I swear this plugin is dangerous as fuck, it should come with no Distortion or a Gain Reduction at least, this shit clipped everything and sounded like straight white noise when I added it on accident - I was shook for the rest of the session
20min to say Its nothing basically. Loudness and some eq to taste. Mastering isnt really a thing since physical supports died and powerful softwares took over.
not necessarily, most knobs are tuned to 2 decimal places. things like reverb and delay tweaks can make colossal changes, especially delay which is .1 by default.
I've used plugins in the mixer before but am just learning how to master a track because I like that "full" sound. To add a high pass in Fruity Parametric EQ 2 like in the video, it looks like you can right click on the number 1 in the purple circle and select High Pass under the Type category in the menu that pops up.
@ 12:00-12:30 was the most helpful to me, like a switch flipped it all comes together now. Everything I needed to know and was missing explained in 30 sec. thanks man, you probably just made me a future celebrity!
It's really helpful. Thanks for doing such easy to understand tutorials . Can u please make some tutorial on mixing vocals and specially how to add the right amount of reverb .........☺
"Right amount" is subjective. Listen to songs you like in the genre you're going to make. Make your reverb amounts sound like theirs. None of the people who do mastering for a living had a mastering textbook with a "right amount" section, they just do it by ear.
For sometime now, i was frustrated how my tracks sounds. What missing, i know mastering is the answer, but don't know how to use it up until now. Thnx man u taught me the basics. Now just a little tweaks and im good. Thnx again, more power Godblz.
I literally just figured out what saturating Actually does after videos of people talking about using saturation, and then I come across your video and you explain it completely and so easily. Why is this information so hard to come across? Thanks for sharing this! I definitely thought mastering was some kind of secret trick when I started.
For extreme Noob: Go to the mixer bus where the audio is sent. Then right click and select "File" option,choose "browse state option". Then see towards the left part of the screen You will see different mastering options which immediately masters the song by just selecting them.
It's not hard but you have to know what you're doing, you can easily ruin your song with bad mastering, it's recommended to send it to a mastering engineer, it's not as expensive as you'd believe, or learn mastering properly yourself, and take breaks and use reference tracks to refresh your ears. I'm a student mastering engineer, mastering isn't this crazy dark art, it's simple yet complicated at the same time and usually less is more. There's a lot of false mastering info on RUclips, be careful not to fall into it, such as mastering to only 14 LUFS argument. Be really careful when eq'ing when mastering, you want to enhance what's already there and bring out the best of the track and maybe do a tiny amount of corrective eq if need be, but if you're trying to correct too many things it means the mix more than likely needs work. Get an idea in your head of how you want your track to sound, don't just boost and cut things because you feel like you should, and if something is already good, don't be afraid to leave it alone, you're doing what's best for the track, just because you're mastering it doesen't mean you need to touch every single frequency band or use heavy limiting.
"such as mastering to only 14 LUFS argument" - Can you elaborate on this part because I've seen it recommended to set to around these levels due to the streaming platforms and if you have something interesting or informative explaining further it could help?
You said when mastering make sure there are no plugins on the master bus, why can't you use EQ 2 and Maximus as shown on the master bus? Is there a reason to export as WAV first?
Cal Malouin cause they might mess up with the other plugins that you already had in your mix. Exporting it to a wav file, makes those plugins you had in your mix to become one with the whole song, there are also other reasons but that’s one of them lol
Doing mastering on your Master while got the hole other stuff open will kill your pc and may cause lag which will destroy your sound (depends on cpu and soundboard). When you export wave and master it in a new project you wont have to deal with these issues, eventhough u got a bad pc or laptop
Quick Tip: If you are adding heaps to the master, you probably have not mixed your track very well. Go back, and make tweaks there. You can ADD things, but once bounced out, you cannot REMOVE them. lovin your stuff ash
Rip I used to use Logic Pro x on my old Mac I spent a stupid amount of money on but it was stolen when I was robbed while at work. I miss my old music stuff so much but ig some people are unlucky and gotta start from the bottom again. Just had to vent tbh
"I'm going to explain" > explains nothing. What do knobs do? What do curves do that you adjusted? What anything does to a signal? You adjusted volume curve at places where volume peak even didn't reach. Why? Still, at least the process and steps are seen. Thanks.
