How To Get LOUD Mixes (without sacrificing quality!) 

Glad it helped!

This mix is mastered. I only use mastering engineers for vinyl pressing these days...I've had too many mastering engineers mess up my work.

I never worry about it, it's a non-issue 99.9% of the time.

I would love to know the answer to this question as well. +15 db of make up gain on the comp and the Ozone Maximizer threshold set at -18db with only 2db of gain reduction. I'm doing it all wrong! lol

@@billyhughes9776 I Dont Think you are doing it wrong. my mixes are way hotter on the mixbus without using makeup gain. I had some Sessions to mix Through the Slate Academy and they are all way hotter. In the end i think the thing is, if it sounds good it is good.if you are not clipping and distroting the hell out of your tracks, everything will be fine.

@@larsmusicde I never clip the Mix Bus and don't use make up gain on my mix bus compression. Was just wondering curious as to his methods. I'm mostly satisfied with my mixes at this point. Thanks for the reply -- take care.

You can filter on your kick instead if you're not bussing. A multiband compressor wont work in this case, you need to use a high-pass filter.

on bass-oriented music, try rolling off at 20Hz with 12dB/oct

@@lordberly ahhh thanks

Im wondering the same thing..

i noticed the makeup gain knob cranked aswell. isnt that like "slamming it"

Probably clipper

Is louder better? It doesn't really matter as you have a volume control on virtually any device available today. While there are certainly standards which translate universally, and which might have changed overtime, it's up to the listener how loud they want any given musical piece playing. As you and as Bobby here state, the essential difference is between loud and hard, where the latter is simply intolerable unless you have enough earwax dampening so you are basically deaf. While it may be subjective, I think this whole subject became an issue only after the 2000's. IE. radio sations or some other platform where individual songs compete plays between another where an algorithm decides what the consumer want's to hear. If something stands out from the bulk, it is instantly put aside from the competition. Which modern music is, a product to shill out some other product. In short; it doesn't matter either way if the mix and the master are shit. This might come of as an elitist circlejerk but the same effect can be observed in movies and television. Luckily, no-one has to suffer it willingly except in extreme circumstances. I mean, many modern cars don't even have a CD-player. "A what? It's got Spotify and a share button". Apologies, somewhat sidelined comment but I personally feel intolerable pain when great compositions suffer from this bullshit which suddenly became a standard without reason.

YES!!!!

Go in the description and click the first link underneath where it let's you get his free 5 step guide. Reply to that email and he'll listen to it

Because low-end in the deep subs eats up a lot of headroom even though it adds nothing to the sound of the drums. It's just junk frequency that puts extra strain on playback systems and makes mastering more difficult.

@@FrightboxRecording i've never had any headroom problems, nor my mastering engineer. all it does is shift the phase and weaken the transient. in fact that's one of the reasons so many people like the sound of tape, massive headbump at 50/60hz and down, leading to a shelf boost with a steep Q at 20hz at around 6-10db. and that's happening in multiple stages. if you send a 2bus mix through analog preamps (like maaany of my colleages are doing) you'll get exactly the same thing-boosts at sub 30hz. i was talking to joe barresi the other day and he was also saying how this is one of the reasons he likes tracking to tape so much. it's better in the analog domain but digital highpass filters make transient material sound so weird and disjointed with all the pre and postringing going on and the phase destruction of transients. if you really have too much sub information (wich is a sign of improper tracking most of the time) you're much better off with a bax or shelf.

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This is specifically a metal channel. No offense, but no one here cares about rap.

Be quiet nobody cares about you or your opinion or what you care about@@scamp7887

No. It applies to actual music only. 😉

No it does not, I been an audio engineer for 18 years. @@wereallthinkingit9389

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