It makes so much sense. The chain order is so important, just like in sound design. I think mixing and mastering is as part of the overall design, and when mixing or producing a track, these steps should be taken in consideration.
ngl i saw this video an was like oh here we go again but youre right, you are the first person to vocalize to my knowledge how important the release time is. I set my release based on the genre, bpm etc. mostly listening to the song and adjusting the release until it fits and sounds right. like you said, finding the pocket. its not some hard and set rule, its different every time
I'm still a beginner in music, and the thing with the clipper before limiter really helped me put things in the place I wanted in one of my songs. This video was really good! Thank you, hope you have a good day!
My tip as producer for producers is to try to be a producer and not an engineer. Make inventive, expressive and original music that should rightfully be supported by a label that will organize good mastering for you, then you only need to manage your gainstaging. I see too many producers lose themselves in the mastering rabbithole, and while it is valuable knowledge, make sure to maintain your enthusiasm for expressing yourself in your composition.
I think I inadvertently stumbled upon this when I was messing around with the "Maximizer" in Cubase. With just the limiter it was sounding louder but that's it. With a combo of the maximizer with soft clipping enabled and the limiter with less input gain I was getting the same overall loudness but a much tighter sound, especially on the vocals.
I’m so glad that I stumbled upon this video. No frills spills or tricks just precise and to the point clear cut explanations. None of this you’re doing it all wrong bullshit. Everybody’s way is their way or the highway type vlog. You Will are a god sent. Thanks and keep up the great work for the recording community. I did check this method out and gotten some great results although I have been doing my own thing without any tutorials and also gotten good results. I think it’s called trial and error imo. The way you explained it I get more consistency I have to admit. Hey people subscribe this guy gets it.❤
The best part about audio is that there are so many different ways to get to the final end result. I think your explanation of "how you are getting there" was explained very well and extremely useful for anyone trying to master regarding of experience, knowledge and gear. Great stuff, and now subscribed. Cheers.
Hello Just seeing this video and I must confess you're a great teacher. Straight to the point and explicit. How about you make a video showing how you use that mastering chain?
Excellent info once again. I'm doing my work in the box, Mac Mini M2 with Studio One 6.5 Artist. My 2 bus has 3 inserts, a Pulsar Audio W495 EQ, LVC Clipped-MAX and Limited-MAX. The limiter is only doing 1.5 - 2 dB gain reduction. The 2 bus also has a post section where I have a few Master meters. I picked up on the pointer to use a clipper harder than the limiter, but still using both. I like what I'm getting through this setup.
it's really helpful advice. i'm not a mastering engineer, but i do mastering just because my clients ask me to do it for them. years before i used to slam my stuff so it feels cluttered and unstable (it's so cringy for me to hear it on Spotify nowadays, damn). and i didn't even hear that, because my ears were so washed out after days of working on a song. until i start clipping in a different ways - soft clipping, digital clipping, wave shaping, sinoid folding etc... now my levels are consistent before limiting process and i have enough volume almost every time, especially when i produced and mixed everything wisely. now my limiting is not a "lufs tool" as it was before, it's more like a glue and and additional peak control to make sure that everything doesn't sound over -0.3dBFS. and my average limiting now is around -0-2dB with some extra peaks might be -3dB. but not more, except is an EDM track when the sound should be pumped extra. in this case i just use two limiters - one for pump and one for control at the end of a chain. i hope that more people got this mindset to make they tracks more solid after limiting
Very valuable info and it verifies something i heard the other day. The person was basically saying that they did their limiting in stages by putting limiters on all their mix busses before the master chain, that way their master chain didnt have all that range of transients constantly altering the "release" pocket. They didnt word it quite how you did here in this video but it makes a lot of sense. I would love to see a more in depth example of this technique at play.