To be fair, all those things are specific to your track. If you k ow the process, its basically a matter of preference. Just experiment and see what works with your track.
I think most of the viewers are not that of beginners that they don't know what any of the knobs do. Check out some other tutorials like from this channel called 'in the mix'. But I reccomend playing around with the knobs yourself and find out what they do
KODIAXE I literally thought the same thing when I first watched this but maybe he means while recording and mixing not to have a limiter on the Master and wait till you’re at the end of the Mix basically like how he was at the start of the video
When I use my limiter on the Master Track, I have the Gain & Ceiling cranked all the way up while having the Master slider on the mixer turned down to 50% (12.7).
I really appreciate this video. Gave me a whole lot. I have a question though: i follow your steps and enhance the sound tremedously on my tracks, but the "sound wave" or whatever its called where u can see the twists and turns of the track (for example on Soundcloud) looks pretty much like a solid block of bass. It is a bassy techno track but still, there are parts with just a highpitch synth too. Other technotracks seem to get way more detailed sound waves (or what u call em.. ) thanks for feedback on this and thanks again for your help!
it's the dynamic range. because you made your track esentally louder and put a limiter on it, you lost some of the range between how low or loud your track can get :D
is there a reason why when you are mastering it in another session of fl studio why it is on insert 1 linked to the master and not just directly on the master insert on the mix board???
Well, one good reason is saving memory. When you export the audio to a new project you're using a lot less than with mixing session with all the plugins and tracks used there.
Don't know if I'd call this real mastering, but for the bedroom wanna be that doesn't have the funds (not talking about you) it's a good starting point. Only thing is at the end when comparing before and after you should level match the two as you will be naturally drawn to the louder one but that doesn't mean it sounds better.
UgpFpv very true, things sound better loud, it's why the loudness war exists. I find more luck mastering my stuff lower and not trying to crank everything to as loud as it can be without distorting it. When I do that I throw off the dynamics of the song I made. If rather have people turn it up than miss what I've spent time making.
Haha, for sure. But I think all the people looking up how to master on RUclips are going to be bedroom wanna be's. We know we can't beat the labels after an afternoon of RUclips & messing around in FL. But it's insane how close we can get.
Hey Asher. In Fl Studio, my file doesn't go over 0.0 db and I cannot hear any clipping occurring. However after exporting the file, there is clipping in the exported audio! How do we solve for that?
+Kich Official there’s this thing called “true peaks” that can go above 0 dB without you seeing. If you use Ozene 7 you can fix that easy but I’m not sure how to do it with FL Plugins. Maybe try setting the ceiling to like -0.2 dB, or turn the master “post” gain on maximus down a little.
Quick solution! Don't export to MP3. LAME MP3 has gain staging that will always clip your files. I would suggest normalizing (that is WITH A GAIN KNOB, not a compressor) to -3db, and exporting to a 24bit WAV or FLAC file. Preferrably 96khz if you can. This will just allow for future possibilities and ability to downscale. From there on, you can also export to other formats, sampling rates, bit depths, etc. Turning down the volume digitally 'loses' bits, so there for 24bit will be a standard minimum. When exported from FL and converting to other formats, it's handy to do a trial run first and see how much headroom you have left after conversion. Subtract that from -3db and then turn the gain of the whole file up the resulting number/amount to have your convert/release exports peaking at just below 0dB. because 0dB is actually clipping.
Can i use a refrence track to get the loudness? Like with the plugin first i can test the loudness of already perfect song and then i can employ the same volume value to my mix. Is it okay?
+Peter Van Goublin use the YouLean loudness meter I showed in the vid and see how many LUFS the reference song is. Then you can try to match your song to that. And yes that’s always a good idea!
YoungBlaze for FL Studio, the master preset automatically comes with Fruity Limiter that limits the instrumental you use go above 0 dbz. When I took it off, the instrumental sounded highly distorted. It’s better to leave it on, but not to make any tweaks to it.
cool simple video, super grateful, every video ive seen is just super obnoxious, using words you have to google every sentence. great video to get started and follow along with for beginners
I finally made an ADVANCED mastering tutorial! Watch here: ruclips.net/video/Wz_cnNGSuTg/видео.htmlsi=MsriC0QZRLwTq6-f
I accidently added the hardcore plugin instead of maximus....
