UV#24 Mastering an EDM single with Ardour, Calf and EQ10Q
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- unfa vlog #24
I'm mastering an EDM single. I take you through t he whole process from start to finish.
I also talk about the loudness normalization on RUclips and what it means for music mastering the dynamic range.
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· Links:
• Bartika Eam Rai - Timi... - listen to the final release
www.ardour.org/ - Ardour DAW official website
calf-studio-gea... - Calf plug-in bundle official website
eq10q.sourcefor... - EQ10Q plug-in bundle website
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Now go, make some music!
I have never in my damn life, never ever, EVER!!!! Come across a more needed ans useful channel! Mate your a legend
You are a truly decent person. Thank you so much for sharing and trying to make the world a better place :-)
that sound which you are mixing is nepali , i was totally not expecting that lol , i just loved it
I just found this video and found it to be very useful. My mastering in the old days was very similar but missing a few steps at the end because we weren't dealing with LUFS and just outputting to CD. I typically ran a limiter on peaks at about -3 dB depending on the material and did a small amount of deep compression on the music to bump it up. I love that you are talking about dynamic tracks being the new loud. Back then most things were squished within about 4 dB or so for radio to avoid the hard limiters of the radio systems squashing the music but I've always preferred leaving tracks more dynamic. Of course, this depends on listening environment. Listening in your car on a CD (more from disk today) is much different than the quiet of your living room.
Thanks for the tutorial about LUFS and RUclips's compression. This will help me greatly mastering for RUclips and other video platforms compared to a master for release on a digital device.
Yours is one of the most useful tracks for professionals around. Thanks again and keep doing what you're doing.
Peace,
David
Glad I found this channel. This is awesome! Thanks.
Glad you found it worthy :)
Been following your videos on ardour. And suddenly I hear Bartika's song here. Damn. Thanks for this. This has been one of my favorite songs of all time. Haha.
I'm grateful for your videos, they first taught me to use Audiacity and now Ardour. Since I'm just converting my LP's to MP3, I don't want to spend copious amounts of money on software.
Loved watching your FULL process of something like this :) thanks!
This is great content! I'm only halfway through and looking forward to finishing watching this tomorrow. It's something I really need to try. Especially as I've been making beats since around 1986 :-D [I started on the Atari 800XL using an amazing program called MicroRhythm]
This was exactly what I needed. Thanks!
Dynamic is the new loud. Well said unfa :)
Always nice to watch your videos!
Always nice to read such comments :)
I'm impressed how it took so few tools. You have already explained that was because the original mix was already pretty loud. But what if it wasn't? What kind of additional tools would you use? Do you use Jamin? If you do, can you post a video about linking it to Ardour and using it? Thanks in advance for that, and thank you for being so gentle in sharing your knowledge with us.
Awesome! I'm learning a ton with your videos, thanks!
Hey man... cingratulations for this video. Really some people are in the unfinish loudness war.. In Brazil is the same. -8 lufs normally.
Rick Capellano thank you! Yeah, a lot of commercial releases are absolutely destroyed with pointless clipping and limiting. Such a shame!
Nicely done Tobiasz. I love this tutorial.
9:29 Spectral analysis proportional
9:15 Spectral analysis similiar to pink noise
Love your content! So glad I found you
Thanks :)
RUclips algorithms makes mew want to watch this, so here I am.
Great video! My only criticism is you should have included a before/after at the end
Good idea, thanks :D
Great approach
You're a funny guy Unfa. You're music is good bro.
Spectral analysis of music is more similiar to pink noise 3.1 dB / octave? brown noise has 6.2 dB / octave
Put your Soundcloud music also on Bittubers com this way you will at least earn a few Tubes...
I hope you can make also a few not so hectic EDM pieces... like Vocal trance pieces with good melodies...
But all your stuff on Soundcloud sounds too hectic for my tastes... lol... but well produced... lol...I will also try to produce soon some music with Ardour... Which distribution do you use in this moment ? Still Manjaro ? Which version is best for the DAWs ? Many thanks. Regards, Stefan.
Hi unfa and thanks for the video.
One question: is mastering done everytime on a mix or can you do directly on the Master track of a song you are creating for example in Ardour?
Hey! In my opinion mastering is best done in a separate session. Why?
