Why YOU DON'T Need MASTERING!

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@bluematrix5001 2 жыл бұрын

FINALLY A MASTERING ENGINEER THAT IS REALLY HONEST!

@razorlight4128 3 жыл бұрын

if your mix is not translating to other systems mastering is not the moment to fix this. actually, mastering is just needed if someone wants a fresh pair of ears to listen over it and give it a tiny bit of pepper or salt. but in general I think, if you are confident that your song is finished after mixing, then its finished. everything that is done in mastering can also be done at the mixing stage and therefore you can make the changes more effectively on individual elements or the mixbus when needed. its more about another opinion, but too many people think its a necessity and in the very last stage the song will get super dope and before mastering it is just mediocre. Mastering is not obsolete, but overhyped as f*** . IMO.

@PharaohLawLess1 3 жыл бұрын

Now that’s what I call keeping it real

@BodyOfPlayMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for breaking the stigma, hundreds of my unprocessed beats sound amazing anyways, greats video, much love.

@breezy985 3 жыл бұрын

Streaky you done did it this time, mastering engineers are coming for you lol

@Streaky_com 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@mikesperling9878 3 жыл бұрын

Word up here! That's why i always say my clients, i don't do mastering i just make it louder. 🔊😅

@Tactis_Studioz 5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂haha am a gonna stop doing that shit bro,ahhaa sometimes I finish my mix and I hear it good and nice buh I do confuse either to leave it or still master it buh the mix is ok hmm thanks Papa I love you

@oliverabk1244 3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I just need to put my mix into ozone 9 to analyse it and give me a preset, tweak the loudness, check if my bass is mono, a bit stereo widening and its ready. When I have to do more than that, I got to check my mix 🤷‍♂️

@acidjaxeertknad8704 Жыл бұрын

Bass needs to be in mono?

@memeswillneverdie Жыл бұрын

@@acidjaxeertknad8704no it does, it’s all dependant on the genre song and style that your going for, you can but it in mono but there’s a good chance you’ll destroy your low end in the process

@em8969 7 ай бұрын

@@acidjaxeertknad8704for most genres yes., but some genres of music you can have a fatter wider bass that’s not totally mono. Mono means straight down the middle just Incase you didn’t know

@ettiennelane9173 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah man. I haven't mastered for years.

@ubuandeyelbme Жыл бұрын

I needed to hear this. Thank you.

@nivinraphael 3 жыл бұрын

Mastering is important like Quality Control is important

@Samtar 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I love this one dude. I recently started working on my acoustic album, and everything is sounding great until I go into mastering lol.

@mttlsa686 Жыл бұрын

I’ve noticed it too...i spend so much time in the arrangement/mix stage that i don’t even need an actual “mastering” because it often ruins the balance of the sound that i’ve carefully crafted previously...

@BrassicaMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate your honesty about this. I needed to hear it. I've been A/Bing 2 versions of my tracks - one I've 'mastered' and one with just the ProL2 on transparent. I'm having a hard admitting the one with just the limiter sounds better when accurately level matched.

@olegoleg1838 3 жыл бұрын

Great channel, great tips, thank you very much

@octaviosilva5808 3 жыл бұрын

Also, you don't need mixing... Actually, you don't even have to do anything

@BodyOfPlayMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Simplicity wins.

@denhodaneli8950 3 жыл бұрын

You gotta pay taxes man.

@BodyOfPlayMusic 3 жыл бұрын

@@denhodaneli8950 facts

@tzetzo_tzetzov 3 жыл бұрын

Well if the production is done in a great way you really don't need mixing :D

@ixxirecords26 3 жыл бұрын

HOW ARE YOU ALSO IN THIS COMMUNITY WHAT

@chrissears1593 3 жыл бұрын

You can get it sounding much better than I can though

@lukeroberts3464 Жыл бұрын

Sometimes pressing from all countries have the exact same mastering. However, I have noticed with both LP and CD, that where mastering is involved, Japanese mastering techiques tend to have eq favoring brightness (and they have the best materials and packaging). UK tends to be more "tube like" and rich in tone, and for some reason the USA likes compression and reverb. That is a very GENERALIZED observation. So, I am aware there will be a LOT of exceptions.

