How I Master My Songs 

Yess daddy

Compression would be nice too if you haven't covered that :p

Yess

YESS!

Definitely

Hello, I am currently a Icon Collective student. Before that I went to another school in Utah, where current famous bass producer is working at. I learned from an OG sound engineer on mastering - but was taught the abbreviated version. I enjoyed this vid. I believe Infekt has a more accurate representation of how to Master - but again I was taught from the Abbreviated version. What I learned overall tho is, there is no "Right Way" As long as your frequencies aren't competing and your overall sound has color to it, you're doin A Okay in my book. Shit I saw a vid of another RU-vid try to tell me to just use a Saturator on the master...smh... Anyway I appreciate this vid! I know the fear of wanting to post somrething like this. I just thank you for being accurate.

@@existalive voltra will sometimes use a saturator's soft clip on the master instead of a limiter and her shit rules

@@isetpeoplaflame5936 Yes, saturator has a great soft clip. What I was referring to was someone using ONLY saturator on their master

@@existalive fair :)

@@existalive I personally feel u but I'm pretty sure voltra either puts nothing on her master or a saturator lmao, I don't understand how

Thanks.

Yes it very well can. Cutting synths in the highest frequencies can give room for the highest stuff to breathe like hihats and white noise

@@alexandermcveigh3182 man. I meant ultrasound. Post 20khz. Like he did in the video

ayo could you explain why it doesnt?

@@blair6383 because thr only thing there in case of distortion, saturation or any coloring plugin is aliasing effects, which you can eliminate with oversampling without changing the phase as an EQ would. Generally you should use as little EQ on a master bus as possible. In this case iversampling is just a better means to increase headroom with as little phase change as possible. Just use oversampling on every plugin that colors the sound like distortion, compression, clipping, limiting (ehich is essentially 1:infinite ratio compression), rtc.

Really? Been trying to figure this out for so long.

understanding is bad for the writing process. welcome the yes

Like i said, Mixing is 100000000000000000000000000000000000x more important than mastering.

Pro tip, EQ, EQ, EQ.- Don't over EQ, but understand where your frequencies are sitting - for ex. Look at the main freq of where your snare is hitting - than EQ out the freq of your basses (or where you think things start competing) usually around 500 kHz. So you can EQ that area out on the Bass grouping. you can also create a ghost side chain and place the Kick transient over the Snare - I do this all the time so everything is sidechaining my Kick and Snare without having to layer my kicks over the snare. Hope that makes sense. good luck to you!

Also last comment - Mastering is just getting what you have as loud as possible without clipping. So in this video, Ozi probably already Mixed this track and had it ready for Mastering stage. Again, frequency is literally everything. It is Volume, it is shape, it is room, it is texture, it is color, IT IS THE Sound, so EQ, EQ, EQ :)

@@DrOziOfficial more than a year later but i finally understand lol. i come back to this vid all the time, thanks

Personal preference in my opinion. Me personally I don't use limiters on my master. Utility, eq, mulitband, and glue :) - doesn't really matter tho. I was trained a different way than what I do now. Whatever you think sounds good!

@@existalive ive honestly gotten to the point where 'my mixes are my master', the only thing on my master is just a soft clip or saturator with sc turned on and maybe an EQ

@@Prohduct Get rid of Saturator. never put that on your master. Here is a standard signal chain - EQ > Multiband (A turned on, start with the Low band first and move from mid to high, This is sound treating, Softening or Hardening) > Glue compressor with soft clip on > Adjust threshold and makeup. When it starts to clip and sound distorted pull back. Once this concept is down, you can start adding things like Ozone, and Fletcher-Munson EQ

Lol

Hahaha nooooo….. I can teach you?

@@DrOziOfficial that would be cool too. It's just looking extremely confusing lol!

Some of Moody Good’s tracks are like -1 LUFS lmao

Bruh O.o People are crazy...

@@denizcanylmaz3747 Honestly as long as it's not audibly clipping and distorting I think it's okay in my books.

yesterday i hit -6 without clipping and still crying

You should see my meter when i hit - 6 :(

disgusting!? lol

@@DrOziOfficial it’s like spending hours cooking a beautiful steak dinner and then throwing it on the ground just before serving it 🥲

@@lusid_music_uk its more the the best chef in the world cooking a low grade steak. Still tastes like shit

@@Cryptiiix it’s like setting a pristine world clash dish in front of you and then seasoning it with just a hit of dog poo

Bruh how could it possibly Be that damaging to the mix? It’s just a limiter, not a damn comb filter. Worst case scenario you don’t like what it does to your transients