Currently saving up for the newest cubase software. Definitely might have to get your mixing/mastering services once I start recording if you still do that for bands. You are legit insane at this stuff and I absolutely love it!! 🤘🏻
I subbed last year after hearing your amazing guitar shred on spotify. I really like your mixes. Please keep the mix engineering videos coming. Thank you senpai
Flatline is an awesome Plugin, currently one of the greatest at all ! The shape knob and the overall transparency are magic ! I use it on every Master !
Just started to see your vid, and i am impered to say that this song, visions, in my opinion are the most ever epic intro for a song. I learned to do it seeing 320 times your playthrough of this song. I had to say it. ok, I continue watching the video :D
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Mendel, this sounds gorgeous fantastic... it would be very appreciated sharing the mix insight (or session) for this same song, drum library used, processing on all tracks... Keep up the good work man !!
You are for sure my number one guide and recommendation to others for production and synthesis you give us incredible and inspiring videos and thank you very much for that Mendel. I just purchased Ozone 9 to make my life a little bit easier.... Please Mendel give us your light How to master metal with Ozone.... Salute from Greece...🇬🇷
I've been telling everyone to just make a bedroom producer series showing the process of everything from start to finish dialing in amp sim tones, bass sims, midi drums, editing, routing, and mastering that would be huge because there's way more bedroom producers using these softwares
Just finding this video in 2024 and it's still relevant! Sounds HUGE! Did you have any sort of 2 Bus processing going before your mastering processing?
Hi Mendel. Great video as always. There is quite a few people on internet saying that you shouldn't master your own mix, what's your view on this? When you master your own stuff do you usually do it "the next day" after finishing mix or would you rather wait a week or two to distance yourself from it?
I kinda agree, but i also master it myself because i’m a control freak with these kind of things. But i always wait 2 days minimum without listening to the mix so i have a some sort of fresh approach.
great vid. thanks for these tutorials. it would be great to see a video about your orchestration, not just in the classical beats, but also in how you layer melodies.
Dude, I know this is an older video, but I never touched this shape button! I've been using this plugin for a while! Definitely will try this trick later! Thanks!!!
Love the videos! I'm having some trouble with removing some piercing sounds in my guitar tone. The only way I've gotten rid of them is through really deep and narrow cuts in EQ, but most tutorials advise against that. Any suggestions?
Hey man! It sounds awesome! But please.. at the end of the video... do an A/B... before and after! Anyway.. the result sounds incredible.. I loved the way you tamed the snare! /Nomy
Hey man, wonderful tutorial and I just learned a new way of using the same plugins I've been using a long time.. I don't have the Flat plugin, but I was wondering if you do have a Clipper and I'm using Reaper, can't you make the same or almost the same effect by turning the wet/dry knob down? 🤔😊🤷♂️ Again, awesome tutorial man.. Greetings from Sweden 😊🤘
@@Mendelian Please make it before my upgrade deal runs out! Only kidding. ;) I'm planning to buy something in the summer when the electricity bills here in Norway aren't so fucking expensive. Look forward to some Ozone tips and tricks.
@@MartinvonBargen I just got myself Ozone 9, (the Standard version is for $99 down from $249 at the moment) and I'm totally confused by this tool. It keeps adding a lot of high frequencies to whatever I throw at it. Even professionally mastered stuff from CD's. It makes me wonder what am I doing wrong? :D An Ozone video with a few tips would be nice indeed. :)
Great tutorial Mendel! Would love an Ozone run through. I just got the monthly producer pack & am slowly figuring it out, but definitely would like to see your work flow.
Hey Bro, I have to request an important thing that nowadays streaming platform normalised our loud songs after upload they ask to put at -14//-16lufs and -1 true peak, it's hard to us specially like metal music, so can you please do a video about how to mix/master metal song with full loudness that can uploaded loudly in RU-vid,Spotify etc. 🙏
Ignore those guidelines completely. That means going to -5 lufs and 0db peak on your limiter. The thing is that those guidelines dont matter at all. At all. All your favourite metal bands that releases their stuff before spotify did it this way. And when spotify came up did they remix and remaster just for it? No. They dumped their catalogue on there and that's about it.
Very interesting video, thank you! Your song sounds dope! I just have downloaded Flatline with 7 days trial to compare with the ozone vintage limiter (preset fast and edgy) and I don't ear any difference
I'm no pro audio guy, but realize I do everything in the opposite order. When I master, I EQ, then multiband, then compress.... :| Could you be so kind as to explain why you proceed in that order?
Great question; so i mostly mix into a bus compressor, and if i EQ later before that it could change how the compressor reacts to the mix. So i EQ after it.
How do you stop from ruining your ears during during mastering? I start getting sensitive to certain frequencies and it messes everything up. Forcing me to stop and come back much later on.
hey man my mix when i export it and load it into my master project the wave form already looks pretty crushed. the mix is about -14 lufs. is this allright, i never seem to get as lound as other songs
I am surprised that I didn't knew your chanel before. Great and useful stuff! Maybe you would like to try one of my guitar for metal and make some test video of it? I would send it to you once it's done.🔥
Me: Maybe 10 LUFS is too loud to master i don't have Dynamics Mendel: 5 LUFS! and still have dinamics :D Awesome stuff dude! Maybe you can do a video about how you do Gain Staging :)
This overview of Flatline wasn't very useful. It was super much louder than the input, so of course it's going to sound "better". Also, it became louder the harder you turned the clipping, so of course harder clipping was going to sound better. They really should have been volume matched even a little bit in order for us to be able to properly assess what exactly it is doing and how well. Similar criticisms with most of the stuff you did, a lot of it was just making it louder. Then you made it, what, -7LUF in the end? Spotify for example is going to turn that down by 7db to get to -14 LUF, so you didn't even compare how the mix would sound 7DB quieter vs another mix at -14LUF, or in comparison to a -21LUF master that's played 14db louder than yours. To my ears this sounded completely overcompressed and entirely void of any character, and I assume the reason it sounded so "good" is because it just was so loud. AKA, an outdated "Loudness war"-type master, before the loudness normalization of platforms like Spotify. Mind, these masters tend to sound VERY weak with volume normalization. Here's something to think about: How much better would it sound if you had just turned the original song up by 8db or so in comparison to the final master, without any processing? Without comparing them like that, you have no way of knowing how good your master actually is - if you don't perform volume normalization. So let's say your original mix is -15LUF and your final master is -7LUF: turn your original mix up by 8db and then compare it to your final master. Would you even prefer the mastered version if you did that? Also, there should have been more variety with the actual music, now you just showed one little section. I'd be very interested in what happens to active melodies, quiet and gentle sections, perhaps heavy slow power chords etc. although I think I know the answer - it's just so overcompressed.
