+1 but consider it is Mastering with Fab filter plug ins, great tutorial for an¨ in the box¨ Master as well great plug ins, but a Mastering for comercial purpose requires a lot better equipment. there is no You Tube video lesson about it is impossible to demonstrate, due the poor audio quality as well the most of us cant have access to the real tool needed for a good comercial song release master to heard the how to...
There's only a hand full of audio engineers revealing their "secrets" of sound engineering.. one of them is you. Thank you so much for these tutorials!
You guys are awesome. Instead of merely trying to sell us on your products, you gave us valuable lessons that we could theoretically put to use with just about any tools out there. I am now seriously considering purchasing some of your plugins. Way to go!
The technique with the treble and low end as faders is absolutely brilliant. You know those ads where it says: ‘Pro mixers don’t wont you to know this trick!’. This video is probably what they’re targeting.
this is the first tutorial of mastering on youtube were i actualy notice a big improvement on the music and get a deep understanding of what to look for in a the process, they say an image its worth 1000 words but in this case its the sound thats worth 1000 words! thanks for the tutorial!
10 years of making beats, and never thought to try Mastering with EQ frequency-based regions on sends with compression. Sure, there's multi-band compressors, but I love the level of control you have in your approach. It just clicks a bit more to me mentally than those all-in-one plugins.
Hey thanks for following up... I'm glad I could at least point you towards the right type of plugins for fixing the material, even if the specific one I mentioned didn't help you as much... Glad you got everything sorted out.
Its great for them to put some effort into making these videos greatly recorded and put together really shows off there plugins and helps people out THANKS
Beautifully done. That said, for those of us who work with vocal productions exclusively, I'd love to see a Fab Filter Mastering tutorial using a less eq intensive session, featuring more of what is essential to those of us producing/mixing songs for radio/iTunes Plus, etc. That is, differing uses of ProC as mix or master buss compression, and the various options with both Pro MB and finally, Pro L.
God, I needed to see these proper tutorials. An Adult explaining how basically, everything is done in the simplest way, yet still sound like he/she actually cares about what he/she is doing. Dan... thank you and keep on doing what you do! You rock!
Reaper & Fabfilter together = Fully customizable awesomeness ;) Thank you for the amazing tips in both tutorial parts. Still relevant to this day. Though the Pro Q3 now has Dynamic filtering to make corrections more true to the original mix.
@ballemand8000 use both ;) In my experience, each of these (Ozone and Fabfilter) are great for accomplishing different goals. fabfilter is slightly modular, so you can pick and choose your elements and routing to fit a specific purpose, while Ozone is just a big box of processing usefull for example on a master channel. i usually use fabfilter plugs on any channel, while i usually only use Ozone on the master.
Bravo. Nice work.Two comments though. The phase distortion that exists in the side component is fatiguing. At 5:16 it's removed for the "low mid" channel, thankfully, but the side is still a bit "washy". Also, a bigger overall complaint is how the electric bass (BD and snare too), gets neutered in many of today's mixes, Engineers, with these precision tools, control and even everything to the point that dynamics are trivial. The only way this will change is if musicians write with more dynamics.
multi-band compressors can do funny things at the crossover points so you could get close but the results would vary...what he is doing is more like side-chaining a compressor after a side-chain eq, which is the approach most mastering engineers prefer.
Yes Dan is very clever, i saw other tutorials from him doing Side Chain with EQ´s and compressor which have not this possibility, take a look at his channel, impressive
@ballemand8000 I don't know man. I agree FabFilter has the best EQ's and Comps but I use the Multiband Harmonic Exciter in Ozone for a lot of mixes. There are some other unique little functions too. but that is my favorite one that I can't get with other tape saturation plugins.
I think he made improvements but I also agree with you. In the end, the original, which sounded narrower, sounded fine other than some transients--I get fatigue listening to overly wide stereo spreads with boosted treble, the so called "shine", it could be even more subtle.
Thanks again, Dan! As you always stated, it is crucial to train the ears and with this slight insights, I do understand better and better what it is to aim for. It's awesome to get to know, where to pay attention on and how the freq.bands should sound like. Is there any deeper training video or soundfile, that is aiming only on training ears (e.g. before and after eq'ing)?
wow, I don't think i have the set up or sensitivity of ear to do this kind of thing. I could not really hear most of the changes as he was doing them, but the modified track was decidedly better sounding than the solo'd original.
Not only ears they are lot of clever decisition and study under this technique. has other pointed sure with practice and good monitoring as well the original wave version of the audio your ear will work, but your experience and brain is as important than your ears
I like throwing a De-esser on the mix to achieve the same effect for taming the cymbals. the one thing I don't like about fabfilter's DS plugin is that you can't adjust attack/release times.
