Let me tell ya, it's refreshing to finally see another youtuber in the producer community that actually understands the difference between headroom and dynamic range. The only thing that I do different is what I upload to beatstars. For me, only the trackouts are left at full dynamic range. The MP3 and WAV are exactly what they hear on beatstars. Typically anyone who is looking for the best quality possible is purchasing trackouts. Everyone else wants exactly what they hear on beatstars. In the rare instance that an artists complains about the MP3/WAV is simply an opportunity to up sell them on why it's important to get trackouts both for them and their engineer. I saw an engineer in the comments saying how they are frustrated with getting MP3/WAVs that are already mastered. I think most engineers are frustrated getting either of those files at all either way. They're better off educating them on the importance of trackouts instead of trying to convince them to buy more MP3s or WAVs. But definitely do what works for you and your business. But from my experience, giving out MP3/WAVs that aren't what people hear from your beat store causes more headache and devalues your trackouts. I also even included the master WAV/MP3 with the trackouts so that they have something to bump in the car.

Simple but much needed. Thanks mane!💯🙏🏾

This dude makes it so simple for you to understand without holding back all he knows

always providing the most useful content, chief !

Thanks man you always drop gems for producers 🔥🔥🔥

Thank you bro! God bless you for spreading knowledge!

Always throwing gems! Yes sir!

*Amazing and precise tips*

Today’s video was a simple one that many of us know, but I get asked so many times about how loud the beats should be on your site vs what gets sent out! Easiest way to think about it, ANY version that will go out to the customer (leave headroom) the version that plays on your website or beatstars player for auditioning (you can apply your limiting / clipping to get your desired loudness on the master) as this file wont be sent out. If you wanna see a video where I go in depth on gain staging check this video out. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r61hpbuErb6mqZ8.html Hope you all have a great weekend!

I actually never thought about it this way, thanks for the insight!

Good to know! Thanks bro

Hey lifestyledidit, don't got much to say except your videos are great and your grind inspire me. Keep at it bro

Good video man. People need to know this

Damn blud dis the most useful video on beatmaking I've ever watched

Yo Lyfe, you dropped some knowledge! Much appreciated! 🙏

This is a pretty dope video man... Thanks a lot for the helpful information

I swear i was just asking my good friend about this topic. You just cleared up all my questions 🐐

This video helped me a lot, thank you so much! I was always a bit confused if its okay to have a bit of gain reduction when limiting to make the beat louder but this video helped clear it up. :)

Exactly what I was looking for

It’s like you read our minds, great video ‼️

This is what I needed!

i love the vibe of the beat you have on this tutorial.

Good looking out my brother for the info.

Thanks for those tips. Keep posting

I literally just bought a mastering plugin yesterday to help out with this. Your uploads are always clutch 👌🏾

Thanks man, now I finally know what to do

I'm a simple man, I see lifestyledidit I click and like without seeing the video #firstonetodoitfam

This! thanks g almost never mixed before watching this

Thanks Fam ALways Helpful

Good vid as always ! Stay Blessed 🙏

Needed this. This has been my issue for sooo long.

Very helpful tutorial🙏 Thanks boss!👊

needed this thanks bro💯

@LifeStyleDidIt U DA REAL MVP!!

So in general: Beats or Online Platforms should be heard at: -14LUFS -1DB But for anybody wanting to use that beat: -6DB headroom (MP3, WAV/24Bit, Both Tagged and Untagged) and the mastered instrumental Right? I’m wondering so I can learn more about this, cause it’s fun making beats

Good video man, fr, thank you

Great tutorial, man. I learned this the hard way by getting chewed out by a session engineer years back. Never messed up trackouts again after that tho 😂

Thanks bro this helped a lot

Most underrated channel in music production imo

Love! ❤️

Awesome vid! Def worth a subscribe

Thanks for this man I needed it I’m sitting on a lot of music getting it all ready I’m about to go all In but I wasn’t going to post the music like this I was wondering if I should just take the limiter off when tracking out the beat This cleared up a lot I appreciate this foreal.

Crazy beat btw

Thanks bro!!

Thanks Lifestyle

oooo I needed this! thanks for these videos Dx

yo in jst one video iv gained so much useful information lol thanks so much dude

Much love

Thx for sharing

i like your vids , :) help alot

Real quick, simple and incredibly useful video. Everything has been fully explained (except what they do on the engineering side to mix the beat; but far from the topic. Keep 'em coming!! Been wondering how loud I should make my beats!

Helpful vid

thanks once again bro!!!i wish rappers that come with "mastered" beats could just understand its a hassle tryna mix and master a song with an already "mastered" beat!😢

Hey man nice video thanks for sharing this. Can you do a video on showing how to upload the mastered track and the track that has head room?

Finally someone who knows their sh*t!!

Loud AF 🗣️

Since I learned a few things the only thing I use the limiter for on the master channel is to raise the volume for the demo/tagged version. It isn't doing anything but raising the volume. This way I know when someone leases or buys a beat it'll sound exactly the same except for the sound reduction. I level and mix in mono without the limiter. Sometimes I forget to turn it off while I'm making the beat but I just turn it off before I start fine tuning everything the way I want it. I really don't even do much mixing anymore outside of some light EQ and maybe some sound design stuff. Everytime I try to dabble into some of those mixing plugins I just mess things up. Lol Still do sometimes. I've only been using FL a few months so I'm still learning.

