Must-Know Mastering Tips for Rock Music | Are You Listening? Season 6, Ep 6

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Are you ready to master the “wall of sound” that is rock music? Professional mastering engineer and Berklee professor Jonathan Wyner teaches you how to master a song with iZotope Ozone, covering key aspects of rock music like the co-relationship between bass, guitar, and drums, the distinct tonal balance curves of popular rock music to look out for, and how to EQ the low end to create a loud, cohesive rock track. From dialing in the limiter to widening the stereo image, these essential mastering concepts will help you master your next rock song and can even translate to other genres.
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The song used in this mastering session is “Urgency” by The Dahus: thedahus.bandcamp.com/track/u...
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:07 - Prepare your track
03:44 - Listen to your track
07:44 - Create emotional impact
08:45 - Tonal Balance Control
10:35 - Learning from targets
14:34 - Using a limiter
19:52 - Adjusting for tone
28:20 - Use tools with intention
35:54 - Enhancing dynamics
39:29 - Final thoughts
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@TheTonyTitan Жыл бұрын

The genre might be rock but I still learned things that can help with any genre

@robertsimpson5801 Жыл бұрын

Has a very Foo Fighters vibe! Love it!

@AcousticWisdom Жыл бұрын

So good and brilliantly taught. Can’t believe these are free to watch. Thank you 🙏

@sr60030 8 ай бұрын

The high-shelf at 27:30 was a genius move. totally shifted the track for the better imo

@baselinesweb Жыл бұрын

Another very informative video. The song sounds so good before you even do anything, it was fun to try and guess what you were going to do during playback. One sentence gave me an AHA moment that I should have already realized but didn't: the slider labeled Transient and Sustain in the maximizer are now firmly in my brain as attack and release settings. Thanks for that.

@bassManDavis1953 Жыл бұрын

What a fantastic track, sounded amazing and moves along really well.

@johnjhonny646 Жыл бұрын

This is an advanced mastering class. great video

@bassManDavis1953 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Wish I had the izotope suites, it all makes so much sense using these, but fantastic info and the teaching is absolutely brilliant, so well presented and kept my interest gong all the way to the end, thank you so much.

@IfeeSound Жыл бұрын

Watching this video opened my eyes to so much I've been overlooking.

@Ob1knob Жыл бұрын

Thank You Mister Wyner. Again. You look particularly animated by this track ;-)

@charlesrsmith7 Жыл бұрын

I would really appreciate it if Jonathan could do a video like this on mastering jazz.

@dcly2713 4 ай бұрын

Sounds so mastered already! 😌

@shorerocks Жыл бұрын

Jonathan is one of the guys you could listen to all day. Cool video!

@hape. Жыл бұрын

Such a great format! Really looking forward to other episodes on electronic music. I guess this format would also be super interesting for Mixing with Neutron :)

@dfizzbom Жыл бұрын

Great episode! There's also a whole wide world of composers doing epic orchestral composing. Think 2-steps from hell, movie scores, fantasy and trailer type of music that involves the use of the orchestra and choirs in there too. Do you think you can include that type of music to master in an episode too?

@em8969 Жыл бұрын

Thankyou for the game🖤

@richardsp2794 Жыл бұрын

What a superbly put together video and how it got across the technicals and the creative elements too. And where they go hand in hand.

@iZotopeOfficial Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🙏

@Bmarr33 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@KJT3000 Жыл бұрын

I had my headphones on from mixing a current song I'm working on. As soon as I heard the song AS IS given to you, I knew the Engineer that handed it off knew what he was doing. Funny enough, watching this video, there were a lot of "HEY....I do that too" moments. It's so weird to think that I as a Producer/Engineer, can see someone I've never met before treat a song the same way, with the same "tricks". That's just so weird. BTW, those $3,000 CANS on your head are nifty.

@LouieJakeGabrielIII 3 ай бұрын

Wow, that’s a cool song. After writing and tracking a song I always skip the mixing and mastering stages. By the time it comes to mixing and mastering I’m exhausted working on the song. Love your input though. Definitely will use this channel to learn more about the right way to mix and master.

@RiffMusic1970 Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@letchengreyofficial7254 25 күн бұрын

Cool Song!!!

@richardlynneweisgerber2552 4 ай бұрын

Nothing beats getting it correct at the Input to the mixer.

@KingGrio Жыл бұрын

That rock beat is dope

@aricunono6272 Жыл бұрын

Always good videos

@FlavorMind Жыл бұрын

nice class~

@MFWhite Жыл бұрын

Top work and T-shirt

@TheTonyTitan Жыл бұрын

By the end of the video, I was singing along 😂

@ryangunwitch-black Жыл бұрын

Dude. That’s a pretty rad song.

@robertsimpson5801 Жыл бұрын

Hey, John, quick question for you regarding caulking. What are your thoughts on the clocking of Antelope Audio interfaces? I’m not referring to external clocks like their 10 MX clock, but more to the oven-stabilized internal clocking of audio interfaces. Antelope touts it pretty highly as very stable and practically “mastering grade.” Do you have any thoughts, opinions, or advice on this topic? Thanks in advance!