This is great, thanks... I'm surprised you can get away adding those parallel channels into the output (like the one to improve the bass and the other to flatten down those cymbols) without reducing those same frequency bands in the original layer. Doen't the original issues (E.g. cymbols being too loud) still exist as that range is not reduced in the primary track?....
The cymbals being too loud only appeared when he attempted to apply a high shelve boost to the entire mix. He did that to try to bring out the melody more, but doing so caused the cymbals to be too harsh. Rather than try to find some compromise level of boost, he split the highs off and added compression to catch those cymbal transients.
@ChuckyB09 Not a bad idea actually :) I just got tired of Ozone's hard kind of limiting (could be that i haven't spent much time on it), i like it more gentle hehe. Anyway i think i'll try what you said. cheers
For those overwhelmed by this video, know that engineering legend andy Wallace never uses parallel compression or expanders. I do intend to use the info shown here, however. Great instruction!
I seem to have an inherent problem that when I hit the snare drum it picks up the high hat mic so I get both, and it makes a very washy snare sound, suggestions anyone?
At 3:25 you mention that the frequency-specific upward compression technique you used can be more transparent than the traditional method of using a frequency-specific multi-band compressor on these same frequencies; why is the former technique more transparent than the latter?
I think both are great but yeah so many awesome plugins EXIST its mindboggling but fabfilter has way more style :) Id say oxford plugins and fab filter are among the great ones of plugins for mastering and mixing.
Nice video! very usefull but i cant do the "treble and lo-mid track part" im using adobe audition cc and i dont know how to send the audio into another track ??? Is it possible to do it?
Worrall is a god! So, it makes sense he's using REAPER. Not many other DAWs would let you get away with having all those instances of FF plugs up and running like that with no stuttering. I am surprised to see him using Windows, though. He's a double god if he can get stuff done in Windows!
Can't believe this video is on 11-year old software and it's still more relevant than most of the stuff RUclipsrs are releasing on brand-new software.
This guy makes pretty much every other mastering tutorial on RUclips redundant. Amazing.
+1 but consider it is Mastering with Fab filter plug ins, great tutorial for an¨ in the box¨ Master as well great plug ins, but a Mastering for comercial purpose requires a lot better equipment. there is no You Tube video lesson about it is impossible to demonstrate, due the poor audio quality as well the most of us cant have access to the real tool needed for a good comercial song release master to heard the how to...
@@nandoblondemobydick5438 and what would be the "real tool"?
@nandoblondemobydick5438 time has demonstrated the opposite. In the box has done more than out of the box in the past years.
There's only a hand full of audio engineers revealing their "secrets" of sound engineering.. one of them is you. Thank you so much for these tutorials!
who are the other 4?
@@Jaburu you have big hands
i cant remember the last time i have learned so much in such a small amount of time... great job.
Seriously; me too!
You guys are pros. This video is one of the best tutorials I've ever seen.
You guys are awesome. Instead of merely trying to sell us on your products, you gave us valuable lessons that we could theoretically put to use with just about any tools out there. I am now seriously considering purchasing some of your plugins. Way to go!
One of the only educators on RUclips in the business that isn’t just an uneducated scammer
11 years ago tutorial?🫡👏 Amazingly Brilliant👏👌..Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and your wisdom😊 🙏 ❤️
FabFilter putting out the best video tutorials ever. Bravo.
I absolutely love that they are using Reaper! Such an underrated DAW.
The technique with the treble and low end as faders is absolutely brilliant. You know those ads where it says: ‘Pro mixers don’t wont you to know this trick!’. This video is probably what they’re targeting.
Nice to see Reaper being used with these high end plugins! Terrific video Dan!
Agree. As Reaper also is a highend tool :) Glad to see that more and more famous studios switch to it
this is the first tutorial of mastering on youtube were i actualy notice a big improvement on the music and get a deep understanding of what to look for in a the process, they say an image its worth 1000 words but in this case its the sound thats worth 1000 words! thanks for the tutorial!
The bypass comparison was soooooooo satisfying
That's the best mastering tutorial I have ever seen. I will approach my mixes a lot better from now.
I'm glad you mentioned the linear phase mode. Such an important thing and easy to miss unless you know what you're looking for
10 years of making beats, and never thought to try Mastering with EQ frequency-based regions on sends with compression. Sure, there's multi-band compressors, but I love the level of control you have in your approach. It just clicks a bit more to me mentally than those all-in-one plugins.
Hey thanks for following up... I'm glad I could at least point you towards the right type of plugins for fixing the material, even if the specific one I mentioned didn't help you as much... Glad you got everything sorted out.
