Best Cubase tuition on KZfaq - no contest. This makes referencing while mixing a breeze. Dom is a great musical polymath and teacher.

Until today I was scared of control room, and I laughed a lot of your intro, and ” I dont know what it is TURN IT OOOF ” 😂😂😂 I was whatced again, again,again. Totally AWESOME videos. Thx so much for sharing!

Just great ideas, Dom. You are helping so many people with these great tips. They are much appreciated!

OMG Dom I knew this was a thing and could be done but had no idea how for years thank you so much.

Dammm only just seen this but this is so much easier than having a ref track at bottom and pressing solo as it always jumps and lags! You’re a life saver man always love you vids for workflow 🔥💯 keep well my guy

uhhh wow !! And funfact ; this stuff even works in Cubase 5. just assigned a keycommand. Really amazing detective work :-) Works like a charm! Thumbs up + subscribed !! :-)

One of the best advices ever received !!

I have a much simpler way. Ctrl-Click a channel's solo button and it will be the only one soloed. So you can just Ctrl-Click the two solo buttons back and forth with all the same benefits. I always use a separate mixbus bus all my tracks go to instead of the stereo out. The mixbus does go to the stereo out which has no plugins on it. I mute the commercial reference track(s) and then can just toggle its solo button on and off which is better than my first way. So clicking the solo button on the reference track plays only the reference track while everything else is muted because of that one solo button, and when I hit solo again on the reference track that solo goes off and the mute which was also on the reference track automatically pops back on. Seamless switch between the two.

If I am not mistaken, the only thing in your setup that is missing is level matching. The processed channel is way louder than the unprocessed one; so you don't fall for the louder-better illusion. Cheers from Serbia!

Hey Dom, came from the Cubase tips video, just want to thank you for all the tips with great explanations..I am glad you have your own channel! I really dig the song Cosmic Parenthesis and the solo. Looking forward to more videos from you

You have a habit of making my life easier... Thank you!

Fantastic! I compare my mixes to reference tracks by other artists that have a 'sound' my clients want. This just made my life WAY easier.

Amazing! Having recently swapped over to cubase, then found your channel so have been binge watching your content. Thanks so much 🙏

I do a lot of covers and am always going back and forth, this is just great!

Keep coming back to this video to improve my knowledge. Not only I can do A/B referencing, but now I can easily switch from one pair of monitors to another, I wanted to do that for years. Thanks, Dom.

Great Info as usual...would love a tutorial on Blackbox!! Thanks Dom!

I keep coming back to this tutorial over and over again, each time when I have a brand new setup, or just forgotten how to set up Control Room. Happy New Year 🥳 Dom, all the best for 2022 ! Ronnie

7.32 ohhhnooo thats amazing, hidden but wow, love it, thank u! 2nd pair of ears when u alone!!!

Doly from Cameroun : I'de like a video on using Black Box on mastering. Thank you for all, Dom 😀

Dom, this is a great example of learning how to get the most out of what you already have. You have definitely saved me some $$ with this tip as this solves a number of complexities in a very simple way. Brillant work -- thank you!

This is so cool. Thank you so much :D I love how you're explaining things very nicely and are super excited about it, makes me feel good haha

Absolutely phenomenal. This solved somerhing i have struggled with for years!

Quite an efficient way to separate listening, I have been involved with this circumstance for many years, Dom. Much appreciated.

I should have explored your channel much earlier. Your advice is priceless! Esp this one. It makes referencing so much easier. Thx a ton, man!

Nice Dom. You´ve just made my Cubase project Template even more sexy. We´ve been using Mute / Unmute /Solo and it´s OK so long as you don´t start turning on and off tracks in your mix. This is a much better solution... "All our times have come: DON´T FEAR THE CONTROL ROOM!".

Having an average of 5 track versions of the same song to master in one session makes setting up Control a perfect reason to say a HUGE thank you to you Master Dom of Cubase and everything music production. Loving your Cubase tutorials, which are really helping me understand its functions way more clearly. I also love and need to setup my Keylab61mk11, so I’ll be going back to closely watch the ‘controller’ setup tutorial you made - which is also fantastic mate!

Damn that's fast to set up and it's working like a charm! Thanks a lot!!!

You're the best man! No lie. I learn so much with your videos it's crazy

Way to go Dom. Greetings from Athens, Greece :)

I've tried unsuccessfully to do this before, but so simple following this step by step guide. thank you!

Wow! Thanks for all your tips on how to get the most out of Cubase. I never knew what the multiband shaper could do before I watched your vid. Saved me a lot of time. Thanks again.:)

Thank you Dom , you are my teacher, thank you

One of the best teachers for Cubase!Thank you so much 🙏🏻

Yeeeeaaah!!!! Dooooom!! Friend, thank you sooooooo much!! It's so easy!

Finally, somebody has shown me how to do this! A million thanks!

love you're tips Dom and the excellent and enthusiastic manner in which you present them. Being a Cubase user (for a hobby since Atari Cubase v2 on floppy ), I pick up new tips on 10.5 so quickly from you. Thankyou ! please accept my grateful appreciation.

I have been practicing this technique since the control room was added to cubase, and I could not do without it so much it is practical.

Hey Dom Thank U so much 4 ya work!!! One Love from Germany!!!!!

Amazing tip Dom! thank you very much!