Interesting I have kind of done this with mine anyways (in terms of layout of chain) I master my own stuff in the Box and use Tape emulation into compression into EQ into clipper in to limiter (sometimes into 2 limiters both doing minimal 1-2 Db). I need to learn more about release times and how it affects the pocket in a practical sense but this is good to know the basic Idea of the chain I use is correct. Subbed
I just recently doubled up on clippers and limiters in my mastering chain. Its like having 4 people to move a heavy object, rather than just two. The clipper/limiters don’t have to work as hard and the signal stays clean longer before its clipped digitally out of the DAW
Very cool video! I always have a clipper before the limiter ... but I never used the Oxford Inflator as a clipper! Just tried it and it's great! Thaaanks!
Thank you so much for watching! Inflator is a great clipper but it aliases like a mofo, just be aware and either use that sound deliberately or pick a cleaner clipper if it’s doing “too much”
SoftTube tape ( Swiss Army knife of tape plugs imo) , FF Pro Q3, Weiss Maximizer (which does a bit of limiting and clippng and sounds open and very present dope plugin) or FF Pro L2 because it's open and transparent ( another dope plugin!). Im learning a lot and applying as i go...what i have learned is a little (a touch or two) goes a long way with these plugin's. Nice vid my guy....well done!
Finally, a mastering engineer with math that is actually math'n👍 I came for the "In the beginning there was tape, and it was good!" Lol, yes indeed it was!
Extremely well put together video! I always use a clipper on individual tracks/groups this way the limiter doesn't have to work as hard to tame those rogue transients.
Traditionally (historically) it was actually: 1/2" or 1/4" tape > NR decode > console with 1 or 2 EQ's, *no compression, no limiting* > 1/4" (most often) or 1/2" tape. Key to all that (and still) is you make decisions listening from the end of the chain (off-tape), not to a section in isolation.
Thank you for the history, It helped me finally understand how to use a clipper correctly. I think you are right that this isn't talked about enough. Fire vid! Subbed.
you are right, the release in Limiting is the cue factor, in my case (ITB), I'm also put before the limiting a clipper, but after using the inflator for many years a switch to the fantastic SIR Audio StandardCLIP, try it, you won´t be disappointed.
Just watched this video after mastering my latest EP, and I love the way it sounds but now I want to run an experiment of the clipped conversion (or re-creating that in the box) going into the limiter, and see what the difference in sound is compared to the mastered version I have now. Regardless, all this information is extremely helpful and very concise, thank you for this!
Good content. I hope your channel does well. Video editing tip. When you do a hard cut on your video, make sure you crossfade your audio. Every time you do a hard cut, your audio clicks because you've sliced it at a non-zero crossing and haven't attended to the audio. Every NLVE has an audio crossfade option you can access for this. Cheers and thanks for the signal chain info!
What's the most important control on a limiter? The release time. Yup. Adjusting the release time truly allows one to, manipulate the character of the sound. As presented by the, release, time constant. Ultrafast to, ultra-slow. And everything in between.. That allows one to tweak for density. Making it nice and thick. Keeping the level front and center. And the release time control can, garner all of those variables. That creates a remarkable difference in the thickness of the sound. My favorite limiter has always been the,, 1176 series types. All different permutations,, flavor and alphanumeric version.. A through, H. Maybe a pair of UREI LA-3 A's? As I sold my LA-4's. Oh well.. Or my one of my numerous DBX's. But my 165 A's now also, gone. I already miss them.. I'm finding my downsizing extremely depressing. Sure.. Just get rid of my life. Pretend it never hhappened. Throw my life away. I might become a nomad vagabond soon. I've been there before. But I've recently taken up in a brick-and-morttar, obligation. And my life is completely on hold. For the rest of my retiirement TFN.. And this sucks! Not the plan! This was not the plan! Maybe I'll pretend I'm back in the early 1970s again? RemyRAD
The most transparent gain reduction on full spectrum material is hard clipping. So, this is correct advice, except I use two limiters… the first: 0 look ahead and max attack (preventing the limiting algorithm from engaging), minimum release (to only affect the transients)… Then use the second limiter as normal.
