If you have any questions just holler.

Don't feel bad even he gets lost at 30:48

+Radiant Rayv lol what happened to his voice?

That part just made my day! XD

I went to that part and died! lol

im dead

amazing

Holy shit. That's a huge difference

PlxxRotMG yeah

Oh no way! Love your music man, why no more uploads though?

TheGumpyKid that would be done in the mix down

not when mastering

On a master? DEAR GOD.

***** Thank you!

Alex W. Lol

so do I and so does mine X)

I don't use templates. You could probably make one but that would only work if your music doesn't change much track to track. Don't focus too much on the visuals. They are helpful for understanding what's happening, but I advise against trying to adhere to a certain shape over going by what you're hearing. As for referencing, if you want to compare your master to something, I recommend comparing it to a track done by someone you like that you KNOW sounds good in the genre that you're making.

SeamlessR I don't mean I want to base my song entirely on fancy curves from analyzer, but sometimes my music sounds like shit outside of my headphones on different devices (or should i say even shittier). As to referencing to other artists in similiar genre, I find it kinda hard cause I'm trying to do a thing called "electronic rock" (but it's actually DnB) with lead guitar which is not really popular in the music industry I guess and makes mixing a pain in the ass. That's also the reason I find your tutorials insanely helpful mainly the part when you use guitar and mix it with talking bass and really looking forward for the incoming ones

Yes. I have the mastering chain on as early as possible and build the track with it engaged. "as early as possible" is usually whenever I've got a significant amount of the sound design for whatever drop there is done + drums.

Niculta [official] he said he set it up when he has enough goin on say like a good 15 seconds of drop

Alex blue knob

I believe the low-end is not mono'd because the rendered version was already in said stage.

+Bren In the mastering phase?

+kojau MUSIC During the production of the track I meant to say sorry!

+Bren Right. Okay, so sometimes, boosting a frequency is necessary, sometimes cutting them is necessary. During production, a lot of sounds that are strongest in higher frequencies, rather than the lower ones, say...(this is an example, mind you) between 1-3kHz, right? So for such a sound(between 1-3kHz) to be processed without much overlap into unwanted frequencies, suppose that those frequencies, in this case, are the lowend, one would want to cut off the lowend from this synth/sound using EQ. Which appears to be what you have picked from what producers advise. Now, if the sound is stronger in the lower freqs, then the vice versa would be done; you could cut some of the higher frequencies, for example in a subby bass, or a subbass, to avoid freq overlap (see picture: download.autodesk.com/us/systemdocs/help/extensions/2009/flame/images/MED/VxF/Help/English/audio_desk/ink_svg/AUD_EQ_editor_1.png). Now that's for basic mixing. Cutting frequencies means you want to hear less of them, or none, whilst boosting means you want to hear more of them, or all of them, each dependent on how much cutting or boosting you make. That is the basic purpose for cutting and boosting with EQ. So to get into slightly more complex mixing, one can consider boosting freqs. Which is up to the producer himself, regardless of what you might have heard. If you the producer, feel like you want to hear more click in a kick, you could boost at about 200Hz for a nice click. Boost too much, and it might start to sound too sharp. But that's up to you, and you alone, if you want it to sound like that. That's the gist of my comment here, I want to emphasize that as a producer, you have so much freedom with your DAW, so you could do something to a sound, that would be frowned upon by some, but if it sounds good to you, and you understand what you did(knowing exactly what you are doing to the sound is important), you should be good. By that I mean, you should know that you're adding click to a kick, not just playing around with different knobs carelessly, though experimenting is good, in some cases, but that's a whole other thing. I'll use myself as an example. The way I master would have sound engineers losing their heads, they would probably give me a handful of not so friendly words. But it sounds good to me, and I know exactly what I'm doing to the mixdown, so i do it anyways, because it's my way and I like it. Hope I helped answer your question. Regards, Kojau

+kojau MUSIC You're a legend man, thanks for going so out of your way to explain so in-depth to me, I did a bit more research and found that mid/side stereo eqing also helped me find a few answers. I did a test project and boosted what frequencies I thought needed a little more lift in the synths and the results were amazing when I compared the two in the final process of mastering. Thank you again for being a bro!

