How To Mix & Master EDM Like A Pro

💥 In this video I show you how to mix & master an EDM song in FL Studio with mostly stock plugins.
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How To Mix & Master in FL Studio
How To Mix & Master An EDM Song
FL Studio Mixing & Mastering Tutorial
Progressive House Mixing & Masterin Tutorial
Mixing & Mastering With Stock Plugins

[@djseverman]

Two little things I need to correct: at 4:04 I meant 6k/8k hz and at 5:25 it's 0.5 - 1 of course. Hope you enjoy the video! :)

[@AlexAspen]

I prefer to start with limiter on master too, that's much easier to balance mix than classic method👍

[@xnervemusic]

Alex can you make a video about it on your channel to clarify it more please? It will be really helpful for us to get some new insights on this topic

[@djseverman]

Yeah 100% agreed

[@just_dimi3]

Please collab between Alex Aspen and Severman

[@AlexAspen]

@@just_dimi3 Done! It was released yesterday on Revealed Radar😃

[@acub3music725]

Your tutorials are good too Alex bruder 🙌🏻❤🎵🎶🎧

[@Naruto-pp4re]

To be honest this is insane mate because i have watched many mixing and mastering² video on KZbin and i have noticed that they used many different kind of vst stuffs but you man totally different.. idk how to say. The video and the info are amazing as well as important.. thank you and have a great day ☺️😌

[@djseverman]

Thank you so much man! 🙏

[@Naruto-pp4re]

@@djseverman You're welcome as always

[@josephdavidmusic]

Now there's another reason to start mixing with the limiter. Pretty helpful. Thanks, Severman!

[@djseverman]

Yep! 😃

[@The_SH4D]

Honestly one of the best Mixing & Mastering tutorials out there. Great vid! ❤

[@dinofernando5704]

So much useful tips, Thanks Severman! love your content. keep up the good work

[@cosmicwildling]

been binge watching mastering tutorials for a while now, this is 100% the BEST one I’ve seen…the way you use fruity reverb is just chefs kiss man, cant thank you enough for this vid!! also exposed me to some great third party plugins including free ones, I mean what else could I ask from a mastering video?? keep up the great work 🔥🔥🔥

[@djseverman]

Thank you very much, glad to hear that! 🙏

[@xnervemusic]

Got so much of knowledge from this video. Really appreciate the help you're doing for the community 💯

[@djseverman]

Thanks man, glad to hear this 🙌

[@cottoo1]

you changed my way of thinking with that mixing to the limiter, it actually works wonders. thanks

[@djseverman]

That's great to hear man!! :)

[@bassyjay6281]

Nice vid that severman, your great at explaining stuff, Im new to channel! Glad I found you 👊🏻

[@Djrunemo]

Hey Severman I like your Mix & Mastering very helpful video and you explain so easy to understand. you deservere it

[@djjodz]

What a MASTERCLASS from Severman! Super helpful video!😃

[@djseverman]

Thank you man 🙏

[@sahil_bhagatt]

Great video as always brother 👌🏻looking forward for more tutorials from you 👊🏻

[@djseverman]

Thanks man! :)

[@furaxz191]

The only tutorial i needed. Keep up the good work. Love ur videos😁

[@djseverman]

Thanks man!

[@Ftmusic26]

Yeah bruh I was waiting for this 🔥🔥🔥

[@djseverman]

👌👌

[@chamod175]

Thanks Severman! this is most important for me!! 🖤🙏🏻

[@djseverman]

💪💪

[@ImMissKayMusic]

Thanks a lot for this, I've been trying many different methods for mixing but this is really well explained and sounds great 🙂

[@djseverman]

Thanks a lot :)

[@wintermakesmusic]

Extremely helpful...thank you for this❤️

[@djseverman]

glad to hear

[@preet13159]

You are the good one ❤️ loving your videos 🙏👌 it's very important for us because you have a shoot extra time on it rather than production 😘

[@djseverman]

😊🙏

[@Curiousboy265]

Dude keep on creating more content like this 🔥🔥

[@djseverman]

Will for sure :)

[@eijffelbridge]

Very insightfull video! The way you present yourself is very good., also you make great music. I subscribed!

[@djseverman]

Thanks so much, means a lot 🙏

[@lLl-fl7rv]

exactly what i needed. much love

[@djseverman]

😌😌

[@pratyaysarkar7905]

Watched from start till the end, really useful!

[@djseverman]

Thanks man, much appreciated!

[@enzochasemusic]

Great video man. Really awesome tutorial!

[@djseverman]

Thanks man!!

