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If you don't have the lookahed option, make a silent copy of the kick, move it back the needed ms, and use that to chain the bass.

cool to know what lookahead actually does. The prints and zooms into the waves were appreciated

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It's a good video, but there are 2 problems: 1 - in a DAW with delay compensation (like Cubase), it's much more profitable to use plugins like LFOtool or Duck. 2- On the master section, the lookahead parameter turns your clipper into a limiter. And the limiter on the master section is what kills the punch and smears the dynamics. Your mix is no longer competitive against the best modern mixes. What the author showed on the master bus needs to be done individually on the tracks, only then the drums and subs will take their proper place without distortion and loss of volume and dynamics. PS: -7 LUFS is not the competitive volume of a modern dance track. Especially when you consider that in this particular example there is no full-fledged sub. Any world-class hit in this genre will sound louder and more massive than this example.

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Really Good Video! but I would like to add this: He is talking about the Whole Crest Factor of the mix, by reducing Dynamics you reduce the crest factor. The one of the most transparent way to do it is with a limiter that have look ahead. But be conscius that too much look ahead could kill your transients. That's why is important to apply other kinds of tools like Saturation, clipping, PRL Comp, etc, to reduce the crest factor in a more natural way and don't kill your transients in the process. Nice video btw.

Thank you for the free lessons!!! And thank you for great clear and concise communication in your videos.

your video topics seem to always appear at the perfect time, like you're making them for me!

very simple and clear tutorial, thank you 💫🙏

Love the work you put into visualizing these concepts. Fire vid like usual 🔥

Just finished rendering my mix for mastering and this popped up. Lets go

There is another solution for the 1st case (sidechain): use waveshaper (f.e. cableguys) instead of compressors. You can set everything manually under visual control.

this might be the most underrated tutorial in music production

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I've been using the Lfo tool plugin in a very similar way making a small delay avoiding the zero crossover point and it sounds great. I recommend it!❤️

Your tutorials are so incredibly informative and high quality. Industry secrets given for free.

For the people who use Shaperbox for sidechaing this is already applied, but you can manually change it with 'smooth' in the vst. Goodluck! Great video as always Big Z, never thought of this before.

This is solid education. Well done.

Brilliant video - thank you! Can you please explain the pros and cons of using look ahead time. Or maybe the different scenarios that would make its use more or less suitable? From what you've just shown here, it seems like you'd want it turned up all the time, right? But I know that's not the case...

This track is gorgeous. Link ?

great tip, it is hard to get the loudness in a track indeed, i also feel having a good mid frequency in the mix will contribute to a loud mix.

Clear and concise ... Thank god ! You get to the point instantly....and my attention span can handle it. Big Thanks 💚

Mind blowing video

Great stuff.... very clear !! And just the right length of video. Many thankS! Keep'em coming please 💚

You have some great content. Slowly making my way through your tutorials and I always keep learning new stuff.

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You can also use a track delay on sidechain track to make sure it works on time and don't have to make an attack on compressor to work that fast.

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Thank you so much for you video! I just don't understand why you have attack 10 ms. What if you reduce it to 0 ms instead? Will it do the same thing that lookahead does?

Hey! Now I wonder how all those stock, Cytomic, SSL etc glue compressors work on the drum bus. Are they getting the job done or basically distorting the track? Thanks

Best one I’ve seen in a year thank you for this and all you do

Release time for sidechain compression has always been my question

i really liked this idea! I was wondering why we can't use a shaper (for eg from ShaperBox or etc..) and map the inverted frequency curve of the kick for the bass to duck it. would that behave differently?

Why is the attack so long?

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Sick ❤ thank you so much for your time

Thanks for explaining!

Nice tips, tune is fire.

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yo thanks for this knowledge, I never really knew what lookahead could do for the whole mix, I always just assumed it was something to do with track latency

Spot on once again Z!!!