I am still in hospital.....
I swear this plugin is dangerous as fuck, it should come with no Distortion or a Gain Reduction at least, this shit clipped everything and sounded like straight white noise when I added it on accident - I was shook for the rest of the session
Truth
😂😂😂
Get well soon bro XDXD
Legend says he's still in hospital...
thanks Bro
Kids use Equalizers
Men use Sausage Fattener
Legends use Soundgoodizer
AceMakesContent 😂 Exactly
GENIUSES WILL USE ALL THREE😊
This ⬆️
😂
what does equalizers has to do with comp and boost?
Geniuses uses OTT
works, thx so much
Short, sweet and to the point on everything! Definitely gave me a better idea of what mastering is. Thanks so much for making this!
20min to say Its nothing basically. Loudness and some eq to taste. Mastering isnt really a thing since physical supports died and powerful softwares took over.
Shout out mandem
remember when you exported your first track directly without doing mastering & mixing, yes you, the one who's reading,
:)))
damn this hit too hard fr
i still do :)
:(
Pew pew got me
Thank you so much for the helping tools mastering it was a struggle.😱
Your channel is so helpful just want to thank you brother & show some respect. Keep working your going up.
SELFMADE KINGZ E.N.T. yes its awesome
2:37 Look at that CPU Usage!!!! My computer would have flipped upside down and thrown itself out the window if it were that high.
This helped a lot! Thank You Dude!
When he squashes it down with a limiter as example of what not to do but it still sounds better than my one track I mastered for 6 hrs
Love your production bro❤️🔥🔥🔥
AFTER SMOKING 1 GRAM OF WEED I DID FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT TO DO THANK YOU SENSEI
Bro. New level shi
1 gram
Very nice tutorial, it was "to the point" where others lack explaining Mix+Master
Him: "between negative 8, negative 6 somewhere"
Me: seven
not necessarily, most knobs are tuned to 2 decimal places. things like reverb and delay tweaks can make colossal changes, especially delay which is .1 by default.
😂
Straight and to the point. No endless plugins for a simple concept. Thank you.
This tutorial is a life saver!!!
Old but Gold!!!
thanks man!!!
Thank You!
I've used plugins in the mixer before but am just learning how to master a track because I like that "full" sound. To add a high pass in Fruity Parametric EQ 2 like in the video, it looks like you can right click on the number 1 in the purple circle and select High Pass under the Type category in the menu that pops up.
Really helpful! 🙌🏼🙏
Keep coming back to this video whenever I need to master. It's so simple and easy to follow. Thanks a lot, it really helped. 🙏
Thank you
I always recommend to have your mix not above - 6db...
@ 12:00-12:30 was the most helpful to me, like a switch flipped it all comes together now. Everything I needed to know and was missing explained in 30 sec. thanks man, you probably just made me a future celebrity!
So glad to hear that! Yeah that was a big one for me too when I found out.
Loved that stereo enhancement tip.. Really make a big difference..
Hey. thnx man ,you made my day. 👍👌☺
It's really helpful. Thanks for doing such easy to understand tutorials . Can u please make some tutorial on mixing vocals and specially how to add the right amount of reverb .........☺
Priyabrata Maity fruity reverb 2
"Right amount" is subjective. Listen to songs you like in the genre you're going to make. Make your reverb amounts sound like theirs. None of the people who do mastering for a living had a mastering textbook with a "right amount" section, they just do it by ear.
in edm, you dont want your decay to be over 3 seconds. itll be too much.
Step 1: Add sausage fattner to the master track
Step 2: Turn color all the way up and voila
(Results may vary)
Or
Step 1: Add Soundgoodizer to the master track
Step 2: Go on preset A
Step 3: Set it to max
I prefer adding 6 soundgoodizers and a sausage fattener
Sillylemon Yeah but don't forget to Fruity Reeverb 2 and set wet, size and bass to max
rip those who don't understand enough to recognize the sarcasm
DaemonPhoenix42 thank you for this comment i thought they were being serious
i subscribe to u because of this vid. well done
PERFECT!!