[@smthlikeuuuuuuu]

Thanks man! Love your vids

[@djseverman]

Thank you 🙏

[@anandthakur3662]

Thank you Severman for doing great job god bless you and you are the best

[@djseverman]

Thank you man!

[@KendineYoutuber]

We wanna see more videos like this. 👍🏻❤

[@djseverman]

😌

[@nateandersen5118]

Awesome. Super informative

[@djseverman]

Thanks man!

[@krissmusic3633]

Watching this video is like i need to pay for it 😱 you are amazing Man . we want more of this ..

[@djseverman]

Thanks a lot man! :)

[@NazaNike]

Sounds soooooo good 👏👏👏👏

[@djseverman]

💪💪

[@tuxievous420]

Only 30 mins plus Quick n Cheap just like the Red Light District love it 🥰

[@manishjangid63]

Thank you brother this was really helpful 🔥🔥🔥

[@djseverman]

Glad to hear that 😊

[@acub3music725]

Danke bruder for this Gift(tutorial) pretty much learned with this bruder 🙌🏻🔥🎵🎶🎧❤ Keep it up

[@djseverman]

Glad to hear :)

[@wisecraftlive]

Hey I have been watching quite a few of your vids, and they are sooo helpful Dropped a sub, keep it up!

[@djseverman]

Thanks a lot man, appreciate your support!!

[@kahtanbarakat497]

You are a true legend ❤

[@varaddnaik]

Thanks bro for this video 🔥❤️

[@RayzMusic]

FINALLYY MASTERINGG 🔥🔥🔥

[@djseverman]

💪💪

[@Sadibjaber]

Thanks for the video.. Great job bro love it

[@djseverman]

🙏🙏

[@skygazer3696]

Thank you for sharing this tutorial.. You are too good at your profession.... Keep sharing

[@djseverman]

Thank you 😊

[@mohammedmamlouk]

Thank you so much bro for your tutorial ❤🙌

[@djseverman]

🙏🙏

[@wanjopnongrem7331]

Nice man 🤩🤩🤩👏👏

[@djseverman]

🙏🙏

[@Dmak]

Great video! Will be trying to mix into the limiter for now on, seems much better

[@djseverman]

Yeah try it 💥

[@naughtyducky6325]

24:17 yeah you have to be careful lowcutting but sometimes a shallow low-shelf can work without messing up the phase of your lowend if ur looking for a tiny bit more headroom.

[@clemlifts]

Thank you severman

[@sibixavier5584]

Finally 💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@djseverman]

🙏🙏🙏

[@djmusicpatil1689]

You're amazing big brother

[@djseverman]

🙌🙌

[@CodingPhase]

Amazing video how can i contact you to mix one of my tracks thats an edm type track

[@saggyritofficial]

hey mate...the tutorial is sick. just one question ....that during making the track , did you mix? Like u are cutting out the lows for the mid basses and all. so did u mix it before ?

[@henrrydj_]

Thanks for shared this man

[@djseverman]

you're welcome :)

[@rucambass9764]

You are a legend ! thank you!

[@djseverman]

You're welcome! :)

[@psipher7746]

yeeaa it's here!!

[@djseverman]

👌👌

[@sonny6069]

does it mather what soundcard you using?, im using a fast track c400. budget soundcard. 300 bucks retails. but i wonder if its that ?, are you mixing out in 41k ? or what , seperate mix should be made about this part. thanks for great video

[@RAYSHIO]

you can find surfer EQ which moves the band automatically following the melody and keep attenuating only selected harmonic. very handy

[@djseverman]

Yeah someone else commented this to, gotta check it out

[@JOEDUCER]

Very Helpful ❤🔥

[@djseverman]

GLad to hear :)

[@jhm8614]

Why do all elements still need low-cutting and sidechaining? The premaster must sound awefull right? How do you create a track like that, or am I missing something

[@Delta9634-e2k]

Hi, what kind of curtain you have to protect your reflections from Window?

[@user-xt5ms1eo2e]

Can u make a video on how to build the foundation of a track aka the chord progression, and then use that to flesh out the melodies and the bassline.... I seem to build beautiful sounding 8 bar chords but then I stop there because I don't know about sound selection and how to "extract" the other elements of the song like the melodies...

[@Bluelineoff]

Can I go to the red area in the mixer channels and get it out at the end via the master channel? I can’t find any beginner Video how to mix correctly…

[@gooddays2679]

Thanks bro

[@djseverman]

You're welcome 😊

[@Antisocial_99]

That's awesome

[@djseverman]

🙌

[@tousan9131]

Bro when we're mastering our tracks before exporting, it always sounds like squashed in the software bcos we want to aim for -7lufs, but once its exported it sounds normal on the music player. Is that normal?