Its great for them to put some effort into making these videos greatly recorded and put together really shows off there plugins and helps people out THANKS
Beautifully done. That said, for those of us who work with vocal productions exclusively, I'd love to see a Fab Filter Mastering tutorial using a less eq intensive session, featuring more of what is essential to those of us producing/mixing songs for radio/iTunes Plus, etc. That is, differing uses of ProC as mix or master buss compression, and the various options with both Pro MB and finally, Pro L.
Only just discovered this.. amazing stuff! The changes made during the mastering process are like night and day for this track.
God, I needed to see these proper tutorials. An Adult explaining how basically, everything is done in the simplest way, yet still sound like he/she actually cares about what he/she is doing. Dan... thank you and keep on doing what you do! You rock!
Nice choice of DAW...Reaper is amazing!
Reaper & Fabfilter together = Fully customizable awesomeness ;) Thank you for the amazing tips in both tutorial parts. Still relevant to this day. Though the Pro Q3 now has Dynamic filtering to make corrections more true to the original mix.
Wow - learnt so much. Would never of though of using an expander in mastering to give back more dynamics. Love all your plugins - they're brilliant.
Wow. This was incredible. One of the best tutorials I've seen. Thank you fabfilter for making this available.
Make sure you check Raz Klinghoffer's mixes, really good mixes
holy shit that gate expansion section is some next level mastering
Well done,hank you so much for these tutorials, it opened a new world of possibilities for anyone doing music
@ballemand8000 use both ;) In my experience, each of these (Ozone and Fabfilter) are great for accomplishing different goals.
fabfilter is slightly modular, so you can pick and choose your elements and routing to fit a specific purpose, while Ozone is just a big box of processing usefull for example on a master channel.
i usually use fabfilter plugs on any channel, while i usually only use Ozone on the master.
Dan! All these videos are amazing! I have learn't so much today! Best voice for this stuff too!
Bravo. Nice work.Two comments though. The phase distortion that exists in the side component is fatiguing. At 5:16 it's removed for the "low mid" channel, thankfully, but the side is still a bit "washy". Also, a bigger overall complaint is how the electric bass (BD and snare too), gets neutered in many of today's mixes, Engineers, with these precision tools, control and even everything to the point that dynamics are trivial. The only way this will change is if musicians write with more dynamics.
would love it if you can do a mastering tut on Dance music! Thx for this. Great!!
very good tut, learnt alot of tips, keep them coming please. It would be nice to see this guy do a tut on mixing
multi-band compressors can do funny things at the crossover points so you could get close but the results would vary...what he is doing is more like side-chaining a compressor after a side-chain eq, which is the approach most mastering engineers prefer.
Yes Dan is very clever, i saw other tutorials from him doing Side Chain with EQ´s and compressor which have not this possibility, take a look at his channel, impressive
you guys have best tutorials on youtube
song "Martin Smith - Medal Of Valour"
Awesomeness !!!
Thanks Dan for ALL that you do.
Steve
🤘🤩🤘
Well, thank you so much for these tutorials, it opened a new world of possibilities for me. No more tweaking EQ randomly!
Thanks sir !! Make a video about Pro MB and it's uses in mixing n mastering
@ballemand8000 I don't know man. I agree FabFilter has the best EQ's and Comps but I use the Multiband Harmonic Exciter in Ozone for a lot of mixes. There are some other unique little functions too. but that is my favorite one that I can't get with other tape saturation plugins.
now thats some next lv mastering skills
I think he made improvements but I also agree with you. In the end, the original, which sounded narrower, sounded fine other than some transients--I get fatigue listening to overly wide stereo spreads with boosted treble, the so called "shine", it could be even more subtle.
it is a tutorial as example not the real thing Dan said that at the end of the video
I absolutely love the visual ques! helps so much you dont even know
Damn I didn't know you can use Pro-G like that. thanks for the tips Dan.
Thanks again, Dan! As you always stated, it is crucial to train the ears and with this slight insights, I do understand better and better what it is to aim for. It's awesome to get to know, where to pay attention on and how the freq.bands should sound like. Is there any deeper training video or soundfile, that is aiming only on training ears (e.g. before and after eq'ing)?
whats the difference between limiter and compression (pro-L and pro-C)? great tutorial too.
limiter compressed above 0dB and compressor below 0dB
I understand your MB plugin better by watching this.
that song really makes that guy even more heroic :D
wow, I don't think i have the set up or sensitivity of ear to do this kind of thing. I could not really hear most of the changes as he was doing them, but the modified track was decidedly better sounding than the solo'd original.
youtube ruins audio quality
it's a lot more noticeable when you're actually doing these things
don't worry about it
Not only ears they are lot of clever decisition and study under this technique. has other pointed sure with practice and good monitoring as well the original wave version of the audio your ear will work, but your experience and brain is as important than your ears
I like throwing a De-esser on the mix to achieve the same effect for taming the cymbals. the one thing I don't like about fabfilter's DS plugin is that you can't adjust attack/release times.
the best explanation on youtube
This is great, thanks... I'm surprised you can get away adding those parallel channels into the output (like the one to improve the bass and the other to flatten down those cymbols) without reducing those same frequency bands in the original layer. Doen't the original issues (E.g. cymbols being too loud) still exist as that range is not reduced in the primary track?....
