Mastering in Ableton Live - A Step by Step Tutorial 

Thanks so much! I've been there. If you're getting stuck finishing, check out Dennis DeSantis' book "Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers". It'll up your game, for sure.

@@TheRealAudioProfessor Interesting! Thanks!

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It's a nod to the movie 'The Big Lebowski' Classic.. :)

Thank you so much for the kind words.

Thanks so much for the kind words! Best wishes for your health and your songs!

Awesome! Glad it helped out.

Awesome, thank you!

Thanks so much for the kind words. I’m glad that it helped out!

@@TheRealAudioProfessor can u please make a another tutorial on how to master EDM and get that loudness and that feel, vibe!!! Please do it It'll help alot🙏

Awesome, thank you!

Awesome! Glad to hear it, thanks!

Thanks so much! I’ve got a lot more Ableton content coming out over the next month.

Thanks so much for the kind words!

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Thanks so much for the very kind words! They really made my day. I'm inspired to post more as soon as I get a chance. I have probably 100 lectures or more that I can post, so stay tuned. They'll be up as soon as I get a break from my regular job of teaching, which is at least a bit ironic.

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Thanks so much!

You’re welcome. Thanks for the kind words!

Thank you so much for the wonderful words. They really made my day. I'll hopefully have some more good content in the upcoming weeks.

Thank you so much for the kind words! Glad it helped out!

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Thanks so much for the feedback. I’ll definitely do more videos of that style. I make them as a result of questions brought up in my classes

Awesome! Great to hear. Go for it!

You’re welcome! Thanks for the feedback.

@@TheRealAudioProfessor Your welcome mate!

Thanks so much! I’ll make more in the next couple of weeks!

You can also use the regular compressor on the same settings should not differ to much

Thanks so much! Hope it works out for you.

I feel the same way.

I know this is super late but you could use EQ three for mastering or you can get an EQ plug-in if lite supports VSTs. I recommend tdr nova.

Good question. I could have been a bit clearer, but the LUFS control for this track is done with the Limiter. For example: if the LUFS were -14, I would raise the gain on the Limiter 2db. Hopefully this answers your question.

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JRUX These effects you can do all on the master mix bus, if you want. You just won’t be able to fade or trim this final mix easily. I personally prefer to have a separate Live set for mixing and mastering, but you can do either.

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Yea I think he just ment eqing it not sidechaining

In this case the sidechain is the internal (audio) signal. He's removing the low end frequencies from the compressor detection circuit so that it's only compressing audio above that frequency.

I’ve gotten a lot of requests for that, so I’ll make one in the next couple of weeks!

@@TheRealAudioProfessor Lorne, great & informative video! I second the mixing tutorial!

Will do. I have a sponsored video coming out shortly, and thanks to everybody’s encouragement, I have several Ableton videos sketched out to be released in the next two months.

Soundcloud is one of the few services that does not do any volume normalization. It’s the Wild West of audio levels. If you want to make a master slam there, you need to crank up the limiting. Ableton’s doesn’t sound that great when cranked that hard. You may want to look at a 3rd party limiter, like Waves L2 or L3. In my experience, Slate Digital’s FG-X sound the best with that hard of limiting.

SecretsOfRecording Thank you for the quick reply, I will look into those. You’d think they’d make Soundcloud more idiot proof for us noobs

You can do it either way. I like doing it on the wav file in a separate session. It makes it better to trim the beginning and end as well as apply any fade at the end. Whatever workflow works best for you.