Your videos are best gifts I'm getting over the year😃!

Woohoo. I had to watch it many times to follow with setting it up. But I did it. Learned some other Cubase features along the way, like the keyboard shortcuts and routing the sound to a different output. Now to watch the other control room video, to see what more it can do for me. Thanks Dom.

I use this, but the short cut is something I didn't use..... well I will be now! Awesome. Thanks Dom 😊 🙏

Super helpful video. Been wondering how to use control room for separate mixes, this video cleared up that confusion.

Thank you Dom for yours perfects videos .

Great videos and great trick, I now use all the time. Thanks a lot

Neat. Never thought of using that. But looks great!

Great contributions to the community Dom! Just a note re: other perspectives...I used similar to this previously but the missing element is loudness. Its vital to make equal loudness comparisons for anything except loudness which these days (loudness) is a moot point (level is now set by the streaming services etc and squished 'loud' mixes sound tiny). I ended up eventually using 'Reference' (Im not getting paid for it hehe) but Im sure the others are quite good and what it does give you is instant loudness levelling and a lot of other comparison eg dynamics/freq distribution etc. It saves so much time and so much faster to setup etc but if you dont want to spend $ this is a great way to get started; but you get what you pay for. More than the referencing you have shown, is the fact that you cover aspects which are a bit blurry in the manual and give them real world application. Excellent!

Hey I really like your videos! They're so helpful AND your so excited about this program, a program I've personally been struggling with, that you make me want to power through it and keep goong

A great tip from Dom - thank you! - & thanks for showing the keyboard shortcut - that would have taken me ages to find!

This is such a great vid, thanks so much. As in all your vids, you provide the best tips so quickly and clearly. Your vids completely take the place of the darn Cubase manual!

Doing this for ages but needed the KeyCommand. Thank you. Versions is a good idea too, I was using the 3 other CUE's.

Great! I like the way you explain with positive energy. A/B reference is very useful in Control room. Appreciate!!

I Love this Dom - you the Man

Awesome! Many thanks Dom!

Omg awesome brother what a wonderful video you just saved me some money here, lol!!!! amazing Dom

This is great, thanks Dom.

Hey Dom. Very good tip.!

What a great concept! Thanks for sharing it with us, Dom.

This helps so much! Thanx Dom!

Hey Dom, thank you so much for this video, made my mixing a lot easier!

Thanks, Dom! This really helps!!! BTW, this set up works in Nuendo 11, as well...

Dom! You continue to inspire us all! Thanks so much! One thing, though-I'm very cautious of A/B comparisons with different volumes. It seems to me you need to set the "make-up" volume so that the ears' frequency response at different levels isn't part of your comparison. That aside, Great Tip! Just read these comments! We love you, Man!

Awesome tip - thanks!

I would love to see a video explaining the colours on your meters :)

Great stuff! Learning lots

wow, this is super useful. Thanks!

Hi Dom Sigalas first of all, thank you for your videos. This was a very nice tip. I've been using another way of referencing tracks and I would like to share with you. I use a subgroup as a MASTER BUS and put all my mastering plugins there, then I mute the referencing tracks (that are already routed to the Stereo Out, bypassing the MASTER BUS), so, when I solo them, they will also play without pops and clicks. In this way I could reference more than one track, for example, when I'm mastering an album with 10 songs and have 3 or 4 references. With the arrow key it's very easy to toggle among those tracks (the Preference for Solo Selected Track must be on). There's a downside though when you accidentally unmute the tracks and all of them play at once and that's loud. I hope that's usefull for something. Thanks again.

You 're THE BEST !!! Thank U

Great job! Super. Thank You!

awesome tip, thx, again!

As of 2021 still really helpful. Thanks a lot Dom!

Why is YT only recommending this now.. This was a huge missing piece. Thanks Dom.

Once again a fantastic and helpful video full of practical information. Keep up the great work.

this is a very cool tip

Very good tip :) thank you for that... very much

Very good tips !!!

hello Dom, is this your own yt channel? .... great tip!... and also thanks for your great tips in other channels! ... lots of succes with this channel...!

This is so cool. Thank you so much :D

Yeah man. Great job

Great tips, thank you Dom ;)

Great trick which I'll put to a good use right now! Thanks a lot!

Great tut!

Love you brother!

Thank you very much nice tip :)

Using Metric AB for a couple of years, great plug-in...but your way is faster. :-) Thanks, great tip!!

Very useful 👍

AWESOME! Ive been trying this for the last 20 year pffff...Tip for Steinie: make a simple plugin you can drop after your mastering chain...call it A-B or something

Thank You!

Great vedio bro 😍😍😍

Hi Dom 😊this is so great man pls make a video about it

nice concept 🙂

We need more inspiration 🙏🏼 Thank you

thank you so helpful!

Hello dom , i have been produce for almost 5 years , i produce psytrance , i discover now ur channel u have a lot of good content. It's awesome man what u teach us first of all ty alot , i had some solid psytrance bass etc , i lost everything I use serum to create my bass , but they now are good but dirty not like avalon bass that is awesome , can u give any tips

Brilliant

just great thank you so much

Hi Dom, is it possible to adjust the volume for the Ref track separately, so the mastered version isn't that much louder than the original ? best Michael

Thank you.

Kindly explain mastering with Cubase stock plugins.

It's a wow good tip