Step-by-step Guide to Mastering Pop Music | Are You Listening? Season 6, Ep 5

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Learn how to master a pop song from start to finish in this step-by-step mastering guide. In the fifth episode of Season 6, professional mastering engineer and Berklee professor Jonathan Wyner teaches you how to master a pop song with iZotope Ozone, covering key aspects of pop music like level and low end before diving deeper into limiting, automation, dynamics processing, and stereo imaging. By the end of this video, you’ll be able to confidently master a song with a commercial pop sound.
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The song being mastered in this video is "Give it Time" by Braden the Young: www.marmosetmusic.com/browse/...
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Mastering in genres
01:33 - Prepare your track for mastering
04:04 - Listen to your track
06:54 - Validate your decisions with visualizer
13:11 - Using the Master Assistant
17:30 - Start by adjusting for tone
23:26 - Setting the limiter
26:33 - Automation for emotional impact
30:01 - Dynamics processing in mastering
35:53 - Excitation in mastering
37:48 - Stereo imaging in mastering
38:27 - Final thoughts
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@jayburd1875 Год назад

"Tickle the threshold with that long release time... " this is a life lesson.

@statespace Год назад

Excellent idea to put on a limiter first and find out the problematic areas before any processing. Wow! Thank you for that guys

@Reixmusic Год назад

What a Masterclass!!! Thanks izotope!!🔥🙌🏻

@kelvinfunkner 11 месяцев назад

really really awesome peek behind "the curtain" and I especially loved the thought processes behind the moves....having it "talked out" along the way in order to see the "why's" behind the changes was what made all the difference!

@mrfrankdamsax Год назад

Great series! Very informative. Thank you

@hape. Год назад

Great and insightful content! Thanks Izotope and Jonathan!

@Barncore Год назад

Wow this was great. Super useful. Thanks

@kovoliver Год назад

This video was very useful, thank you!

@angusbabb4913 10 месяцев назад

brilliant ! ..i learnt so much , thank you!😀

@Soundguydan Год назад

Great stuff. Thanks!

@baselinesweb Год назад

I like the insight you give about the tool design. For instance, it was great to get the knowledge that the tube setting on the limiter has a long release time of 2 seconds. Well done!

@skymakai Год назад

I love this series and really appreciate having Johnathan provide so much wisdom. I'd really like more 'electronic', 'dance' and 'bass music' examples. Maybe it's just me and that these genres are 'less difficult' to master, but it's the genre I'm most involved with.

@olkid5076 Год назад

Same!

@ddutchofficial Год назад

Very good video. Thanks

@AutPen38 6 месяцев назад

Another masterclass from Jonathan. Superb stuff.

@joshuawallwork6678 Год назад

This guy's even cooler than I thought! He listens to Stromae!!

@monkmusic5994 Год назад

Best and most informative/detailed mastering clip ever seen. Thank you.

@iZotopeOfficial Год назад

Appreciate it 🙏

@waldemarvogel7657 Год назад

Great video. Thanks. Nice to see a professional engineer explaining the software.

@dextercon Год назад

thanks you izotope ❤

@QueMusiQ Год назад

I want that song! So dope!

@jamespingel8730 Год назад

It was really cool to see how you'd tackle a mix like this. As I was watching along I was thinking to myself "I wouldn't want a static EQ on that hihat because then the verses are going to be missing top end, so I would've reached for a dynamic EQ there", and then you go and automate the whole EQ out instead. It was a much more dramatic move than I usually make, but insightful. If it's not too much trouble I'd love to see more like this.

@iZotopeOfficial Год назад

Interesting to hear about your go-to method. More is coming for sure. Thanks for the feedback!

@iZotopeOfficial Год назад

Are there any tips for mastering a genre like pop that we might be missing? Let us know in the comments!

@rogercabo5545 Год назад

Hi Mr Wyner, how do you get high frequencies above 13kHz up to 17kHz under control? Nearly everyone above 60 or much sooner loose it's ability to hear above 12kHz.. Did you have hints or tricks how to get the top end under control?

