3 Huge Tips for MASTERING your album

[@reshammaan2815]

HMD is for the people. This channel has gotten my mixes from shit to fit over the last couple of years or so. This video was HUGE! Big ups Devvon 🔥🙏🏽

[@HelpMeDevvon]

No doubt yo glad it helped!!

[@zelofnewwav1181]

Uzi just said the best albums all sound like one Big song and the first tip was just confirmation💯😮‍💨🙏🏾

[@floridaswagentertainmentre1273]

I love The Way you Teach. Bless

[@adxtyamxshra]

This channel throws in just what people need, to stand out as artists. It’s like BANG ON!

[@APJHNSNMUSIC]

This video was a 💎. The seamless transition is 🔥 and S-Tier compared to just fading out or abrupt ends to tracks. I always took it into consideration, but this method has the precise control I was missing. Ty bruh, this was great.

[@HelpMeDevvon]

GLad this worked for you!

[@v3zMedia]

This is where Studio One kills every other DAW. The mastering phase. Look into it fellas if you don’t know. Fire tips for Pro Tools though Devvon.

[@forvibersonly]

Facts

[@OfficialJBlair]

That print to create audio file and avoid the plugins tip...... that one! Thank you man. Been watching you for years. finally on my big push! Much respect

[@OfficialJBlair]

P.s I'm mastering my album now ❤‍🔥

[@NoochDaBoss]

🔥🔥🔥 transitions were on point! Can we get an updated mastering tutorial? That would be dope!

[@HelpMeDevvon]

Of course i got ya!!

[@Uchawibeatz]

Devvon has helped me tremendously with my mixing game. Thanks again for this gem. That first tip of importing every song in a session is why I love your channel. Keep it up

[@HelpMeDevvon]

For sure im glad this helped!!

[@brettjr9521]

Those transitions are so fire man!

[@TeezoTarantino]

This came right on time🔥 My Project is done nd now on to the mastering stage 🔥 Thank you Devvon🙏🏾💯

[@vancenichols9490]

This is awesome, next-level mastering material! I'm looking forward to seeing your next one in this series to understand how to achieve the sonic cohesiveness between the songs. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@HelpMeDevvon]

That will be my next one i got ya!

[@marqstunnahbeatz]

That's why I love @presonus studio one project page

[@forvibersonly]

Fr tho

[@TheBookOfCameron]

Hey Devonn can you do a full in-depth of your mastering process? These tips are very helpful but there some things I’d like to see from your end involving how you make these tips work. Some questions I’m having are: 1) are you adjusting the tempo & key for each track within the marker lines? 2) are you doing the mastering processes on the actual stem track for each file or are you still doing the mastering process on the stereo out. 3) if your mastering each individually in that one session are you coming in contact with phase issues or a different feel vs putting your plugins on the stereo out track? 4) also if your mastering each record in that session as if it was all in one pot how much trouble do you have finding the “right combination” to enhance each mix to make it sound like the masters you want them to be Great video And will definitely take that next video u said u’ll put up soon 🤞🏾✨. Good looking on this one

[@deadislander]

Great questions, especially about the tempo

[@HelpMeDevvon]

This is a great question and ill help ya out. 1. im not adjusting the tempo between markers. This is strictly musical and creative decisions thus why sequencing your album is so key to its flow. You really have to pick which song fits after the other and how you want it to come in. 2. Im mastering a stereo file not the stems. But its not wrong to master stems. 3. Im not really sure what you mean because each song is treated separately and has its own set of plugins and processing. These are not all feeding one master buss thats then being processed its all separate. 4. Thats literally the challenge you have to tackle when making an album. Making the whole thing sound cohesive and similar level.

