Top 7 Mastering Mistakes for Streaming Music Platforms
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
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In this video, we'll clarify loudness normalization misconceptions + common mastering mistakes in the digital streaming era!
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I don't know if young people (I'm 65) realize how truly blessed they are to be in this time of technology. Everything from the reasonable cost of computer recording, plugins at crazy low prices, and to me the biggest thing, RUclips where we can watch videos like yours, and learn from start to finish, how to mix, master (lufs) and share our music. My first experience with recording was in 1985, with my Yamaha 4 track. Man, how things have changed since then... I wish I were 30 years younger, so I could have more years to experience all of this wonderful technology. I want to thank you again for another great video, Sean. Cheers!
You are the only person in the audio engineering field that I have ever seen take the time to explain how things operate. You being in your prime is indeed a blessing. We are appreciative of your generous sharing of your vast knowledge.
I just wanna say that i appreciate you sharing with us over the years! Ive learned so much and have became really in tune with Mixing and also beat making! been my heart since i was young! I can relate so heavy with the way you explain things and i greatly thank you bro! i know the work that you have put in and its much respect bro!!! Blessings to you and the fam!!
So glad to hear it’s been helpful and appreciate the feedback, means a lot 🙏🙌
Thanks for this very helpful video Sean. I definitely fell for the loudness war once, but also found out what really matters. Great job 👊
I really appreciate your videos Sean, my sound has improved 10 fold since watching them.
You are goated bro 🙏🏽 I’ve been watching your videos for years and you consistently help my engineering through these vids!
one of your best videos hands down. there aren’t a lot of videos that really dive into how streaming platforms work for artists and you answered questions i’ve had for years
Glad it helped Greg 🙌
I totally agree. Simply one of the best, if not the best breakdown of do’s & don’t’s in todays market.
Thank you Sean. Definitely one of my top 3 gurus in music making. 🙏🏾😌
Excited for this one!
Great video, Sean. This is the first time I've seen anyone cover these topics so extensively. Thank you.
Hey Sean, hope you’re doing well!
Just wanna say thanks for making this video! It answered a lot of questions I had on the topic and gave some extra info I would never thought of (meta data). Thanks man!
Glad to hear it Bryan! 🙌
Excellent and informative Vid Sean. Thanks for all the great content 🤘
I always learn something new every video. Thanks Sean!
I always appreciate your videos. This one is particularly useful. Thanks!
I’ve just started watching your videos, they’re so helpful and you’ve answered a lot of questions I had about music production, thank you so much for such high quality techniques and information
Appreciate the feedback and glad to help!
Thanks bro, I’ve been pondering about this for a while.
This is about the most informative video I've seen. Thanks a lot for this video Sean. Being having a lot of issues with my mastering these days but this video just gave me a leap on
As usual, top notch tips, Sean ! So professional.
You're a legend bro !!!!!! Your videos are always what a producer/engineer/artist needs..... 10/10 quality content 🙏
Always helpful! thanks Sean!
You’ve inspired me to love and appreciate the mixing process!
Yeah when you start getting some results it becomes pretty fun
great advice! I've been looking for a video like this one!
So helpful. Thanks mate
Awesome advice Sean, thank you!!!
Love it my guy! Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with the rest of us. 🙏🕊
Glad to help!
Sean you're doing great work of educating people. Spotify and apple should explain it like that about delivery levels. First I didn't know about LUFS. Then I was confused about -14 level and now I know.
Thanks for your videos Sean, amazingly helpful🙏
Thank you very much ! It's really helpful !
This is a gem. Real game. Than you Sean! The leg work is appreciated 🙏🏽🙌🏽👏🏽🔥🐐💨💨💨
A very informative, down to earth presentation that answers a lot of questions! Thank you!
This is great Sean. Thank You!
Excellent tutorial on the loudness murky void of not much consistent info. Thanks for the passing on the knowledge.
Very nice work, bro!
Very helpful and informative, thank you!
I’ve tried to understand mastering for like 10 years and this video it all finally clicked. Lots of things I heard contradicting information. Plus I also use Distrokid and Logic (subscribed!) thanks man!
WOW!! Genuinely impressed ! Great, strong points. I also like the background music... helps me stay connected & goes with the flow! Thank you
You just got yourself a new subscriber! Very good info in there thx a lot.
Thank you this really helped!
Very well explained. Thank you.
Thanks man 🙌🙏
Great video, thanks for the reminder on bouncing everything down on the last tip I used to do it and then got lazy and stopped in this was a great reminder to start doing that again in case my computer crashed etc
Finally a video that is very helpful and interesting. Thank you. For once, I have learnt many important things.
Thank you!
OMG! So awesome. Thanks so much.
Wow seriosuly thank you! I'm about to distribute my first self-mixed and mastered song and I almost made it way quieter out of fear of Spotify distorting or compressing it for being higher than -14 LUFS, but now I feel more comfortable
I hope you have taken care of the true peaks.
when converting between AAC 126kbps and OGG in Spotify, chances are that if you haven't taken care of this... your song is clipped over 1,000 times.
huge thanks
best mastering tips thanks
Thanks for nice information 👌
Awesome video!
Especially the last part with the stems got me. I'm often times too lazy and then have problems of Plug-Ins loading 6 months later :D
Beautiful Bro!!! Thanks.. God Bless!!!
Great Post!!!
Fab vid, thanks
insane content thanks
Great tutorial thanks so much for clarifying the LUFS situation. So good to see how Spotify actually applies the -14?etc and the relevance and at times irrelevance of it.
Brilliant, enlightening, and inspiring! Thanks for your service to the online community with these excellent videos. You mentioned setting up VCA channels... do you have a video somewhere that covers that process?
