How to Master a Song in Logic Pro X Stock Plugins (Beginner tutorial)

[@Unders]

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[@audiolego]

KZbin is my new library to learn

[@Unders]

Worlds best resource.

[@songsongandsong22]

I barely comment on KZbin, but I just wanted to thank you for this tutorial. Seriously. Extremely clear, thorough, and gave me all the information I needed. Exactly what I’ve been trying to find.

[@Soulgamingfuralle]

Can’t tell you how many times I keep coming back to this video 😂

[@TheOmnibus08]

I appreciate your talent to speak clearly and not quickly. English is not my first language. thank you for sharing knowledges

[@Unders]

Thanks for the kind words. Also reminded me to update this video as Logic has new tools 🙏

[@inspectorgroove8770]

Thank you very much for this tutorial. I mixed and mastered my very 1st song. Very well explained and you made Logic Pro not seem so intimidating. Thanks

[@Unders]

Congrats on getting your first song done 👏 Glad it helped!

[@bernadinekka2466]

Very useful and helpful. I'll apply in my next project and check

[@joegrado]

Very helpful! Finally a Logic Mastering tutorial that produces results. My master sounds great! I played it in my car and it was mint! Thanks!

[@Unders]

Happy days! Glad it helped. Tough subject to try an cover in short video content so nice to hear when it’s viable.

[@jfredrickson17]

Thank you. I am learning how to master and want to use the stock plugs in logic before dabbling into other plugs! THANK YOU SO MUCH the info was clear and straight to the point. Good Day!

[@matthiasbuckert611]

Thanks so much for that video, learned more in much less time than by watching a host of other videos on that topic.

[@Unders]

That’s great to hear thank you. Only if it’s of any interest to you I’ve a comprehensive mastering course launching end of the month - www.warriorsound.courses/mastering-music

[@Whywinofficial]

Awesome tips , can you also tutorials on mastering with tracks like pop rock or pop music … or you suggest this tutorial could apply to anytypes of genre 😁😁🙏

[@Unders]

The current pop trend is aggressively excessively loud at all times. Soft saturation into various limiting stages, But most essential is an incredibly well balanced mix.

[@paulferrarodrums]

Awesome tutorial straight up to the point👍👍🙏 trying now and wow it’s an improved mix already

[@jackyangmusicvids]

This was extremely helpful to me, thank you very much!!

[@jhrjake7002]

Thank you that was really helpful as I was completely stuck. Only thing is my track was still a lot quieter compared to other tracks when DJing. Do you think it's okay if I just wack the gain on the limiter right up and export it again? Just because in my case I'm not sending this off to Spotify or anything it's just for my personal DJ collection

[@MrSkunky2009]

I have to say that your style of presenting & information is so Wonderfully clear !!!

[@Unders]

Wow, thank you! I do try my best. Glad i didn't miss the mark this time.

[@BobSchoepenjr]

great mr (W)Unders !

[@ckuschel1]

This is absolute gold, thanks!

[@Unders]

🙏 you’re welcome & thanks for subscribing

[@zeninvites3209]

mannnn .... such a good video, thank you.

[@itsarinao]

Very helpful ! Thank you !

[@Unders]

🙏

[@isaiahboothe4299]

Bro this was a life saver

[@bubbleboymusic]

Great tutorial and great music!

[@Unders]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@TheLeekyFeeder]

Wicked Stuff! Great to learn this along the way.

[@Unders]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@my-fisaloon8370]

This was great! I was getting "close" to decent mixes, but I think this will really help finish my songs. Thanks!

[@Unders]

Great to hear! & thanks for subscribing

[@GinoBlackOfficial]

Great Video!

[@Unders]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Xamanovo]

Proper nice, thanks 🤩

[@elizabetbalandyuk1808]

Bruh. Thank you for this video man. This actually pretty much worked. No other tutorials were working for some reason. Do you have any new videos explaining extra things like adding on stereo spread... etc? Although this is definitely great as a a basic master

[@Unders]

If you're interested I have a new update to my mastering course launching end of the month - www.warriorsound.courses/mastering-music

[@joshgatesmusic78]

Great tutorial, only questiom i have is why is the master track not used? Does it matter what column you use to drag your stock plug-into? The column titled Master is blank. Sorry Im new to using Logic and trying to understand this process. Thanks.

[@Unders]

Stereo out is where everything goes through. In logic “Master” is just a fader an not a channel.

[@joshgatesmusic78]

@@Unders thanks for replying, make!s sense now

[@Unders]

👍 No worries.

[@MRSTU1210]

Magic subbed

[@TOMEGUN1983]

I am finally confident enough to not run away from the mastering process, thank you. Q. I was expecting you to bounce the final master at 24 bit, can you please tell me why you bounce at 16 bit? Is it because you bounce to an AIFF file? (I work with WAV files). Or is 16 bit the standard across the board for mastering bounces? Thanks again for the easy to follow video.

[@Unders]

If your final bounce is loud an not obscenely dynamic then there’s no benefit to be gotten from 24bit. If however your music is maybe acoustic guitar with a singer. An goes from a whisper to full range. Maybe. Even then CD is 16bit 44.1 👍

[@TOMEGUN1983]

@@Unders thank you. Follow up question (last one I promise 😋). My music is both vocals and music therefore is it best to import a separate vocal track and instrumental track for the mastering process, I’m also wondering if this is the case, is it best to compare with the reference track via a send to view the EQ on my tracks as a whole but process the vocal and instrumental separately.. I hope what I wrote makes sense.