@kehindea 8 ай бұрын

Spot on. You have single-handedly ended the grift of the ‘mastering engineer’ frauds.

@twentytwobeatz 3 жыл бұрын

Enough said.

@olivierclasse 3 жыл бұрын

Nice one streaky. In theory (where we want to live) there would never need mastering. Fortunately even very nice mix benefits from your mastering. I d like too ear why you need mastering and what is it for. For exemple to have the track in a working order, with coherence between tracks level etc. With consistent duration for every given supports. Or for doing not much because it s what’s needed. Have a nice weekend 🍻

@charlesgodsreal6293 9 ай бұрын

Ok Sir. Noted

@kingkrishsmusic 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for this, was busting my mind trying to figure out how much of a difference it would ACTUALLY make.

@Sammie_E_Tellem 3 жыл бұрын

Best 46 seconds of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ytb917 2 жыл бұрын

mixers get the ball onto the 3 yard line. mastering engineers get the ball in the end zone. it's valuable to get the ball in the end zone, rather than settle for a field goal.

@TheHonestTruth Жыл бұрын

Deep..

@calwells5612 3 жыл бұрын

Streaky trying to talk himself out of a job here. I disagree with the notion that mastering is somehow there to fix a mix and that if the mix is good enough it doesn't need to be mastered. Depends on your goals, I suppose. The best mixing engineers on the planet all have their mixes mastered. After all, what is "mastering?" It's preparing a finished mix for distribution (vinyl, CD, streaming, whatever). If the mix is perfect, then great - maybe all the mastering engineer will do is make sure everything is properly formatted for the given distribution platform. Maybe all he or she does is add a bit of level. A great mixing engineer won't want balances to change during mastering. For most of us, however, the mastering engineer is going to be a fresh set of ears with years or experience listening to thousands of tracks on great monitors in great rooms and will be able to improve the finished product that last couple of percent and will properly prepare our tracks for distribution. So, sure, if you don't care about your project being as good as it can possibly be and if you have no plans to distribute your music to anybody other than family and friends via whatever low-res social media platform you prefer, then you don't need mastering. For anybody who wants their projects to be the best they can be and wants their tracks properly prepared for distribution, a talented, experienced mastering engineer is critical.

@Streaky_com 3 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@denhodaneli8950 3 жыл бұрын

Great answer.

@tonytemple8195 3 жыл бұрын

@@Streaky_com You know when someone's an actual mastering engineer and watched a video like this....... 😏

@trendmassacre8423 2 жыл бұрын

I will disagree. I have never felt the need to master my music after mixing. The sound from all the instruments were at the volume I felt comfortable at, and blended together good. The EQ was right, so I didn't need to go through and turn anything range wise up or down, and compression was never an issue.

@tonytemple8195 2 жыл бұрын

@@trendmassacre8423 You must have a powerful computer, running all those plugins 😏

@MrFelixgascon 3 жыл бұрын

Copy that boss 🔥👊

@balldip 2 жыл бұрын

I think mastering is important depending on the genre personally. I don’t find myself coming to edm nearly as much as I do rock, or even rap! I love you and thanks for the positivity ✌️

@Roccetscience Жыл бұрын

Touché

@almessinger1834 3 жыл бұрын

Good insight

@nicolasht509 Жыл бұрын

I thought about it too so I mean I see the remark, After the mix it was so good that I could not even feel the difference.

@domdraper3221 3 жыл бұрын

So true.

@delborrell 3 жыл бұрын

Truth!

@electricalengineeringbyash4316 5 ай бұрын

Truly INTELLIGENT 🎉❤🎉❤Sir you are Ginious

@srprice2383 10 ай бұрын

I mix THROUGH mastering because otherwise levels change and eq sounds good on some things and worse on others. I keep the final mastering stuff running to glue it as I mix and alter the individual tracks so it all sounds good. It's really just an overall mix.