One of the most important controls on the output limiter is the off switch or bypass. The biggest sin I hear, which applies to both limiters and compressors, is that they are used to "rectify" the mix. "It will be fine when we put the limiter/maximizer on it!" Certainly, with the compressor, that is NOT its role. It is not a device for repairing uneven audio, smoothing over joins, or bringing up the room. And a limiter is NOT the thing to make sure your peaks don't overshoot your max level. All that should have been sorted with careful editing, balance, eq, etc, BEFORE you get there. If when you switch off the limiter, the mix sounds worse, especially a lot worse, then don't turn it back on. Fix the mix.
compressors are absolutely a great device for all three of those things. so much of the modern sound comes from compressing *after* reverb to have the tail brought up in your face. hard rules like this aren't very helpful and don't lead to great records.
Big amateur here. Don't have the plugins you listed but I got some that roughly serve the same purpose. Already noticing a very nice difference. Mainly from a clipper at the start of the chain. Haven't delved into release time yet.
saturatuion can be be good limiter to of Peaks , EQ can help to the limit the Peaks so RMS is adjusted and limiter teact not so harsh.. limiter specially analog can be a good help to have stabil Microphone Signals in specually dynamic Situations.. limiter is a simple comp.. helper but the User must find out by all 3 when it beginns to destroys the Sound...loudness must allways be asjusted A& B must equal ...some DAW have tool for that....
Extremely interesting and cohesive and explained well. Also your voice and way to speak is very idn just good and one just wants you to keep talking. At least my opinion. Gonna try your tips asap, im excited. Subbed!!
I think just throwing your mix into Ozone and following along the usual path _does_ work, and it makes a decent master. But I find there's a lot more care in chipping away at it effect by effect. Soft clip, saturate, filters, regular EQ, dynamic EQ/Compression, and THEN a limiter, it all works together making little 1-2dB adjustments, and you end up with a master that's -10 or -12 LUFS without sounding dynamically compromised.
Am I correct in understanding that dynamic range is lost in both limiting and compression but differently? Generally speaking a limiter affects mainly the loudest spikes, while a compressor affects the loudest and softest audio signals equally. No? Pop music lends itself to little dynamic range but orchestra music must preserve, say, parts at pppp and ffff; so I am inclined avoid compression in classical music but use a limiter...sparingly. Can you throw some light on this matter?
Ok guy, So i am intermediate at best but intelegent enough to know what you just shared was super important. Could you do a video where you go through this proccess on a couple channels and then how you finish up on the main? Maybe letting us hear what you mean my the pocket and if possible using stock pluggins like for abelton or whichever you perfer. I think it would be an awesome video and garner multple playthoughs. I could see myself searching it up everytime i finish a track until I got it memoriezed. I saw the chain but because i do not know the plugins value of the chain went right over my head.
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you're that guy on RUclips who doesn't clickbait or waste time, straight to the point and very useful information, I really appreciate it
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!
EVEYTHING you know about limiters is wrong.
lol.
Not hating but that’s def clickbait
What useful did you learn from this video? I don't get it
the value to time ratio of this video is extraordinarily high. great work.
Thank you so much!
@@WillBorza Its about an 1 to 0.25 Ratio so would call this an Knowledge Enhancer. It's really transparent aswell!
Bs 4 fkin min of intro you must be trolling
This. No bullshit, no time wasting, straight to the point. Man that's refreshing.
@@SanRegret❤❤😊
It makes so much sense. The chain order is so important, just like in sound design. I think mixing and mastering is as part of the overall design, and when mixing or producing a track, these steps should be taken in consideration.
ngl i saw this video an was like oh here we go again but youre right, you are the first person to vocalize to my knowledge how important the release time is. I set my release based on the genre, bpm etc. mostly listening to the song and adjusting the release until it fits and sounds right. like you said, finding the pocket. its not some hard and set rule, its different every time
I'm still a beginner in music, and the thing with the clipper before limiter really helped me put things in the place I wanted in one of my songs. This video was really good! Thank you, hope you have a good day!
love the historical context, that type of thing really helps me grasp the concept.
