering if I could just add that twice and use the maximizer in there twice cuz I see you're using a limiter and a maximizer and I don't really understand the difference. Why not just use the same twice? Thanks in advance!
Thank you Michael and thank you Solo Ray for the incredible track production work on this song.
Thanks again for letting our community download the stems and mix down to practice their skills!
@@inthemix plz host a remix contest soon.
Hey Clo Sur! Amazing song, and it ended up sounding great! I both downloaded the stems and saved your song in my favourites! ^w^
@@TheFinalGamerRN Thank you!
Clo, your song sounds horrible and I'm not talking about the mix or master!
Honestly can't believe I'm watching and learning this for free, this is so valuable for people who are into production, mixing and mastering. I've said this before in a comment but it is truly amazing the work you put into making these videos for people to learn. Also very humble by the artist to give out the stems for people to practice. Everything in this video truly made my day. Keep up the good work!👏
"Don't name your track Final Master, if you call it final master it almost certainly won't be."
Damn do I feel called out!
Great Video, Michael!
Same here. lol when I get to, say, Mea Culpa (Deadbeat mix) FINAL 17? This one isn’t hypothetical, either. Occasionally, I will add a word that helps identify the main edit. It can help to see the exports at certain places of development, kinda like a timeline.
I got a good laugh outta that too.
Michael you should charge more for your level of knowledge! I advice you for 100 £ax 1 or 2 revisions one mastercut! Other for a plus! I mean I understand you level of knowledge,ok you have less equipment but still you can make good quality up to a client's market point! Because you purely can not satisfy the big clientele !you have family and you need to manage more your well time spent 😅
Give this man a million subscribers already, he deserves every single one.
You are the best teacher ever because no one teaches you these in this way, they are always so extra about it but you explain it casually, which makes it incredibly easy to understand. Thank you for this quality content!
Thank you for mastering this song Michael! Always a pleasure hearing your process. 🙌🏻
Thank you very much for the video Michael and Clo Sur for being so kind for sharing the stems. Those stuff are very helpful for us amateurs!!! It is always great to experiment with commercial level songs by these amazing tutorials / tips / tricks. Brilliant!!!
Guys, anyone watching this video please support Clo Sur as well, it is not something we see often!!!
Mixing and Mastering are big problems for me in my own productions,
your step by step guides from start to finish helped me out so much, thank you Michael! 💖
Not a professional engineer so these help out a LOT and learning all this for free is truly valuable, so a big thanks Micheal! Your efforts are really appreciated. Clo Sur, Solo Ray, Andy Toy and Chris Szczech, great track guys and big up to ye for supplying the stems!
Your tutorials are just amazing!
As a young learner, you are my best teacher!
You uploaded it on a right time.♥️
Thanks Michael you're the best tutor.👍🏻
Hey, thank you for this helpful video! It gets very tricky when u master trap or rap songs where most of the times you want the bass to stand out but you also want loudness. Please consider this genre reference for a future mastering video, it would be very helpful! Thank you again, amazing job!
Thank you Michael! Words cannot express how glad I am to have met you. Been struggling with the essence and purpose of mastering for a long time and that didn't let me understand what mastering was all about or how to go about it. This tutorial answered it all.
You're priceless! Really, I love you man♥️
Long time subscriber. Fantastic demonstration! That mix was really well balanced to begin with though. That helped a lot. I hardly ever get mixes like this. Bravo!
I was genuinely waiting for this video! I would follow you into a battle blindfolded, Michael! Thank you for your hard work! ❤
watching this on my sunday morning
Crazy, for a while in my master chain I was using the vintage limiter and then running it through the Maximizer, but I never though to change to IRC III, I was getting that same mud with modern.
Looks like it's time to try it again, love that subtle color.
Thanks again for the valuable resources!
Thank you for all of your work you have put so much years in here.
Liked before I watched, because I know Michael always drops helpful, high quality content!
Just opened the video, put a like and then start to watch it
This channel really bring value to producers who cant afford to go to production school,God Bless You Michael
So glad I've found you young man. Your explanations are so easy to follow and understand. RUclips should treasure you as a true asset. For such a long time I've been trying to accomplish this. Thank you lots kind Sir. 👍
just finished the vdi been watching for a couple years. bout begin trying my hand at mastering my songs and learning how. may as well. thank you for the informative and honest vids man. its helped me so much and we create nothing similar stylistically. big ups!
This is incredible. When I have some free time I am super excited to download the stems and practice along. It’ll be extremely valuable to first try and imitate what you’re doing then try and make some adjustments of my own to see what sounds good.
Thank you for all the work you are doing to help us! Really admiring you
I'm also aiming big as an artist this year thanks for the information
Like countless other people I wanna join in and thank you for all the videos! It's especially awesome that these lessons apply to pretty much any genre one is producing (I'm mostly doing spacey ambient music, sometimes even electronic rock). Although loudness and compression specifics is a bit different in those genres, the basic ideas are same.