@catloverextreme Жыл бұрын

Great video. I master for people and myself but for my new single i wanted to go all out and hire you but for whatever reason your website wouldnt accept my credit/debit card. So i just slept on it and realized the next day my mix/master was perfect the way it was, lol. Next single though im hitting you up!

@AdamFrancisProducer 2 жыл бұрын

This is so true, I’ve made a psychill track recently that literally sounds perfect. I’m going to send to you to do a master for it soon via your website.

@CLaw-tb5gg 3 жыл бұрын

It always seemed weird to me that we even divide these things up. Mastering is just organically part of mixing. I mean are there really people who mix with nothing on their master bus? I understand why you might want to have people who spend all day long only mixing or only mastering so they can maximise their skillset at that, but let's be honest, most of us are doing this in our bedrooms, and it seems a bit goofy to pay a mastering engineer when you're not also paying a producer, engineer, etc. - just do it yourself!

@Streaky_com 3 жыл бұрын

Fresh ears

@LS-ud7do 3 жыл бұрын

Bedroom producers need mastering engineers more than anybody. Poor monitoring, inexperience, bad (mix) decision making; these things are all far more common amongst non-pros. If it's a hobby that's one thing, but if you're ready to break out of the bedroom you'll easily justify the cost of such experienced ears proofreading your music.

@calwells5612 3 жыл бұрын

I respectfully disagree. Mixing and mastering are wholly separate stages of the process. It's not simply about doing stuff to the 2-bus. You can do all kinds of stuff to the 2-bus during mixing, but that's not mastering. Mastering is simply preparing a FINISHED mix for distribution. That might mean simply adding a bit of level or inserting ISRC codes, or it might mean a bit more processing,. But it's not mixing.

@CLaw-tb5gg 3 жыл бұрын

@@LS-ud7do You could make the same argument for them hiring producers though, surely?

@CLaw-tb5gg 3 жыл бұрын

@@Streaky_com Yes that’s a good point. Bouncing something off someone else, especially a very skilled listener, is always a great idea.

@daviddreadnaughts7147 3 жыл бұрын

really good vids

@binary-me 3 жыл бұрын

mastering, especially if Streaky does it ( not a fan comment, I tried a few mastering engineers ), is, for me anyway ( hobbiest home recording wannabe ), peace of mind x

@Johnnybananass-_ 2 жыл бұрын

This man knows,

@nolandmzk 3 жыл бұрын

Streaky : Why you don’t Need Mastering .! Streaky also: Ah fuck got played by myself !¥

@Zenvo-uu9tm 2 жыл бұрын

Respect for streaky for being open about it. But imo now u need mastering more than ever because of how many tracks are done in less than average rooms. So a tuned mastering room with good mastering ears are needed now more than ever

@miltonmagik 5 ай бұрын

Good point, but what about loudness?

@olivierclasse 3 жыл бұрын

👋, I like this top!c that is a bit paradoxal . It a bit the science of exceptions. To do great mix you need a great sounding room with great acoustic great speakers, or a great pair of expensive headphones. Than mix engineer who Knows what they are doing or, if you are an artist to be in this situation you ll need to be a bit successful. So at the end those high profile ends up to mastering anyway. Then it s the paradox of the one that need the less mastering that finally ends in the great mastering rooms. 😋

@LS-ud7do 3 жыл бұрын

It's no coincidence that the people at the top are the most thorough in their craft.

@olivierclasse 3 жыл бұрын

@@LS-ud7do so true. 😀

@MATA_HARI_1312 6 ай бұрын

🧨

@porchboyflacko 6 ай бұрын

I started mastering in 2020 before that I feel like I was get more traction think the mastering messed up the feel of my tracks I like great mixes

@Hogman666 3 жыл бұрын

I always thought mastering engineers also sorted out ISRC data and ya know bar code shit n that. So, artists, n songwriters get paid I may be wrong.

