Garageband Mastering Tutorial-Custom Preset for you! - 2017 

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I recently recorded, sorta mixed, and mastered a three song ep all on my own for the first time recently. I gained a better understanding, I still feel like I have no idea what I'm doing, but I definitely improved and enhanced my recording further than I expected after watching your video.Thank you for sharing and being a super dude. Party on!

I'm a beginner to mastering, this has been incredibly helpful. Thanks so much for taking the time in making this.

I have watched so many videos by you this week alone and i'm learning so much, my music is getting to the quality I want thanks to you

I don't usually comment on videos to say they were helpful but this video is the most informative and useful video for mastering in Garageband that I have ever seen. Thank you.

Lewin. I've been watching you for years. I just started a radio/podcast and you have been my professor. Thank you so much! This video helped more than you'll ever know.

I have to say that your presentation of 'how to master' is one of the clearest and concise I have encountered. The job of any educator is to make the student understand the subject and this is exactly what you are able to do. You, sir, are outstanding and have earned a subscriber.

Where have you been all my life? These videos have just bought it all together for me. Thank you so much.

Anytime I look up anything GarageBand this guy pops up Super useful pls keep it up

very nice and informative brudda. thanks. I recently acquired a Mac mini and GarageBand for the first time and I'm blown away at how advanced and user friendly it is. keep the vids coming please. Cheers!

Thanks Lewin. Just picked up on your channel a few months ago - great work. I've used a lot of your techniques already and this tutorial will help even more. Thanks again

Thank you for your generosity, it's precious to be able to learn so much in such a short time, at home ! 👍😊

Your the best! I really liked that you explained the basic of compression n limiters n showing me that mixing is jus clearing the beat n vocals why master hell you with leveling everything thanks man!!!

Was just about to give up on a project and this saved me. Thank you!!

you are a blessing man! theres a shortage of minimalist audio engineers. everyone thinks they need to drop 50 grand on equipment before they can get a good mix.

Awesome video! I was going to send the session to a friend who uses Logic, in order to get the output higher, and PUM! I found your channel and it worked, I only had to use the Compressor, and Multipressor only and it worked great! One song ready! 9 more to go! Thanks for sharing!

Great mastering intro! Gives your mixes a brilliant place to start from - which I found really useful. Thanks!

You helped improve 100%. Thank you so much for taking time to just tell simply a process for a master. Subbed, liked, watched again, and oh what the hell, again... awesome!

WOW!!!!!! I love what I heard, great mixing job. You actually got great broadcast quality from garageband with that plugin.Great job.

I keep watching your videos, and I'm learning! they're a great help thanks for taking the time and keep up the good work.

Thank you for all tutorials you published here, been really helpful for beginners like me.

Appreciate the video mate. Have just finished mastering the new album, sounds pretty damn good, mastering has polished it nicely Thank you

Thanks, the no eq and no compression before export makes total sense to me now. Back to the drawing board :)

Thank you! I'm making daily songs and now my own beats using only garage band. I haven't even thought about mastering. I'm really excited to see the results after some practice. Subscribed, liked, notifications on. Thanks again.

just used your preset to master and edm song i made, so much gain and clarity !!!!! thank you

This was a huge help. Thanks from Manchester UK. 👍🏻 My tracks are sounding a little more fuller thanks to your knowledge share. ✌🏼

Dude! You just saved me like 50 bucks on my music! I can do it myself now!!! Yay! Thanks! Now I can keep learning this stuff.

Dude you just saved my life and money on mastering my album!!! Thank you so much!!!!

love this!!! THANK YOU!!! I am getting to submit my tracks to a label and this is definitely helping me out...

wow, this really helped me make my song sound SO MUCH better, thank you

THANKS FOR MAKING THIS! FINALLY SOME ANSWERS TO MY QUESTIONS!

Thank you! I have listened to all of your mastering videos and taken it all on board. The only thing I didn't get was the "going into the red" on mastering. I always did that and it sounded great. Thanks for clearing this up!! PS I am old enough to remember tape which did NOT like going into the red :)

The Advertiser Chris Graham did a great job mastering a tune for me. I highly recommend him!

I've been doing more DIY recording and producing for my own stuff and this video is so helpful!!

Incredibly helpful, thank you so much! Love your channel!

Great job explaining the mastering process

Thanks for the information. It is really easy to follow and very easy to apply to good effect.

Thank god garage band and LPX are the same cause this actually helped. some things i knew but others tips helped. Thanks!

Thanks mate! really help me so much. I will look on another video that you made before

Really helpful info, keep it coming thanks

I miss my TASCAM SX-1 but am digging garage band, and your presentations.

Excellent mate been watching few of your videos lately.

This was a wonderful video! I learned a lot thank you very much.

Holy crap this is the instruction I've been looking for for 5 years. Amazing video and education. I'm recording my 4th album and now I want to remix my entire catalog. Ugh.

Thanks for this. I found it helpful and practical.

Thanks again so much for these videos. I really like knowing how to do the export. That way I can do the track edits/mixing and then export. Then I can go back to that mix and experiment more. Then export that as export B. Then I can compare the results after mastering each versions.

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I am learning so much from your videos!

Fantastic! Thank you! So very helpful!

thank you so much... I am living the dream. Just recorded my first garageband song and I just did my first master

THANKS fro explaining and showing things the way it suits and helps me :D

Learning tons from you Bro!. Subbed. Thanks for sharing this.

Thank you for this! You are a hero!

Thanks! I use Garage band for all of my audio. Great tutorial!

Nah this was exactly what I needed cause I had a good mix but the level was low and I didn’t know y until I exported the mp3 file and did this step by step helped wayyyyy to much

i love you man, thanks so much

Thank you, this was very helpful!

I appreciate your videos so much. Thanks from Montréal

You the man, mane!