@rickbiessman6084 4 месяца назад

5:58 Gotta give this video a like purely for the fade out already. Thanks a million times for that

@itwontstopprods Год назад

I use Partition too as a reference for how ridiculously heavy (sub) bass can be in a track! "Down to 30 hz or even all the way down to DC, in the center of the earth" 🤣🤣

@VonnieVonVonX2 Год назад

Thank You ✔️

@lameraviglia Год назад

great video as usual. i wonder, how do you adjust volume when you´re working with headphones? (since you can´t measure it like you would do with speakers)

@etcot8220 Год назад

I agree that low end bass is bit too wonky, glad you had the same observation roughly. Interesting video for sure, great content in other words, many 👍 thx for the upload

@KingGrio Год назад

It's hilarious. At 7 mins or so he basically explains in very polite and professional terms that modern pop music is basically bass drones and sub-kick impulses with clicky robotic sampler style high hat hits, and a vocal. It's really devolved into the most minimal components. He also points out these high hats annoy the hell out of everyone hearing this come out of small speakers, or worse yet: crappy earbuds while riding the public transports. Verse is basically a telephone effect as the gimmick to contrast this chorus section, because honestly what else can you do that has less things happening than the chorus. I'm not even sure you can still talk about arrangement under these circumstances. And then he goes on to explain how he is going to master that. He must be the most professional guy I've ever seen, for being able to express in such terms and while keeping a straight face that this is a cool tune that is interesting to master. Don't get me wrong, I think Jonathan Wyner is great. But modern pop music ? I can't believe I was complaining about it in the 90s, it's become so much worse.

@lashtal Год назад

lol, love what you said.

@seldom23 Год назад

Jonathan your are wonderful instructor! If I may make a small suggestion - relative loudness between narrated instruction and musical examples - I find I'm riding the volume as it goes back and forth (in this video and others in the series), bringing the volume up a bit for the music treatment (particularly for low end examples), and then quickly have to dial back when we return to narration - typically say +/- 3 bars on a macbook volume slider (yes, I'm listening on can :) Best regards

@pawel9450 Год назад

Great Video

@pawel9450 Год назад

but please keep before/after listening- parts a little longer ;)

@bradleypower4803 Год назад

Can someone explain why you would bring down the threshold instead of just increasing the input to the plugin itself? Thanks!

@danemusic5242 Год назад

after finding out my ozone 8 vst wasnt compatible with my os update I thought wow that really sucks i bearly bought it 3 years ago for what i thought was a high price for a vst, after a to b without ozone i really feel stupid for using ozone on so many tracks all i needed to do was balance faders and i had much more dynamics and less saturation oh well somtimes i have to learn the hard way .

@janarefin4744 Год назад

after setting the limiter does he mix into it the time after that?

@GloveBunniesVideos Год назад

I always wondered if it would make mastering easier to give the engineer stereo stems (drums, bass, vocals, synths, etc.) instead of just a stereo track, but that would most likely make the mastering process much, much harder. Great video!

@TokyoSpeirs Год назад

That's called Stem mastering, a common practice!

@GloveBunniesVideos Год назад

@@TokyoSpeirs Thanks!

@FusedMusic Год назад

Great stuff, but I'd appreciate more an 'electropop' 'synthpop' example. So many tutorials lean into that base heavy hip/hop area, but a more pure electro 'pop' area would be really appreciated.

@iZotopeOfficial Год назад

Many thanks for sharing your feedback 🙏

@horriblemind Год назад

Is that MOTU Track 16 on the desk?

@user-se8gp7cr2x 5 месяцев назад

So do you have one instance of Ozone for each part of the song? One for the chorus, one for the verse... Thank you!

@dgunzbeatz Год назад

My question is for the high end why not use iZotope transient processor to bring bring down the hi hat that disturbs the mix to avoid tampering the clarity of the Voclas

@Ein-Stuck Год назад

Will Audio Lens ever work with Tonal Balance Control 2? It would be a nice..