@CypiXmusic Ай бұрын

100%

@AlexKosSaheli 5 ай бұрын

Hey, thank you, I recently paid 50$ to a friend for mastering and it sounds worse than the original even on the 3rd attempt, so I released only mixed version. And now thinking about how to proceed given that I release a lot.

@richertz Жыл бұрын

Agree the mastering was designed to get it fit for a medium all that’s really provided now is a sweetening - a mix checkup, most punters won’t care if it’s a decent song what’s been done if it’s reasonably mixed.

@kevinsunray 2 жыл бұрын

Finally someone who tells the truth🙌🙌🙌

@guitardude4700 3 жыл бұрын

Wow

@vincentbrown-scott4610 Жыл бұрын

❤️

@tutupachamama Жыл бұрын

Good to know man! My mixes sound great on headphones, but awful in bluetooth speaker or in my car. I thought Mastering could help. What do you think??

@lukeroberts3464 Жыл бұрын

Question 🙋‍♂️ in every country and even in the United States will the cd 💿 aka vinyl cassette tape will the sound that the artist is sing 🎤 like tears for fears advice for the young at heart ❤️ album 💿 the seeds of love will the songs will be in English according to the mastering engineer?

@samuelemanta 3 жыл бұрын

I disagree with you ... I discovered the world of mastering from January 2021 and from there I start documenting myself as much as possible on how to get high in mastering, and yesterday I discovered the most beautiful trick I had ever heard, that is putting a clipper before a limiter and hearing these things after months and months of pure documentation I am deeply sorry

@konjstip6156 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations, you reinvented the wheel.

@pocketnotes 3 жыл бұрын

I was just mastering my first track on a new music album and needed a break. So I came here just to get some freak'n good advise from good ol' Streaky. After this video, I threw my master track out the window. Naw j/k :p

@samivedmproductions5298 3 жыл бұрын

LoL !!!

@ctk1604 Жыл бұрын

I’m really just looking to get my mix louder

@luisfarias134 3 жыл бұрын

"See I don't have to fork out all that dough", hahaha......If I have a great mix that sounds professional.

@srprice2383 10 ай бұрын

So no glass master?

@c-tzemthebeatmaker 2 жыл бұрын

Well, sometimes the version of my track that I've put a limiter and a saturator with soft clip.. sounds good with my mastered version..hahaha but yeah mastering, if only needed...

@ractorstudios 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Just finish it off with about 2-3db of soft clipping. And around 1db of limiting at -1. And you are good

@bitflux2 2 жыл бұрын

your absolute BEST video, as a producer, couldnt agree more, eqing your master as a producer is a terrible idea, ALL your sounds will be biased when working on them

@someonesaccountforwritingn9894 2 жыл бұрын

I've mixed it all and it already sounds amazing but it just isn't loud enough because I'm avoiding going into the red. I've got the volume right on the line. What do I do?

@Filipowy06 Жыл бұрын

Use some limiter/clipper or something like that. It's going to be louder but the limiter will keep your song safe

@LS-ud7do 3 жыл бұрын

Dear reader, the likelyhood that your mix is in the few % that cannot be improved by a great mastering engineer is quiet low. Be honest with yourself, don't cut corners, don't piss your art away at the last hurdle. Conversley; If you're asking yourself weather the cost of mastering is worth it then it's probably not at this stage in your career.

@SeptemberRain8888 4 ай бұрын

He’s not wrong.

@johnjhonny646 Жыл бұрын

People are misunderstanding. He is not denying the mastering stage. When you work with major label, the studio mastering is inevitable.

@Jupiter1423 3 жыл бұрын

A mix still needs to be brought to level no?

@teedybear391 2 жыл бұрын

Have a question sir. Do i need to have a different mix for mobile phones?

@Streaky_com 2 жыл бұрын

@teedybear391 2 жыл бұрын

@@Streaky_com Thanks 😊

@calvinjosephalex7403 3 жыл бұрын

First view!

@NonhoideeJoe 3 жыл бұрын

Okay but relax 😂

@MrFelonyLoc Жыл бұрын

says the guy who makes a living mastering and mixing , stop low cutting the biz.

