What are some of your favourite tools for mastering at home?

Genius mastering engineer - an absolute pleasure to have this insight into his process. Beautiful track too

Love the mind of a mastering engineer. Different breed!

It's amazing how different the perspective is for mastering between a "swiss army knife" engineer and a mastering engineer. Thank you ever so much for sharing all this material with us!

Can't believe we can watch this for free 😍 thank you so much ❤

Rueben mastered a track I did about 5 years ago, I LOVED what he did and not only that he reached out to me when he was gonna do it and let me attend. A+ all around

Reuben sir my Favorite mastering engineer in the world...❤

Awesome! Ive been really into this plugin lately so cool you did a vid on it!

This was special. Thanks.

This is a treat!!! Thank you for sharing this! Its awesome!!!

Absolutely fascinating. Very well explained from start to finish and great track! Thank you for uploading!! 👍👍

I'm amazed he can hear 0.07db of difference in that EQ

Love these guys!

Wooow, he's so cool !

Wow thanks. I am 47 years of age and I have long since thought I would be too old to learn the art of mastering, but I was surprised to actually notice the difference between the tiniest adjustments you made. Not when you were riding the EQ, but when you explained why you did something and A/B’d the different versions. Thanks for the in-depth explanation, with this course I believe I will get the insights and the training necessary to get my own music where I want it to be, connectivity-wise. Thank you again!!! =)

Fantastic video!

Amazing video, with so much knowledge to take in, good job I bought the course. Thanks very much for this very informed and educational video. You folks all rock!!!! Cheers

That was great, thanks!

I love how intuitive the movements on the 'instrument' are! It reminds me of a violin or piano player. I loved seeing the left and right hand do their thing almost on their own. I have often approached my FOH work as another member of the band and the desk is my instrument. I love watching this, and seeing an artist share! Now I need to re-watch with my Schiit DAC and RNHP w/ the Senns. . . :)

what a great video. the song sample is gigantic good sounding

I love the mastering videos!

Excellent video and thank you, thank you for using an actual acoustic track!!

that was really interesting! Thanks!

Amazing 💥

Great video! Thanks Gentlemen

Love their plugin! Will be most interested in this. :)

Listening on my phone, thanks!

Great video Gents!

Great video, very useful information

lets get it lets go

Wow dude!! Great tutorial!! I am about to attempt to master a song at home that I just finished mixing. Watching this really put a lot into perspective for me. Firstly it made me realize how totally unprepared I am for mastering. But because of that realization, I think it will take some pressure off. possibly keep me from dragging my feet so I can wrap it up faster and get on with my next project. I plan on using the one of the Brainworx mastering desk plugins, moist likely mastering desk pro or true peak. My question is.. Of all the mastering approaches and techniques you explained so well in this video, how much or how little of that might carry over to using a mastering desk plugin? For example, would you do the same cut/boost at 31hz/45hz if you were mastering ITB with plugins? Or are a lot of those little moves you mention strictly tailored to the exact gear you are working with. I imagine you need to be "on top of" much more detail with an analog setup like you have in this video, Whereas a plugin, aside from not being real analog gear, will shape the audio in a pre determined way leaving the mastering engineer with less control and fewer tools. Would you suggest to a noob just learning how to master to stick with a single master desk plugin or might it be better reach for other tools (plugins) as well to compliment the mastering desk plugin. I realize it will depend on the source material and many other factors. And me trying to come anywhere near accomplishing what you do in this video with a plugin is a joke. I guess a better way to ask that question is,, Are any of the mastering desk plugins good enough to do the entire job of mastering for a beginner like me? Or should a beginner look at a mastering desk plugin as just 1 tool of many that will help me learn the skill of mastering? I might be over thinking it all. When they say do not mix and master your own songs it really is no jokje. It might not be possible for me to do both without a lobotomy in between. lol I appreciate you making this video. Its really refreshing to find a tutorial like this where they arent just using some techno or dance music throughout but a real musical performance played on real instruments by actual musicians with nuances and groove. I mean no disrespect to electronic music, its just not my thing, I'm not a dancer and when learning my craft the last thing i need is a techno song playing on repeat. Especially from a mixing standpoint or imagining the standpoint of a mastering engineer I struggle to relate to a lot of electronic music and sometimes wonder if a song made up of pre recorded samples really needs to be mixed as thoroughly after tracking. i digress... thanks for making this vid! i look forward to many more Cheers

so... sublime

thanks for this Warren

great Video tutorial and insight to Pro Mastering process 👌 one thing i'm missing here, its shows the texture and musical decisions for the specific music , but i didn't see the Technical or standards for the final level decisions. and how to achieve a industry standard music release loudness without getting the music squashed and distorted, i know its a broad topic and every platform and music genre has its own rules/standards, but it's one of the most important aspects and hard to achieve goals in mastering. clean loud master ! probably this is not what the video was about, but missing this important aspect of mastering ,and i wonder how the pro Mastering guys approach and handle this