This is a great tutorial ! Shoutout to @LifestyleDidIt I used one of the the free Scream kit that I downloaded from lifestyledidit.com. I used LS-Vox7, here is the demo beat I created and added the free Scream kit to it. Here it is if you want to check it out. soundcloud.com/vic-45/in-the-shade Thank you to @LifeStyleDidIt!!!!

Thank u👍🏼👍🏼

Appreciate that.....Just listening to different opinions.....

nice!

Today only i was thinking that where's the new tutorial by my Senpai And here you are THANKS.....

Good Vid, my G! #Headphones

Nice 👍🏽

I was thinking this, I could just imagine a rapper/singer having to yell over a bricked waveform with lots of post-gain

Thanks for the vid man! Really useful 😄

@lifestyledidit So basically the beat people hear on your page can be mixed and mastered by you to make it sound loud and punchy, but the zip, wav, and mp3 should be at -6db for easy engineer edits and headroom?

This is a really touchy subject, because I've always uploaded my beats to Beatstars mastered, then I started uploading beats with headroom because it made more sense but then rappers started contacting me after the purchase telling me to send them, I quote, "the loud version from the website, the volume here is low, I want what I paid for", and these are rappers who drop projects, albums etc not beginners 🤔

Yes...I was taught you want to go no pass 6 db....but I learned sometimes you may need to go 5 db

Loud enough that my neighbors can hear it

Hey lifestyle, geat video but i'm still confused. If I send a beat out to an artist, can it be fully mixed with exception to pushing the limiting ceiling? Is that okay? e.g. track is mixed and final stage is to bring up threshold. I disable that on the master channel and just send it out just like that. Thank you!

hey Lifestyle, I really appreciate all your videos, you're a big inspiration to me, that's why I wanted to ask, what did you study? I'm bout to start my life at university and I really dunno what I wanna to study but sure as hell I wanna study something realted to music, thanks!

Nice video like always, I have a question though, do you aim for certain RMS when limiting the beat or just gain reduction?

I understand the need for both versions as I am primarily a mix engineer but I produce. How would you go about setting that up through beatstars? Cause I'm always used to uploading a single file that's basically mastered.

Hi champ, thanks for the video. QUESTION: Must we master the instrumental before re-mastering it along with the vocal, irrespective of the music genre? Or, is it better to do an instrumental, add the vocals (mix of course) before mastering them together? Thanks!!!

Apart from the loudness amount. For the file that gets sent to the artist, Do you mix the instruments with compression, side chains, fancy vst plugins or do you do a simple mix to just level out the sounds & leave the artist’s engineer to mix the instruments again? Where as the one that gets upload for streaming do you mix and master the instruments with all the fancy stuff or is it you just mix the instruments once, but send one file without the limiter and the other one with the limiter?

So it doesn't matter how much headroom at first because you can gain it back down right? as long as a limiter/clipper wasn't originally used you can save the track to allow headroom?

Dang bro I always wondered about this when uploading beats to all socials and then the beat the artist gets, I give them a light version of mastering with landr is that okay though?

it's the little things

Finally ! Thank you! But what about stems ? How much db? Pan or not? Leave effects on or not ? Etc... Beatstars shouldn't be so careless about this topic , it's litterally the MOST important thing , i mean they make videos about every single feature of their site but beat loudness... wtf man. Do your job Beatstars! Thanks dude for helping us !

Gems (x)

What about if you use a mastering suite like Izotope Ozone or plugins in general (EQ, stereo widening, etc.) on the master bus? Should you also bypass those on the version that gets sent to artists or just bypass the limiter?

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So basically, the musician singing or talking will not be heard that well if your mixes are at 0 or around that right? So this is why I should make sure that most of my tracks are hitting around -18 to -3? Is that right?

is it okay to just have the melody a bit under 0 db and just jack the kick over 0 sb and add a soft clipper to level it back and clip the kick?

Will I have good results adding rap vocals over the "boosted" beat that has the limiter applied or no and just go with the stemmed version & have it mastered so I still preserve the dynamic range?

Can you do a tutorial on how to trackout with a mastering chain on master since it doesn’t let you trackout with master effects on

Everytime I do this I feel like my track is clipping like my speakers just start tripping even my headphones too

Why would you send a tagged version too? So you mean when an artist buys your beat, they can go in and change up things like the effects, volumes, etc on that beat, and which one is that and why? Thanks man, I'm just learning about this process, and I have a million questions that I still need answered, but I just want to make sure that I get tgis thing right.

Yo Life, mucho gracias! We definitely getting up one day!

What kind of files do i need to send to the artist i sell the beat for? And how it would look like in his end?

Did you use exhale for the background vocals on the beat?

Where do you get ur drum kits from? If u don't mind me asking

Before sending your beats to a mix engineer, should you send the individual stems? And if "yes", should you take off all your effects you've put on it (eg. EQ's, saturation, compression, reverb etc) so the engineer can apply their own effects?

Does this only apply for trackouts or also for mp3 and wav files where you just have the whole beat in one not tracked out?

So when I’m mastering a final song, would putting a limiter on the beat and a maximizer on the master fader in the same session be a bad idea??

Hey LifeStyleDidIt. Do you take off the Master buss compressor off too or just the limiter for the track being sent to the artist?

Why should we not run into red? I feel like it sound cooler sometimes?🤔

what level should it be for KZfaq? 0db? or leave headroom?