Thanks for watching 😊
+1 on Cody Braden, the historical perspective was super helpful. Really great job! Thanks.
Thank you so much!
My tip as producer for producers is to try to be a producer and not an engineer. Make inventive, expressive and original music that should rightfully be supported by a label that will organize good mastering for you, then you only need to manage your gainstaging. I see too many producers lose themselves in the mastering rabbithole, and while it is valuable knowledge, make sure to maintain your enthusiasm for expressing yourself in your composition.
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Just used your master chain and "BOOM!!!"...Thats what I was looking for...Really helpful video...Thankyou.
I think I inadvertently stumbled upon this when I was messing around with the "Maximizer" in Cubase. With just the limiter it was sounding louder but that's it. With a combo of the maximizer with soft clipping enabled and the limiter with less input gain I was getting the same overall loudness but a much tighter sound, especially on the vocals.
I’m so glad that I stumbled upon this video. No frills spills or tricks just precise and to the point clear cut explanations. None of this you’re doing it all wrong bullshit. Everybody’s way is their way or the highway type vlog. You Will are a god sent. Thanks and keep up the great work for the recording community. I did check this method out and gotten some great results although I have been doing my own thing without any tutorials and also gotten good results. I think it’s called trial and error imo. The way you explained it I get more consistency I have to admit. Hey people subscribe this guy gets it.❤
Thank you so much!
This has been one of the best explanations for how important and easy it is to dial in a master chain. Simple and bountiful in information.
Glad it was helpful!
I’m the student, you are the master. 🙏🏼
The best part about audio is that there are so many different ways to get to the final end result. I think your explanation of "how you are getting there" was explained very well and extremely useful for anyone trying to master regarding of experience, knowledge and gear. Great stuff, and now subscribed. Cheers.
i use TDR limiter 6 GE most of the time. I think it's the default preset to have comp -> clipper -> limiter and i always got results i'm happy with.
A fan of TDR Limiter here also. Although I often do experiment with the order of the chain.
That's an interesting concept! I've never used clipper before limiting, although seen people use it. Now it makes sense!
Try it, you’ll love it!
You’re a scholar and a gentleman. Thank you for taking time to do these videos. They have helped immensely.
Glad you like them!
I actually stumbled, quite recently, on that very last part about clipping before the limiter, my mouth hit the floor, you just confirmed it! 🙏
Awesome!
Finally someone who says vlog instead of v log
V log, It's like saying b log instead of blog
I often put a subtle clipper / limiter before the compressor too to make its job easier on transients.
This is the way!
@JS I was just thinking that, lol, gmta.. I have a few instrument tracks this could be perfect for.
After struggling to understand compression, finally an explanation I can understand and use. Thanks so much for making this.
Hello
Just seeing this video and I must confess you're a great teacher. Straight to the point and explicit.
How about you make a video showing how you use that mastering chain?
You are amazing, just discovered your channel. Love your way of speaking about these things and subtle sense of humor
Thank you so much!
Excellent info once again. I'm doing my work in the box, Mac Mini M2 with Studio One 6.5 Artist.
My 2 bus has 3 inserts, a Pulsar Audio W495 EQ, LVC Clipped-MAX and Limited-MAX. The limiter is only doing 1.5 - 2 dB gain reduction.
The 2 bus also has a post section where I have a few Master meters.
I picked up on the pointer to use a clipper harder than the limiter, but still using both. I like what I'm getting through this setup.
Glad it's working for you! Thanks for watching!
it's really helpful advice. i'm not a mastering engineer, but i do mastering just because my clients ask me to do it for them. years before i used to slam my stuff so it feels cluttered and unstable (it's so cringy for me to hear it on Spotify nowadays, damn). and i didn't even hear that, because my ears were so washed out after days of working on a song. until i start clipping in a different ways - soft clipping, digital clipping, wave shaping, sinoid folding etc... now my levels are consistent before limiting process and i have enough volume almost every time, especially when i produced and mixed everything wisely.
now my limiting is not a "lufs tool" as it was before, it's more like a glue and and additional peak control to make sure that everything doesn't sound over -0.3dBFS. and my average limiting now is around -0-2dB with some extra peaks might be -3dB. but not more, except is an EDM track when the sound should be pumped extra. in this case i just use two limiters - one for pump and one for control at the end of a chain. i hope that more people got this mindset to make they tracks more solid after limiting
I always come back to this video as a reminder for myself! Thank you!