THANKYOU SIR
For sometime now, i was frustrated how my tracks sounds. What missing, i know mastering is the answer, but don't know how to use it up until now. Thnx man u taught me the basics. Now just a little tweaks and im good. Thnx again, more power Godblz.
This was Super Helpful man thanks Thank you so much
I literally just figured out what saturating Actually does after videos of people talking about using saturation, and then I come across your video and you explain it completely and so easily. Why is this information so hard to come across? Thanks for sharing this! I definitely thought mastering was some kind of secret trick when I started.
Christopher Busby A little EQ, some light compression and limiting to taste. The mix is 90% :)
Finally understood what mastering is ... Thank u very much Asher 👍👍
For extreme Noob:
Go to the mixer bus where the audio is sent.
Then right click and select "File" option,choose "browse state option".
Then see towards the left part of the screen You will see different mastering options which immediately masters the song by just selecting them.
Whats the best one for a trap/ hip hop beat? Lol
Loved the tutorial. Really!
Oh my days!!! My days of serching for mastering tutorial has finally come too an end... I'm all emotional... Thanks bruh!
Thank you, sir!
Asher we need a 2020 version of this vid!
Yeah right
Yeah
2021
Is the Youlean meter really needed?
me: *not knowing how to master but slaps a legendary soundgoodizer in the master track*
💀
Or a couple
thats for this tutorial it helped alot
It's not hard but you have to know what you're doing, you can easily ruin your song with bad mastering, it's recommended to send it to a mastering engineer, it's not as expensive as you'd believe, or learn mastering properly yourself, and take breaks and use reference tracks to refresh your ears. I'm a student mastering engineer, mastering isn't this crazy dark art, it's simple yet complicated at the same time and usually less is more.
There's a lot of false mastering info on RUclips, be careful not to fall into it, such as mastering to only 14 LUFS argument. Be really careful when eq'ing when mastering, you want to enhance what's already there and bring out the best of the track and maybe do a tiny amount of corrective eq if need be, but if you're trying to correct too many things it means the mix more than likely needs work. Get an idea in your head of how you want your track to sound, don't just boost and cut things because you feel like you should, and if something is already good, don't be afraid to leave it alone, you're doing what's best for the track, just because you're mastering it doesen't mean you need to touch every single frequency band or use heavy limiting.
"such as mastering to only 14 LUFS argument" - Can you elaborate on this part because I've seen it recommended to set to around these levels due to the streaming platforms and if you have something interesting or informative explaining further it could help?
@@cheekyboymusic Ya I got the same question. I like having my music on major streaming platforms
Yeah explain
thank you asher. this was really useful :)
You said when mastering make sure there are no plugins on the master bus, why can't you use EQ 2 and Maximus as shown on the master bus? Is there a reason to export as WAV first?
That's a thing that i really want to know
Cal Malouin cause they might mess up with the other plugins that you already had in your mix. Exporting it to a wav file, makes those plugins you had in your mix to become one with the whole song, there are also other reasons but that’s one of them lol
Doing mastering on your Master while got the hole other stuff open will kill your pc and may cause lag which will destroy your sound (depends on cpu and soundboard). When you export wave and master it in a new project you wont have to deal with these issues, eventhough u got a bad pc or laptop
@@dennisfricke5647 Makes a lot of sense, thank you
Quick and educational. Good song as well.
Hero
Hey Joey Nata. You're a killer producer man. Love ya
:)
Thaaank you for making this video
Wow! Makes me want to use FL again!
Go for it!
Just refresh your plugs!
why would you even switch
This is what i need ! Thank you so much ❤️
Quick Tip: If you are adding heaps to the master, you probably have not mixed your track very well. Go back, and make tweaks there. You can ADD things, but once bounced out, you cannot REMOVE them.
lovin your stuff ash
+AriIsSleeping good tips. And thanks ❤️
❤️
sorry, I'm not native, what do you mean with heaps?
heaps = a lot of. in this context, this would mean "if you are adding a lot of plugins to your master..."
AriIsSleeping okay thanks
Please do a mixing tutorial! Thank you!
thank you for someone who explains n teaches about mastering thank you very helpful!!
