Gain Staging is a lie. Here is why. 

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One benefit of gain staging when mixing is that if you start every song with the kick at the same level your brain develops a reference point and you start mixing faster.

This helped me a lot Max! Especially when I'm processing vocals. The easiest way for Newtone to match its grid with that of the Playlist, is to consolidate the vocals. So everytime I do and I get clippings, I just hit the normalize and BOOM!! You're the best Max 🖤 Love from Suriname 🇸🇷

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Anything with analogue emulation, like vintage chorus, some types of filters, reverb emulations, and so on, have not only got non-linearities you need to be aware of, but also a built-in noise-floor. So yeah, you could send your signal into those plugins real quiet and gain it back to normalized levels afterwards, but if you're not aware of the plugin's features you can easily be introducing noise. And the last thing you want in your mastering stage is to have several channels with a boosted noise-floor. It all boils down to knowing the plugin you're using, and what it does to the signals dynamics. (whether that signal is loud or quiet)

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This makes sense. When I use my 3rd party channel strips tho, I do hit them hard......they are built like that. I'll adjust if things start sounding clippy or too garbled. Thx for the video Brother.

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at 2:47 when you export you move your mouse around 32 point-sinc which is the resampling quality and not the bit depth (which is just slightly above) and correctly set up. Obviously you were just going fast and you know it I'm just mentioning it in case someone gets confused and thinks this is the setting to change :) Amazing video quality as always, keep up the good work!

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most in Terms here you are right, but With propper Gain Staging you are also able to Make very fine Adjustments at the Mixerlevels ;) this will definitive not work without Gain Staging ,, by that i mean , when people have their Mix Sliders almost all the way down ..and when thy wanna make a Change of 1dB or a half dB then it will make changes of 20 to 30 dB per Move ;) at the Bottom Mixslider area . And then they are confused why they can't Make good Mixing Levels ;)

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Gain staging also help to standardized the rms value or perceived loudness of your sound. Especially when you need to set the rms value of all instruments and sample in your project to the same level.

Gainstaging is not a lie. Nobody nowadays will tell you to gainstage because you need to avoid distortion when using digital equipment. In every Video about gainstaging instead you're told to gainstage because louder always sounds better. which always is the case. In order to make rational and useful mixing decisions it is therefore important to gainstage to know that actually the change (for e.g.) of the eq-cut / compression ratio / distortion (especially there) made it better and not only the difference in loudness. Something which happened to me so soo many times: The sound i'm working on doesn't sound full or strong enough. I try to change that by using a saturator/distortion. It does sound better but after gainstaging and a/b-ing i notice that i like the original version better, it just wasn't loud enough. With gainstaging i therefore avoided some unnecessary distortion - but in a totally different way than this video is implying.

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So in short, audio keeps preserved no matter the level, even when it seems like it is clipping on a mixer. (Just turn the volume down afterwards) But the way non-linear effects work, like compression and distortion, are input-level dependend.

Please is there any way to do biannural panning in fl studio. Make a tutorial about it. Your tutorials are so accurate. Thanks for the info you put out. 😍

sort of accidentally stumbled upon this concept. I was compressing vocals but with the threshold I had, the compressor was not getting triggered, so I used fruity limiter to see visually at what threshold it got triggered.

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Dear Bro, i really like the way you explain stuff. I was wondering if you have your mixing and mastering course for cubase

I argued with someone about this and I wish they would watch this video because it pretty much validates everything I was trying to say.

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Hey Max, I hope you're doing great, I'd like to ask you if you use reference songs when mixing or how you set levels? Thanks a lot

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Hi mate, can you please do a video on music theory hacks? Also, can you please do a video on showing the power of stock synths like Harmor or Sytrus? Thank you.

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Hi there Max, please can you make a video basing on what to do, for example a sound that has extremely low rms value and a very large peak value,as for me this sound I find it myself as having great disadvantages as myself have seen so many producers saying you should turn up your compressor to peak mode but when I do that as I start compressing as much as possible to attain the low rms value to a big one,suddenly my sample start sounding distorted and much more as I increase the threshhold it forces me as well to simultaneously increase the ratio too.The biggest issue comes here on the mix by where some producers feel like they want turn up the volume of this sound in a mix just because they perceive the this sound as too quiet due to the low rms value but maybe there wouldn't understand or get an idea that the sound has a very low rms value and a very huge peak value....and as soon as me and other producers as well start turning up the volume for this sound to be more audible in the mix then the peak meter already starts peaking maybe around +3db,but still the sound is not as loud as I want it to be.Thats what I do,the thing is I like experimenting sometimes but I'm aware that I should not clip our mix buses.As I started knowing this thing of rms,Vu,dbfs,then I figured out back then, that me and other producers as well have confusion on thinking that if the peak meter is round 0db on the master bus then we will be like "which means I haved nailed the loudness",but as these intermidiate producers start maybe playing their audio on phones,good quality audio systems,as well as trash audio systems,Thier audio starts sounding to small and liveless.Then they start wondering,they will be like"but my mix sounds quiet but how come my meter there was peaking around 0db",then comes this issue that I want you to explain in the video I'm requesting,do you big guys start analysing firstly the rms values of your samples at first,let me maybe say there might be a sample or samples that some how have very low rms values and very big peak values...like you guys is there any other way or tricks you do,to keep the peak value almost closer to the rms value in this situation, maybe without using saturation,compression and soft clipping because in such a sample if I use all of these plugins i mentioned the appropriate way,my sample start sounding like it has lost a lot of information,even if I use the compressor it will be affecting peaks on my sample waveform due to the high increase of threshold and high ratio on the compressor.Let me say at the end my results for my sample,I want them to be like as follows; 1)at the end I want the sound to be sounding clean and let me say fairly punchy without ay distortion or clipping. 2)rms value and peak value almost closer to each other Please Max go through these details and make a video almost covering the details on what I wrote. I need support Max. I'm so clumsy on just letting someone understand the problem of music production quires I'm having.I'm hopefully anxiously waiting for the video you can directly inbox me if some how there is no clarity on what I wrote in this following Gmail address lilskrillagee@gmail.com

