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@TheCubeMusic2 жыл бұрын
Hey Cameron quick question for you, is there a plug in for Cubase Pro 11 that can make your voice sound like a 1930s radio broadcast ???
@takatouniverse2 жыл бұрын
The Softube's "Weiss Maximizer" ! It is a very good one. Because it's not changing Sound !
@TheChrisPCritter2 жыл бұрын
I have to admit that I'm not really a fan of the genre of music that you typically produce (I am more of a hard rock and metal guy), but I'm so happy I found your channel because you're always so articulate with how you explain things and it's really evident how much time you put into each video. Thanks bro! Your expertise is greatly appreciated! 🍻
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
Haha well hey glad the channel has been such a helpful resource for you! When it makes sense, I try to keep everything as agnostic as possible to explain core concepts and ideas so that everyone can apply them to whatever they see fit. Glad to hear all the work that goes into it isn't for nothing! Cheers! 🥃
@TheChrisPCritter2 жыл бұрын
@@VenusTheory cheers for sure, and happy belated birthday dude! 🍻🎂
@lawinter19492 жыл бұрын
You are not lying about the melda free bundle. The Mtremolo plugin is probably the most comprehensive volume shaper out there with some very musical randomize features. you have to make sure the phase is set to 0 degrees though otherwise it can be frustrating.
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
Melda's free collection is probably one of the best things out there in free plugin land. It's incredibly impressive how versatile their plugins are!
@lawinter19492 жыл бұрын
@@VenusTheory I was able to find someone who sold me the full license on knobcloud for 30 instead of 50 and i really like the sturator with the over sampling
@firqorescu2 жыл бұрын
If you want to remove the limitations of the free bundle (for instance being able to resize the window or save presets), keep an eye out during the Black Friday sales. It's been $25 (50% off) previous years.
@chrishillery2 жыл бұрын
@@firqorescu It's 50% off right now for the month of November, in fact.
@Lokkodog2 жыл бұрын
Melda is great though with the tremolo i get some static clicks like a fuzz sound very strange and annoying
@AHmediaDesigns2 жыл бұрын
Came for the mastering chain suggestion, stayed for the track! Nice!
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it haha. Ad music is always fun!
@kennethsmith53832 жыл бұрын
I dig it. I've been using either Izotope Ozone or TDR Nova behind TDR limiters. Now that I finallt know the lufs range...I have to do so much adjusting now 😂
@Barncore Жыл бұрын
2:28 Kirchhoff EQ has a button that activates 117bit processing Dan Worrall did a video that shows that it nulls with Pro-Q3 with 117bit on, but hey it's there if you need it. Personally i do hear a difference when 117bit is activated but it could be placebo i guess
@thelanavishnuorchestra2 жыл бұрын
Those look like a win. Mastering is such a mystical dark art and you look to have found easy mode for it! I have the Melda drumkit and love it and this looks like a whole lotta more good tools from them. Thanks
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
Mastering is a whole other ballgame for sure. Definitely going to have to save this chain for future fast turnaround gigs!
@ea5e952 жыл бұрын
Wow. That was excellent. Straight forward, precise and an awesome result. Gonna need those plugins..thx for this video 🙏🏿💯🔥
@ephjaymusic2 жыл бұрын
Thanks as always for premium quality videos!
@pleggli2 жыл бұрын
There is probably a reason that no one else is using 80 bit floating point values and that reason is that 32 or 64 bit floating point values are more than enough for almost anything audio related.
@foreflash Жыл бұрын
soundgoodizer, one word, soundgoodizer
@jamesperry13582 жыл бұрын
80 bit floating point (extended double) is completely unnecessary. Nobody is going to hear the difference vs 64-bit and you're paying a very expensive CPU cost for it.
@SufferahsmusicHD Жыл бұрын
Bro make your own video
@thegeenius2 жыл бұрын
solid info, gotta check into that psp
@GODANMEDIA2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video. It helped me realize that I know absolutely zero about mixing and mastering my music LOL
@glenesis2 жыл бұрын
Howdy. I hadn't heard of Signalizer. Nice find! Have a great day.