Glad to help, Steve! Sure do :) ruclips.net/video/tSuwq8ukdVg/видео.html
Thank you Sean!
Thank you ❤
So amazing thank you
Keep up the good work bro.
Waiting😘
Great content Sean
Thx so much
At last a very clear explanation about the LUFS and what (not) to do about it.
Thank you bro
Thanks for sharing
This is soo awesome sean great tips and information! Having notes in the session answered a question I had about using subscription based plugins. I know they sound good but if I no longer have access I don't want the mix to fall apart. Stems and notes should be a good resolution.
Good point! Printing stems can save you the hassle if a subscription expires :)
I subscribed
Keep up the good job
Gems 💎 on Gems 💎 on Gems 💎 Thanks for your expertise Sean 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks boss !
That is a good advice and I am taking that note on my recent project for my next song so that I do not forget. It was so confusing regarding with maintaining in a perfect LUFS. I made mistakes on my couple of songs, including one song that I checked Loudness Normalization on Distrokid, but it is about learning and growing little by little. I have a question regarding with Dolby Atmos Mixing. If I decided to Upload a Dolby Atmos/Spatial Audio, The Loudness for Dolby Atmos is to be maintained at no louder than -18 LUFS. Does it have to be perfectly at -18 LUFS? DO we have to do the same thing such as being around -12 to -8 LUFS for Dolby Atmos version of the music?
Thank you Sean I really appreciate this video so many mastering engineers try to keep you in the dark about these concepts.
My pleasure 🙏
Thanks
super excelent infoss
bro how do you not have millions of subs yet..u been here since day one with the best content..RUclips needs to reconize
Dude! You're amazing
Amazing tips as always SD! The tip about leaving space at the beginning of the track is a good one. And man if I had a dollar for everytime I opened an old session and a VST messed up I'd have at least $100 haha.
Unrelated: "Tired Eyes" is an absolute BANGER!!!
Truth. I try hard to keep all plugins up to date and it's quite a task these days 😅 and thank you bro, appreciate the love!
Thanks. Lots to consider before uploading.
Indeed :) Have fun!
thank you for that
Great video learned a lot. How did you get your meter to read Spotify?
Thanks for the video. LUFS drive me crazy. I always hear different things from different people. My first album was mastered in a studio at -14 LUFS and it's more quiet than everything else on the streaming platforms and it drives me nuts. Now that I'm doing my own mastering, I've been trying to kick it up but I'm paranoid about doing too much and losing dynamics when it gets nerfed on the platforms. I've uploaded singles that have been mastered in different ways. I'm getting ready to take those down as I'm about to finish up a new album, all mastered on the same timeline. Hearing you explain that -9 to -11, or so, will be just fine makes me feel a lot more confident. Appreciate the video.
When you said “liner notes”.. 😮💨 I was also really interested in the liner notes on the albums I’d buy. I love being able to attach your name to my music today. You’ve made me a much more confident artist in the past year! Thank you for that!
I found your music through a tutorial video of Sean's. Really enjoy your work, makes me jelly that I havent gotten to music vids yet. Whole new ballgame I've gotta learn. lol
@@geniustracks9213 you will! Don’t feel like you have to be “up to par” either. That slowed my journey down significantly! Don’t wait until you can get “the right camera”. Use the resources you have! Ultimately it’s all about the music! Good luck on your journey! I’m about to visit your channel now.
@@BubbyGalloway Ohh shit, thanks man. I dont advertise or nothing yet, still working out what my style will end up molding into as I create more. My stuffs all over the place/trying things out
That first tip is something that NOBODY is saying. Super helpful, I've been so confused as to why songs on Spotify seem quite a bit louder the standards are all the same and now I know. Of course quality mixing has to do with it too but that is something I am working on.
Bro Thank you my question ive been searching for the answer to mistake number 1 for a while my masters are consistently hitting -8, -9 lufs and i get worried about that now i can finally deliver my masters with confidence and ease your the man sean got yourself a new fan
Es mucho mejor que tus mezclas lleguen a -8 lufs! Excelente bro
@@vycashh gracias
Great video! How did you get the loudness mettering plugin workin on spotify app?
One of the most helpful videos ever
🙌🙏
Thank you! Great info! I’m on a right track. The only thing I missed, that I deliver masters 44,1khz 16bit. I reconsider it to 24bit now!
Thanku ❤️
That Fab Filter Pro L2 sounds so good
Thank you for mentioning the top of the files. A lot of the pros are cutting things right up to the first note and I hate that. I always do what you do. I like a natural feel from when the play button is hit to the actual start of the music. I also leave at least two seconds after the music ends.
Good call 🙌
Hey Sean, great video, as always. Can you show us how you've routed Spotify into your loudness meter?
It's a rather complicated setup using TotalMix on my RME interface 🙃 The easiest option is iZotope Audiolens / Ozone 10.
Thanks for the tips! always great content! Question, how do you analyse Spotify music into logic? Thanks!!!
It's specific to how I have signals routed in my setup (my interface and the Clarity M). That being said, this could be a possibility for every setup in the near future ;)
Thank u
thanks king
i've noticed the the LUFs reading that i have when i upload is often different than what is shown in the analysis on distrokid, and that's before it even gets to the DSPs. distro usually reads it about 2 points higher than i had in the session
A lot of golden information here
bro how are you using the loudness meter to read audio from Spotify?
To get it to -9, does it have to go into the red on your Luf meter?
Thanks bro!.....
Hello! Thanks ! How do you measure the loudness on spotify with the waves plug in ? Is it with the standalone version ?
Thank you for the referral to repost exchange
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