My mastering chain 

Love that "Your Gear Here?" rack blank...with salt, pepper, vinegar, and snake oil knobs! Hilarious!

Wytse still love all your vids after all these years! Still learn a lot

Great job at explaining your setup. It certainly gave me some ideas to how I will approach my mastering sessions.

This was extremely insightful, thank you for always coming with quality content! If I am remembering correctly you were the first audio engineering related channel I ever subbed. 🤘

Awesome Wytse, you've got it under control!

I met a guy in Burbank who was a mastering engineer. its insane just how deep into his equipment he was. like, when I hear something that needs attention, I go to turn a knob.. if I cant get it, I try another knob. if he cant get it after the first try he goes in with a soldering iron. they are propeller heads, I swear.

Looove! Amazing gear & desk arrangement. Super cool.

I appreciate you taking through your chain. Fab Filter plugins are a must for me. I use Pro-Q3 and Pro-L2. But I haven’t checked out the Pro-MB. I tend to not use Multiband Compression. But, I think I’ll jump into it.

Awesome video Wytse. Really enjoyed this one 😎👍

Im excited for the project management video!

I've been waiting for you to make a video on your process

You’re my favourite RU-vidr!

I'm so excited for the update video! There's been a lot of progress on the automated front, and I would love to see a comparison of a cheap master (1-3 hours of work MAX) with a pro Mastering Engineer. Can't wait to see who it is. If it's Bob Katz I'll shit myself

Omg that Gainlab audio dictator even through youtube is so good

you are brilliant, thanks for sharing your knowledge with the world.

The movment that varimu compressor gave to the track was phenomenal!

thanks , i had the privilege way back of mastering with John Dent , Island Records , sadly he passed away but his self made LOUD mastering studio continues

Ahh. Super interesting. Thank you for the insight!

U the Don .. Love your sound

Thanks White Sea

I don't know anything about mastering but this was fascinating to watch. I'll try to apply your digital chain techniques next time. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing! Very informative

so cool! Thanks for sharing!

Hey Whitsy, I realy love you old and new content! A while ago I was wondering if you have ever used or would use a beat synced Oscilloscope (Signalizer for instance has a nice beat mode, or psyscope) to check visually what your mastering chain is doing to the transients and therfore the waveform of the track? During producing my tracks, I really like to check compression, saturation and transient shaping visually as well with my ears. A little bit like one would check spectrum and stereo field. Then again, keep up your good work and your inspiring personality. All the best!

Wow, i just got into Analog gear and love it. the sound is different. i have a Ashly PQX 572 and a Behringer T1952. unique pieces.

I bought the Creme. Amazing. Saves settings per song. Whaaaattt

I have been messing around with one song for far too long and I think I finally got the best results. I did as much by minimizing my chain. I exported the digital file with no processing on the two bus; recorded onto tape with a Telefunken M15; and then relied on the AD converter to reign in any peaks with clipping (but basically just hit 0 on the hardware). Finally, I turned the track down 1 dB in Reaper and didn't even mess around with any digital limiters. It sounds great and I am comparing it not only to an original digital "master" but one for which I paid that also involved bouncing to tape. Sometimes we don't even need external EQ and compression, that is, beyond what a tape machine imparts if used. It basically comes down to, in this approach, finding the sweet spot when hitting the tape and making sure your digital mix is well balanced in the first place. Given what Mix:analog now makes available, I can no longer stay "in the box." Nor do I feel like I have to pay hundreds upon hundreds to any mastering engineer to finish off my tracks. It's a great era to make music. :)

I love this stuff. Now to make it work on my little system as best I can, lol!

Great point of view :)

Wow this is amazing - one thing I wish you can bring later - is at which point do you bring reference tracks and how do you use them during your mastering process?

Nice MX master mouse! I use the grey version it's fantastic for productivity and casual gaming.

Your new Lewit mic makes my ears very wet. Thank you sir.

Nice super setup

Thank you for uploading this. A really good insight into how the pros master. One question I have, just how close is Software compared to hardware these days? Is the gap any closer?

Thank you !

Thanks Wytse! English: "How it looks" OR "What it looks like" NEVER "How it looks like"

Kinda late but I'd be very interested to see how you'd like using the RND Portico II as it has a side field editor. Thanks for showing us this stuff!

Very nice video ! Thank you for these precious Knowledge :) Could you share a vocal mixing chain ? :)

NICE SONG

for that parallel tape situation you should consider TK Audio blender parallel insert matrix

The victator looks nice.

Chain has a misplaced word in the description… thought I would say something to help out since I love this channel

It looks like there`s Dynacord Echocord Super S65 sitting next to the wall. It´s one of the best things Germany has ever produced.

Yo Dawg. I got a compressor for the compressor you put before those other 2 compressors so you can compress it like super good nicely.

i saw on the crème that it has an auto release function. do you find that useable, and do you know how auto release works? i've always wondered.

Do you have any piece of analog equipment that uses vacumm tubes or it's all transistor based? I mean, the harmonic distortion that vacunm tubes can produce would be amazing combined with your tape machine. At least on digital, i combine both forms of distortion.

Thanks for this exposition. I sometimes use Saturn 2 "Magic Mastering" preset on my masters, but I put it near the start of the chain. I'd be interested to know exactly why you put Saturn near the end. I'm unsure about where to put saturation in the chain.

What is the switch bay for the pink noise?

Hey Wytse, I am wondering: How many compressors are you actually using on one mastering-session (on average)? Because here you showed: Dictator as a first compressor, then the Crème or the SSL and sometimes the alpha, but always the MB as a last compressor. So if I counted right that would be 2-3 compressors plus a multiband - which seems like a lot to me. But I'm not a mastering engineer. Thanks for the insight!

