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Hello, I'm Nicholas Di Lorenzo, Studio Owner, Mixing and Mastering engineer at Panorama Studios.
I'm an Italian-Australian born and raised in Melbourne. I've been a creative professional for 10 years managing some pretty awesome projects for artists, labels and producers all around the globe.
What motivates and drives me?
My family,
Good food,
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@ManuelRamsaierRecords 4 ай бұрын

Its refreshing to see someone just include the list directly with no bs mail sale system required. Great to see! Thanks

@panorama_mastering 4 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@josephra7861 4 ай бұрын

Dude! This is incredibly helpful :o Thanks for being so open about your processes, so many people in this industry love to gatekeep and it's such a turnoff but people like you really inspire me to continue to make music

@panorama_mastering 4 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Keep making great music!

@KacyDennis 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the large measure of goodwill in sharing all of this with us. It is very much appreciated.

@panorama_mastering 4 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

4 ай бұрын

That's very helpful actually! Thank you!

@panorama_mastering 4 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@hithere4289 4 ай бұрын

Golden information that converts into knowledge. Thank you so much.

@panorama_mastering 4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@alexhulme6135 4 ай бұрын

Always learning so much form you’re channel. You’ve made me passionate about ADMIN and prep which I never thought I could be! My mixes have started to become way less cluttered and I’m finding that I’m needing to use less to get much better results. I’ve starred running a lot more fx in parallel rather than on big chains and damn is it so much easier than having a chain. If there’s an issue i can just bring down the offending effect (like you went through in the last vid) Thanks so much may dude And Cheers for these amazing vids as always!

@EMAD01 4 ай бұрын

You are a really cool boss, allowing your assistant to tap into your fanbase

@panorama_mastering 4 ай бұрын

Ethan is an absolute legend! He absolutely kills it on mix prep and deserves a million times the recognition!

@samphelps856 4 ай бұрын

Letting someone more handsome take over the camera... Brave, which makes you more attractive, so you're equal handsome which nulls this comment.

@citybikingmusic609 4 ай бұрын

@@samphelps856 ???

@samphelps856 4 ай бұрын

Thank you

@Erix77 4 ай бұрын

Nice! Great info about the -6 on the ssl channel👍🏻

@panorama_mastering 4 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@HorleyJason 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much ❤

@panorama_mastering 4 ай бұрын

You're welcome 😊

@jameswhitaker4357 2 ай бұрын

That defaulter plug-in looks super handy, wish they had an AU/VST version. Looks like izotope rx leveler module might be the closest thing

@mimunmester9787 4 ай бұрын

I can see that that check-list is in notion. Would be Great to See how you manage everything within notion if you actually do so. Great Video :)

@panorama_mastering 4 ай бұрын

I don't manage much in Notion; I have apple reminders and apple calendar; that takes care of me nicely :)

@chris_share 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for this! You mention that you like to hit the SSL in the sweet spot - what In Gain and THD settings are you using? Cheers!

@mikedavidson4203 22 күн бұрын

Here is my question regarding additive clip gain: digital mixing 101 says don’t push the faders above 0dB marker. So, let’s say the highest peaks of my track are, for example, -15dB, and my target for clip gain is to raise that to -6dB. Are we not concerned that adding this much gain to a clip could degrade the signal?

@jimmyhatz 3 ай бұрын

Great video. Just to clarify with your use of Defaulter: reducing peak level on all audio tracks to -6dB, then compensating channel level +/- on the affected audio tracks. Just confirming, if Defaulter performs a reduction of say -3dB, which you can clearly see on the clip gain information, are you simply compensating the level reduction by boosting the channel fader by +3dB in this example?

@jameswhitaker4357 2 ай бұрын

Watch the tutorial closely he gain matches them to -6db then used volume fader to get it back to original level to maintain the vision of the reference

@jonautry 4 ай бұрын

Maybe your VCA workflow makes this a moot point, but it seems to me like it would be advantageous to use the Trim plugin to compensate for Defaulter level changes. That way you can retain previous levels, but also have the faders in their sweet spot at unity for any adjustments/automation.

@panorama_mastering 4 ай бұрын

Hey, good observation! I originally DID use to use the trim plugin; but it's just clunky when you have 100 something stems and you need to re-open trim plug-in windows for each channel to dial up/down; Using the channel fader is just speedy and right there;

@jonautry 4 ай бұрын

@@panorama_mastering Yeah, I don’t blame you: definitely fiddly and tedious.

@djcrote76 4 ай бұрын

How do you deal with dithering when you export the files to approuved stems?

@thetruevineproductions 4 ай бұрын

The mixing set-up checklist won't open: I get the following error message - {"message":"File not found"}

@AfromationAfromation 4 ай бұрын

thank you ! and btw does the -6 DB rule you mentioned, applicable on vocals as well ?

@panorama_mastering 4 ай бұрын

In my workflow; yes;

@hectorcabrera5039 4 ай бұрын

Hey loved this, can you expand a little bit on true peak marker? what is that ? thank you

@panorama_mastering 4 ай бұрын

Represents the loudest/hottest signal in the mix; so I can reference that point when working with my mix bus;

@hectorcabrera5039 4 ай бұрын

thanks Nicholas!@@panorama_mastering

@realraven2000 4 ай бұрын

1:22 nice that apple displays the sample rate so easily - how does one do it in Windows?

@panorama_mastering 4 ай бұрын

Not sure!

@realraven2000 4 ай бұрын

@@panorama_mastering thanks - maybe one of he Windows users here may know. In Windows Explorer, under detail Columns we can pick things from a plethora of choices like Bit Rate, bpm and Bit Depth (The later doesn't display anything) but no Audio Sample Rate. Apparently the feature was removed after Windows XP. LIke many other OS they seem to be more photo / video centric out of the box, musicians are a bit of a fringe case as regards OS usage.

@nunyabizfam106 4 ай бұрын

Why not strip silence before defaulter? wouldn't that make the individual tracks need less compression? you could always automate the section dynamics back in and have more control.

@jonnyoh4731 4 ай бұрын

Strip silence is only cutting out whole sections of regions within a specified level of “silence”. Defaulter is just a way to gain stage the relative levels within the DAW signal flow. Needing to use more or less compression isn’t really a product of those two processes because dynamics are relative to the source material which will have the same relationship no matter what level they’re being set to

@nunyabizfam106 4 ай бұрын

@@jonnyoh4731 Thanks for the response. I knew that, But by using strip silence first then using defaulter it would gain stage all of the newly created regions making all of the audio regions on each track -6 (in this case) limiting the dynamic range of each track resulting in the need for less compression.

@jonnyoh4731 4 ай бұрын

@@nunyabizfam106 Hello! Np, but I think you’re missing the “relative” part. -6 is only a starting point to allow more headroom from 0db full scale, while also ensuring these regions go into plugins at the desired input level. They are then brought back up or down somewhere else in the signal chain, usually at the channel fader. This doesn’t affect how much compression is used because overall track level is relative and doesn’t affect the actual dynamics the stem contains

@jonnyoh4731 4 ай бұрын

@@nunyabizfam106 in other words. The loudest and quietest parts of a region/recording will always have the same difference in amplitude no matter what level the track is currently sitting at. Of course until you add that compressor :p

@nunyabizfam106 4 ай бұрын

@@jonnyoh4731 I understand that, But if defaulter sets each region to -6 (as the starting point) then each individual track will theoretically need less compression. for example if the track is a guitar and it is 3db louder during the chorus than the verse, but also, 3db quite during the bridge. usind strip silence would break it up into regions & then defaulter would set EACH region to -6 resulting in the need for less compression.