[@DPEMOfficial]

eo bro one cuestión, In the bass part, do you know that you cut what would be up to 200hz around for the mid bass, and the sub bass takes care of the low frequencies (50-100hz) but ... the 120-190 frequencies are usually left empty? Would it be wrong to leave them empty or not? The question is also that the notes of this track make me fill those frequencies, but when I produce tracks with notes that do not reach that frequency range (120hz-190), do I leave them empty like that? or do I have the mid bass fill them in, or would that be good?

[@djseverman]

I wouldn't leave them empty. You can try filling those up by adding a higher octave sub or you use an additional midbass to fil that area up. Could be a saw wave or a bass guitar :)

[@mosesvalentin1600]

Is the Span plugin free? In that case where can I download it safely?

[@PHALOEDM]

Is it possible we can get the stem is we can follow along? Thank u!!!!

[@just_dimi3]

Please make more similar tutorials like how to mix and process leads,chords,bass and atmosphere and also how to make bridge (for example between build up and drop or intro and break)

[@djseverman]

Thanks man, noted!

[@agissatriamandala201]

At 12:07 you can use surferEQ and do side chain to your sub, so that curve will follow note of the sub (if I am not wrong)

[@djseverman]

Sounds really interesting, gotta check it out

[@lancecollins5074]

why do you put a limiter on the master?

[@cewineriksson3440]

how do you bounce out your stems in groups??

[@theaplusofficial]

Thank u so much!!

[@noellauper2601]

I prefer to sidechain the kick and the sub with the limiter cause then the bass only ducks down when the kick is actually playing

[@subxmmusic]

Thanks For Sharing ;)

[@djseverman]

You're welcome!

[@davidcarrera6265]

The best

[@djseverman]

🙏🙏

[@carmenespinoza3840]

Nice tutorials, thanks for showing those tips, what's the keyboard model You use it look really nice, thanks

[@djseverman]

Thank you! I think it's called Jelly Comb, got it from Amazon

[@kurtafterall]

Thanks! That helps a lot. I guess this is the procedure for regular mastering, isn't it? But how do you set up the mix for mastering for streaming services? Do you lower the limiter in the mastering chain until the mix reaches 14 LUFS? Or do you just upload it regardless?

[@djseverman]

Thank you! I only do one master for everything, that's it :)

[@kurtafterall]

@@djseverman that makes things a lot easier. Thank you 😊 have you ever measured how loud your tracks are on a Lufs scale?

[@lij_nahi393]

tnx

[@dhruvansht]

Would really appreciate if you did a tutorial where you Pre-Mixed the stems and rendered them, what decisions you took while mixing them?

[@djseverman]

Yeah that's pretty comlpex topic tbh. Might do a course/masterclass on this in the future

[@dhruvansht]

Definitely, but I was confused if those settings on the master would be the final settings you used when the song was released?

[@xTheChronixx]

Thank you so much! This video is very helpful. One question though.. where do you get your reference tracks from in wav? Do you just download them from youtube or is there another service for high quality reference tracks?

[@djseverman]

I barely use wav tbh, mp3 320kbps is more than fine! :)

[@xTheChronixx]

Thanks for the answer! :)

[@JoseReyes-lb5vp]

Nice YT channel dude!

[@djseverman]

Thanks man!

[@iamoslomusic282]

I have a question -> if I am Exporting the stems from my unmastered track to whole new project with all the mixer plugins OFF except sidechain, so is it necessary to put again all the presets to the Master channel of the stems rather than putting to the unmastered project.

[@djseverman]

Not sure what you mean but when you export make sure to turn of the master effects. You can leave the insert turned on

[@djferenc]

Can you also do a house version?

[@mkjaerkjersson7749]

I have found that when I play some elements and look at the correlation meter in SPAN, individually they stay in phase (on the right), yet when played together (for example 2 bass layers at once) it goes to the left on the correlation meter (reaches even 0.3). Why might that be? Is it something to worry about?

[@djseverman]

Yeah that's why you usally wanna have your bass in mono. It's not necessarily bad but you should definitely look out for it

[@mkjaerkjersson7749]

@@djseverman one of them is totally mono, the other one has mid side eq on it.

[@imaikomusic]

Question, did you add fx before you rendered everything into stems? because the leads sound like they have reverb and fx on them. Because everything sounds like it was eq'd a little but it wasn't the final mix. So should I mix as I go, render to stems and mix again?

[@djseverman]

Yes there's already some processing on the stems. You can mix everything in one project. I only bounced out the stems to make it easier for this video :)

[@imaikomusic]

@@djseverman Ok, thanks for the info and keep up the great work.