+Bren You're most welcome. Glad I could help out

Richy Brosive! 0dB

Do whatever you want, man... There is no rules :)

Spoke yes it is correct but sometimes I just don't know what to do :D

We don't, if the sound you use already has enough subbass than there is no need to eq it and replace it with a new sub. But sometimes or quite often actually, if you don't frequency split, you can get some troubled peaks in the sub region if you've done lots of modulation on the sound. So one way to have a stable sub that is a part of the original sound is to split frequencies into at least two bands, so you can leave the sub intact.

PrivacyEnt Well, using a separate sub bass is nice when it comes to mixing... It's easier to mix a sub bass that is alone, in a single audio channel, in my opinion... Plus, to make your bass more significant having a sub layer + another bass layer (between 70Hz/130Hz) is very nice, as well... This way you have two bass layers and your whole track will sound more "full"... That's the way I do it, and I think it's okay to do it that way... But one thing production has taught me is that there is no real rules when it comes to inventivity... You just do your stuff and make sure it sounds nice enough ! :) Hope I helped you ! :)

Danny Rash it depends. if you do it like him (master while mixing), then yes you should have the mastering plugins (maximus, fruity limiter etc) on your master channel during the making of the track. If you master a rendered (unmastered) audio file in a separate project then only have a limiter. for the second method the limiter should NOT be limiting on the unmastered project as that would mean it was peaking at 0db like the mastered track should. you want no compression on your pre-master.

I think he already answered this in a stream. if i remember correctly he said that maximus can pretty much do everything ozone can, and even more, its just more complicated. i would pretty much say the same. maximus is freakin awesome

is there a reason why so many people have an avatar with a semicircle, filled in with dots, with something in the middle? is this in reference to something?

noncanadian It's the edm district

Fever Factory ty

Destin Moffett same thing

He did, its called Truck Puncher on "The 'R' Is Silent" Good song btw. lol

CMoIsDaNam3 Ah, thanks!

+CrimsonTek Np.

***** It isn't.

+Peters Zeug clearly it is important to be loud in order to match your tracks against other producers especially with DJ mixes. also it just makes the whole track sound fuller with less power

***** To me, mastering means giving a song a balanced sound. If the mix is already balanced, you just need to limit it to 0db. Of course, the master is louder than the mix, but not so much, just a little.

EricTheYounger​ No, that's exactly not what you should go for. In a club, you have big bass heavy speakers. A dynamic track with a lot of bass works well in a club, and a DJ always matches the loudness of tracks. If you make your track uber-laut, you destroy it, and it won't like a well mastered song in a club.

+Peters Zeug clearly it's the dj's fault if the speakers are blown out every time a properly mastered track comes on. and if loudness isn't so important then why does every single professional track ever spend 90% of it's time at 0db? just look at the waveform. the common misconception is that dynamics correspond directly to amplitude of the waveform; this isn't true because dynamics are actually a complex psychoacoustic process...the pros can master a track to spend more time at 0db AND STILL show more dynamics in their tracks.

Not all songs are clean sounding. In fact, (I'm gonna admit this right now) most producers don't try to make their song sound perfectly clean, including myself. The reason is, "perfection" can sometimes be detrimental.

FlyDragon360 oh kk I always thought that, I'm not really familiar with master and compression I mean I know compression is to bring down the sound after it reaches a surten loudness but I don't know if I should put it on everything etc stuff like dat

+NiggaChickenSticks Ah. Compression is the key word I was looking for. You need to compress the drum parts to master the song.

Judging by it's name, it does the same thing that happens when you turn up the volume knob.

Captain Topkek im not black

I'm a native English speaker myself and I still find it hard to follow myself lol you're not alone

I learned a fuck ton of english by just watching his tutorials. I can understand him just fine :D

Yeah he could talk more calm, really disturbing ;/

Lets Fly To Pluto! lol that's awesome.

