Literally some of the most valuable practical audio advice on all of KZfaq

I swear you pack more clarity and insight into 10 minutes than everybody else does in longer videos. I love your reinforcement of the “feeling” of music. Cheers.

Interesting video! In some way this how some mastering engenniers EQ in his Analog Gear, Boost a little bit here and then cut a little bit there, the Open Q and shelves of the different mastering EQ are something like that. That's why you see that most of this EQ have some predetermined frequencis like 50, 150, 250, 350, 500, 800, 1k, 1,5k, 2k, 3k, 5k, 8k, 10k, 12k, 14k, 20k and something like that. These frequencies have some kind of relationship between each other in terms of Psycho Acustic.

I love how you take a look at Mastering tips earlier this week and are showing a better approach of some of the tips that you reacted to, particularly with the extreme low pass vs a low shelf regarding phase. Appreciate this 🙏

Great! many videos are talking about yin and yang but this is the first video I've seen that actually explains how to calculate the frequencies! thanks, can't wait to use it on my masters

This right here is the sauce. Just received my copy of Bob Katzes book and you cover a lot of topics that are in there which makes it a LOT les difficult to absorb all this technical stuff so thank you!

Great techniques, it is always good to consider phase rotation at the pass-band when using cut filters. For instance, 45º at 80 Hz for a 1-pole filter (already 3 dB of gain attenuation), 60º an octave lower, which will be attenuated by a further 6 dB. Therefore, rotation is not as bad in the audible range. However, I am in total agreement, for the majority of masters I often prefer to use shelving filters.

Nice one! I like this format as well, it feels info dense but long enough for a real AB and explanation. I'd love to see a couple more in this series.

i will try the secound tip. thanks !

One of the best videos out there.

Thank you so much for teaching people about phase rotation in relation to high/low pass filters. It always hurts my brain when people are trying to push the "Ah, just put a high/low pass on it at 'X' hz"

Great ideas...very useful

Makes sense. Thanks for sharing

Good info 💯continue to make these interesting videos .

One tip I learn monthes ago is to boost high freq not using a shelve but a bell at very high frequencies. For exemple on the Amek 200, instead of boosting at 16kHz with a shelve, I'll boost 26kHz with a bell, this sounds smooth ! Both stereo or M/S processing.

Great technique, thanks

I really like your videos . Subbed . I like way you teach

For tip 2: Try changing the slope on ProQ (option+shift+press the eq point). Makes it easier to target more specific frequency areas and imo has a great sound - for mixing at least :)

Interesting difference between low shelf and high pass for the bottom end. I often boost the low end a lot and only cut some of it with a resonant high pass filter and will try taming that more in the future with a low shelf.

I love this bro thanks

Great info thanks for the tip❤ Yin yan calculator i think its base on 1khz. Foe example: 1000/80 x 1000=12,500 Or any number can work. 1000/400 x 1000= 2,500 One thing i don't get when you cut or boost eq we need gain compensation to hear the results.. what's the point if the gain not normelized?

I'm not grasping tip 2. I just don't understand why I would want to arbitrarily decide to cut the low mids if...they don't need cutting. I want what's in the low mids to be there. And I want what's in the high mids to be there, but a little louder. In your example I heard some oomph disappear and I didn't prefer that. And if you did that's perfectly okay. But I don't like to make certain moves just because I make others. I like to only do things if what I'm hearing sounds better. And I know you well enough to be really, really good at endorsing that idea. So I am just on the fence about this. Why would I want to lose some of the upper body of the kick so that I can make the vocals bite more, you know? I know that 3db boost sounds a little harsher, but in that case I could just not boost as much.

Why does phase rotation on a master matter?

tip 1: In mastering you wouldn't use zero latency setting on q3 to do a low cut specifically for the phase reasons you pointed out.

Damn I learn a lot funny how when ever I used hipass I realized it lower my headroom and I’m like how does this make sense shouldn’t it increase it ? So shelf saved me

do analog processors have that same issue with the high pass filter, i currently work on a dangerous bax eq and i always set the lowcut down to 20 /12 hz thanks for your videos quite informative.

It's usually the artist and/or producer who decides the song order and the mastering engineer who does the actual editing and sequencing. Is that true that the producer does the decisions where the songs should be in order while the mastering engineer does the actual editing and sequencing or is it both?

I prefer the linear phase high pass version. Listening on an Apollo and decent Adam monitors. HPF version took out too much bass.

i love you man.

HP filter (above 20 Hz) on a Master is just crazy.

never change fam!!

phase rotation on linear EQs?

I don’t get what the problem is with phase rotation. What should I be listening for? I’ve done blind tests bypassing on and off a filter at 20 Hz and it’s pretty undistinguishable for me.

That reminds me cla saying he'd rather use low shells than high pass to not mess phase

I'm just curious about your perspective of making music as a hobby... Did you dwell into that or doing only mixing and mastering work? Just a few days ago I decided to tackle a fun home project of producing and making a remix of song... And my God I was dissapointed to the point of asking myself why are people actually paying me if I can't even get my own sh...song done properly. :/ Did anyone else had this feeling of complete failure doing their own projects outside of professional studio time? What are your thoughts about this, maybe this could be a topic to be touched? *Sobs in a corner 😭

In your own words why album sequencing important when recording a studio album 💿 and while listening to a song from beginning to end why every single listener should listen to the song from beginning to end from the very first song the very last song aka opening track to the closing track of a song 🎵?

DOWN AND A LITTLE BIT HIGH

I guess you mean 90° phase shift....

Stupid question: why does a phase shift even matter in mastering?

I honestly see no reason to use a low-shelf filter instead of a high-pass filter. The mess in the low frequencies is problematic especially for the lowest band. Getting rid of energy from there is particularly important for the crest-factor of our mix. The phase problem is taken care of by using linear-phase mode, and the high-pass filter settings are best adjusted to the lowest fundamental frequency of our material (bass guitar, kick-drum, 808, etc.). For this frequency, the q-factor can be raised slightly to emphasise it and not lose the bass energy at the bottom of the mix. Below this should be the slope. Below 30 Hz we usually have a rumble, not useful energy. The second example is also highly questionable. You only have to listen to this mix for a while to notice a build-up of energy in the 200-400 Hz band (a very common occurrence). It's simply clear from the start that this mix doesn't need an upward push at 4 kHz, just a cut in the higher lows. When the track is actually too dark as a whole, a tilt-shelf filter with a lower q-factor sounds very natural. Here, however, it wasn't about balance, it was about unloading energy in a particular band. The third tip is fine, it's just worth mentioning that these are compressor settings with zero makup-gain, just to dampen the harshness of the highest band. Many people are in the habit of working with the compressor set so that it emphasises detail rather than suppressing it (high makup-gain). Fortunately, Ozone or Pro-MB require an extra movement for gain setting, so it's hard to make a mistake.

Tip 2 was super interesting I’d love to read somewhere about the calculation 🧮 😂