How To Mix Better Than 99% Of Producers

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In this video, you'll discover how to achieve pro-level mixes by implementing 3 powerful mixing hacks that have literally changed my life. Hey, I'm Philip from Pick Yourself, and I've created this channel to help electronic music producers like you make meaningful progress with their music.
When it comes to mixing your music, your workflow is absolutely crucial. I've found that establishing a well-defined process in Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic, Cubase, or any other DAW, can significantly streamline your mixing process. I'll show you how to optimize your workflow, ensuring you spend more time creating and less time getting lost in the mix.
The way you listen to your material can make all the difference in the world. I'll share insights into developing a critical ear for your mixes while not getting lost in analysis paralysis. This step is often overlooked, but it's a game-changer in achieving clarity and balance across various elements in Techno, House, and EDM genres.
Organizing your session is the key. I'll guide you on structuring your project in a way that lets you easily access the most important parts of the mix. This simple adjustment can drastically enhance your workflow and boost your overall efficiency.
At the end of this video, I'll share a game-changing mixing workflow hack that I wish I had known earlier. This single tip can help you avoid frustrations and pitfalls in your mixing process. Trust me; it's a game-changer.
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@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

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@drumandbassonvinyl 4 месяца назад

One of my mentors taught me to “Learn the rules well, so you’ll know how to break them.” That was one of the most important things I’ve learned about music production.

@Tai-Dye 4 месяца назад

Nice

@thepandasdoitbetter 4 месяца назад

EXCEPT THERE ARE NO RULES Xd

@Nocsucal-BeatGod 4 месяца назад

That’s phenomenal advice. Absolutely true

@aiconic10 4 месяца назад

Facts. Indeed, there are rules. Base concepts you need to understand. Then you can be creative and add your own spin from there.

@High.on.Life_DnB 3 месяца назад

@@aiconic10 not even sure about the base concepts, but yeah, you need a slight understanding of some technical music terms, other than that, you just have to be creative 🙂 as long as you make something your ears can enjoy, it's all good! (Oh and good audio equipment definitely helps!!! You'll want monitor speakers or at least calibrated speakers)

@danceswith7wolves 4 месяца назад

Artist Me: Chooses a resonant lead synth sound Mixer Me: Notches out those resonances i just picked out

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

You’re exactly who I made this video for. You got this ;)

@High.on.Life_DnB 3 месяца назад

This made me lol 😅

@Platinum_XYZ 2 месяца назад

omg I do this too!! it's a bad habit I've formed

@danbient 4 месяца назад

I really needed to hear the whole mix as an artist vs engineer thing. I feel like the vibe and energy are there right after balancing and then I tweak the life out of it.

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

Oh yeah that’s a good one! A cool little heck is to save that first rough mix as a different session, export it, and then load it as a reference in your “real” mixing session. I use metric AB for referencing, makes it really easy. This workflow can help you not get too far away from the original essence.

@realraven2000 4 месяца назад

i always put older mixes on top of the page (in Cubase i like the split arrangement with chord and marker tracks with notes on top) - then I am always one solo click away from "am i getting better or worse? ". if I got worse, ask myself what do I prefer about the old mix?

@realraven2000 4 месяца назад

@@pickyourselfofficial Totally, routing is super easy, love the side chain management... as regards exporting as different session (not sure if I understood that fully), you can just click on "add track after mixdown" when making the rough mix 0- then you automatically have a fully aligned mix reference, just make sure it is routed to Stereo out and not the Master group with all the processing.

@BigVic687 4 месяца назад

Doing most of the work in the mix plus just using just a limiter on the master has done me some good!! Plus using reference 2 with some good references help. Side note love your tutorials man! You give no bs advice and get straight to the point like my mentor

@germainfraisse4763 4 месяца назад

So simple but so clever ! It seems obvious now, thanks for this tips !

@leongrant705 4 месяца назад

Thanks for the tip of using the listen function on the limiter for extraneous sub bass which could be eating up headroom😊

@victorbradu90 3 месяца назад

Excellently done Thank you for quality content 💪🏻

@Elecdon 4 месяца назад

on the point. helpful as always. thank you!

