Take your time and have plenty of breaks in-between. Try and listen to music that's different to reset your ear's, and lower the volume or you just keep pushing it back up. Play your music and listen to it from out side the room is a good tip because you can hear what's cutting through. but keep going mate, the more you do.
By far the best mastering tutorial on YT. Love your philosophy on mastering as well. You have a ton of knowledge and properly explained what each step does unlike other tutorials.
Please someone, cheer this guy up. He seriously bummed me out. Sounded absolutely bored. Oh, and the reverb was a mess. Still sounded muddy in the end.
Hugely informative, thank you! Took away some side points as e.g. "use anorher Limiter than the stock one", and the Idea with a plain parametric channel eq (vs. EQ8) I took away as well, great stuff, thanks a ton!
I really like Ozone Pro and Smart Limit... but, like you said, for like the last 5%. If I have mixed stuff properly, there should not be much of a difference between running these 2 program's AI and what I already have. Often I find myself going and readjusting what the AI did and sometimes even turning off Ozone or Smart Limit a few times before I get it where I want it. Usually don't push it out after a round at it, either though.
man 8 band EQ saved my ass... couldnt tame the damn kick no matter what i was trying to do , wouldnt go below 12LUFs without breaking up, cutting overall EQ did wonders.
this may be a stupid question (i'm kinda new to mixing and mastering) but why don't the volume signal in SPAN go down when i lower the volume of each track/ and or the master channel? because i wanted to start mastering ( i thought i mixed it alright, everything is in balance, and volume nowhere higher than -6db), but according to SPAN on the master i'm already clipping a bit. I'm confused
Gotta go to settings , then in the Plug-ins menu check the box that says multiple plug-ins on the screen to enable this option, ableton comes with this option disabled, 🎼
And right now we are going to talk about it which we will see later as it is something important that could do things which we can talk about in another videos, I'm also going to do things and match it then I use this then I use that. 20 minutes
Thank you for sharing the process 👍🏻 It gives me a better understanding, what should be fixed in the Master. And of course what should be fixed before in the mix 😅🙂
This is a really great tutorial. But when you're listening to the references aren't they going thru the master? So adding effects? So ur you're not comparing like for like ?
I'm mixing/mastering on Mackie HR824's with ableton glue compressor.. following your tips.....kinda bedroom studio but should I take into account the nearfield flat responce or trust what I hear will work elsewhere? I guess I'm asking are my monitors good enough. they sound awesome but on other systems my mixes have mixed results. I'm doing Rap on Trap and Drill styles but messing with Classical influences, also popping out a bit with 5/4 and 7/8.
I use spectrum instead of span, maybe is not the same but does its job. great video, thanks for doin it for us, ableton users as we don't find a lot of valid tutorials online
Hey nice tutorial. Im confused though, most of the tracks I use as a reference are way too loud, they all clip on the master, these are tracks bought from iTunes for example. Do I need to turn the volume down of the reference tracks? but at the end they will have different dbs if I turn their volume down. cheers
You have to set the channel output of the reference track to "Ext. Out" instead of "Master". Otherwise you process the already mastered to 0db reference track with your mastering chain!
Excellent video. I did indeed swap that EQ8 out for an SSL EQ and it made this chain work even better. As a novice to mastering, this is a terrific starting point. Thanks again!
A good the title is wrong.. I don’t want some obscure “free” malware plugins .. I was hoping you are using stock instead of free plugins. Still on Cubase 8.5 but maybe replacing lots of my legacy software with suite 11 .. which looks like a massive big box with almost all tools you can ask for thanks bro
Dude. Nearly every pro level producer uses SPAN. It's that good. Far from obscure, as you'll find out as you continue through life. I'd recommend you get over it, and just get it. Low CPU, easy install, free, safe and incredibly useful. But hey...