Very valuable info and it verifies something i heard the other day. The person was basically saying that they did their limiting in stages by putting limiters on all their mix busses before the master chain, that way their master chain didnt have all that range of transients constantly altering the "release" pocket. They didnt word it quite how you did here in this video but it makes a lot of sense. I would love to see a more in depth example of this technique at play.
Clip to zero method maybe is what you wonna check.
Interesting I have kind of done this with mine anyways (in terms of layout of chain) I master my own stuff in the Box and use Tape emulation into compression into EQ into clipper in to limiter (sometimes into 2 limiters both doing minimal 1-2 Db). I need to learn more about release times and how it affects the pocket in a practical sense but this is good to know the basic Idea of the chain I use is correct. Subbed
Thanks for the clear cut explainations, we need more content creators that gets straight to the point (while having fun, of course)
Thanks! More to come!
@@WillBorza You just earned yourself a new sub, keep up the grind boss!
BRO! THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE! THANK YOU!
nomenclature is a very exclusive term i thought i only used!! wow im subbing now!! language within language
I just recently doubled up on clippers and limiters in my mastering chain. Its like having 4 people to move a heavy object, rather than just two. The clipper/limiters don’t have to work as hard and the signal stays clean longer before its clipped digitally out of the DAW
You're saying that I need 4 limiters to master a track?
Mike Dean does This as well. I started doing the same
Very cool video! I always have a clipper before the limiter ... but I never used the Oxford Inflator as a clipper! Just tried it and it's great! Thaaanks!
Thank you so much for watching! Inflator is a great clipper but it aliases like a mofo, just be aware and either use that sound deliberately or pick a cleaner clipper if it’s doing “too much”
@@WillBorza i personally really love kclip3 and blacksalt audio clipper
@@WillBorza PiMax plugin is similar to Inflator, but much cheaper, has oversampling (to help with aliasing issues) and other bells and whistles
solid, my chain for loudness and mastering at the end is always a inflator, into a kazrog clipper hard clipping, and them limiter.
isnt inflator a clipper ? so you are using 2 clipper ?
SoftTube tape ( Swiss Army knife of tape plugs imo) , FF Pro Q3, Weiss Maximizer (which does a bit of limiting and clippng and sounds open and very present dope plugin) or FF Pro L2 because it's open and transparent ( another dope plugin!). Im learning a lot and applying as i go...what i have learned is a little (a touch or two) goes a long way with these plugin's. Nice vid my guy....well done!
Adding this to my useful information playlist where many more of your videos will probably wind up as well. Thanks!
You're watching this video all wrong. Start at 5:22.
Cool vid…loved the trip down memory lane….those tape to tape days were long!!!
Thanks for watching Streaky! I love your channel!
Damn, this went well over my head. I'll be digging into your other videos.
RESPECK! Even when you think you know, the best thing to know, is that you know you can always know more - PUCKA stuff! Thanks.✅✅✅
Finally, a mastering engineer with math that is actually math'n👍 I came for the "In the beginning there was tape, and it was good!" Lol, yes indeed it was!
why isn't every video like this, thank you
Extremely well put together video! I always use a clipper on individual tracks/groups this way the limiter doesn't have to work as hard to tame those rogue transients.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this info. I was researching stacking limiters and this is the information I needed.
Glad it was helpful!
The make it louder fader lol.
Traditionally (historically) it was actually: 1/2" or 1/4" tape > NR decode > console with 1 or 2 EQ's, *no compression, no limiting* > 1/4" (most often) or 1/2" tape. Key to all that (and still) is you make decisions listening from the end of the chain (off-tape), not to a section in isolation.