THIS IS MY FAVOURITE VIDEO :)

Thanks, really useful video

Thank you so much man! That was really helpful!!!

That was such a help. Thanks

Amazing!! Thanks a lot!!

This helped alot thank you so much!

Awesome Instructions, user-friendly

This was amazing, very helpful, new sub here!

Awesome, thanks!! Crystal

Wonderful tutorial.

Very helpful. Thank you!

Good video well presented. Good job. Thanks.

VERY HELPFUL THANKS

When I view my plugins I have all of them except Multi processor. How do I add that in?

GREAT CHANNEL & VIDEOS. THANK YOU FOR ALL THIS INFORMATION. LIKED and SUBSCRIBED.

that was great ...thanks man

i swear you're gonna be the reason i'm famous. back to square one wish me luck

thank you, super helpful!

You Rock Lewin. Now if I could get you to respond about mixing and mastering a song of mine, the world would be right! :)

Thanks for doing this

Maybe _because_ there's limits inherent with Garage Band (albeit GB10) that we _can_ master a pro mix. Just like the Auratones relationship to Abbey Road Hi-Fi speakers. Two extremes that make you use your "eyes and ears". Kudos on the tutorial.

Great discussion about mastering. Would love for you to step through mastering with the Slate plug-ins.

Thanks for the video... ✊🏾

From where do i download the preset?

Great video! Thank you :)

Much appreciated 💯💯💯

thanks for sharing so good

Dear Sir, I already updates garageband and right now Im unhappy. I coudnt find Vocal effects and Vocals-Gospel Choir. Could you please help me how could I find this or how could I download the old version of garageband. I looking forward your answer. thank you and hve a nice day from Turkey.

i got my songs at least 3x louder thanks man!

A couple of notes about keeping levels out of the red. The OCD in me really freaked out when Apple removed the peak hold indicators of each track and the master volume indicator, compounded by the change to gradient color changes from yellow to red, rather than "hard" yellow and "hard" red. I needed to find a way to trust the meters, so I generated a solid tone in Audacity that peaked at 0db, brought that into GarageBand, set the track level to 0db, and observed the playback volume meters using both the track meter and a 3rd party VU meter on the effects chain. As I expected, GarageBand's track meters are off by about -1.4db, so when you see a track going into the red... it's not really clipping. The master volume indicator is off by even more - about -2.8db. (More on this in a second) To make the meters useful, I've taken to adding Gain set to -1.4db to the bottom of the effects chain for each track, and I can then adjust the volume up to the point that I see the first indication of red (or lower, of course, as required for the mix). Once you turn the Gain off (which, of course, you should since it's just there to make the meters read accurately), the track will go into the red, but if you export the track and look at it in any other audio application you'll see that it does not go beyond 0db. Okay, so why are the meters off? I think this is Apple condescending to what they believe to be the ignorance of home market. Managing gain can be really tricky, so by bringing the "into the red" threshold down for each track and the master volume it kind of tricks users into not pushing their mixes too hard - especially where you have lots of tracks playing simultaneously. Moreover... the master volume slider has absolutely no effect on export if auto normalize is turned off (unless set to negative infinity). But there is a kind of placebo effect of the meters on users when setting track volumes. So, if the meter is off by -2.8db, it makes users more sensitive to setting individual track volumes, which (unless auto normalize is off) is far more important to export. Ever notice the lack of precision in the master volume slider? You'd think that this would be fairly finely tuned as an essential input variable to exporting. But... no, it really jumps around. I'm pretty sure that with GB 10.x, Apple's emphasis shifted to exporting with auto normalize on, which - from Apple's perspective - solved the avalanche of user complaints with earlier releases that "my song isn't loud enough". As such, they also changed the behavior of the meters to psychologically train users to record at lower volumes. Anyhow, some thoughts!

If you hold the scrubber on the track meter and drag it around youll notice it actually does have numbers beside it

Hi Lewin, I am a big fan. Your tutorial have made a big different in my work. I have tried your suggested plugins. Being curious, why not I tried those present in the master track before I exported my song to a AIF file. I do see a different in the music wave. It is a bit fuller, compared to mastering it after exporting it. In your professional opinion, why should we do the mastering presets after exporting, not before?

I need step by step stuff like this THANKS SO MUCH - I do a lot of mic amps/cabs and I fight the distant sound of them when heavy distortion is there. I want to simply bring them from ok to killer without mashing the levels.. Any help? Part two - is I want to bring my final products volume up. I feel they sag. Suggestion in the combo of levels with master, EQ and track?

Great, thanks man!

Love the video. Do you have tips for solo classical guitar mastering?

Hey lewin thanks for all of the great videos! As far as mastering goes which plug in is essential for getting the volume up to professional level? My recordings always sound much more quiet than anything on itunes or CD. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks again for the videos!

Hi Lewin, greetings from India. I have followed this Mastering technique you have described in this video. The problem is this: the Master sounds extremely good and loud [with the knobs turned up to around 45%] when heard through headphones or external monitors via the Focusrite interface. But, when I hear through my iMac's system speakers, the loudness is greatly reduced. I have to put the computer's speakers turned on to full volume for a like loudness heard vie the interface. The exported file too sounds low. Where am I going wrong? Can you please enlighten me? [I have turned off auto normalise while exporting]. Waiting for illumination. Regards. Dr. Somanna

Thank you very much!

Thank you very much Lewin. I learned a lot from these tutorials. Please do an acoustic guitar track EQing and mastering tutorial. I am having trouble getting my acoustic guitar tracks to sound natural and ambient. Great channel, great videos, thanks.

This was great. YOU are great. I'm gonna check out the updated one now. BTW, why export as AIFF. Not WAV? Thanks!

Cheers Brother u da man!

Thanks for this