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it!

@PhillipJohnsonphiljo 3 месяца назад

I use the exact limiter on every single track, the audio cue to hear what is being limited is such a huge benefit. I remember producing tracks and basically didn't eq, didn't group, didn't compress or limit, zero mixing or mastering basically, because I didn't know it was even a thing. At least I panned stuff? That was over 20 years ago. It's been a fun journey even though I'd still call myself an intermediate/advanced producer at most, not a master of the craft despite well over 10,000 hours. There is never a day without learning when it comes to producing. It's like the weightlifting meme of the music world. Do you even lift? No, no you don't lift.

@MrMikomi 4 месяца назад

Clear and easy to follow. Thanks.

@Powhart 4 месяца назад

I gotta say - this is something new I've never heard before and it is a really interesting approach

@sastra.schrnz 4 месяца назад

These tips are so simple yet so effective 👏

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

Thanks so much, happy you got something out of this! 💯🙌🏻

@Synthpoptroubadour 3 месяца назад

Excellent tips bruh

@tl81tl81 2 месяца назад

Very good video. All stuff I wish someone told me sooner - would have saved me years. Well done, mate ;) thanks

@obiwantschernobyl5650 12 дней назад

that limiter trick is truly very helpful. Thank you very much. Makes you also understand better what youre doing wrong

@ricardochiesa9829 4 месяца назад

Im a videogame music composer, and as soon as you said listen like an artist, not like an engineer, you got me. especially in video games where there is not a single idealized professional sound, but more like profiles that correspond to a particular artisfs works aa if their mixing style part of the composers craft and an extension of the composition itslef. It's really refreshing to come up across someone finally saying this. Keep at it!

@getthejackets 4 месяца назад

Nice video , LCD’s helped my mixes a lot

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

Yep, definitely!

@MagnUs7_7 4 месяца назад

Thank you so much👏🏼

@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES 4 месяца назад

Been loving these videos. Great work. I know great artists that are also naturals at mixing precisely because they mix for the feel all the way and even with a few flaws that wins for me every time. All these tips are great. Subscribing !

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

Thanks so much for the great feedback, I really appreciate it! I just found your amazing podcast. What a gem! Instant subscriber as well 🙌🏻💯

@staysmuth 3 месяца назад

“Mix like an artist” is such an incredible piece of advice. And it’s the reason why I don’t outsource mixing anymore, even if my product is inferior quality.

@MOSMASTERING 3 месяца назад

and it's also the same name of a great book.. I highly recommend it! = I try and make some content on Instagram when I have time not working - made that book part of my 10 "most recommended" audio and musician related books.

@staysmuth 3 месяца назад

@@MOSMASTERING sweet I’ll check if! Thanks!

@staysmuth 3 месяца назад

@@MOSMASTERING following up, don’t actually see any books named “Mix Like An Artist” ??

@agapeleone5847 4 месяца назад

I dig this... after many years of experience (learning from scrartch a decent bit)... I moreso found this vid to be confirmation more than anything but there was also some interesting food for thought. The vid is legit from all I can tell!! Great work!!

@greensleeves32 4 месяца назад

Enjoyed the video and will be watching more! I need help with workflow in my 150+ track sessions lol

@MikeCervello 3 месяца назад

Great video. Subscribed! 👌🏼

@na_der 2 месяца назад

Philip.. U R THE MAN!

@jkdan3602 4 месяца назад

Really cool advice about using there limiter 60-70% through the mix. Going to try that going forward! Thanks :)

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

You're welcome :)

@Drsuds 3 месяца назад

Great video man

@mttlsa686 4 месяца назад

this happened to me just today. I was making a2nd mix version of a track and i've started to surgically fix some things in the main synth elements (old recording of some grooveboxes of reaktor, very articulate and with various elements each) and i ended with a perfectly balanced track with no emotion and character. So i went back to the first version, fixing just what it needed.