In a matter of days my mixes and masters have become way more clear and juicy, thanks to your vids! (tho in my case it's often been "putting out fires" as my source files and sounds can be from years ago and are crappy quality, so I'm not dealing with subtleties but rather major ugly frequencies lol)
With this man I will master mastering.
Also shout out to the artist and the producer of this track for sharing their hard work and their stems!!!
Your tutorial videos are simply the best out there! Thank you 🙏🏼
Our man is back! 🔥
Seriously man every-time you post I get excited to produce cause I always learn something new or improve something I already know. I hate that a lot of people who use FL Studio only use it for beats and not a actual recording DAW for different types of music. I use FL Studio for Nu-Metal/Industrial/and Techno. Can’t wait for the next video! Keep killing it
Older FL user here, new abletoneer as well. Fl studio is awesome for beatmaking but ableton has it beat when it comes to live recordings and intuitive features.
Logic Pro definitely upgraded my mixing/mastering game. Pre fader leveling definitely gave me a whole new outlook on mixing. I don’t think fl offers pre fader.
Thank you very much for this amazing video Michael....!!!
(A fan from a small Greek island)
Michael you are really great.. now i wanted to change from cubase to fl studio because of you.
You are the best 👍👍👍
Thank you for this. I'm always tuned into your channel. Your videos is very action packed and to the point.
Brother,I cannot tell you how your guidelins means alot to me,you are doing amazing work,from which lots of people are ripping the benefits,I am deeply thankful to you,lord bless you man,❤❤❤..
Beautiful song, they used lots of reverb rooms on it, 80s classic signature sound, amazing track! congrats Michael!
So much to review and learn in this. Feels like a summary and application of what I have been learning the past couple of years and I know I will be using this video for reinforcement and referencing in future.
Many thanks
Great video and contribution Michael keep going🎯🎯🎯
Really enjoy and learn so much from these videos
Hey man... You know what..I never knew how to use FL studio... But since I watched the video you uploaded on how a beginner can use FLs.. it really helped me a lot.. And now I at least can make a beat but not perfect.. so I'm still learning.. That's why I like watching all your totorials..👍👍💪
thank you. your all videos always so helpful.
Superb explanations of what you're doing and why--right to the point. Thank you.
Could you please make a video about mixing and mastering a badly recorded live performance? For example when the vocal mic captured some of the drums as well. That would be very helpful!
Best instructor online. Keep up the good work sir
What a great video. I have never seen such beneficial content in my country.
(from overseas)
Hello In the mix I've been following you since I started producing my own songs last March, 2021. Your contents helped me alot understanding the basic mechanism to complex functions. Thank you so much❤
The most valuable channel on youtube for me personally
do you have a video to better explain sample rates and export settings? I figured we could all gain some knowledge with that as well , a video diving further in depth.
We just love you and every single and so valuable video of yours !
I agree with Lucas Nyberg, your Work is incredible !!
YEES! THIS IS ACTUALLY WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOR!
Excellently presented! Thank you!
Let's go! Was just about to start mastering my track!
Great job. Please make a part 2 of this explaining the final master you end up with .🙌
This ended up being the final master. Thank you so much for watching!
Thank you for Sharing! This is really rich.
Great video and content. The first thing you learn when you start mastering is how important the mixing stage is!
Thank you in the mix
Thank you very much you my best and best teacher ♥️
This is very good, fingers crossed for a similar post regarding mixing again.
This is pure Gold! Thank You
That was amazing. Thanks man 🤙🏼
Woah. This is just what I needed to learn. Thank you so much 😁😁
Wow.......what a fantastic track and song. I will definitely take Michael's techniques to heart. I may download these stems and maybe try a remix........
Amazing as usual my friend!
Thank you 🙂 You are very generous to share this for free - Valuable, and expensive information otherwise.
You making a difference in the world. Dhanyawad
Brother can you please do complete tutorial for how to master in FL Studio (Only use Stock plugins & All Genres) with how to tonal balance (without tonal balance control plugins )
Great video as always Michael
I know you’re not a plugin guy, and all respect for that, but I do like that you are using Acustica Audio stuff now, their plugins just sounds better in many situations, but you have to live with the fact that the daw/computer just can’t handle too many instancies of their plugins! 😉
Great vid, Thanks!
Wait so if the track loudness is reaching -6 LUFS and spotify limits down to -14 LUFS isnt it going to sound very different when streaming? What exactly happens to parts of the song that are way above -14 lufs when streaming on spotify ?!
Spotify doesn’t limit down to -14. Only on some playback systems where the user has selected loudness compensation will some gain reduction be applied. On most systems I tested, this plays back at the full loudness on Spotify.