[@TheBookOfCameron]

@@HelpMeDevvon Bro, thank you for reaching back yo ! i don't know how to master yet (still learning audio engineering language) but after i'm done mixing within my files i just do a pre master on my stereo out track and i get pretty good results. I use logic so I just wanted to make sure I was translating properly when asking my questions. but to clear things up for my second question yea i meant to ask are you mastering the stereo files individually or all of them as a whole in one session. and for my 3rd question i asked that because when I attempted mastering i found putting my plugins directly on the stereo files was giving me a different feel and some issues so i wouldnt to know if you had ran into those problems or if i was just doing it wrong xD. Finally, to your answer to question 1. i find it hard to listen to my songs in a different tempo or key (may be a psychological thing) but you said you print your masters and then adjust it to the timing that you like. do you find that as a solution this issue? By the way i really appreciate your tutorials man i feel like you talking my language when your explaining music. so shout out to you and if you don't reply this message i understand its long & u prob really busy but if you do thank you for real for real. 🙏

[@ZAY________]

@@HelpMeDevvon Ok bet bet this is what I was confused about aswell! Appreciate you Devvon. I saw each song above has different plugins on them separately which confused me. But I think understand now... I'm still curious about the SESSIONS for each of those songs indiviually above. 1. Did those songs have anything on the Master Outputs when you bounced them to be added for THIS mastering session? (such as Ozone, Saturn, Blackbox, God Particle) or do those things happen in the MASTERING session like you have opened up above now? (This is where I get confused) 2. You told LJ you mix INTO the God Particle (however you don't use the limiter GP Limiter ) and a Limiter. But then then it kinda sounds like you maybe might turn those plugins off after you see you've hit the Green markers in the God Particle's UI? 3. What Limiter are you using if you are using God Particle limiter? (I don't feel like Jaycen makes this very clear. Do we leave the God Particle ON when we send to mastering, or is the God Particle THEE mastering?) 4. In the MASTERING session you currently have open, is there anything on THAT Master output or no? because I see the processing is all happening on each individual track/SONG, (Some songs having Ozone , others have Rosetta EQ etc.) So then is there any GLUE that every single is going though on the master output of this session? (I don't see the God Particle anywhere above, so that leads me to believe maybe you have that placed on that master out of this session and it's just out of frame?) Thank you, Thank you

[@therealarrogant1725]

I’m glad I use studio one for my albums the have a project section

[@forvibersonly]

Studio One lays it out for you when it comes to bouncing and mastering an album

[@sabrinaault]

this is great! i never even would’ve thought to print the master to avoid latency. everywhere else i’ve looked failed to mention that. very helpful 🔥🔥

[@EricIversonMixing]

Dope video. Def make more mastering videos. I have a question though. Say you're creating seamless transitions so the music doesnt stop. How do you bounce the files so when you play them back it shows you've gone to the next track rather than just bouncing one long continuous song?

[@cxryhills_]

.broooooo! I've been looking for a tutorial like this all over the internet, nothing frustrates me like spending hours mixing & mastering just to have the project sounding unbalanced... Thank You Devvon🙏🙏🙏

[@Lifeisripe]

Bro you talk GOAT TALK for sure man this marker idea is exactly how I made projects before

[@miguelfranco9655]

Super helpful! I haven’t hit the mastering stage and transitions are really important to me, this helped me think through that and also helps me not get some bogged down on transition setup while writing and mixing. Thanks! Would really like to see the follow up to this “sonic consistency to an album” excited!

[@EMERICNORTH]

You are a legend for this brother.

[@MoneyRouteRay]

Just got off from work came home rolled a blunt and now looking and learning fron the best doing this 💯

[@HelpMeDevvon]

Roll one for me !

[@JustDaNorm]

Love it bro. Amazing tips. That new album sounds dope. Looking forward to when it drops if it hasn’t already. Keep it up. The tips are helpful to the community.

[@HelpMeDevvon]

No doubt and yea this was a lil sneak peak lol

[@JustDaNorm]

@@HelpMeDevvon gotta love the sneak peaks.

[@vannmensa]

Man always dropping gems

[@brandonwolf6702]

light set up fire!