@taviimihaimsc 4 месяца назад

solid vid as always

@tomschlaiss5735 4 месяца назад

Wieder ein gut erklärtes Video, viele Grüße

@masada12 16 дней назад

Great tutorial! Helped a lot! What can I do about these artififacts that you described when heavily pushing the limiter?

@socratesson4320 3 месяца назад

Very nice ...subscribed.,

@JonValtandtheEvilRobots 4 месяца назад

Lol when he says listen to this sample and tell me what you focused on, I was keeping tally of the different *instruments* I was paying attention to. I wasn’t aware of any mixing stuff - wasn’t listening for it. His Tip #1 is spot on. Glad I got to experience it. Because I always hear “mix with your ears” and I do believe it, but perhaps I don’t truly practice it.

@kitchenspider 3 месяца назад

focusing on the rhythmic sample that is panned out wide with the filter cut modulation

@KitKalvert 3 месяца назад

Great video thank you! I presume you disable the limiter just before sending the mix off to mastering?

@gumbilicious1 4 месяца назад

In my experience, people don’t really care about EQ and compression when evaluating a song. It has to sound ok with The Mix, but song writing, instrumentation and arrangement are where the song is made… then mixing helps the sound. Spend most of your musical efforts writing songs and recording, get them to sound interesting, this goes much farther than mixing tips

@alexc9278 4 месяца назад

Yeah, once you have a good song aka arrangement, sound design etc. mixing is easier also

@felixando7492 2 месяца назад

Good insights thank you. One question, do you think it is better to use a second gain staging plugin like ableton’s utility to push the volume that goes into the pro-l instead of letting the pro-l do the whole work? I noticed that sometimes for very quiet mixes where I need to push the gain dramatically on a limiter , it introduces a lot of saturation before I even reach the target lufs level, but when I split that task with another gain plugin, I seem to be able to reach that loudness without any noticeable saturation.

@cilafr 3 месяца назад

Thx for the video :) Silly question: do you export your stereo mix for mastering with or without the limiter enabled ?

@Lo-r3s 4 месяца назад

Can I listen to the artifacts on a stock limiter or in the L2? Also can artifacts be tamed by adjusting release on the “glue”? Thx! Great vid!!

@elevan2760 3 месяца назад

Nice vid.. quick question, why would you use such a small boost on the master bus and then follow it up with compression? Wouldn't the boosted signal trigger the compressor first, and then be compressed to the same level to before the eq was used?

@heistworld 4 месяца назад

Amazing video! If it's alright to share, I am wondering what model of Audeze headphones you use for mixing and mastering?

@imalasound 28 дней назад

Thank you 🙏

@realraven2000 4 месяца назад

i like the grouping capabilities of your DAW. in Cubase i often do folder tracks for organisation and group tracks for summing and volume / stem automation. in your DAW this seems to be combined into groups?

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

Yeah to be honest, for mixing client projects I actually work in cubase because I find the routing options more flexible. But Ableton definitely has a nice UX if you keep things rather simple and don’t need tons of return tracks.

@klubstompers 4 месяца назад

In Cubase, i have set up a default arrangement, so when i open Cubase and start a new project, i already have my groups and vst's i commonly use in the those groups sitting in the group, and as i add new tracks i put them under that group track; Kicks, Subs/Rumble, Perc, Leads, Stabs, fx/sweeps, vocals. You can select all the tracks under that group track and color them if you want.

@Collins777 Месяц назад

Great video, really appreciate the info. Does anyone know how to enable the LUFS meter on the pro L-2? Ive been using the youlean loudness meter this whole time, and I cant figure out how to enable the extra meter in the pro L-2

@hippietrap 2 месяца назад

grouping stems is such a big one. organization in general but grouping is going to help with bus processing and getting your tracks louder which is going to also help the mastering later. or that sbeen my experience great tip!

@lyndsaylestrange9364 4 месяца назад

Good advice

@MiDiax10 3 месяца назад

What used to be your go to limiter before pro L 2?? Thanks for the video!

