How to do Basic Mastering using Gain and Limiter effects in Logic Pro X.

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[@AuraLuna1]

I'm a music production student and they want very specific levels for our tracks. This absolutely saved my grade! Thank you!

[@VirtualVerghini]

Very happy I could help you. Good luck with your journey

[@adamboard5159]

Another incredibly helpful video. Informative and to the point - amazing! I’d love to see a whole series in this style. Gold dust.

[@ursulawalter]

Incredible the way you use the presets!

[@CliffConway]

So hilarious when you were putting the emoji's when you messed up. Funny editing!

[@TheGuitarWorkshop]

Thanks for useful tips

[@VirtualVerghini]

Thanks for taking the time to comment 😌

[@TheGuitarWorkshop]

@@VirtualVerghini good luck with your channel mate

[@jamesokeeffe3216]

This is brilliant thank you ☘️🙏❤️

[@gengraded]

Nice, I wasn't aware of how to use some of these utilities as well as I thought. Appreciate the help.

[@wakyjay]

Extraordinary explanation

[@soothingsoulcharlie]

Thanks this,help a lot! Be blessed! You have a new subscriber!

[@VesselflexMediaCo]

Thanks for the knowledge

[@Caesar_Online]

This is perfect, thanks so much🔥💛

[@digitaldesigner5284]

Why stereo output volume setting before the plugins is so low?

[@TonyKomaMusicSweden]

-14 is what Spotify wants, and it’s still more quiet than the pop-songs today. I noticed because my track landed in between Justin Bieber and Katy Perry on a Spotify editorial playlist. I spoke to another soundengineer and just scoffed and said ”-8 mate. You want -8 lufs. The loudness wars are fought in a different place today.”🤷🏼‍♂️

[@VirtualVerghini]

Congrats. This is a basic intro to mastering and getting people to consider lufs as a unit. As Spotify uses an average of 14 lufs you can make your choruses louder and verses quieter to still have a dynamic range in your song.

[@TrustInTheUniverse]

Is there a reason you use the gain plugin to increase the gain as opposed to using the limiter to do it?

[@lvllo3689]

You are correct you can use the gain on the limiter. However between the gain and the limiter unusually place linear phase eq and compressors. So the limiter I use only to stop peaks at the end of the signal chain.

[@BobSchoepenjr]

If your final audio level is too high your ad limiter will squeeze your dynamic range too much

[@trollbay2605]

LEGEND

[@BobSchoepenjr]

Brief and informative! That luf -16 db issue, you did it on purpose, didn’t you?

[@Yinyanchant]

Why are UK explanations on the tube so much more better in EVERY aspect?? I don’t feel l'm being shouted at in a hurry! I feel l'm sitting in a nice armchair ready to take notes in my own time 🎉

[@VirtualVerghini]

British culture is very subdued

[@televisionsoup4437]

How do you do this with multiple tracks? Do I go in and adjust every track?

[@getstew]

I'm teaching myself Logic having come from Reaper. At the end of a Render in Reaper it show LUF and loudness level for the whole track. Anything like that in Logic? This is for podcast, so watching a meter in real time for an entire hour show is not realistic. Thanks!

[@VirtualVerghini]

Check out the effects in meters that you can hit start and stop on. They will keep a track and display an overall at the end.

[@mjpaynewales]

Would it not be better to address the balance issue in the mix? You'll be moving centered instruments off, like kick and bass by just altering the whole balanc.

[@VirtualVerghini]

The panning doesn't change the timing aspect of how you hear the direction of the sound it just balances it's volume. I agree with you if your mix is not as good as it can be it should be mixed further rather than moving to the mastering stage.

[@MrNadav1995]

So question. why don't you apply the metering and limiter stuff to the master channel? should you take care of each individual channel and then do micro-adjustments on the master?

[@VirtualVerghini]

Having your channels go above 0dbFS leads those channels to clip before they go to the stereo out.

[@getstew]

Wow, you have some loud fans! 🙂

[@VirtualVerghini]

Old Mac couldn't cope with recording and logic

[@lordisaac2870]

Do you mean -14 LUFS or 14 LUFS?