Rip I used to use Logic Pro x on my old Mac I spent a stupid amount of money on but it was stolen when I was robbed while at work. I miss my old music stuff so much but ig some people are unlucky and gotta start from the bottom again. Just had to vent tbh
that fucking sucks my dude, only giving you positive vibes from now !
Brothers Aspect So sorry about that same thing happened to me
this is the first video i found after months of looking that actually helps
When u know how to master but you watch this anyway
You've been bashing him on this video for months why don't you show us your work since you know so much?
@Ksus Susk who's mans is this?
@@davidschwartz3427 facts he's literally on every comment
@@GoOnGaly Right? If that doesn't expose you as an insecure little know it all then I don't know what does.
It's a frequency sweep
"I'm going to explain"
> explains nothing.
What do knobs do? What do curves do that you adjusted? What anything does to a signal? You adjusted volume curve at places where volume peak even didn't reach. Why?
Still, at least the process and steps are seen. Thanks.
To be fair, all those things are specific to your track. If you k ow the process, its basically a matter of preference. Just experiment and see what works with your track.
I think most of the viewers are not that of beginners that they don't know what any of the knobs do. Check out some other tutorials like from this channel called 'in the mix'. But I reccomend playing around with the knobs yourself and find out what they do
I agree with u man
Very nice video thanks
*The knobs weren't intimidating up until he said they were*
really helpful
"a mistake most beginners make is having a limiter on the master track"
*proceeds to put it on*
Oh okay
he meant while making the track
...i think
he explained perfectly why he enabled it, and why u shoudnt.
KODIAXE I literally thought the same thing when I first watched this but maybe he means while recording and mixing not to have a limiter on the Master and wait till you’re at the end of the Mix basically like how he was at the start of the video
When I use my limiter on the Master Track, I have the Gain & Ceiling cranked all the way up while having the Master slider on the mixer turned down to 50% (12.7).
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE VIDEO...IT IS THE BEST MASTERING TUTORIAL ON EARTH.
I really appreciate this video. Gave me a whole lot. I have a question though: i follow your steps and enhance the sound tremedously on my tracks, but the "sound wave" or whatever its called where u can see the twists and turns of the track (for example on Soundcloud) looks pretty much like a solid block of bass. It is a bassy techno track but still, there are parts with just a highpitch synth too. Other technotracks seem to get way more detailed sound waves (or what u call em.. ) thanks for feedback on this and thanks again for your help!
it's the dynamic range. because you made your track esentally louder and put a limiter on it, you lost some of the range between how low or loud your track can get :D
1:23 my favorite part
anyway, thanks mate for the knowledge 🤙
where soft clipper gang at!?
10 \10
Bro I'm subscribing when I heard that vocal chops.. It's unreal
That was a dope chop tho.
Its ight.....
I agree def my style
i need to know how he did it
@@AXOLOTLKINQ he has a video where he shows how he did it on his channel. Its tight.
this guy is a FUCKING GENIUS !
You're Legend
he is
I thought he was Asher postman
Yep he's pretty real.
Hakim Can YILMAZ ne işin var burda reis :D burayı ele geçirdim
Anaperius r/dadjokes
Nicely done Ash
is there a reason why when you are mastering it in another session of fl studio why it is on insert 1 linked to the master and not just directly on the master insert on the mix board???
Well, one good reason is saving memory. When you export the audio to a new project you're using a lot less than with mixing session with all the plugins and tracks used there.
Asher thanks for this video! This helped a bunch! On a side note..when you gonna get some acoustic treatment for your sweet studio?
great tips man!
This is what i needed men🤩, thank you very much👏
Don't know if I'd call this real mastering, but for the bedroom wanna be that doesn't have the funds (not talking about you) it's a good starting point. Only thing is at the end when comparing before and after you should level match the two as you will be naturally drawn to the louder one but that doesn't mean it sounds better.
UgpFpv very true, things sound better loud, it's why the loudness war exists. I find more luck mastering my stuff lower and not trying to crank everything to as loud as it can be without distorting it. When I do that I throw off the dynamics of the song I made. If rather have people turn it up than miss what I've spent time making.