@bluematrix5001 4 месяца назад

Those peaks make sense as correlate to the high pitched instruments that are resonants but is how those sounds are..are their core essence

@shortcutDJ 4 месяца назад

i really like your channels name. well done naming things is very important

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

Thanks so much! The origin of this goes back to a mental model I’ve adopted from Seth Godin: seths.blog/2011/03/reject-the-tyranny-of-being-picked-pick-yourself/

@artemijssaveljevs1531 2 месяца назад

Good info! I always struggle with flute as a lead. Its have too much resonance. I start to cut ringing parts, and after that flute is completely dead. idk what to do, just to let it resonate?

@georgepalmer7118 2 месяца назад

Thank you.

@dirtykvrt 4 месяца назад

Great video! What do you suggest to use for what you mentioned about limiting / monitoring LUFS if you don’t have pro L . I only have pro Q 3. Thank you!

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

In that case, use whatever limiter you already own together with the referencing process I show in this video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dXgGff9En9E.htmlsi=wuwbuDf6ragPpBEK

@grundvater 4 месяца назад

Interessant.

@turbofuntime 3 месяца назад

Im curious, how is it that when listening to the clipping at the end of your video, you are able to tell thats its from the bass? Is it because the rhythm of the clipping matches the kick?

@EricDoesMusic 4 месяца назад

great video

@basenmarion 4 месяца назад

Never thought of mixing into a limiter. I always rendered my mix and started a new mastering project. Why? In just don’t know..😂 This is going so save me a lot of time. Good advice!

@xgmode 4 месяца назад

The listen function is the delta on other limiters that have it also.

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

Exactly, thanks for mentioning this!

@benmontclair8849 4 месяца назад

Care to elaborate?

@xgmode 4 месяца назад

@@benmontclair8849 e.g. TDR Limiter 6 GE has a DELTA knob on the output module.

@barryzito5721 3 месяца назад

Curious what your meters read before your mastering chain. -6dB ish?

@tubeo94 4 месяца назад

11:54 this only worth the whole video and earned my sub. This is amazing.

@benmontclair8849 4 месяца назад

Ditto

@socratesson4320 3 месяца назад

The snare you use in the kick or Drum tops stem? Just wondering ..:)

@jeremypcaulfield2474 3 месяца назад

Great Tutorial ..❤sometimes the mistakes that a limiter demonstrates on a mix can be disheartening. It takes some patience to pull though and balance levels before trying again ..

@luluthereal6606 2 месяца назад

Hi, do you mix / master with those headphones?

@josepe217 4 месяца назад

I see you use a SSL 4000 E on the master bus, I ever read do not remember where, that this console is made it to individual tracks and not good for entire mixes? Any thought? thank you

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

I’m using the glue compressor which is an emulator of the SSL bus compressor (bus = mixbus aka master channel in this case), so it’s not the compressor of an individual SSL channel strip. Hope that clarifies it :)

@altseason_musik 3 месяца назад

gold advice

@SoundPeaks 4 месяца назад

The advice for grouping stuff comes out of the bad grouping capabilities of Ableton. In other linear DAWs this insight comes very organic and quick during the study of production. After the limiter, there should be a waveshaper if you really want to push the limits.

@gbigbo_zjebeezjeboo 4 месяца назад

great tips !! Is this listening function also available in Ableton stock limiter plugins ? If not, how can we achieve this ?

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

My 100% honest reply: I think you can get VERY far with Ableton's stock tools, but at least one great limiter for the end of your chain is a good investment. The Ableton Limiter might be okay for single tracks but it's just not suitable for mastering. Same goes for the FL Studio Limiter and most other stock DAW limiters.

@gbigbo_zjebeezjeboo 4 месяца назад

@@pickyourselfofficial any idea about IK Multimedia T-Rack TR5 plugins ? Suitable for mastering ?

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

I don’t have personal experience with them so all I can say is that pretty much every mastering engineer I know uses the Fabfilter L2, Ozone Maximizer, or Bettermaker Master limiter. But there are exceptions for sure.

@Pattarns_Music 4 месяца назад

TDR Limiter6 is a good free alternative to last you until you get something like pro-L2. @@gbigbo_zjebeezjeboo

@dalgren 2 месяца назад

Do you have any tamplets available?