Novalight Damn.. you're so right!

Yes.

its been allmost a year.. thx man, much love

Again, all the time comments i want to answer to are year+ old ._.

I think he shows how to do it - he simply saturates the track bands using Maximus.

+TheAptimn Eh. This is not good advice at all then. Regardless of whether you are mastering within the project or mastering an exported file, the more you saturate, the less dynamic range you have. The sounds will not compliment each other. It will just be noisy and unpleasant to the listener's ear. The master wave shape should look like the original one we see in the vid, but it should have the volume level of the second one he shows that he had already mastered. I figured out how to do it

i have the same problem :/ i tried adding more low, mid and high freq. but it turned out shit :c

AZKILLER01 Don't try to copy SeamlessR's mastering, even if you're using Maximus. He mastered his song the way he did because it makes sure the drums and the rest of the song have less of a volume difference. Try to use Maximus like that.

Mix the track until you think it sounds good, keep the master channel to max -6dB without limiting, export as wav, load wav file so you cant mess around with leveles of your mixer tracks anymore so if you screwed up somewhere, you learn where you should pay more attention next time you mix, put compressor on it, make sure you compress just enough to have peaks max at 2db so the sound doesnt feel as squashed as if you had peaks over it, but thats max u are aiming for, put eq on master channel, cut frequencies lower than 30hz or whatever you think sounds better to you, because those frequencies we cant hear can make track muddy for some reason, cut 20khz, put multiband compressor, compress lows, mids and highs to what sounds good for you, open eq again, boost wide areas to max 1-1.5 db and reduce max -2 db where you think it sounds muddy, most of the times you want to reduce mids, because there is where mud of the track usualy is, put limiter, set you limit to -0.3db, boost gain until you have peaks max at 3-4 db on the loudest part, just listen to the track, you will be able to tell if you are squashing the sound too hard or not, you can even go with higher peaks if your track feels and sounds the way you wanted it to sound, if you start losing some elements, just reduce gain, or bring treshold up. Im not the professional, this is just the way i am doing this, try it out, and correct me if im wrong. And if you are selling beats, you dont want to compress it that hard, because there should be a dynamic range for rapper to rap over your beat, so he doesnt have to scream as a madman, you want to keep everything including peaks at max -0.3db, so their engeneer has enough space to master it later when vocals are laid.

Ozone i mean***

reply me tomorrow and ill explain

ok:)

It's just that those other tracks you're talking about are compressed af thanks to, usually, a brickwall limiter with high gain at the very end of the master chain The "other people's tracks sound louder" feeling is actually a real problem, search for Loudness War on the web; and even tho it is more commonly accepted to have a smaller, narrower dynamic range in EDM than in other genres I beg you to not over-compress you tracks, not only if you set your limiter incorrectly you'll be rewarded with clearly audible unwanted distortion but above all it will make your track unpleasant to ear because of how loud and constant it is (as in it's always nearing 0 db). Tho that's probably not the straightforward answer you wanted so here's my trick on how to make your track sound as loud as possible: instead of using a simple brickwall limiter at the end of the master use a multiband compressor… but, you'd want to set it so that the 200 Hz - 3 kHz area stand out a bit from the rest

Well apparently I can't fit more words into a YT comment… But yeah turns out this frequency range is the one we're the most sensitive to. But if you're not feeling too hot about using a multiband compressor, or simply don't have one, I'm sure a simple eq coupled with the aforementioned limiter could do the trick.

Try Multiband compressor instead. It is pretty much the same thing.

I dont use fl, but I can only guess to protect your ears/equipment in case the amplitude gets ridiculously high

Modic That actually makes sense!

+Electric Forest Lol, thanks

It is one of the default templates you can choose from when starting a new project. Open FL Studio, go to "File" > "New from template" and there you go. (You've probably figured it out after two months :P)