Haha, for sure. But I think all the people looking up how to master on RUclips are going to be bedroom wanna be's. We know we can't beat the labels after an afternoon of RUclips & messing around in FL. But it's insane how close we can get.
your tutorials helped alot ,really learned alot that i didnt know at all ,thhanx man....
Very useful and helpful tutorial, could use a little more explanation though, but very good!
This video is so good!
Thank you so much Asher
Hey Asher. In Fl Studio, my file doesn't go over 0.0 db and I cannot hear any clipping occurring. However after exporting the file, there is clipping in the exported audio! How do we solve for that?
+Kich Official there’s this thing called “true peaks” that can go above 0 dB without you seeing. If you use Ozene 7 you can fix that easy but I’m not sure how to do it with FL Plugins. Maybe try setting the ceiling to like -0.2 dB, or turn the master “post” gain on maximus down a little.
Quick solution! Don't export to MP3. LAME MP3 has gain staging that will always clip your files. I would suggest normalizing (that is WITH A GAIN KNOB, not a compressor) to -3db, and exporting to a 24bit WAV or FLAC file. Preferrably 96khz if you can. This will just allow for future possibilities and ability to downscale. From there on, you can also export to other formats, sampling rates, bit depths, etc. Turning down the volume digitally 'loses' bits, so there for 24bit will be a standard minimum. When exported from FL and converting to other formats, it's handy to do a trial run first and see how much headroom you have left after conversion. Subtract that from -3db and then turn the gain of the whole file up the resulting number/amount to have your convert/release exports peaking at just below 0dB. because 0dB is actually clipping.
Thanks for the quick responses! Much appreciated!
If you are using the FL ASIO driver make sure the option for automatic clipping is not selected.
Where can I find this option? It is not in the audio settings.
Thank you so much
Can i use a refrence track to get the loudness? Like with the plugin first i can test the loudness of already perfect song and then i can employ the same volume value to my mix. Is it okay?
+Peter Van Goublin use the YouLean loudness meter I showed in the vid and see how many LUFS the reference song is. Then you can try to match your song to that. And yes that’s always a good idea!
Asher Postman Music thanks Asher...i mastered my track with the tutorial you showed its pretty much dope...thanks for sharing
Goddamn I just mastered and it made it sound like a broken subwoofer xD Something is wrong here.
There might be a problem in the mix
Asher please do a "How I made Fuel My Love" video or any other of your remixes/originals. Absolutely love all your music
You look like Steve Harrington from Stranger Things. Thanks for the Tutorial!
+David Matthew lol that’s what one of my friends said 😆
Can't unsee
Same lol
@@AsherPostmanMusic no, it is you boi!
TM-88 says all you need to do is level
tm 88 only makes mediocre trap beats, mixing and mastering isnt hard when you make simple beats
Yeah level (as a producer/beatmaker)... then they give it to an engineer lol they miss that part.
bro i love you so much thank you for this video you are an amazing teacher thank you a million times
but its totally wrong to say: "make sure while mixing your song there are no plugins on the master bus" ... sorry but thats bullshit!
yeah your right lmao. but hey its youtube he can say what he wants without being corrected XD
Explain
YoungBlaze for FL Studio, the master preset automatically comes with Fruity Limiter that limits the instrumental you use go above 0 dbz. When I took it off, the instrumental sounded highly distorted. It’s better to leave it on, but not to make any tweaks to it.
@@tdengz No you should leave it off from the beginning so it doesn't sound distorted. If you leave it on, it will cut a lot of frequencies.
Thank you i really needed this
cool simple video, super grateful, every video ive seen is just super obnoxious, using words you have to google every sentence. great video to get started and follow along with for beginners
just looked on your channel looking for more tutorials, should definitely keep doing them :)
same Dylan hahaha
Nice video 🎆✨🎆✨
😃😃😃😃😃
Thanks man! Helped a lot
That First 3 second of him saying ignite the fire in me omg
I wanna record that through my mic and sample It so bad it's the perfect riser
thanks this really helps out a lot.
"Don't put effects on the master bus"
*puts a limiter on the master bus*
he was showing you why NOT to do it...
Don't put before mixing, put it after mixing to have headroom for mastering
helped allot. tnx