@Meleebeatsprod 4 месяца назад

Important Question: do you take off the limiter after mixing into it and before you export the track ?

@albinholmlund 3 месяца назад

I’ve looked up the lufs values for some of my favorite tracks in my genre (Swedish punk) a few years ago and that’s where I found out that not only Swedish punk but almost all punk is mastered to approx -6 lufs. And ever since then I’ve been using that as a target, and it has worked really well for me. But it has always bothered me that everyone everywhere keeps recommending that you master the tracks low. This is the first time I hear someone even mention the -6 lufs target! Maybe I’m doing something wrong, but whenever I master low volume it sounds muddy and lame. But whenever I push it to between -8 and -5 lufs it slaps 😄

@billaveda6408 3 месяца назад

I've measured some Trance tracks at -6db also. The loudness wars have not gone away.

@albinholmlund 3 месяца назад

@@billaveda6408 Yea. It’s literally worse than ever. The loudness wars used to be about “how high can we push this records volume without losing the sound and quality”. And back in the cd era there was really no good measurement available for how loud it was, except subjectively determining if the volume is worth the loss in dynamics. But ever since we started normalizing, the problem is that to be able to normalize, we must automatically measure the loudness, which gives producers a metric that they can try and go around and trick into making their track louder. I have a very unrelated parallel i thought about a while ago. There used to be basically an open drug market at the center of my city, and the cops kept arresting people there. So they came up with the idea to put cameras everywhere to prevent people from buying drugs of each other. And it worked great on paper, but in reality it just forced the criminals to be smarter in where and how they sold drugs. So it actually made it much harder to arrest those people that used to be very easy to spot, and it also made it more dangerous for people buying drugs since they couldn't be at public places anymore. The point is that if there is a demand, putting restrictions on it just gives people more reason to be smart about it, which will make the problem even harder to solve. I think the loudness war will end when an AI exists which actually can determine loudness with precision, making it impossible to trick the system. Someone is probably already trying to make this.

@spiritspun4836 4 месяца назад

What we are talking about here really is the left brain versus the right brain approach to life. The right brain can appreciate the whole flower but the left brain breaks it down into its parts. They say that Beethoven downloaded the entire symphony from the Universe through the right brain while the left brain merely put the notes on the paper. Getting lost in the minutiae leads to averageness at best. The right brain is able to put everything in its context. Using the stem groups enables higher order artistic functioning in the brain which activates your inner genius capacity. Great video! Please share more of your tips.

@mukeshpathak7302 2 месяца назад

Hey bro. A quick question, currently I'm producing (2 years in now) and doing mixing of my tracks but for mastering I just use Bandlab's free mastering service ..and release my tracks with that. As I want to improve my productions and mixing, I don't spend time mastering... Do you think Bandlab's mastering is okay? Or should Invest time to learn mastering as well?

@user-xe7hh1om4f 3 месяца назад

I love your videos!!! But move in a world with a lot of vocals. Are you planning to do a video on your vocal clinning + effect workflow? :)

@royalmusicparis 3 месяца назад

the more important is too respect some point like the volume, the panning, a good balance, a good true peak, the limiter yes is important too... but the balance is really important

@photicsonar 22 дня назад

This issue is very well explained by Jeff Ellis in his Video „Beat the Mixing Death Spiral“. His example with „Billy Jean“ is incredible.

@digitalmindstudio8143 2 месяца назад

Thanks

@kafkakos3618 2 дня назад

Hello, great video. So the idea is to put the limiter on the master as part of the mixing stage. I always thought you had to keep -6 DB headroom before entering the mastering stage. So using your method with a limiter on the master, what DB level would you aim for? I put a utility on each track and start at -10 DB on the kick as well.