The cymbals being too loud only appeared when he attempted to apply a high shelve boost to the entire mix. He did that to try to bring out the melody more, but doing so caused the cymbals to be too harsh. Rather than try to find some compromise level of boost, he split the highs off and added compression to catch those cymbal transients.
The "Treble" and "Lo Mid" tracks are simply audio tracks or FX tracks? and how can I route the main track in these tracks using Cubase? Thanks!
PLEASE tell me what music is this? is it from who? it's amazing!
Impressed, depressed... XD
what the hell that parallel upward compression technique is insane
Thank you. Amazing plugins and amazing knowledge on how to use them. FabFilter FTW!
Give this man more time for videos!
Thanks for the vid. When switching to 16bit isn't a dithering necessary?
This makes me want the full mastering bundle and I haven't even done anything meaningful with what I have
damn your effective advertising
its 2023 and i am still learning
when he stopped moving the frequency band, it was still cancelling phase with the original track.
Amazing intelligent concepts all explained quite well. I want you brain, Dan!
@ChuckyB09 Not a bad idea actually :) I just got tired of Ozone's hard kind of limiting (could be that i haven't spent much time on it), i like it more gentle hehe. Anyway i think i'll try what you said. cheers
This is what I'm looking for... thanks 🙏
Thanks! Amazing Tutorial
Thanks so much for sharing this, what an awesome job and so informative!
quality!!! thanks for all these tutorials! U guys rock!
On my headphones (ATH M30x), the drum kick during choruses still sounds squashed and boomy
Ratimir Slavenski you would have to fix that during the Mix not the master
A load of info. Thanks! Great music as well!
For those overwhelmed by this video, know that engineering legend andy Wallace never uses parallel compression or expanders. I do intend to use the info shown here, however. Great instruction!
Interesting way to do mastering
I seem to have an inherent problem that when I hit the snare drum it picks up the high hat mic so I get both, and it makes a very washy snare sound, suggestions anyone?
This was an awesome tutorial...It solidifies for me the need to use Expert and Quality Mastering Engineers! lol
o boy this guy na real professor in the game oo. ah, so fabfilter Po get a big weapon like this, Thanks Worall
At 3:25 you mention that the frequency-specific upward compression technique you used can be more transparent than the traditional method of using a frequency-specific multi-band compressor on these same frequencies; why is the former technique more transparent than the latter?
awesome fabfilter pluggs & video
anyone know the song name?? great tutorial by the way :L
Awesome tutorial! Thanks! Keep up the good work.
and this song reminds me of the type of background music MOTD would use for goal of the month.
I think both are great but yeah so many awesome plugins EXIST its mindboggling but fabfilter has way more style :) Id say oxford plugins and fab filter are among the great ones of plugins for mastering and mixing.
Thank you, Dan, this is really informative!
That song is beautiful, I want It !
Maaan, this is a serious Pro-Stuff. Thanks a lot. Now I know what to work on in future :D
Why hate the opposition? Both Izotope and FabFilter make excellent plugins.
Can i use pro mb to solve all the low/mid&hi?
Nice video! very usefull but i cant do the "treble and lo-mid track part" im using adobe audition cc and i dont know how to send the audio into another track ??? Is it possible to do it?
+D-Ric P.B. stereo out / bus.
i want this guy to master my tracks!
hahahaha me too, but sure he use his studio and do a lot better work than that. Any way in lot of sense a very good tutorial
Superb
u can do same techniques with any other plugins... although i bought fab bundle 8)
awesome tutorial
Really man ..you are very inspiring..!! master like a pro..
That was great. Thank you.
Another great tutorial, thanks!
Worrall is a god! So, it makes sense he's using REAPER. Not many other DAWs would let you get away with having all those instances of FF plugs up and running like that with no stuttering. I am surprised to see him using Windows, though. He's a double god if he can get stuff done in Windows!
parallel compression? at 3.30?
Anyone recognise DAW software being used in this video with the FabFilter plugins?
Noob Question: How do you seperate the eq bands to mixer? BTW Fabfilter ROCKS!!
Very well done.