@sayektibruno8008 Жыл бұрын

2023 feb

@blackdice1385 2 жыл бұрын

gordon ramsey of audio engineering??

@laboratorio7133 3 жыл бұрын

Well i dont have a great mix, i need mastering 🤣🤣

@themagicianofsound 3 жыл бұрын

😂 haha funny one but most of the mastering that I do (mostly for non-professional artists) is for that reason 😂 To save the mix haha ! One of the realities is that it is very difficult to mix in a perfect way unless you are a pro mixing engineer (or unless you pay a pro engineer but another reality is that most non-professional musicians do not have the money for this) so in these cases, some acrobatic moves at the mastering step can enhance the mix a lot, but the true solution would always be to make the mix perfect instead. There are many advices given here and there by pro engineers on KZfaq, they are totally right, however they live in the world of professionals where most mixes are close to perfection so at the mastering stage they have just the "minimum" to do and that's it. Outside of this "perfect world", there are truly non-perfect conditions and often we have to make music like how a bush pilot would bring its airplane to land in the jungle - the technique would be different than landing a 747 on a perfect landing runway. Some engineers would say: "just improve the recording conditions", "just improve the mix", etc... and keep the mastering minimal, however in this era in 2021, home recording by non-professional artists is everywhere and they don't have money or time to invest for better results, it's a reality I live in each single day, so I am thinking (I may be totally wrong though) that the mastering techniques should be different than in "almost perfect" conditions and that we have to "push harder" at the mastering step to make the song better, but this is just my opinion. Some artists working with me love this so I guess I am not totally wrong. But I always encourage them to make their recordings and mixes better in the future, as this is the real best solution always.

@laboratorio7133 3 жыл бұрын

@@themagicianofsound awesome response

@TheHonestTruth Жыл бұрын

@@themagicianofsound really amazing response thank you for taking the time to write that

@themagicianofsound Жыл бұрын

@@TheHonestTruth You are welcome my friend ! 🙏 I completely forgot that I wrote this comment, thank you for bringing me back in the past 😂🤣. Have a wonderful day ! 🌞

@digitaltrash_ 3 жыл бұрын

NO, you need ANALOG magic!

@JK_EU 3 жыл бұрын

Yea, I was wondering what the purpose of this video is. To turn artists against mastering engineers? I don't know. It's just word nitpicking and PR.

@anthonycruz9238 3 жыл бұрын

But, you need mastering tho...

@Streaky_com 3 жыл бұрын

Of course but as a check not a change…unless needed

@henriquematias1986 9 ай бұрын

If that’s mastering then “mastering” engineers will be out of work pretty soon as that technical part is going to be perfectly made by software ( and some would argue it already is ). In my opinion master is more than that, mastering is helping the whole project coming together and improving the overall quality of the track(s) even if that means having to feedback and even change the mix before mastering sometimes. Otherwise what’s the point of even having speakers if all you do is box it into some technical specifications which can mostly be verified by reading values from analysers ? 😅

@defmike617 10 ай бұрын

I master just to ruin the mix. To say it's mastered as well.

@TonyStarSmif Жыл бұрын

If you want the best out of the material don’t listen to this guy. Record your best, mix your pieces, and put wax on with mastering. A clean floor looks good but buff it , sheesh I see myself.

@fededj2002 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah well, yes and no c'mon. You can do more than just little fixing in mastering

@topofthemornintoya 2 жыл бұрын

Just not true.

@hearmenow909 3 жыл бұрын

You just need AI plugins! 🙃

@luisfarias134 3 жыл бұрын

Cheat codes are almost there.

@distortimus7631 3 жыл бұрын

Next episode: "Why you don't need to mix a track"

@DWHarper62 Жыл бұрын

I am just mastering as I mix for streaming services right now... I don't see the need, given the parameters that the streaming services are presenting... CD and vinyl are a totally different story...

@TheHonestTruth Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a bit nuts BUTTT I will say this.... SoundCloud has some of the best audio limiting I've heard in my LIFE lol...idk what the heck they do once you upload your tunes but MAN they sound good haha