[@MattGarwood777]

just leveled up, my dude. 👊🏻🔥👊🏾

[@BedRokksFinest]

Heard yall talk about this on the pod with mixed by ali. Appreciate evrthing yall doin kuz this right here is major rn as i preparing my own project

[@Digital_Mozart]

I actually needed this. I need to know for when you do that video on cohesiveness, how do you go about matching the volumes for the different tracks. I usually master each track separately in it's own session then bring every track into a new session for the transitions but i get stuck on what to do for the volume changes when one track is louder than the previous

[@alesdi1732]

Definitely do that sonic cohesiveness video!!

[@MrTEDDYL]

I would really like to know your Mastering process have you already tested luna de uad? Thank you for your videos, they are really great.

[@callme_Diamen]

The seamless Transition part 🥵

[@ABurgessMusic]

Another gem 💎 thank you as always Devvon 🙏🏻

[@deadislander]

I'm about to master my first album for someone this is perfect timing

[@PhearNoneGearGadgets]

Great stuff man!

[@noplaytheproducer1770]

Good tips bro!

[@1UPMuzic]

Will you be putting out a Studio Rack preset with logic pro / FL studio stock plugins?

[@brandonwolf6702]

definitely do the sonically cohesive video

[@PatrickObiang]

BRAVO!

[@gualzofficial]

Thank God.

[@therealJamalfreeman]

HMD… I would like to see how to make it sonically cohesive across an album. Do you do it before print. Or post print in the session?

[@ZAY________]

Hey Devvon, Do all of those songs you have in the Daw have a "The God Particle" or any mix bus of some sort turned ON? Or do you go back and open all your songs and take the Mix bus off, re-bounce and then Master the files using this technique? Thanks!

[@PRODGtv]

First one here💥💥💯 dope

[@O2GawdSA]

Do another video, I want to see how to name the tracks too during the process.

[@industryandaudio]

For the transitions effects between songs, do you master those files separately or do they all go into one master bus on this arranged track? Is that what you mean by printing masters in the session? Please clarify because I feel like master the effects within the track can make subtle effects too loud.

[@prod_mil]

So by doing this method with all mixes in the same project, you are putting the master processing where? On the individual mixes' tracks?

[@playgroundentertainment3838]

Wait, what about the tempo of the mastering session? chances are every song will be in a different tempo when you bring it in...

[@cedd361]

So I'm assuming the BPM is being automated if tracks have different bpm's? Edit: so I got the answer in the comments. My other question since there's no tempo match for each song, doesn't it affect the metadata (bpm wise) while rendering..?.

[@donwondoa313]

Yess like the 7 dayz Makaveli album

[@XPose_]

Question. Once you have your seemless transition with all the songs in one session, when you bounce it, wouldn't it play one big audio file on a disc or stream? Or is there a way to tell pro tools that this is a separate song when it bounces?

[@HelpMeDevvon]

So i make i set my beginning and end points of the song and then bounce. Then start the next bounce on the beginning which is the end of the last one thus creating that seamless transition.

[@XPose_]

@@HelpMeDevvon oh ok I get it. 🙏🏽

[@DeeNelsonDee_nels_on_duty]

Are you going to render this entire session,digital distribution platforms dont accept the entire album with seamless transitions? is this for when you need to upload your song to youtube exclusively?

[@louie-b5361]

Where can I find the “it’s not complicated” song at? 🔥

[@DUINPACE]

What's your process in rendering out the album? Do you send them all as a collective into one wav file or render each track out separately?

[@HelpMeDevvon]

So i make i set my beginning and end points of the song and then bounce. Then start the next bounce on the beginning which is the end of the last one thus creating that seamless transition.

[@DUINPACE]

So I was meaning like when you render it out of the daw to an audio file that you can upload to streaming platforms, do you leave it as 1 big file or is it each track separately?

[@abdultheartist]

How do you account for the different bpms, or do you just pick one bpm to master?

[@yehmerakaryahai_]

ARE YOU WEARING MAONO AU-601 HEADPHONE?

