FIX FLABBY KICKS - Multiband Compression Mastering Tip

[@deadislander]

I love how complicated engineering is to the point we go above and beyond to pull off one move in service of dynamics that the one plugin we use all the time could've done if u just clicked that one button you forgot existed. another day in the life

[@panorama_mastering]

Yeap; all day every day; "aha" moments thinking we're an einstein to only realise; it's been thought of and done before :P

[@lucianocastillo694]

Yoo that thumbnail😂🔥. Thanks for the Info❤️‍🔥

[@wald3287]

Another tool I use extensively for this application when limited to stereo files or even stems when stem mastering is split EQ from eventide. With this you can expand the concept up the freq spectrum. Ex if you have too much decay or verb in upper mids, (from snares, synths etc) you can reduce that without reducing the initial transient & vice a versa👌🏻

[@panorama_mastering]

Nice! I'm getting so many plug-in suggestions across my channel! How to keep up? So many great tools out there!

[@Felix00007]

Bro Your editing quality of video increasing day by day.. i am very happy to witness your progress. 🚀 I feel very lucky to subscribe your channel when you had 250 Subs. I feel lucky that I don't miss out this quality content. thank you so much for making those videos.

[@panorama_mastering]

Thanks mate ! Super appreciate the love and support; always trying to push the envelope with every video!

[@Gamervidsman2000]

This tutorial was exactly what I needed. Awesome work here! I look forward to you future tutorials (perhaps something on virtual pianos or Rhodes - a lot of pop songs use fake ones, but they sound so good).

[@panorama_mastering]

Great suggestion! To be honest; that's not something I work with a great deal on! But if something comes up in a session; I will certainly share!

[@INeedsMoneys]

I can recommend the ones found in the Nord keyboards. As well as the ones in the new Akai MPC Key 61. Some incredibly detailed pianos and Rhodes. The ones in the Akai is also very customizable. Good stuff

[@aryasoundau]

Mate, hell yes! Fantastic problem solving here, great technique. And the tracks slaps!

[@panorama_mastering]

Thanks mate! Appreciate it!

[@elguaripolo686]

MAN Morning Maxwell has some banging tunes

[@FlashRecordsStudios]

That is brilliant. Way to go!

[@panorama_mastering]

My pleasure!

[@entity9588]

Song is dope! I probably use this trick more often than I'd like haha.

[@panorama_mastering]

Thanks mate!

[@dittus420]

Bro thank you for all your content, love from Chile !!

[@panorama_mastering]

My pleasure mate! Thanks for watching along!

[@INeedsMoneys]

I think the whole sidechain thing is unnecessary and even counterproductive. You don't really want the whoosh of the kick to be ducking at the time of the transient of the kick. You want the whoosh to be ducking at the time the whoosh is wooshing. Nonetheless it became better in the end but i reckon it would have been even better and faster without the sidechain.

[@panorama_mastering]

Haha the results matter ;) That's why there's a slower attack; I find whenever I do it without the side-chain it's harder to dial in/less flexible;

[@INeedsMoneys]

@@panorama_mastering aaah, i see your point. You can remove attack on the signal but not add attack. So better to sidechain with something punchier and then dial back attack to taste. Valid point ☝️ didn't think of that

[@panorama_mastering]

@@INeedsMoneys bang on!

[@RedSpark_]

really cool, great song as well!

[@panorama_mastering]

Thanks mate!

[@elguaripolo686]

People often think that Mastering = Magic we need a top good mix first lol

[@elguaripolo686]

your master sounds like magic tho lol

[@panorama_mastering]

Good mix for the win!

[@gutshisalamanca1191]

Just found your channel, amazing!

[@panorama_mastering]

Glad you enjoy it! Welcome!

[@kaidenmajarali7665]

I heard the difference tremendously in the before and after. When initially hearing the song unmastered I would've not heard that being problem but more so as a creative style of the song. My question is how do you identify what's the problematic parts in the mix before you start mastering, does it come down to training your ears and having experience or do you listen to a few reference tracks to compare what you want the master to sound like?

[@panorama_mastering]

Both ears and experience; in this example; I know from experience leaving the kick like this would only get messier when I started pushing volumes; potentially distorting/breaking up the final master; so as soon as I heard it I knew I needed to deal with it upfront;

[@chadhowat3392]

Your pronunciation of "decibel" is so much better than we Yankees!

[@panorama_mastering]

Cheers mate!

[@MerajTypeBeat]

Have you heard of Spiff and SplitEQ, and tried them? I believe they can be used in things like the example in the video and am wondering what are your thoughts on these plugins when it comes to said example as a mastering engineer when comparing em to Pro MB.

[@panorama_mastering]

I'll check it out

[@YoungNino2017]

HELLLOOOO... you can do all that in ONE pro MB... how do you not know that? JK... it's hard to know how anything made by fabfilter actually works.... but I've been doing this due to a tutorial I saw before I even understood why. You make an upper band and set it to expand... then select "sidechain" and "free," which lets you set a side chain bracket under the lower band. You get the expander to pump upward with the kicks so it can trigger downward compression on the low lows.