Are u gonna make Klark Teknik kt-2a review??

We've got the m15 tape machine in perfect condition at mix:analog if you ever want to use it again 😊😊

have you tried plugin alliance Lisa?

Never heard of the song playing, however now I know her entire hook lmao

@ 3:15 you say "tight" just like Goldmember, the Dutch baddie from the Austin Powers movies.

Great vid! No clipping stage? That’s unusual….

realy you dont use a clipper befor final limiting ???

Why not use an MS encode/decode plugin (or analog box for that matter) to use your hardware in the same way you use the alpha compressor ?

Mooie beat man heb jij dat gemaakt? Die kick drum vind ik top. Ik maak trouwens ook muziek. Ik heb zelf een soundtracs jade console.

Nice song, what’s the name of it or which artist is this ?

please do a review on Hornet Multicomp, such a small company with great prices and effective plugins, I think it would be nice, they also have a tape plugin etc.

Hi, I really ask me the question: why do a analoge tape generation through a 24 track machine and not a decent 2 track? I have to admit that I'm a full digital guy, but 2 track 38cms seems to me a better solution.

1:03 speaks into a mic that looks like a cyborg youre so funny xd SNAKEOIL?!

Thanks so much. I work completely in the box, and do mixing predominantly on good studio headphones. I know i can't properly master in my home studio because of acoustics and monitor speakers limitations. I am experimenting with plugins that address this issue, but it's hard to tackle the problem. Maybe an idea for white sea studio?

Dude..I wanna focus on these sophisticated, Award winning lyrics... ;-)

Good morning , question ? How much $ is it for a song . I am shopping around for album 8 songs . It’s rock pop thank you

Didn't you already do a video comparing a mastering engineer with the online mastering services?

Are you editing in Davinci Resolve? The dropout in the beginning av this video sounds like the thing that happens when you render videoes in Resolve with audio plugins that needs latency compensation. To fix this when you render choose custom, go to file and choose 100 as your render speed instead of maximum. If this is not your problem don't worry about this comment :)

@12:45 erm...that's some phase distortion. Big impact on the mix from that choice of high pass filter. Interesting..

16:27 “Way more” x 5 😂

Cahin!

I also like to use long attack times but I also use quick release times. Is that a sort of way to do upwards compression?

Just follow the signal path folks

wow, it shocked me that you work in reaper, I have been working in reaper for years and I have never found a producer in youtube that use it

Seems Like the Digital side is really doing the heavy lifting.

13:00 pretty drastic low cut you don’t shelve or do more subtle cuts than that for avoiding any phase/issues..

Please review Kirchhoff-EQ :) pretty please with sugar on top :* luv u

Love watching your channel. Useful insite into plugins. The Lewitt mic though is an overpriced mic in my view. Get a Neumann U87 or save a load and look at alternatives the U87 sounds so much better. Seen a lot of companies give the RU-vidrs freebies recently and it is not fair on the newbies out there. Many batter alternatives - look out for some good sub £1000 mics.

finally ... i am ready to sell my legs and liver to buy those analog stuffs! just kidding, thank you for the insight Wytse!

'Things have chain-ged....'

Is it just me or does the hihat on that demo have a nasty highfreq resonans somewhere?

Wytse, 2 things... 1) you are my favorite audio engineer on RU-vid. I like how many fucks you give - zero fucks. Dan Worrall gives even less fucks if that's possible but I have no idea what he looks like, and I'm starting to think he's actually just AI at this point. 2) the intro thing after "Let's get started" should be either shorter or longer. If shorter, I don't have to wait so much, or, if longer I can double tap to skip ahead 10 seconds. Maybe you could start playing that section at 1.5x or something :) Or you could say "Let's get started" while that thing is already playing, instead of one after the other. I watch every single video you put out. That intro thing is becoming a non-trivial amount of time in my life now. I'm sure many other people watch every single video you do as well, multiplying the amount of "person-time" your intro is occupying by a large number of people. I'm half joking, which means I'm half serious too... Anyway, keep up the fantastic work. People like you make the world a better place. Cheers...

Hey bro, I got an old Mac Pro ,, cheese greater,, os 10.6.8, lol,,the only reason I still use it in my mastering is because I have 500 plugins.. they all work great but , I think new plug ins sound better… you’re thought s?

I can’t imagine EVER doing parallel work with tape vs a digital file, unless there was smpte communication between the two. Even the slightest variation from the tape (which they all have) would be phase issues, and why risk having that be potentially undetected?

Oily chain.

it’s very tight….like a tiger

What is the name of this artist/song?

Wow I'm 1st to view and comment haha!! Very interesting to see how you use your equipment it's very minimal it seems like. I aswell mix and master but absolutely still sometimes send it off simply cause I made the song so I'm like fatigued by listening to it over and over 😫

How much for a one song master? And how I can contact you?

YOUR GEAR HERE ? LOL VERY CLEVER

E X P O S E D

Hey! Nice video 👍 I see you’re using a Stream Deck. Are you using Soundflow? If you don’t know it, check it out 👍

You should reach out to Pieter Kloos (the void studios, Eindhoven), he’s a superb and knowledgeable mastering engineer. 😁

Smart:Limit didn't get to stay then ?

Discord Channel?

I think that the outboard gear finishes it off, giving that pro sound that cannot be achieved just in the box. Is that correct?.

How much do you charge for mastering?

Name of the song

I will never get why EDM producers want heavier limiting and mastering - cause let's face it - if you play a smushed down track at a festival it's gonna sound shit and much less impactful on a big soundsystem! Dynamics are so important!

AD/DA?

You have 24 channels of tape distortion available. Couldn't that be used to replace the saturn with an analog multiband saturation/distortion? Would be a cool experiment and video.