Thanks for the question and the answer. Was going to ask the same thing.
Michael Thank You ♥️..
This is a super great video but it has left me with so many questions because it's such a different approach to mastering from the last video
Firstly, if the bass is the problem, shouldn't we reduce it during the mixing process? essentially reducing the bass means changing the frequency content of the song, which is as far as I know something you need to do during the mixing process, and even tho it might be something you can fix, do you really want to change the mixing engineer's vision of the mix? (as for changing the frequency content he was aiming for)
Second, can't you just link the bass to another channel and add it after the compression? so that the bass won't be a part of the compression and that it'll only affect the instruments.
Maybe you can use a separate compressor on the sub as well, but considering the fact that usually, the sub-area is consistent, why would it be a problem to the whole mix? it's essentially like adding a consistent signal to the mix, not including the kick.
Lastly and it's about the limiter itself, I've seen loud tracks that have a ton of bass, while still sounding clear, there has to be a way to achieve it without sacrificing reducing the bass level (and no the tracks were not distorted), maybe they've used just a better and a more transparent compressor, or limiter?
Despite all of these points, I do know that usually Synthwave tracks like yours tend to have less bass, so it might be the reason why you did that, and if it is it makes total sense, and it was super informative to see that approach to mastering.
Every walkthrough you make brings in something new to learn, so keep doing these, it's awesome :)
I love the song and I appreciate your skills. I would like to hear a clean mastered version though.
Thanks for the knowledge. Catchy tune as well. I'll stream it for sure.
Thanks for another amazing tutorial if you want volume them as close as possible to check mix vs master I'm using loudness penalty which you recommend in your videos before it works nicely for me to know how much db i have pull down on my exported master
Would love if you were to master a hiphop/trap song in the future! Fantastic video as always
Good idea, I’ll try to do that in the future:)
You're the best teacher man. Well done 👏👏
Another great tutorial!!
UK rules. Besides Dan Worrall, a great find in YT land. Thx for sharing.
Hey Michael ❤️
Can you make a video focused on Sample Rate Conversion and dithering.
👏👏👏. Favourite teacher. God bless you
waiting for this ❤️
Thank you, I have learned so much from you and still learning ❤
u r a god bro, I really love your work. I’ve learned a lot from you, thank you
Thank u for such authentic knowledge
Just finished streaming the song... Loved it.
Top stuff! Thank you ⚡️
Good LORD that is crunched to hell and back. I can see why you keep sprinkling disclaimers throughout the video. This is *definitely* not the mastering you wanna do for every track, but only if you're after a very specific sound. That's impressive. I feel that it loses a lot of dynamics, but it is very "present", which is cool. Good job, mate!
Thank you so much, I’m so happy when people can see a different way to do something and not immediately criticise it. It’s very crunchy, but that was the idea here. Thanks again!
16:42 this was a great moment 😂 I love how taken aback he gets
Thank you for the great tutorial and sharing your precious knowledge.
I have a question, what's the reference file format(quality, bitrate etc) and from where do you source it? Are the levels of the reference track before uploading or after uploading to streaming platforms? Now a days, it's harder to get a high quality reference tracks. And the low quality references are just useless in terms of mastering.
Always look forward to your next YT video. Cheers mate ;)
Another great video man. Thanks so much!
Interesting to see an Acustica plugin in your arsenal.
There's no doubt in my mind that you're a talent, when it comes to both mixing and mastering. - So I'm dying to know, why aren't you selling mixing services? I looked through your website, and saw only mastering services. - Can't wait to see the next videos like this, will be looking forward to 'em! 😎
I don't mean to reply on Michael's behalf, but he used to do mixing and mastering but recently I heard him say that he found so much joy in mastering that he wants to concentrate on that more. Doing what you love the most is prolly what he is trying to do. The website has been revamped very recently, so it is likely the most up to date source.
Hey man, how do i colour multiple recorded clips on playlist in a way that i get to see the those " coloured clips" in the the channel rack to group them easily before sending them to a muxer track?
Hi Michael, could you do a future review of the PSI Audio A23's that you have? I own the A21's and i love them but i am always curious how these compare to the bigger version. The A21 are outstanding, so the A23s should be endlevel. Just a video idea. Thanks and best regards, Tim
Hey! Awesome video thank you so much for making these step by step vids! I was wondering if you could just use the same limiter twice? Does that work? I have ozone elements and I was wondering if I could just add that twice and use the maximizer in there twice cuz I see you're using a limiter and a maximizer and I don't really understand the difference. Why not just use the same twice? Thanks in advance!
Absolutely use the same limiter twice (ideally with different settings)
Mann you've gat a perfect jawline
Amazing as usual. Thanks man!