@pickyourselfofficial День назад

You would, of course, bring the limiter back (or deactivate it entirely) before sending it to mastering. The purpose here is to see how your mix actually performs when it’s put through a limiter. This gives you a good indicator on what might need change. The -6dB thing is a myth. But heaving a bit of headroom definitely is a good idea. Maybe check my gain staging video for more insights. 3 Essential Gain-Staging Habits For Loud & Clean Mixes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-13n68Xby66c.html

@kafkakos3618 День назад

@@pickyourselfofficial will check your other video out for sure. Keep up the good work 👍. Maybe do video on how to incorporate one shot claps into a loop? Always find them difficult to sound design with effects etc and where on the grid they should be placed for maximum impact.

@jesslucio3104 2 месяца назад

Pro L2 shows the LUFS?! Wow, is there a button for that? I didnt know this. Maybe I have an older version, but was not aware of that.

@ilyeshmusic 2 месяца назад

Do you ever group kick and bass together and process them ? Or kick + hats, Perc,etc.? Or kik + bass + rhythm everything else? Thnx

@pickyourselfofficial 2 месяца назад

Here's my video about exactly that, I hope it clarifies your questions: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jPjbM9PCmjc.html

@victorarrudadj 3 месяца назад

Good content

@monkmusic5994 Месяц назад

Gute Tipps.

@alejandromagana1554 4 месяца назад

I have an eternal question that I have never seen it answered and that is: how does a properly mixed track look like (I KNOW it matters how it sounds first) but my gut feeling as in pro standards there must be a “defined” way a pro mix looks in its waveform before sending it to mastering. Do you have any resource, idea or any comment really about this? I’ve checked the mixes from my own music that I get from the engineers I hired in the past, but now that I’m starting to mix my own stuff I’m curious about details like: how dynamic can I leave the mixes? Is it good that it has very minor peaks within the waveform? Etc etc

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

Great question! To be honest: It really depends on what the song wants to be. So there can’t be one ideal-looking mix. I’ve seen mixes that looked very weird on analyzers plus waveform but sounded great. I’ve also seen some that looked super nice and balanced but sounded boring, lifeless, and muddy. I know that this isn’t the answer you were looking for but it’s the only real answer I can give you.

@alejandromagana1554 4 месяца назад

@@pickyourselfofficial thanks a lot though for taking the time for answering, I’m just trying to make this right from now on ❤️🫶🏻

@apoplexiamusic 2 месяца назад

2:42 the problem with this mix isn’t the high frequencies. It’s the incredibly boomy, muddy bass with the heavily reverberated kick that’s way too loud.

@billaveda6408 3 месяца назад

Isn't clipping the same as limiting? I've always thought that compression is a soft limiting (like pushing the amplitude of a waveform down) and that limiting is a hard ceiling (clipping the top of the amplitude).

@rickgeahci5384 4 месяца назад

One very important method is to use reference tracks and own ears. When you get there where you feel it sounds good, then you're almost ready! Less is more.

@aaronmichaelmusic_ 2 месяца назад

I’ve sent my demos to some big labels over a long period of time. It has only been until recently I’ve got compliments on my mixing and mastering from A&R. Honestly…. It comes down to the mix. For dance music, the spectrum needs to look similar to the Pink Noise spectrum. The mix should have 3-6 db of open headroom, and it’s okay if it peaks sometimes above that, but rarely. The big mistake most ppl make is having their tops too loud. Just turn it down. Our ears are attuned to hear those sounds easily. I don’t use “glue” compressors, I don’t use compressors at all in my mix, unless it’s for sidechaining, adding gain, and limiting a sound to get a uniform volume. My mastering chain is extremely simple. I literally only use a tape exciter, imager and a limiter. That’s it. I push the limiter to hit 3-4 db of gain reduction, again, at the louder parts of the track. I check the master fader to make sure it’s always hitting the top threshold during the main parts of the track which I set to -.1.

@monkmusic5994 Месяц назад

Mix like an artist, great tip. Can we turn it around and say: mixing is an art? Mixing into a limiter seems to be useful for genres with a constant ooomph like edm. Never do it since I do want natural dynamics for my music, guitar based.

@evanwickstrom7990 3 месяца назад

Is there no way to measure loudness build into ableton?