@melodicminute8271 Жыл бұрын
Your videos are dope af my friend very very good information
@dogma_Jo2 жыл бұрын
I just purchased Boost, what a coincidence ✌
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
Good timing then!
@JasonGillmanJr2 жыл бұрын
What, no vintage warmer? :D
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
Shhhh....don't give away the real secret sauce™
@TheCubeMusic2 жыл бұрын
Cameron my boy stay awesome 👏
@EximiusDux2 жыл бұрын
Interesting video, and the track even sounds good on a smartphone speaker.
@Bthelick2 жыл бұрын
it did before the master though. that kind of translation comes from the arrangement decisions.
@jfklmk134472 жыл бұрын
YEEEEEEEEES!
@PhantomGHOSTProd7 ай бұрын
I hate to say it but this track sounds like walmart bangarang lol
@m3rify2 жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@flame2fame_music2 жыл бұрын
I think, that PSP Neon has the same technology as Master Q inside.😊
@fyuzn2 жыл бұрын
Good demo in Signalizer for what it looks like when it's ok.. but what does Vectorscope look like when it's out of phase?.. what does the spectral shape look like that I should be trying to avoid?
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
Yo! When a signal is out of phase, it will skew at an angle to the left or right. You can test it out if you have a synth that allows you to offset the phase by feeding it into a vectorscope plugin!
@rfz62342 жыл бұрын
1:39 Oh shit.. I thought I was going to get rickrolled.. 🤣
@photicsonar2 жыл бұрын
I guess the Weiss eq MP is a good alternative to the PSP MasterQ…?
@michaelnorth37852 жыл бұрын
Dude ... love the info and the overall vibe ... but ... the bass (RBass?) is over the top ( : are to shooting for James Earl Jones?
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
Genetics.dll is a bitch.
@saardean44812 жыл бұрын
I have a theory i can`t prove. Lets say that only this one has "80 bit floating point" and everyone else 32 (?) . Thing is same as in mastering, more important is knowing what you are doing than having the best equipment. Only a good engineer will make the best out of ... anything so in plugins lets take "everyone else" that are using 32 bit (or whatever they use , i dont know but its not 80bit , for the sake of argument). But in the real world,,, not every Eq using 32bit sounds the same as any other eq using 32 bit. Some have seriously flawed coding and cramp and do other funky stuff too. And i am not talking about Analog Emulating vsts. One example would be the comparisson by Dan Worall where he compares Abletons Eq8 to Pro q3 and finds flaws in the Ableton Eq. What i am trying to say is that i dont believe that easily that using 80bit floating point all of the sudden automatically make this "a league of its own" Eq. I would have to see comparisons to other high end Eq`s with proof. Until then its just a theory. What triggered my thought was that the GUI of MasterQ2 looks a bit 90`s and the Eq Curve line graphics is ..... a bit like Arcade games revisited. The used extra large pixels for the line. This simply does not look like they gave it much love in the Aesthetics department and looks like the cousin of the one that coded the Eq was allowed to do the GUI design but she-he did not yet arrive in 2021. Take what i say with a grain of salt and a bit of humor as it is meant in a funny way but with a little bit of truth inside. peace , and love your channel!
@Bthelick2 жыл бұрын
How about a zero step chain master? "A good mix doesn't need mastering " - Bob Katz
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
Definitely good advice - I think a lot of newer producers especially think that mastering is this secret sauce thing that magically fixes a bad mix.
@BuzzaB772 жыл бұрын
@@VenusTheory absolutely. That's why I love that quote. I practice the preach too. 200 million streams now across tracks with absolutely no mastering and only freeware fx.
@jetlag14882 жыл бұрын
A good mix can always be improved upon with some mastering.
@Bthelick2 жыл бұрын
@@jetlag1488 oh definitely, just any fresh ears on it can always make a difference too. I don't think any tracks I've released (its in the thousands now) are truly finished. Nothing ever is. The key word in that quote is "Need". a good mix doesn't "Need" mastering, and the longer you do it for a living the more you learn where "need" becomes that significant difference in real world performance. fact is mastering a track to polish the last 5-10% isn't actually gonna make it communicate its message more, touch more people, or bring in more revenue (after deducting the time and cost)
@ThecatThecat-hq1op Жыл бұрын
Yeah, in my experience mastering is just making it louder at the end.