Am Facing the same Problem on my every mixing sessions I real don't know how my Spectrum freaquency Bands should look like if there is Some secreat please Make a Video of it on how to balance high mid and Low so the music to sound less harsh and more Alive thanx.

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in the traditional/analog sense of gain staging (making sure headroom is left from a static mix) yes technically that's over because actual clipping isn't as big of a deal anymore and people don't understand the difference because of exactly what you're talking about, but I use it more as a name for a way to describe the "uniquely set dynamic range between all other tracks to themselves."

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our sound engineer teacher told me the same thing but i didnt beleive him i thought that he dont know about gain staging cus he told me that i dont need to gain stage

Some people say 6db is Double Volume louder. some people say is 3db. Somebody know witch is right?

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dude says its a lie but then says you still gotta do it for compression and distortion. and then he says as long as you dont use compression on your master. what kind of fool doesn't compress the master or add saturation?

Nice video, your points are very good but I do have a little side note. Gain staging is more than only the gain staging to hear what an effect is doing, gain staging also has to do with the level amount before and after a effect has been used, the gain (level) staging between different elements of your mix and making sure your mix is clean and not too peaky before mastering. So yes what you explained in the video is true, but saying that gain staging as a whole is a lie, isnt true IMO. Maybe you can specify a bit more for beginning producers because it can be very confusing.

@fl studio tips plz max make a video about the production side of music i have ben told a 1000 times my production shud sound almost finish when sending it for a mix and that mixing is fixing small issues but how do i get to that point in my production is it my sound choise or what am i missing plz help i see alot of bedrooms producers struggeling at this stage to

so essentially, if i made a beat without using any plugins, and im peaking around -2db. all i have to do is bring down the fader on the master track if i want more headroom?

Does it sound the same when you export it? The DAW handles the audio at 32 floating point while outside the DAW the same auidio is handled at fixed point resulting into clipping and distortion

so where should you set everything if sending your music off to be mastered? Lowering the Master Channel volume by -6db would work but it just lowers the volume AND gain, Masterers have to have some head room to work with so what do you recommend?

make a video about how to achive louder music on youtubee

If you run a dac digital out to another dac digital in,, and have the last dac convert to analog.. will the last dac create the signature sound? Or will it be the first dac?

Wish you made this same video for logic

the plugins you have to worry about gain staging with are the ones that emulate analog hardware. if a plugin has a certain level they recommend the input signal being it should say in the manual.

Can u explain Skrillex Mumbai power gain staging cuz that's so cool and I really don't understand the pro l technique with ott that would be huge ty

The problem is not only digital clipping, but also the analog clipping when the preamp cant handle too much input gain.. so even tho you have 32bit A.I but you have crappy preamp, its useless.

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IF GAIN STAGING WAS A LIE THEY WOULDN'T HAVE FADERS IT WOULD JUST BE A NORMALIZE BUTTON THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR MIXERS

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Wow, I really didn't know this, I'm always so scared of seeing my meter go orange or red. Does this mean that when I'm recording vocals normalising or not normalising my audio clips don't really mean much? Because I'm usually afraid of clipping the audio

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That whole example where he clipped the sample and normalized it back blew my mind lmaooo

So when should you use 32 bit? On ever export? If I make a beat should I export it at 32 bit, or only for a master of a song?

Can i use rms for gain staging?

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Its just good practice? Hangover of the analogue days? But makes sense when recording analogue signals?

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feel like when i do gain staging my vst plugin for mixing are more effective more cleaner

Loved how you didnt mentioned or even show that your suppose to turn off master effects when bounching the track for the process to even work 😑

Why did you normalize it ? If you don't normalize it, It will clip, so prevent from this clipping you need proper gain sataging??? I didn't get this ? Please someone explain.

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Yeah it’s pretty easy. The only plug-ins I can think of that clip at zero is some analog emulation plugins, but that’s literally because they’re recreating that hardware

Is there any other way to do it because again again rendering then importing consumes a lot of time

how is he rendering the clips with effects? what's the shortcut?

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so if you turn the volume down of a mastered beat, record vocals, mix, and make the whole thing louder, you will not lose any information of the beat?

what about plugin aliasing?

How do people gain stage if they have to compress? How do you compress something sooo quiet is what I've always wondered

Ok but when iam normalize my sample, all the effects(like the EQ ir Reeverb) are gone? So what iam doing this fit

So basically, ignore if it’s clipping. Just don’t look at it and only use your ears, if it sounds good?

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