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I mean sure you can do that, but you can also just use a volume envelope to reduce the bass volume when the kick plays. It is much easier and more effective to do that than to use sidechain compression.

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It depends on the style of course, but for me when using the lookahead, the drums become way softer which I don't want

Thank you sir

This is awesome!! You are a genius, thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Cheers mate! Big love

Great tips on compression

Very good video, and so clearly explained. Thank you.

Please do a breakdown of this song

nice stuff, well explained and for sure makes a huge difference.

cool explanation

Great video (as always)! Cheers

Proper equalization, a very well-thought-out arrangement, and a certain amount of compression - if really needed, will provide a clean sound. In my opinion, a mix that is too loud kills the dynamics, giving in return a higher perceived volume, and by doing so, you lose the sense of space that captures the attention and imagination of the listeners. Best regards 😉

I was just trying to research lookahead and sidechaining to get rid of clicks, great video. But how do you get your drums to hit hard if you're taking transients away?

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No way I saw this video after already mastering my song😭

Thank you for the tips! Why do you put a slow attack if you want to reduce the pics pretty fast?

Fantastic content bro .. this is gold😊

every video starts like "that is nobody really think about" but in reality EVERY good producer knows it and mostly uses it and thinks about :-D

Why did you turn down the Lookahead on the master Limiter? Whats the downside of having it at 100%? CPU?

Awesome lesson😊

Good one

A great little tip, niceeeeee.

Advice needed: I’ve been struggling with not getting loud enough masters I think because I end up making the kick way too loud in comparison to everything else in the mix. The mastering engineer either makes it too quiet to preserve the life of the mix, or too distorted sounding because there are too many dyanmics between the drums/other elements. I do side-chain the bass to the kick typically using soothe or another multi-band compressor. However, I feel that is not enough. Any tips? I do not think side-chaining the whole mix to the kick is the answer either. I honestly think that is just an EDM/FL Trap producer thing lol

High lookahead when using ProL2 for tracks. Low lookahead when using ProL2 for mastering. Thats what you mean?

How would you do that with Logic stock plugins? Compressor doesn't have the support for lookahead, However Multipressor has one. Is that a way to go?

I just use Shaperbox / Compressor /Volume shaper

wowww thank you!!!

Do we need to worry about latency when doing this? I have noticed that in logic you can enable latency compensation and I'm pretty sure it does in fact compensate despite other saying otherwise, just curious what you think Big Z?

So we should limit our sound before limiting on mastering?

Are there any downsides of using a longer lookahead time?

Why not always put lookahead up to maximum? Is there a trade off?

Cool vid, thanks. What’s the name of the song please?

So you are adding a limiter on the drum group with larger look ahead and on the master channel? For the drums do you just limit or you add gain too within the limiter plug-in, such as makeup gain for a compressor ?

Question were you using the limiter on a drum loop or was it on the drums bus

Great thanks for sharing

The real question is, does the lookahead feature work ONLY IF kick and bass are rendered?

Your master limiter is SWEATING

Very good video

good content, bro

Thanks

Does look ahead apply to Ableton compressor as well?

So we're sacrificing transients and dynamics in order to have it end up being played at the same loudness as other songs on spotify anyways?

Good video, but whilst doing this, I noticed the signal touching the ceiling of the pro L2 without pushing too much, just like the normal limiting. Am I doing something wrong?

can you apply lookahead on the fruity limiter (for sidechain)?

Why do I feel like whenever I add look ahead on the Ccomp it adds a tiny bit of latency

nice as always

Why on earth use a compressor for sidechaining when you have Shaperbox 3 installed?

Great video :)

disagree: tasteful and subtle digital distortion is a secret sauce for a certain emotion and dynamic though... your shit sounds good though. Love it.

why not use lookahead on highest setting all the time?

is there any negatives to a higher set value on lookahead settings? so if I want less digital distortion I crank up the lookahead and opposite?

great video

Looking ahead to more fire content 👀 lol