Awesome video, thanks for that :) you're my favorite yt channel lately :)

Awesome videos - you are a real gift to the community... thanks a lot man

Love this channel. Such valuable information in every video. Nothing but gratitude here 🙏

That was great, thank you

Love your content and love the Italian style hand gestures 🤌🏻

great transparent video ...really enjoyed this

14:03 the problem with being autistically hyperfixated on audio AND street dance is that sometimes, I can’t sit still and focus on what you’re saying because I’m BREAKDANCING in my head! (Okay, sometimes quite literally in real space) so I have to rewind. This beat is campy but it HITS!!!!!

Great stuff as usual mate. Stem mastering is great because when the client exports their stems they're often not all hitting their master bus chain giving the stems a more open dynamic sound for you to work with.

Awesomeeeee video and explanation 👊

Love this video!! ❤

Dude that was a masterclass. Thank you!

Great! Especially on the 32 bit null test, headroom and over sampling part test, explanation.

Mate, this is some pretty outstanding info. Thanks heaps!. Sending love from Melbs!

Brilliant Video!

B analog is my guess :)

I didn’t understand most of that but it was wonderful. Your client s are very lucky to have you

-5LUFS (integrated) is a lot of people's goal in mastering (EDM). Normalisation varies amongst different platforms and has nothing to do with dynamic range choice. It's a simple volume reduction. A -5LUFS track will sound completely different when turned down by 8dB to the same track mastered at -13LUFS (untouched by the said platform). Dynamic range is a sound design/engineering choice massively dependent on genre and personal preference.

B sounds more alive, not huge dif but sounds more warm.

I would say 'C' is analogue. It feels like there is more movement going on between elements and the audio image/spacing feels less 'flat' / digital. Curious what the answer will be :)!

If you right click on the gain reduction meter you can change it to 1-3 db and see even more precisely the gain reduction.

Love your content ! Give a try to the new mastering grade Acustica Audio Pumpkin Pro for saturation. It is on the level of the Michelangelo in my opinion. There is a FREE non pro Pumpkin version with fewer saturation modules if you want to try it ! Their new Anti Aliasing algorithm combined with oversampling produces exceptional clean/warm saturation with no "guitar distortion pedal" harshness found in most saturation plugins. B is Analog ?

If your want you'd track to adored by audiophiles, or want your track remain pristine, listen to my discovery after trying almost every plugin. I tried almost all the clippers and no matter how little I set things up, it made my track sound less than pristine, I tried every ozone feature my transients like snares and clap were squashed, limiters were all squashing making the groove flat as if someone added 100 percent quantize to the groove and now though loud but the musicality, the feel like dancing, as you hear track was gone. Anytime I compared to the original track, I notice I would nodding and viking to it, but not the loud one I was working. People don't about that, the other game changer was loading the original and constantly comparing, something you don't taught or see. Just adding this and that till it's getting louder and sound clean, is not true till you really listen to both and then, you end removing all the limiters and clippers. Wow. The only and one thing that made it loud and still sounded as groovy as the original unmastered was, INFLATOR. most producers and engineers do not compare back to the original. The eye opener in my comment here is, Master the track and then compare to the unmastered one, increase the unmastered one as loud or even louder and see, how the mastered with all the plugins has caused to lose all the feel, all the musicality, and good stuffs even difficult to describe with words. This no one has ever talk about. Even the way the hats sounded or the highs was all artificial, but only apparent when you compare to the unmastered version. The loudness and more energy fooling the ears. Inflator from Oxford is a secret weapon, that does not touch your transients nor change the flavour of your highs. But people wont get this because they let themselves get deceived to believe the one I put so much has to be better. comparing is the biggest secret in mastering I found but no one told me. Thanks this is not to take away from this video, but try what I say and you will thank me in your heart.

15:39 People will argue digital with religious fervor for the foreseeable future because if they’re older than me (ie established baby boomers), they may be biased to whatever was the established protocol in their day in their 20’s - early thirties. Others will argue and scoff digital because the aforementioned experts (real or self-described) taught them to believe that. You are right. The audiophile listener - regardless of how sure they are - CANNOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE. Give the same capable user an MPC or Ableton with one shots, the results will both sound the same level of good. Maybe they’ll sound different to the extent you can null test and hear the delta, sure. They aren’t the same. But you are right: no one will be able to discern which one is the mpc and which one is ableton or fl or maschine. Not to mention an MPC is actually digital as well. It’s just an old computer. Same for plugins v hardware. Lossey v. Lossless Etc. etc. The reasons people are so adamant that they ARE able to tell is self-fulfilling prophecy, generational bias (you’re increasingly likely to be pro analog the older you were when digital was normalized in the professional audio space), and flat out ego.

I have no idea which master is analog but i do like the green one a tad better than the red. Not that i even noticed much of a difference but green seemed to have a more dominant snare sound.

Is there a range you tend to stick to for clipping and gain reduction on the limiter? i usually stick to 2 each just to be safe and not smashing the dynamics but would like to hear about how we can push it. maybe would be a good vide to do as well!

How loud are your monitors set when you're mastering? Around 80dB or more?

16:33 the salient point may be that I don’t care. Reason being, the delta is infinitesimal. It’s more about which one do I prefer. We are at the point wherein how the sausage is made is completely irrelevant.

I can actually say with 99% certainty that the RED master is the analog master.

the metal song in the beginning sounds familiar! :) but I cannot guess it. Nicholas, could you plz kindly suggest me its name? many thanks in advance!

How to manage latency on plugins???

21:28 yeah but what if im also the mixing engineer? Can i blame the mix then? 🤔

2nd was digital

A Analog B Digital

On headphones I'm guessing C is analog😊

Thanks ….great useful topic. But we still dont know which tool you like to try. It would be great if you can you tell us up front what your top pick is from mastering rather than requiring us to listen to your video….ALso why not add sections .

i guess "C" is analog mastered as i heard but it can be a better in the box master. never know :( 🎆 great mix by the way👍👍👍

14:45 WHAT’S The difference between “stem mastering” and just “mixing”?

I prefer b

watch "C" be LANDR.

It really seems to me that getting super loud only interenst mixing and mastering engineers, users couldn't care less. We are stuck in the loudness war because tecnicians are involved in this show off contest.

the green is digital the red is analog! easy 🤷🏽‍♂

C Analog

C is analog

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BRO THE PROBLEM IS THE DIFFERENCES ARE NOT OBVIOUS ON OUR SIDE OF KZfaq FROM YOUR STUDIO, you need to exaggerate so we can hear the differences, thanks nice video still.

C sounded better, don't know if it was analogue or digital...

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