@tg-psalterstudios5408 Жыл бұрын

Yessssss🥰

@charlesrsmith7 Жыл бұрын

I would also really appreciate understanding how Jonathan is using Izotope with WaveLab? And is it possible to interface Izotope stuff, at least Ozone, with T-Racks 5?

@summerfazed Жыл бұрын

Used isotope to master my album. Boy these modules are top notch. Not that mixing plugins are inferior, but these sound nice. And of course the design of the ozone modules are scaled better for mastering.

@summerfazed Жыл бұрын

And the “vintage” modules can give you some mixbuss mojo at the beginning and end of your chain

@guitarsocialclub 11 ай бұрын

Great series as usual, fantastic inputs all the way. If you need ideas for future episode I would suggest a few things I would be really curious to have your opinion and insight on: transparent noise reduction, how to ;=) choosing the right monitor for mastering, Problems of phase with cut filters or why linear phase eq, Defining a vocabulary for mastering music, The low end genre by genre, Do you really need multiple monitors and a monitor system for mastering? So many important subject that nobody really speaks about. Thank you very much for all this work

@iZotopeOfficial 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the suggestions!

@yudhaarau Жыл бұрын

Niceee

@MiguelLSilva-ef5is Ай бұрын

Great video. Thanks for sharing! By the way, I loved the track. I'd never herd of The Dahus. I Googled them and listened to their 2013 (sadly) debut and only record wich sounds awsome. Couldn't find any other info about the band on de internet. In 2015 they sopped doing live shows. They simply vanished. I would appreciate if anyone has any other info about this band. Thanks!

@rogercabo5545 Жыл бұрын

There is so much lush disturbing mid frequency reverb in the mix. Seems the guitars have any low ringing release from any distortion effect at 500Hz like brown noise. Seems the voice use the distortion effect of the guitars in low frequencies as well.. hard core mastering job.

@Jhizzle473 Жыл бұрын

Will you do one for bass music like edm dnb?

@piotrkorzeniowski8121 Жыл бұрын

What headphones are you using in this video?

@murraywebster1228 Жыл бұрын

The songs from the 70‘s were mastered for the technic from those days, vinyl and loudspeakers without very much subbass….

@arrivalsband9201 Жыл бұрын

Please another one on a rock song that was not so perfect to begin with and address the various issues using Ozone.

@rogercabo5545 Жыл бұрын

Hi Mr Wyner, how do you get high frequencies above 13kHz up to 17kHz under control? Nearly everyone above 60 or much sooner loose it's ability to hear above 12kHz.. Did you have hints or tricks how to get the top end under control?

@platterjockey Жыл бұрын

I'm 60 and I can still hear 15kHz. Thank god I didn't abuse my hearing too much, and good hearing runs in my family.

@rogercabo5545 Жыл бұрын

@@platterjockey Then you are not a representative sample to answer the question, as only 0.1% possess this ability, which is typically unrelated to music.

@platterjockey Жыл бұрын

@@rogercabo5545 Can you point to any stats that can confirm that a majority of people over 60s cannot hear above 12kHz?

@kthaddeus6097 Жыл бұрын

@@platterjockey TV's used to produce a pitch around 12khz. An instructor of mine back in the 90's used an oscillator to show that around 12k the signal dropped off a little for most people as a result of the exposure to the frequency over time. But as you pass through the bandwidth, the signal grew louder again. well, not for the kid that had impacted ear wax, he couldn't hear above 13k. So if you can't hear above 13k, maybe check your earwax situation.

@platterjockey Жыл бұрын

@@kthaddeus6097 I never said I couldn't. they guy I was replying to did. And, i'm already familiar with the flyback transformer. Thanks, though.

@iZotopeOfficial Жыл бұрын

Got any tips or questions about mastering rock music? Let us know in the comments!

@atta1798 Жыл бұрын

Sure what if the producer/mixer tells you, do not put any cuts nor change my mix? N I want -7dB loudness ...this producer is from the 80s and we'll know ....what would you handle this Jonathan?

@begalooloo Жыл бұрын

can you please help me with mixing and mastering a film with nuetron and ozone....please make episode on them

@iZotopeOfficial Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion! In the meantime, you can find all the Ozone tutorials on this page here: bit.ly/42HstPJ

@lars-lu9ue 6 ай бұрын

With my hadphones, i cant here any changes ???

@elcantantejr1 Жыл бұрын

Why your videos cannot to traduce ti spanish?

@banudino 10 ай бұрын

Your 40 minutes work is equivalent to my 4 hours or sometimes 4 days work 😅 😭

@jdkgcp Жыл бұрын

Brick wall hard limit everything.

@paisleepunk Жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA no

@jdkgcp Жыл бұрын

@@paisleepunk lol.

@danmillward3480 Жыл бұрын

His voice doesn't match the energy of the guitars....he needs to belt it if he's going to play that style

@ashleydines144 10 ай бұрын

Feel like the vocals are buried and the track is lacking warmth.

@BrianHunsakerMusic 9 ай бұрын

Well it's punkish, and that's pretty typical of punk music(buried vocals). Not sure if it's because punk singers aren't the best technique wise or what.