Mastering a sick metal mix with Joey Sturgis! 

"years and years of trial and error"=the default LinMB settings when you load it up (all attacks, releases, crossovers, dither, automakeup, adaptive, release+behaviour, knee), except for range fully lowered, and threshold and gain adjusted to fit the mix.

One thing i like about Joey, is that he does what he hears. And after watching him do something like this, I find that I am taking more chances. I just mixed a song using Mid/side processing during mixing, for some keys and added elements, and it worked great. I also added 2 different exciters at different stages in the mastering chain (hesitantly) but it sounded really huge, and natural, too. I love how it added to the room and overhead tracks on the kit. We get into phases as mixers where you start to think all your plug-in additions might be making things sound worse. Then you watch a video like this, LOL. IOW, if it sounds better when you add it, add it, and if it doesn't after you A/B it, take it away.

This mix kicked my ass.

Engineers all over youtube will tell you "it has to be done this way" Joey sturgis teaches you that at the end of the day the idea is to make the song sound good. If this plugin does something for your mix? Add it. Its all about the ears and what the mix tells you!

i like using two multiple bus compressors with one setting to catch the drums while the other as the "classic glue".

LinMB is just amazing, during mastering as well as mixing, love it to control and pimp drums and vocals!

Interesting video. I do find that +4db setting in ozone curious. It seems to me like the mix is going into ozone10 a bit hot and I personally would like to hear it with ozone set to 0.00 db to compare. I feel like it might get a little clearer given that change but idk. Also I'd like to see if they use insight or a similar plugin and are concerned with the integrated and short term LUFS.

Great mix guys! Curiosity, why in this case the Ozone chain is in post fader position on Cubase insert, if you have done any gain automations (not volume) in pre/gain? Cheers!

Are the trackspacer settings the same for instrumental and master busses? Otherwise, great explanation of everything and I'm looking forward to trying my own variation of this method.

When Mastering the ceiling was at -0.03 instead of -1, also I noticed you did not engage true peak is this always the way to do this?

Epic mix. Will you please make one with some October ends tracks? I'd say put in Dark, Of Stars and Play Time!

The only question I have is whether to stay at -1db or to not worry about it.

kinda happy im not the only one putting 10% ott on my master lmao

sauce sauce sauce

the more I watch videos like this, the more I realise how little I know

Joey is absolutely the best in the scene

i kinda legit disappointed they didn't use jst maximizer.

So basically you just use a compressor to compress the compressed signal that comes from a compressor which compressed the signal. Interesting

What song is this?

послушал первый попавшийся трек бринг ми зе хорайзон и свс. И первый и второй спродюсированы по серьезному, слияние рока и поп, работают профессионалы своего дела. Здесь же проседает практически все. Рановато для туториалов. Людей новичков такое, если возьмут на вооружение твои подходы тоже собьют с толку. Без хейта. Успехов и дальнейшего развития тебе!

This is so interesting. 2 comps, MaxxBass, LinMB, and OTT on the 2-bus? That's awesome. Though doesn't OTT kind of f*ck up the phase you were trying to preserve with the LinMB? Regardless, cool to see this kind of extreme music processing.

thats a shit ton of fucking plugins... theres goin to be some funky sounding mixes out there lol. I wish i could hear everyones tracks that copy'd these settings lol, its almost like a legit troll.

All that OTT hahah

But now all of this can be done with JST MAXIMIZER

EDIT: They don't have it set up on every channel, which is why they don't hear it distorting like crazy when they crank the drive. Without putting the NLS channel on every channel strip, theres literally nothing being fed into the NLS bus plug in haha. That's the whole point, to emulate up to 32 individual channels of an analog board and use the Non Linear Summing to sum it like that board would. So, I'm pretty sure it's literally not doing anything here (unless they have NLS channel on some strips I can't see) That being said: You guys are using NLS?!?!? I thought I was alone in this for awhile. Never seen anyone else in metal using it so far (not that I've looked that hard.) It's one hell of a plug in though. It emulates 32 channels of 3 different mega producer's analog boards, since each channel has a slightly different character. (like how some producers may think tracks 10-15 are best for vocals and below 10 best for guitars, etc) but you put the NLS channel on every channel in the mix, then the NLS Buss on your master strip. I like the Spike board better than Nevo personally. Spike is an SSL board therefore fits better with the SSL bus compressor these guys (and everyone else) are using. Nevo is a Neve board (Mike is maybe a Pulltec? don't remember) But man that's sick to see you guys using it as well. I got it thinking it sounded cool even though I've never seen anyone use it, so this is definitely nice. Now ya'll just need to start actually using it haha (it really should come with a better explanation, it's not these dude's fault, they're both legends. It took me a ton of research to find out how it really worked, they basically didn't explain it at all on waves site, only in RU-vid vids buy them.)

Kinda funny.. didn't see one of his plugins used.. not a diss. just sayin

Mix is ok, but why don't you use some deessing on speech in video, extremely hard to listen...

Can you not master in the mix session? Thanks.

11:30 This sounds like the typical over-produced, dime-a-dozen Metal mix that 99% of bands are using now. Flat, clipped to hell, triggered drums with exactly the same velocity across the board, pushed way to the fore. It sounds so lifeless and robotic it may as well have been _performed_ by computers too. Musicians - you can do better. Don't follow the trend.

Wow, the stuff you think sounds good. It doesn't sound like real music. If you listen to a real band playing this, it doesn't sound this way. I wish mixers these days would use digital tech to make things sound more real instead of unreal.