Great info - but lots of studio noise in the recording, and mids causing distortion on my surround speakers
Thank you for the history, It helped me finally understand how to use a clipper correctly. I think you are right that this isn't talked about enough. Fire vid! Subbed.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Wow i never thought about to use the inflator as a clipper. Thank you
you are right, the release in Limiting is the cue factor, in my case (ITB), I'm also put before the limiting a clipper, but after using the inflator for many years a switch to the fantastic SIR Audio StandardCLIP, try it, you won´t be disappointed.
This was great. I love the history part and the outtakes at the end!
Thank you so much!
PLEASE make a video about oxford inflator and/or mastering really loud bass music. Both would be HUGE to learn about with this stuff!
extremly helpfull .. thanks so much !!
Glad you hit record. This was helpful. I still need to understand more about limiters. Gonna comb your channel for more. Liked. Subscribed.
Think like a mastering engineer is the blueprint. Thank You!!!
Just watched this video after mastering my latest EP, and I love the way it sounds but now I want to run an experiment of the clipped conversion (or re-creating that in the box) going into the limiter, and see what the difference in sound is compared to the mastered version I have now. Regardless, all this information is extremely helpful and very concise, thank you for this!
Cheers! Thanks for watching!
Bro what saw do you use?
Now THAT is some good advice.
Best intro I've ever seen
thanks for your time. subscribed
Thank you so much!
Super informative video, thank you a lot. Will try this!
Thank you so much for watching!
All this video to say to use clipper before limiter. Indeed It is true and sometimes totally transparent but if you know how to use the clipper
this is so helpful, my goodness
Wrong title! I’m not using my limiter wrong - I’m just not using my limiter (because I don’t know how to use it right, so thanks for this video)
Another awesome video that helped me so much
Good content. I hope your channel does well. Video editing tip. When you do a hard cut on your video, make sure you crossfade your audio. Every time you do a hard cut, your audio clicks because you've sliced it at a non-zero crossing and haven't attended to the audio. Every NLVE has an audio crossfade option you can access for this. Cheers and thanks for the signal chain info!
Thanks! I’m trying to improve with every video. One of these days hopefully I can just hire a video editor 😂
What's the most important control on a limiter? The release time. Yup.
Adjusting the release time truly allows one to, manipulate the character of the sound. As presented by the, release, time constant. Ultrafast to, ultra-slow. And everything in between.. That allows one to tweak for density. Making it nice and thick. Keeping the level front and center. And the release time control can, garner all of those variables. That creates a remarkable difference in the thickness of the sound.
My favorite limiter has always been the,, 1176 series types. All different permutations,, flavor and alphanumeric version.. A through, H. Maybe a pair of UREI LA-3 A's? As I sold my LA-4's. Oh well.. Or my one of my numerous DBX's. But my 165 A's now also, gone. I already miss them.. I'm finding my downsizing extremely depressing. Sure.. Just get rid of my life. Pretend it never hhappened. Throw my life away. I might become a nomad vagabond soon. I've been there before. But I've recently taken up in a brick-and-morttar, obligation. And my life is completely on hold. For the rest of my retiirement TFN.. And this sucks! Not the plan! This was not the plan!
Maybe I'll pretend I'm back in the early 1970s again?
RemyRAD
“What is a limiter” 😂 you could make a hilarious and informative documentary on that concept alone
Excellent!
The most transparent gain reduction on full spectrum material is hard clipping.
So, this is correct advice, except I use two limiters… the first: 0 look ahead and max attack (preventing the limiting algorithm from engaging), minimum release (to only affect the transients)…
Then use the second limiter as normal.
If the material isn’t full spectrum, you’ll get some unpleasant farts if more than a couple of low frequency cycles are clipped 😬
@@nathanweinstein2766 love myself a good series of farts
This channel rocks.
You are right bro ..
“In the beginning there was tape. It was good” 😂😂
You got my subscription on this one
Thank you so much!