@ChrisCaaa 4 месяца назад

2:05 I was just dying to high pass it lol

@Rhekluse 4 месяца назад

Pushing the master limiter to a specific LUFS isn't always a wise approach because you can really over-squash and ruin the whole mix trying to reach an arbitrary loudness level. It's really important to listen to what the limiter is doing so you can maintain the integrity of the mix; like the low end and the drums. It's possible to achieve the loudness you want with less master limiter workload by doing some of the heavy lifting in the mix. Cheers!

@Pulquencius 4 месяца назад

What headphones are you using?

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

Audeze LCD-X Creators Edition. They're beyond amazing.

@drizzlemaan 7 дней назад

I automatically trust anyone with a Dutch accent who does mastering videos 👍 (Very good advice and video 🙏)

@pickyourselfofficial 6 дней назад

Thanks a million, I really appreciate it. The accent is German though 😂🫶🏻

@audiunt 4 месяца назад

Please explain ‘density’

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

Great question! It’s the feeling when the track comes together during mastering. The soundstage feels right, the elements are connected just the right way (subjective balance between coherence and separation in the sound). It’s one of the few subjective sweet spots the mastering engineer (or producer who self-masters) has to find. I’ll put together a DIY mastering tutorial this year for sure in which I’ll cover this.

@foreverthestudent 4 месяца назад

You know you're doing something right when you've never watched a video and you're already doing most of the things in afromentioned video Great video btw.

@DenisVolga 2 месяца назад

I completely agree about feeling in music and everything (not emotion.."two big differences" ;) ). But... What kind of feeling or even emotion in this video track? A rhetorical question.

@OfoeNelson Месяц назад

For 150 stems breaks down to about 15 stems layered 10 times right? Does layering really make a difference if its the same sound

@maxtilman7160 2 дня назад

The thing that always pops up in my mind if I'm limiting a bus or group, is that I'm maybe overdoing it. I mean, limiting stuff is great but isnt it a problem if you limit your busses AND slap a good ol' limiter on the master? Does that make sense?

@spiridonadara7851 2 месяца назад

Why having your true peak on? on the master limiter ?

@npawelczyk 4 месяца назад

would you recommend disabling the limiter before exporting the track and sending it off to mastering?

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

Yes, if you export in 32bit floating point (recommended). If that’s not the case for whatever reason, make sure to check the whole song for any peaks before deactivating the limiter and exporting. In case you spot a peak, lower the whole mix accordingly. With proper gain staging, there shouldn’t be any peaks above 0dBTP. And in case you see/ hear/ read that you should always export at -6dB, that’s total BS.

@npawelczyk 4 месяца назад

@@pickyourselfofficial thanks for the info! so you're also saying, if you export in 32-bit floating point, then it's ok to export with some peaks above 0dBTP?

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

@@npawelczyk 32bit floating point allows the mastering engineer to reconstruct those peaks and normalize everything down to below 0dBTP without any quality issues. I still don't understand why 99% of producers deliver pre-masters at 24bit. Most mastering engineers, myself included, even mention 32 bit floating point as the ideal export format.

@npawelczyk 4 месяца назад

@@pickyourselfofficial great to know, I really appreciate all of this info! One last question, if you don't mind--are you also "mixing into" the EQ and compressor, and you'd disable them before exporting? Or would you consider those devices part of the mixdown that stay enabled during the export of the pre-master?

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

They are part of the mixbus processing. If in doubt, double check with your mastering engineer. I always consult my clients personally throughout the whole process.

@DaniellePatoirMusic 3 месяца назад

150 stems.. that’s nuts… I want to hear the final product..🎉good job to you

@exposingyouthetruth6443 4 месяца назад

why don't you use linear phase when cutting low end? This always results in phase issues with my kick. Also need to fix fabfilter latency issues after using linear pahse eq.

@pickyourselfofficial 4 месяца назад

It’s a case by case decision. I’d say 80% of the time “natural phase” mode sounds better to me. The slight phase shift is often the less intrusive artifact compared to the pre-ringing introduced by linear phase EQs.