How To Master EDM Properly 

Zen World don't pin your own comment! :v

Just so it don't get lost big daddy

Zen World lol #rekt

I love you man. Thanks for hearing out my request!!! :*

Zen World those are really great tips bro, but I do didn't understand why the 2 limiters at the end, cause I think it can cause extra saturation

soundgoodizer*

OTT on the master or bust

monsieur171 If you're using Fruity loops and don't have a saturator like ableton's,using sausage fattener with slight tweak on the color knob for saturation is not a bad idea.

HomelessGuy ^^^

Dubvision have put sausage fattener on their master before. Do what the fuck you want.

love u edwan

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Broduceer :p

Tiësto Edit on 100%

splice has it

Nah, OTT on master is best

It´s better if you do it before the compression. Cheers :-)

As the mix was a bit over -6 when I transferred over from my MacBook Pro I lowered it to give myself the -6 as it wasn't there. You don't have to do it if your mix is already at -6

Zen World Thanks alot bro and congratulations for 50k😀

Zen World and lo-fi could either be shit or the best thing that ever happened to man-kind hope it gets through ^^

Striped Sounds - ストライプ音 lo fi hip hop?

Striped Sounds - ストライプ音 btw i'm making some lo fi hip hop and i was mastering a song,you don't need too much to master a lo fi song

talking about producing it in general the mixing part mostly

Striped Sounds - ストライプ音 i just cut a bit the low freqs in a sample or the bass i use,the freq should be the one wich your kick hit the most,if your kick hit in 100 hz you should make a "hole" in the bass or the lows in your sample around the same freq the kick hit,so you gonna have a cleaner kick

Yes sir

Yes one of the things I do on every track. Cleans it up a lot.

Sickerblue Music tuto??

...there's so many

But all garbage

yeah this one is by far the best ive come across

I've been working on tracks for years and i still use this video as a general guide sometimes to refresh.

No that's preference brother there is nothing wrong if the track sounds good with the master.

just use the option linear phase then

Thanks brother. Yeah it's long as I wanted to explain my process and some peoples process. Remember there is more than 1 way of doing it so keep learning and develop your own mixture of techniques that you enjoy.

Yeah that's true but I even meant that this is quite short for a video for mastering. But you wrapped it up perfectly and it's the best video for mastering EDM out there I would say and I watched a lot man :D

It's all in the mix like I said. You gotta get your levels right before you can do this and I'm gonna be honest. Most tracks won't be able to do this with a shitty mix.

I have other limiters I use but I wanted to use the Ableton one incase people use it. Some people don't know you need 2 to get the loudness you need or it distorts like hell.

Yeah I am sure you have tons of them :-) Great tut as always!

if you like pre ringing

I own it but for this video I wanted to keep it all in Ableton

example: x(t) = signal X(S) = output signal in frequency domain x(t - t0) **time shift** e^(-s0)X(s) **Exponential decay**

Thanks for the engineering side of this brother.

Alex Hoyos 9+10=21

Add a Pro-Q2 on the channel, put it into the different modes, print the result and compare those (visually). You'll see that the phase does change around the frequency, you're cutting. I don't say that necessarily bad, because sometimes that might be what you want. I usually cut at 25 to 35 Hz as well, depending on the song. Finding the right algorithm for that cut is key, however. If everything was with clinical precision what you say would've been true, but in the real world things are off - especially latencies in calculating those cuts, depending on the cost of an algorithm that is used.

Right, a linear decay on such low frequencies will resemble an exponential decay of sorts. The phase does happen from where the slope of the line occurs. I am not sure how exactly the slope affects the phase, but I thought the main issue I was addressing is that applying something on certain frequencies directly affects frequencies around it. If you are decreasing the magnitude of frequencies at a constant slope then you should see a similar result as applying an exponential decay. Again, I assuming a shift in those frequencies is not a concern since in the end they are being cut out. Softwares usually try to reproduce a special feature that audio hardware gives so inconsistency between digital plugins may be expected.

an ze A lot of big producers cut at 40hz, I really don't think it matters about the super low frequencies, you just can't hear them and they do more harm then good, so just get rid of them

thank you for making the video, really helped me out :)

It does matter if you cut below 30 or 40hz. That is just too much of a cut, and you won't notice it on your studio monitor, but it will lack SUB FREQUENCIES. Never cut below 15-20hz guys. Especially for club tracks.

*****​​​​ ...but you physically can't hear anything below 35ish hz...no matter what... I'd rather have head room than sound only elephants can listen to

You should cut everything that doesn't need to be on the 20-150 hz, but leave the sub from 30 to 70 at least.

Because club speaker are in mono, so depending on the position of the speakers the bass can cancel it's self out

DUCK BEATS You just have to vs the differences. If you can afford advanced go for it but if not the regular version will work just fine for what you need

I'm guessing he exports the loudest one as finished work and then he takes that loud export and lowers it for soundcloud.

Captain Voluntaryist The Statist Slayer ah yes this could be it - many thanks.

Joe Morris Google it. It's a technique I show my students and it helps alot in this world. 1 limiter to catch inter sample peaking and another to focus on getting the track loud. I use fabfilter pro l as it has an isp setting that I love.

Zen World glad you got back to me, I’ll have a look. Would be good if you could do a video about that as well. Keep up the good work on the videos man, been watching for a while now, and always wanting to learn new things😊👊🏼

dat picture as laying around

Zen World sick video btw :)

Grand Talent well said. I'm glad not everyone from the older generation is fearful of change in music

Didn't have to say older, geeezzzz

too much stereo it means it's not mono compatible.