One of the most important controls on the output limiter is the off switch or bypass. The biggest sin I hear, which applies to both limiters and compressors, is that they are used to "rectify" the mix. "It will be fine when we put the limiter/maximizer on it!" Certainly, with the compressor, that is NOT its role. It is not a device for repairing uneven audio, smoothing over joins, or bringing up the room. And a limiter is NOT the thing to make sure your peaks don't overshoot your max level. All that should have been sorted with careful editing, balance, eq, etc, BEFORE you get there. If when you switch off the limiter, the mix sounds worse, especially a lot worse, then don't turn it back on. Fix the mix.
compressors are absolutely a great device for all three of those things. so much of the modern sound comes from compressing *after* reverb to have the tail brought up in your face.
hard rules like this aren't very helpful and don't lead to great records.
Thank you for the class!
Big amateur here. Don't have the plugins you listed but I got some that roughly serve the same purpose. Already noticing a very nice difference. Mainly from a clipper at the start of the chain. Haven't delved into release time yet.
Badass video buddy! Cheers from Venezuela! 🤓👏🏻
Hey, thanks!
love you bro thanks so much
cheers!
Straight to the point and informative I’m now a subscriber!
Thank you so much!
saturatuion can be be good limiter to
of Peaks , EQ can help to the limit the Peaks so RMS is adjusted and limiter teact not so harsh..
limiter specially analog can be a good help to have stabil Microphone Signals in specually dynamic Situations..
limiter is a simple comp.. helper but the User must find out by all 3 when it beginns to destroys the Sound...loudness must allways be asjusted A& B must equal ...some DAW have tool for that....
Very good video. Thanks
You Sir are a gem!! Thank you
Matt Walsh of Audio Mastering! Thank you for the knowledge though! Cheers! :)
Thanks, very good and to the point 👏
Solid
wait this is incredible
Inro: "Everything you know about limiters is wrong!"
me: Joke's on you. I know nothing about limiters, lol
Extremely interesting and cohesive and explained well. Also your voice and way to speak is very idn just good and one just wants you to keep talking. At least my opinion. Gonna try your tips asap, im excited. Subbed!!
Really great explanation, and remembering the steps to take in mastering is key, thank you. Looking forward to more content from you 👍
You got it!
This is very very good advise!
Thanks for watching!
Great information, liked and subscribed, thank you!
I think just throwing your mix into Ozone and following along the usual path _does_ work, and it makes a decent master. But I find there's a lot more care in chipping away at it effect by effect. Soft clip, saturate, filters, regular EQ, dynamic EQ/Compression, and THEN a limiter, it all works together making little 1-2dB adjustments, and you end up with a master that's -10 or -12 LUFS without sounding dynamically compromised.
You’ve got it!
@@WillBorza oh and also i do all my mastering in audacity with free vsts
the most important control on the limiter is the bypass button. Because it makes the sound larger!
Adds loads of dynamics too !
I spent so long wondering why my songs weren’t loud enough, but I realized one day it was because I always set my attack too high
Yes!
you're amazing
Am I correct in understanding that dynamic range is lost in both limiting and compression but differently? Generally speaking a limiter affects mainly the loudest spikes, while a compressor affects the loudest and softest audio signals equally. No?
Pop music lends itself to little dynamic range but orchestra music must preserve, say, parts at pppp and ffff; so I am inclined avoid compression in classical music but use a limiter...sparingly. Can you throw some light on this matter?
Great job like always Will!
Thank you so much Jon!
Awesome!
Thank you for watching!
Ok guy, So i am intermediate at best but intelegent enough to know what you just shared was super important. Could you do a video where you go through this proccess on a couple channels and then how you finish up on the main? Maybe letting us hear what you mean my the pocket and if possible using stock pluggins like for abelton or whichever you perfer. I think it would be an awesome video and garner multple playthoughs. I could see myself searching it up everytime i finish a track until I got it memoriezed. I saw the chain but because i do not know the plugins value of the chain went right over my head.
Very interesting!