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thanks for the support, just uploaded the group stems of 'Espresso' to nalestar.com/downloads (it'll be at the bottom because I backdated it) - hope this works! 😇

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ah haha I made these for myself because I wanted to customize my plugins a bit, some manufacturers think it's a "crack" when you edit a resource file but with UAD and Plugin Alliance it works and relatively easy to do, I can send over this one or can also show how to edit it to your taste if you'd try a different color or etc 😃

@@Nalestar I think this is good idea for a video tutorial. Customization is nice, maybe there are more parameters and knobs one can automate and link? As, for example, low and high boost with one knob. Or to make a Q factor proportional to dB amounts of boost / cut. If this is not an option, just a skin, would be still nice to see your process!) Thanks for a response and a revelation of a "secret".

@@iljakorjukin nooo haha this isn't a code level change so no functions will be altered at all only the look of the plugin - all you have to do is go to "/Library/Application Support/Universal Audio/UAD-2 Powered Plug-Ins", right click on the plugin you want to mess with and select "Show Package Contents", then navigate to the "Resources" folder where you'll find all the available files that you can edit to your liking, hope this helps 😇

@@Nalestar Thank you, going to check it out!

I'll make a video about this next week because this is too long to answer in text, but long story short you're right - if you realllly care about avoiding conversion peaks then sometimes even 2dB of headroom won't be quite enough therefore aiming for 1 is kinda pointless, I personally deliver my final exports at -0.3 because that little clipping that this allows will sound "contextually right"; I don't care much about the intergrated loudness throughout a song from this perspective because instead of trying to cater to algorithms my approach is to simply make the song sound great which sometimes means -7, sometimes -9, sometimes -11 etcetc, you can't aim blindly for a number before you look for what the production allows you to do (my general approach is to go as loud and energetic as the instrumentation allows me, unless I know that the artist prefers more dynamics than my own taste) 😇

​@@Nalestar Thank you so much! This is also my approach to managing loudness, I mostly end up somewhere between -7 to -9 of integrated LUFS as well depending on the genre and production, and I don't think the conversion clipping is too much of an issue either, I honestly don't even notice it on Spotify. Looking forward to that video, I think it will be interesting for a lot of guys especially in the electronic scene. Cheers

@@mannymore_music took me a while but finally made the video explaining my thoughts about all this haha: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6DFo36Fm9p4pMk

@Nalestar Thanks a lot! I've already commented on the video. I mostly agree with your opinion. It's nice to finally have someone with expertise in the field discuss this topic regarding electronic music.🙏

99.99% of cases yes haha, but of course there are a few exceptions when it doesn't make much sense for example when I'm only interested in loudness, in those cases I'll stack clippers and/or brickwall limiters instead 😇

'True peak limiting' is about solving the issues with encoding and then decoding, it's not about Spotify or anything else specific, this affects the entire digital audio experience. So for example if something's playing at 44.1kHz normalized to 0dBFS, certain parts of the decoded output might still cross over 0dBFS even if the input info is otherwise correct because the decoder tries to "guess" what's supposed to be between the sample rate points and generates the signal that way (these are called 'intersample peaks' for a reason). Basically the point is that when your audio card sees the "encoded" 0s and 1s that are in an audio file, it then needs to be "decoded" into something you can hear with your human ears and true peak limiting is just simply supposed to account for the potential calculation errors in this decoding process 😇

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thanks for the kind words, of course my pleasure! 😇

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yeah arranging is always hard I can 100% relate haha, this is just a tip that might help conceptually! 😇

it's both the sound and the convenience, other delay plugins either just don't have the same width/3D feel or their UI makes things unnecessarily complicated to use; that being said I haven't checked lately if there are better options on the market from either angle, maybe there are 😇

trial and error 😃

depends on the state of the song - could you pls reach out to me with your current demo mix either on instagram @nalestagram or send a mail to [email protected] and I'll get back to you with what would be the price - to give an estimate in the case of a standard single project it's going to be between 100 and 250 euros, really depends on how many things need to be adjusted and to what degree; let me know! 😇

I did these two streams after the release: kzbin.infomD4mJroLzjU?feature=share kzbin.infoATX9cdOEnjk?feature=share due to the song being a collab and all three of us having different pieces in different project files it's not possible to show absolutely everything about it, but if you have a specific question I'd be happy to answer if I can 😇

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mouse for the most part but I also have an external trackpad in case I ever need it 😇

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hey man, if you prefer email it's [email protected] but for me it's also perfect through instagram (@nalestagram), let me know what you have in mind! 😇

if I set up reverb or any other automations on inserts I consider them as parts of the 'production' process and not 'mixing', meaning I print everything with all effects and automations to move on to actually mix the produced song which already includes those automations 😇