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The key to being a mixing master is to have the whole band watching you as you confidently say "And I'm gonna make a cut at the 20hz range...you guys hear that?" 😅 Jokes aside good vid, you're a talented musician and make a lot of this stuff simple.
I really appreciate your videos. Every time I look at videos about how to do vocals or mastering etc it's always pop and hip hop and stuff. I really needed to learn some things about rock vocals and mastering etc. So I just wanted to say thank you
Great video - one of the best I've seen on mastering as far as giving clear advice and not getting too technical - you make it feel like a relaxed and simple process, and you show that each move you make is small, but with purpose.
Great. Only questionmark: hard clipping is more transparent for taming transients, and using no oversampling mean we are not adding back overshoots, so why not do that? If you had said you are wanting to add clipping harmonics on the whole track, soft clipping with oversampling would make more sense to me.
Dude you are far and away my favorite mix instructor on RU-vid. There's so much crap advice out there but you consistently release golden video after golden video. I'm curious as to why you don't use Ozone to make the track louder? Also, I'm wondering what you think of assistant mode? How close does it get to a solid master? I'm using Ozone 10 and I find it totally wrecks my mix, in 10 specifically they added a bunch of extra crap that I can't figure out how to use but right out of assistant it just messes with the sound so so much. Do you use Neutron at all? If you could maybe roast mix assistant I think that'd make for great content haha
Hey mate! Thanks heaps! Glad you like the content I’m putting out. I’m still on ozone 9, I find if the mix is pretty balanced, the assistant does very subtle adjustments. Sometimes it does some weird and wild EQs. I think it’s very hit and miss. I think I played around with neutron elements and wasn’t that impressed haha
upon the first listen, I can hear - compression - the sound is more glued together, the way I experience it is the "body" is either working well together with the "hair" or they're in their own separate worlds, and the mastering compressor is what brings them together those final couple inches - corrective EQ - the "body" sounds clearer but I'm not hearing that much "hair" enhancement, maybe it was down to the client's vision or the reference tracks they sent you - saturation on the transients, especially audible in the "hair" region - some stereo widening? the "hair" seems to have gained more "VoLuMe" hehe
Haha overall the enhancements are subtle, but that’s because the mix was already quite nice and balanced! sometimes adding more for the sake of adding more just makes things worse, there is more to be said about knowing when to do less processing then just dive in guns blazing haha I think the goal of every mixer is to make their mix sound so good it doesn’t need much more done to it in mastering besides getting some extra volume! They were happy so that’s the most important thing!
Nothing, just optimize it for playback. -14lufs is not a target for mastering. None of the professionals do this - it’s been debunked and is a bunch of misinformation. Go to the iTunes Store and download any song from the charts and see how loud it is - that’s the same file on Spotify. Every time I’m given a reference for mixing or mastering I download it from the iTunes Store and it’s hitting anywhere from -8 to -4lufs.
Yeah absolutely! You want the stems to sounds as close to your mix as possible - the only different might be removing any mix bus compression so they can apply it on their end.
I don’t think so - you can either boost the gain into the limiter - or you can use the unit feature which is basically auto gain - so as you boost the gain and start achieving limiting it doesn’t actually get louder.
Thank you so much!! Just wondering what you think of Smart Limit by Sonibe, just got it over the pro L2, would you say the pro L2 is a coloured or clean limiter. The Sonible sounds clean
Pro L2 has lots of different modes and each one adds a Colour/EQ to the mix. The transparent setting is the cleanest though. I usually like the modern or dynamic mode the most. I haven’t really tried Sonible, will have to test it out sometime!
Thanks Steveo! Ozone assistant is interesting, sometimes it can give you a good starting point to tweak from, but it also doesn’t really know what you are wanting for your track, it just tries to give a balanced EQ. But if you want something warm, it might make it too bright etc. using a reference tracks with the assistant can give interesting results. It’s definitely worth experimenting with and seeing what it does. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s not!
Why not fix this already in the mix? Like what is the point of mastering except pushing the sound up and maybe add a bit of saturation to the whole mix? Also what type of saturation is best for mastering, tape types?
The goal would always be the make the mix as perfect as possible while mixing, but it’s easy to get used to how things sound and find it harder to hear the problems, a mastering engineer can be a fresh set of ears and can help make those final tweaks. Fab filter Saturn can be good. Black box Hg2.
@@spinlightstudios Alright, makes sense. But still I think today, maybe having it seperate it's not that much of a point like it used to be back in the day since you can do so much today in the DAW:s. Anyway, your videos are great man, I like your style, i've watched a few tonight - the mixing ones
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@@mainsailsound983 I don’t do anything too crazy. Just if I’m explaining something and seeing the screen isn’t important it’s more interesting to change the scene.