@iZotopeOfficial Год назад

The target curves created by Audiolens are not officially compatible with Tonal Balance Control unfortunately, but many thanks for the feedback!

@MistrBlistr 4 дня назад

I watched this whole video from beginning to end while wearing headphones and using a spectrum analyzer and I heard nor saw any differences in frequency or tone.

@vitaliano1978 Год назад

what headphones exactly are these guys ?

@rogercabo5545 Год назад

Hi Mr Wyner, how do you get high frequencies above 13kHz up to 17kHz under control? Everyone above 60 loose it's ability to hear above 12kHz.. Did you have hints or tricks how to get the top end under control?

@AutPen38 6 месяцев назад

As a guy in his fifties with diminished high-frequency perception, I rely on the visual feedback from Tonal Balance Control and spectrograms in EQ plugins. I mix top end with my eyes, not ears!

@united100 Год назад

which Audeze headphones are you using?

@guillaumetiger-isothesis5791 Год назад

Looks like the LCD-MX4

@thesoulbelow7324 Год назад

I just wanna know where he gets hot amazing cat tshirts🙀

@jordanmiles106 Год назад

Where do I get this shirt

@Faithaven Год назад

So want to see you master a rock mix

@iZotopeOfficial Год назад

👀

@docteurgreene Год назад

Unfortunately RU-vid's compression killed me. I used a good headphone to watch this video but I almost hear no differences between the "before and after" comparisons :( Is it possible for a next video to go deeper in how to select the crossover points for multiband comp or exciter? I still don't understand this part very well....

@davidasher22 Год назад

There’s a feature on all the multiband processors that selects the best crossover points for you. But from what I have come to understand, to do this manually you should be trying to find where the energy distribution changes significantly. I usually start with something similar to how Tonal Balance divides the frequency spectrum. And then related to how the program material sounds while being effected by the processor I’ll change it accordingly by ear.

@itwontstopprods Год назад

Agree, a lot of the differences are very, very subtle even on great headphones and video playback on 4K

@atta1798 Год назад

Ok what is enough headroom and how do you know it is an artifact?

@stallmak8 Год назад

Enough headroom can typically be around -4 db. which is the variable between the highest peaks and the digital ceiling which is 0 db. Artifacts are sounds that are not natively part of the music. Unlike harmonic distortion, artifacts are usually subtle noises that are off key in the mix, artifacts are mostly created by a lack of processing power, or a sampling rate that is too low.

@Enice43 Год назад

What headphones are you using for this

@ramonaguayo7281 Год назад

I found i another comment saying LCD MX 4, but from what I could find online it looks closer to LCD-X by Audeze

@stephenmcnamara9928 Год назад

Excellent video, as always Jonathan. Quick question -- is there a way to make the default "Learn Threshold" in the Maximizer to be something other than -11.0 LUFS?

@iZotopeOfficial Год назад

Hey! For any questions about Ozone, feel free to get in touch with our product support team directly here: bit.ly/izo_prod

@itwontstopprods Год назад

Yes, just click and drag up/down on that value

@stephenmcnamara9928 Год назад

@@itwontstopprods I realize that -- I meant setting a default of, e.g., -14LUFS when the mastering chain is prepared.

@itwontstopprods Год назад

@@stephenmcnamara9928 oh sorry - then just adjust and save it as your default for the limiter?

@stephenmcnamara9928 Год назад

@@itwontstopprods No apologies necessary, and I'm not sure how one sets -14.0 LUFS in the Maximizer limiter as a default. I thought I checked the settings for this and didn't find it but maybe I missed it. If a default of -14 LUFS can be set, that would very helpful because when I run the Master Assistant with the -11 LUFS default, it's higher than I'd like it to be to start. Thanks for the help.

@Bxndoben Год назад

Couldn’t help but notice that all the frequencies you attenuated when adjusting the tone were out of key notes, considering the songs key is A♭ Minor . NOTED