I really enjoyed the video! Thanks for that Warren,btw, IK Lurssen needs an update right now.!!!

Sorry if I missed this part. But in the digital (pro tools) segment, what is the first stereo track with PCM in the label?

I could listen to buddy talk for days born trainer of the audio arts great episode quite possibly the best one I’ve seen yet. I’ve seen 1or2 😂

This guy is ninja! Couple questions: are you monitoring from the speakers behind the PT screens on your left (what are they)? Or are there speakers in front of you (what are they)? Thanks so much !,

Hi Warren, I'm enjoying learning about 'behind the scenes at the mastering lab'. I'm in the middle of making my second album. I'm thinking of taking the upcoming mastering class but I have two questions for you: 1) How much audio production experience do I need to have in order to comfortably absorb the lessons 2) I see that this is geared towards Pro Tools but I have the latest version of Logic... would Logic be compatible with the course?

This was certainly a helpful demonstration to understand the idea behind the Lurssen Signal Chain and I appreciate that. I'll EQ more into a chain from now on (when I have to master). I'm not sure wether it's envy, disbelief or simply curiosity, but there is a part of me that wants to put you to the (blind)test with an A/B -comparison wether you can actually hear a 0,07 dB boost. Most of the time I'm mixing I'm thinking in 0,5 dB steps. I know I have far from perfect ears, but 0,07 dB is wild to me. I'm not even sure I'd be consistent on a whole bypass of the fabfilter-EQ. I THINK I'm hearing the difference, but am I reallly?

I wish I could adjust all of the parameters for each of the processors. I do understand why that wouldnt be possible, if for example this plugin is based on convolution technology- then perhaps an entire signal chain avoids creating redundant signal flow. Still, would be nice to select modules- and affect their parameters without having to blindly flip through presets

Yep, you cant fix a bad mix in the master, you have to make do what you get, the best way you can. Another good mastering video with free plugins and from start to finish by Venus Theory for those bedroom musicians.

and get them likes up fellas

Just Pure Voodoos😜

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Why did not display the Q3 on 3db?

why from 48khz to 44khz at the end ? can not follow this. thanks for this detailed video !

Anyone else find that song to be a lot more mesmerizing than it should be?

At 12db it did not display correctly

What's the song?

That EAR eq, my goodness

Am i the first? 😀

Unfortunately, their plug-in is the most resource hungry I own. Wish they could fix it.

Song\Artist? (seems similar to Trevor Hall)

No entendí nada 🤣👍🇻🇪💯💯💯💯💯 Buen video

Its great to have the opportunity to hear how someone else does things. In this case I feel the presenter should have practiced the presentation prior to shooting. The multiple repeats and bumbling make this very simple subject sound complex.

Funny how he touches the knobs on the Tube EQ but not moving them at all…

This guy is awesome, no doubt but my ears bled the entire video from his lavalier mic. I am also not understanding why he went from getting his results on his analog gear and then suddenly went in the box ?

So he's basically saying that today's mastering engineers are here to fix the bad mixing choices of "mixing engineers". Don't you think something went wrong ?

Tooby Q? Does he mean Suzy Q? Resistance? Does he mean attenuation?

Creepy dude.

Ugh

This is a joke right???60Hz -0.10dB. 80Hz 0.16dB. 1250Hz 0.36dB. 5947.8Hz 0.10dB...how many BS the world of mastering can provide??

Always trying to sell your own product what did the world use before your plugin lmafo

Wow this track is really bad.. what is this singer doing? Really really weird style, unnatural sounding. Not my thing. Good lesson in being objective though.

He explain like a woman does.

So you have to master through an expensive analog desk? Stop wasting my time.

Terrible song. Awful vocals. Good quality though.

that vocal is terrible, forced. should of chosen something less annoying