[@G1mzY_gaming]

how did u splitt all sounds like leads chords sub...? so i can try it my self :D it seems much easyer to master like that so u dont need to focus at all sound at once :D

[@djseverman]

I pre-selected all the sounds in the original flp and bounced out the group stems separately

[@francobuzzetti9424]

loved to watch you mix , i have a question , i was wondering ,on the correlation meter ,how to fix it when it jumps all over the place , i know that's the phase correlation and it's important to get right ,thank you!

[@djseverman]

hmm it jumps overall the place while playing all sounds together?

[@francobuzzetti9424]

@@djseverman exactly i goes to 1 on kicks mostly and then it goes as low as -1 sometimes

[@afuera9184]

@@francobuzzetti9424 you have to lower your stereo image , your panning travels from left to right . you should have some tracks in mono.

[@francobuzzetti9424]

@@afuera9184 thank you!

[@mattsotoofficial8224]

your stems 24 or 32 bit?

[@AVB-cg7ij]

I just had a question which I ask to every producer like why did you choose fl studio and not Ableton cause I am thinking to change to fl studios

[@djseverman]

I just started with FL because it's the first thing I found 😅

[@impolitikful]

If you program the drums with midi do you convert it all to audio before your mix?

[@djseverman]

There's no point really in doing that since the drums are already audio. But it's up to what you prefer, if you wanna bounce out everything in stems for the mixing, there's nothign wrong with that

[@damiancastellucci8644]

Just wanted to throw this in there, but for anyone that does know If you want to low cut on your master channel you can with the fruity EQ by hitting the "Lin" button and it should not cause any phasing issues!

[@timo-gaming]

Thank you so much. Oder wenn man es auf Deutsch macht... einfach Vielen Dank

[@haha8023]

what sources do you recommend for good progressive house samples & presets?

[@djseverman]

I mostly use Vengeance and KSHMR

[@ARJUN-nz9qw]

How do you decide the type of sidechain in kickstart? You chose different sidechains for all the the sounds.

[@djseverman]

The lower the frequency the more sidechain you need. So for a subbass choose a curve that ducks it quite a bit and set the intensity/mix to 100%. Now the higher you go in frequency the less sidechain you need. So for chords you can apply a less dramatic curve with a little less intensity. Then for the leads even less and for the high end sounds you don't necessarily need sidechain at all. Hope this helps :)

[@ARJUN-nz9qw]

@@djseverman Thank you so much. I understand it now.

[@nkosingiphilenkosi6898]

Hey man I'm a beginner and I have been trying to create some marshmello style, can I please send my drop, and just make critics only

[@danideboe]

Hi Severman, what is a bit unclear for me is how did you determine the volume of each of the stems? The kickdrum is clear to me but how do you afterwards determine how loud you want the leads, chords and so on?

[@djseverman]

at the end of the day you just need to train your ear and after some time you'll get the feeling for the right volume levels. Hope the tips with Span in the video help a little

[@danideboe]

Thanks, makes sense! Final question,: what could be possible reasons that I seem to mix well but the master is not loud enough?

[@simonmonsalve.c]

Nice

[@djseverman]

🙌

[@sendlocation8476]

@SEVERMEN Beautiful tutorial. Can I ask with kick drum design what do you use? And how many layers are your kicks?

[@anujparashar3944]

Bro will steinberg ur 12 support my 250 ohm headphones??

[@djseverman]

Yeah I think so

[@gooddays2679]

Bro which is the best progressive house paid sample pack ?

[@djseverman]

Vengeance!

[@priyangshusaraswati4067]

♥️

[@krishnapandit4858]

Hey severman , i exported stems for mixing purpose because orignal project uses lot of cpu ..But i have problem with automatic clips . Fl studio export se stems well and i imported in new project to mix but there are no automation clips included with stems like i used filter automation on leads but i exported stems i have to do all automation clip stuff again . Is there any solution for this ?

[@djseverman]

Hey! How did you export the stems? You need to make sure that you activate the automation clip while exporting. Also make sure you have your insert effects enabled while exporting

[@krishnapandit4858]

@@djseverman i exported by " split mixer track " option .

[@krishnapandit4858]

@@djseverman yes i have insert effects enabled . where i get option of activate automation clips ?

[@krishnapandit4858]

@@djseverman BTW , i have one more question . i add 20+ sylenth and my cpu is ok but i added only 2 spire and cpu went to 85% .. whats the proboem ? i have " spire×86 1.1.16"

[@krishnapandit4858]

@@djseverman please answer bro

[@themidnightchunk]

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