[@mahakahmadpour-qw1vg]

Excuse me, if I output from 44100 in wave, then how can I convert it to mp3 so that the quality does not decrease?

[@Unders]

MP3 is a lossy format. Quality will always decrease. 320Kbps is pretty dam good though, an when I don’t REALLY know the music it can be hard to know which is which sometimes. Anything less than 256kbps in my opinion though doesn’t ever hold up.

[@MovieMomentsReviewFilm]

thank you sir

[@realonethreesevens3640]

Love the video, I think you want more loudness than -14 LUFS tho

[@Unders]

You "should" master to the platform for the best results. This is an entire debate as it extra effort, Spotify for example recommends -14LUFS (Ref: artists.spotify.com/en/help/article/loudness-normalization ) While Apple Music is also similar, However Apple Lossless is not. If its going to a DJ -14 will be to quiet. I do specify in the video that is not the case.

[@blue-medusa]

Thank you so much for explaining everything for those of us who don’t know what the terminology means. So many mixing and mastering tutorials spit jargon and fly way too quickly through the material for me to have any idea what they’re on about. This was so in-depth and at a user-friendly pace.

[@Unders]

Glad you found it helpful, I’m sometimes totally guilty of that too. It’s quite hard to remember what you once didn’t know.

[@blue-medusa]

Yeah, haha I’m a music teacher - can confirm!

[@EvansAudio]

Thanks Sir

[@Unders]

Welcome

[@ysoljers]

At what DB do you bounce your song before getting it mastered?

[@Unders]

honestly is its digital going to digital mastering, as long as it doesnt clip it doesn't matter. If your exporting out a whole say EP or album its nicer to have a rough guide say peaking at -3 on average across all tracks. But its no longer essential.

[@rodmonstar]

on the very last step for me, adding that newly bounced master track to the session was quieter, did I do something wrong?

[@Unders]

I don’t follow what you mean. Sorry.

[@cjwright1820]

Hey bro, sick vid but I’m on -14 on the loudness meter but still hitting yellow. Any ideas?

[@Unders]

Have you adjusted the threshold on the meter? Also don’t sweat it that hard. It’s a guideline for stream platforms not a hard an fast rule. More info in this video here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXeQYaqgms2Li6M

[@JuanAmparan701]

should my output master track be at 0.0 db orrrr what exactly ? (being in the yellow or red) in the Top right hand master track output. Thank you

[@Unders]

It shpuldnt exceed zero. But its best to remain under zero even if its by limiting to -0.3 or as far as -1db for lossy formats.

[@JuanAmparan701]

@@Unders thanks bro

[@FunnyFiveADay]

Great video bud 👍

[@Unders]

Thanks for watching glad it was useful to ya.

[@Soulgamingfuralle]

My mastering session came up with a “Error while trying to synchronise Audio… Sample Rate 40,773 recognized.” What do I do please?

[@Unders]

seems like a file is in a strange sample rate, Or your interface is not set correctly. Find out which is the issue.

[@johnviera3884]

at 8:17 how did you zoom with the mouse?

[@Unders]

OPtion + Mouse Scroll

[@johnviera3884]

with a special mouse. not a regular mouse? i have to hold SHIFT OPTION and scroll wheel to zoom IN/OUT

[@Unders]

Ahh horizontal and vertical zoom. Yes because I use an apple Magic Mouse I can also move left and right as mouse wheel. Much like a roller ball style controller.

[@rodmonstar]

I’m not quite through with the video yet, & even tho I love what I see, I find it interesting, this method doesn’t necessarily master each track individually then, right? ie the drums, or vocals, or keys don’t get an individual master. would that ever be a problem?

[@Unders]

Mastering is usually just the 2 track mix bus. Always has been. What your referring to is known as Stem mastering an is an option where perhaps the mix wasn't as good as it could have been. My friends at Audio Animals offer this option for example.

[@rodmonstar]

@@Unders awesome thanks for the reply(: I definitely referenced your vids to master my songs for the first time you’re lit lol

[@squalley]

#Clutch 🥃

[@mischareinert3795]

please use the linear phase eq

[@Unders]

Why when there isn’t any reason to?

[@mischareinert3795]

@@Unders it reduces phase issues

[@Unders]

@@mischareinert3795 linear EQ is not a magic thing. it has specific use cases. Blindly stating "it fixes phase issues" tells me you dont grasp what a linear phase EQ actually does. or when it could be of benefit. Because it can be as much of a detriment as well. If i were to independently EQ the L&R as a similar frequency range for example, Linear could absolutely help reduced phase shift caused by the slope in the sum of those two parts. However if your not introducing phase issues and using Linear phase for the sake of it to say boot the high end your likely to actually introduce issues like "clanging"

[@leogubser2853]

@@Unders bro he‘s right

[@leogubser2853]

@@Unders let my golleg in peace

[@k0j_]

After you measure your track what exactly do you do?

[@DENNYKOPP]

adds midd show? bye/

[@Unders]

Wtf is this sentence 🤦‍♂️

[@Captain-Jack]

So helpful! Thank you!

[@amyobenski]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@amyobenski]

I'm having an issue, where my LUFs are too low, but my limiter is reducing up to 5 DB. I'm mixing acoustic music so I'm trying not to over-squash it. Any thoughts?