1. It forces you to commit to a mix and call it done, before you move on to mastering;
2. It helps you focus on mastering, without the temptation of tweaking the mix well;
3. It frees up your CPU time to focus on mastering, speeding thing up in case your song session is pushing your hardware.
thanks for your insights@@unfa00 . Always appreciated!
Thanks again!
How can I add free plugins to my Ardour. Can you make video for beginner, how to add new plugins to the program. Thanks!
1 Question, could i make EQ match with this EQ? And Hello!
Cool video!! Learning already with your videos as always! How did you do those cool keyboard shortcuts on the video???
Thanks! It's a program called `keymon` (Keyboard Monitor).
I like LMMS!
The song is in Nepali language
BFD drums is free can that be used in Linux Ardor etc.
I haven't heard about that, can't help. I'd venture a guess someone in my community chat knows though :)
chat unfa xyz
Hey Unfa as usual good job, following you in this was very fun.
Hey i noticed you like LBRY, me too, i even helped them some while ago ^^.
Anyways, have you heard of Musicoin? Whats your stake with Musicoin :D? i'd love to know
Thanks! I haven't researched Musicoin - I think I've heard about it but I certainly don't have an opinion yet :)
Ardour my love, i want your heart - the main loop ;)
I've shared this on Drooble. There are a lot of musicians who could use this.
Thank you! I'm very glad to hear that.
came from mos nepal
Welcome to the backstage :)
great info about ardour vst's mastering. cheers from argentina mf!
i didnt watch the last part of the vid where the spining lightbulb is, i have a few of it not spining LOL
Thanks :)
This is a very nice video but I'm gonna be honest, I couldn't really hear half the things you were changing xD
I guess I need to learn how to listen for these subtle things
Does anybody know if there is an ebumeter like this one he used here that works for Arch Linux? I can't find any
This plugin is from x42 Meters and it's called EBU R128:
archlinux.pkgs.org/rolling/archlinux-community-aarch64/x42-plugins-20210114-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz.html
@@unfa00 Thank you very much! Your channel is awesome!
Hey bro, you don't use Jamin?
I have tested it like a decade ago, but I haven't been using it for production really. I prefer plug-ins from standalone software, it is easier to switch between projects etc. There's a new FOSS plugin from falkTX (among others) that does what Jamie did, but also manages LUFS levels live. I should make a video on it sometime...
@@unfa00 awesome, i'm actually using jamin in my workflow but i gotta check falkTX, see if i can upgrade :)
I do like the idea of being able to use ardour 100% for even mastering.
Oh, this Is literally about mastering, I thought it would be about mastering it.
Ummm, I don't think I could do an EDM Masterclass in one video...
But if you watch a lot of them, it's probably gonna get you significantly closer to that goal ;)
do you or anyone know how to get ebumeter into ardour, i installed it from software manager in linux mint 19.3, but i cant seem to use that one with ardour, or am i not doing paths right? figure it would work, the eq10 deal installed and found it with searching vsts, but not ebur128, i thouroughly googled this to no avail....great video very useful info thanks, just stuck on the ebur128.
Have you installed the x42 metering plug-in bundle?
@@unfa00 thanks no i didnt have x42, installing now, thank you Unfa!
@@alienandroid943 Great! Good luck :)
hi unfa would this be similar for acoustic tracks or just roughly?
It probably would. The process is very similar, but the exact values you dial in depend on the material and artists intent.
the track needs a lot of help; highs are annoying, dynamics is flat and transients is out of control etc. loudness is the least concern. You sure you are mastering here ?
I don't claim to be the master of it, though maybe we just have wildly different tastes?
I like sharp transients in my music for example. I'd love to see a video from you fixing that :)
You had plenty of time time at the end of the track. Just grab the last few seconds and fade it.
Yeah, that would probably suffice.
got really confused hearing someone singing in nepalese LUL, anyways nice tutorial.
The song is sooo badly mixed. Don't bother mastering it.
I used it as an example to show the basic tools you can use to master mixes using free and open source software on Linux. Sure you would want to first make your mix as good as possible before mastering, but that was not the point of this video.
@@unfa00 I know. But mastering is also about being honest :-)
sorry, i cant listen to more then a few bars. try to master the Music
dont waste your time on political correctness you seem a very clever guy.....
That song was ghastly lol. And the bassline is out of tune 😅