[@wellingtondti_]

very smart

[@decembericecold]

so should i load all (mp3/wav) songs that are mixed already .. then mastering them all at the same time in one sesh.. when mastering an album? sorry ya boi slow lol

[@poeticgeenetikstv4672]

How do you manage all the different tempos

[@Chodemunch]

ily

[@treezyarroyo9129]

Ima have to check that on FL cause when you export to master, the daw creates a couple secs.of dead air at the beginning of your track as also at the end of it 😅

[@HelpMeDevvon]

Maybe on a mp3 export but on a wav export it shouldn't do that at all

[@mannymulatt]

When you export your song on FL, make sure to "cut remainder," not "leave remainder."

[@FreckLiveTV]

Dev, How can you have so many sessions in one without your PC crashing ?

[@CScriptMusic]

Is this album out?

[@mankyvibez8901]

Pls I'm a bit confused, is the master processing for all songs in the session the same if not how do you master them individually in the same session?

[@riczarro6805]

He uses individual plug-ins on each track separately, then bounces out each one with transitions from start marker to end marker.

[@YomMusic_]

💎

[@em8969]

Are they all the same BPM??

[@tyronesellers382]

What’s the name of your new plug-in? I would like to have it.

[@TheRealKStylez]

HMD EQ

[@tyronesellers382]

@@TheRealKStylez where do I get it? I will get it now could you put that in the post where I can go to the page?

[@tyronesellers382]

Is it out yet? I googled it and can’t find it.

[@HelpMeDevvon]

HMD ROSETTA EQ It comes out this month!

[@platterjockey]

I miss the days when mastering engineers, producers, and artists created transitions or gaps by FEEL. Sometimes you don't always want one song right after another bang-bang. You may want a little breathing room, a rest.l

[@marcadovibez8210]

great tutorial, but about the bpms

[@kopnbop]

I dont see why you have a mix n a master? Can someone explain it to me?

[@MoneyRouteRay]

My mixes always come out trash 😂idk wat I’m doing wrong and when they do come out pretty decent it’s to harsh and the low end be thin and yes I turned the beat down didn’t do knowing but f up the mix even worse mixing with headphones shure

[@deadislander]

Put the God Particle on your mix bus and find random songs to mix so you get better and better and better. Keep putting in your hours and keep making your breakthroughs. Also small tip, have the vocals sit right above everything in the mix while still honoring the drums. Use de-essers on your vocals and get analog gear (a harsh reality everyone keeps lying to us about). It'll help with both the low end and the high end frequencies and the response and extention of those frequencies. Get tube gear, whether that be tube mics or a tube preamp to run things thru. Your high end will actually become silky but still learn to De-esse. If you use the God Particle on your mix, when you master it, the limiter of the God Particle will already have shaved off the peaks nicely for you and if you just use some light to none EQ, a mastering compressor that allows you to bypass the low end of the mix and react to just the high end (like the Kotelnikov) all you need after is a multiband compressor (I love using the one in ozone) to smooth out the entire frequency spectrum of the song and balance it all out. That full spectrum squeeze combined with the shaved peaks then will let you push your limiter nicely without overworking it and you should get a loud master. If it's harsh, find the harsh frequencies and get rid of them! Tone it down like 1db and more if needed.

[@deadislander]

Should also mention your mixes will only be as good as the production and the things you use to get that recording so investing in a good mic and a good interface if not an actual preamp is key here. Worth mentioning is also analog summing. Gives your mixes space between instruments. AND THE MOST INPORTANT THING! THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY HEAR THINGS MATTERS MOST. THE BETTER YOU CAN HEAR THE ELEMENTS IN YOUR MIX THE BETTER EDUCATED YOUR MIX DECISIONS WILL BE. SO GET GOOD MONITORS AND SWITCH BETWEEN HEADPHONES AND SPEAKERS AS YOU MIX. Reference shit on other devices also. If this was all too complicated to understand just screenshot this and come back later.

[@daveosoriomusic5421]

🙏👊🏼🤙🏼

[@werksbeat]

Vibe Devvon 😠 😡

[@dennisramirez1989]

First view likes and comment 🤘🏻

[@TheHonestTruth]

This was basic and useless tbh.