@DJRob4Real Жыл бұрын
Cool! What about the exact frequencies you adjusted with the mastering plugin at first? Thanks a lot
@KalelLucasOfficial7 ай бұрын
Can you do a mastering tutorial using simple plugins? nothing that is specific for mastering. I wanna know how to do this iin the classical way.(I think is better a produce know how to do mastering with normal plugins, not specific for mastering, because it means that have good skills.)
@bengsynthmusic2 жыл бұрын
One thing I don't understand is some professional music on KZfaq are like -8 or -7 even though KZfaq recommends -14 lufs.
@scarfypedia2 жыл бұрын
while streaming services do have their standards for LUFS, it's usually very genre dependent, and it's common to see LUFS ranges anywhere between -20 and -7 depending on the type of music before it hits various platforms (and gets put under loudness changing if it's outside of the specifications)
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
From my understanding, some music on KZfaq hasn't yet been subjected to their LUFS standards. I guess it takes KZfaq a while to go through and normalize things and some older videos are exempt from this. However, I've even noticed that with a few of my own uploads where KZfaq either hasn't normalized them yet, or seems to not want to normalize them.
@kevincourcey8132 жыл бұрын
Doesn't a tool like Ozone Elements do pretty much the same thing re: mastering?
@ogulkoker2 жыл бұрын
Same question I have.
@ephjaymusic2 жыл бұрын
Sausage Fattener X3 😉
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
The real easy mode
@ephjaymusic2 жыл бұрын
@@VenusTheory 🤣
@5imian2 жыл бұрын
Does the Ursa DSP more or less "replace" something like a sonnox inflator, like are these doing similar jobs?
@MrReeTart2 жыл бұрын
They are both limiters/compressors to my knowledge. you would use one or the other
@Planet9_music Жыл бұрын
Dumb question but is mastering done in a seperate session to mixing?
@TWEAKER0110 ай бұрын
Not a dumb question but typically yes it's best done as a different session (different engineer) because it's a different discipline - a different mode of listening entirely. "Bigger picture" and context of the whole release, rather than dissecting a mix. Knowing when to leave something alone is also a bigger part of it than many realize.
@caseylockwood55122 жыл бұрын
Wait, so on that last freebie plugin, if that image is really wide, thats a bad thing? It means you have stuff that is canceling each other out?
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
Not necessarily - the real key is to ensure that the lines are going up and down rather than skewed at an angle to the left or right. If there's a skew to the signal, that indicates a phase rotation issue.
@caseylockwood55122 жыл бұрын
@@VenusTheory Ah that makes sense, thank you!
@largepoodle60362 жыл бұрын
Use paz analyzer to analyze anti-phase.
@No-to4kd2 жыл бұрын
unpopular opinion: in dirty bass music, no one can hear the difference between an 80 bit EQ and your DAW’s stock
@Cloud2KK2 жыл бұрын
and all of the weird aggressive distortion happening before makes it redundant aswell
@Bthelick2 жыл бұрын
not no-one, but I would agree not enough people to effect streams/performance. I've accumulated over 200million streams on tracks A) without mastering at all and B) with all stock and free plugins
@StergiosNikolaouofficial_2 жыл бұрын
I prefer Grand Finale
@vahidarba79152 жыл бұрын
N9ce
@TWEAKER0110 ай бұрын
Rubbish, There is no fixed mastering chain. Serve the music. Experience, and a great mix will tell you what is (and *isn't*) needed. I'd also encourage (shock) listening: EQing *without* spectral analyzers.
@TWEAKER0110 ай бұрын
PS: there is NO LUFSi "target". Again serve the music.
@willsmith45842 жыл бұрын
sOUNDS the same
@jnorten2 жыл бұрын
I"m not sure who your clients are, but there is not a single song on the Billboard hot 100 that is mastered to -14 LUFS, every single one of them is much more like -8 to -6 LUFS.
@ogulkoker2 жыл бұрын
I think bigger artists get their work mastered specific to platforms, no? So, they master differently for CD, KZfaq, iTunes, etc.