Mastering - Why You Should Never Use Multi-Band Maximizer (Read pinned comment or I delete yours)

Mastering. Don't Use Multiband Maximizer Limiter. Mastering Tip Based on a Real Project. Very Useful for Master Bus Limiter and Loudness Understanding. We'll Check Waves L2 and L3. To Attend a free trial class of this Audio Production Course send email to: [e-mail]
In This Video We Will Talk About: Top Sounding Mastering. We'll Use my project where I produced and mixed Ice Cube "We Be Clubbin'" Song in Cubase DAW. This Mastering tips will be suitable for any genre. We'll talk about Why Loudness is necessity in modern music production and how not to spoil your song by boosting the volume. We'll use Waves L2 Master Limiter to explain how maximizer works. We'll talk about transients, sustain, 0 dbFS, digital zero, waveform with clipping. Why clipping sounds sharp. Dynamic processors work with a threshold. Volume Suppression and automatic Make-Up Gain. Auto Make-up Gain. Output Ceiling Importance. Headroom Explanation. Soft Clipper. We'll use a reference song by 50 Cent & The Game "How We Do". And finally we'll check how Limiters affect Frequency Response. We'll mention why Mastering shouldn't be only improvement to audio quality but attempt not to change good things in already mixed song. We'll mention L3 Ultra Maximizer. We'll check how Multiband Limiter affects on different frequency ranges depending on what goes through this maximizer. Let's check a kick and snare and what's in between. How does it affect the sound of the Ice Cube vocal? What about upper mid? Low mid? Low Frequencies? How Multi-band processor becomes EQ and why it's harmful for an already mixed audio. We'll create print screens of different moment of the song. Mid Mid. Highs. How it affects on Reverb effect. Brighter Reverb. Darker Reverb. 3D placement in a mix. Closer and farther position in a mix. Sound in your face. Presence and background sound in a mix. How to feel about what a mixer tried to achieve in a mix before you - mastering engineer.
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[@AndrewZeleno1]

To attend a free trial Class send email to [e-mail] My Credits: www.andrewzelenocredits.com If you don't agree about this actual video: No. Priority doesn't even out the frequency response. Don't say bullshit in comments. Multiband limiter will always change the balance randomly. And don't say like it may be useful. Limiter has huge ratio. If you want to affect on the energy of ranges use MultibandCompressor where you can set up ratio, attack, knee. Limiter sucks for this task. And manipulation with frequencies is not the purpose of limiter. For this you have much more from dynamic EQ or Mid-Side EQ or Multiband compressor. In mastering you don't use a limiter to change things because it gives random frequency balance in different moments. Also, have you ever worked as a mastering engineer? Where let's say some Chris Lord-Alge already mixed the song and recording producer approved the frequency balance? If you now will start messing around with that balance nobody will work with you again as with a mastering engineer. The second thing: if you are a home working producer making your own music, to change frequency balance and control dynamics you have an access to your mixing project. If something wrong with your vocal -> fix the vocal. That's it. You don't need to mess around on your master bus with Multi-Band Limiter. So don't use Multi-Band Limiter. Period. btw 100% of the whole income from this channel constantly goes to help homeless cats and dogs. !!! I use the most fair approach. No prepayments. You get a free trial class which is a real class with my students. If you like it, you enroll. But still no payments in advance. You will pay only after you start the course and you can do it during the first week of a month. Not in advance. Also we have monthly payments. So you don't pay for the whole course. I will be proving that it's the top quality education class by class. 99% of students finish all 9 months of the course. I've been doing it like that for 8 years in a row. Come and see the product (top quality education) for free - it's a fair approach. 180 Reviews: www.andrewzelenocoursereview.com Course Info: www.andrewzelenomixingcourse.com Also watch a valuable video where I explain single band mastering limiters with some unusual stuff here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnOaomWsl5d4hpI

[@J-654]

Привет.А на русском есть это видео?

[@AndrewZeleno1]

@Александр Ха Вы написали коммент к комменту где первой строчкой написано как. Имейл пришлите.

[@apoplexiamusic]

indeed, using a multi-band limiter on a mix always sounds terrible in my experience. however, i do like to use the Waves multi-band limiter on certain sounds, especially synthesized bass. for instance, using one on a grouped bass sound, like a huge Drum & Bass bass, with massive subs, heavily distorted mids, and klanky highs. The multi-band limiter is great for pushing those sounds even further and making them even more ridiculous! But yeah... never on a mix!!!

[@a3axon]

I subbed because of this comment "Don't say bullshit in comments" LOL.

[@johncache49]

Very clear and persuasive explanation of the problems caused by multi-band limiting on the master bus.

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Thanks. Check the video from the description box. It's even better.

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honestly, after discovering your channel I've just been disgusted by almost every other channel... you make learning and understanding concepts super easy and clear to understand, while most others don't even know how to teach- which speaks volumes. Thank you so much for every video you put out there for us

[@AndrewZeleno1]

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[@AndrewZeleno1]

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[@lelkaitis]

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Thanks Audrius! The next videos will be even more useful.

[@VladScala]

Excellent Tutorial Andrew ! You are a GRAND Master ! BRAVO :) Vlad

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[@SlayerDarkRaver]

Extremely well put. Great easy explanations and loads of examples. Thanks alot :)

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Can't thank you enough for giving your knowledge to people who are interested. Cheers

[@AndrewZeleno1]

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[@jfeasey]

Great video Andrew, this really helps reinforce what you're teaching on the course.

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Thanks Justin. See you at the next class.

[@markgeuellim9384]

These are pretty golden tips! Thank you

[@AndrewZeleno1]

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[@garthhemingway1204]

Great video Mr Z, Looking forward to starting your class.

[@TheBunkerStudiosAudioPro]

Your explanation of the process and what you lose/gain is wonderful!

[@AndrewZeleno1]

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Even more respect for mixing a legend 😮

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[@Weaverbeats]

This is brilliant, thank you for the tip.

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[@JokerMansBeats]

Excellent explanation for those that are not educated on this subject. Good work

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[@AndrewZeleno1]

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[@MrToastedProduction]

Great concept and tips 👌🏼

[@FdUpNews]

Great video, your mix sounds clean!

[@AndrewZeleno1]

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Very informative! Thank- you for your work!

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[@luigidaniellmusic]

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[@JuergenFrey]

Very good explained and very interessting - important to know. Thank you very much!

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Amazing, very very well explained!

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Great explanation and approach!

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[@darkshadowbeats]

Great information on the video. I use multiband limiting all the time and because of the reason you are saying in the video I tend to use the gain function and the priority function within the plug-ins to allow myself not to have those problems !

[@AndrewZeleno1]

The problem is you can't stabilize it with Priority perfectly anyway plus it takes much more time to set up. No point to do it while you have better one band limiters with better quality and no time spent on its setup.

[@azenkwed]

You're the best. Not smartass editing, you're not trying to be funny or original or gangsta. You know your shit, your explanations are technical and to the point and crystal clear. Thank you.

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[@TANKSINATRA289]

You have mixed the legendary Ice Cube . Compliments .

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Excellent demo and info

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i love your stuff ..one of the best out there.. by the way ..if someone doesnt know when a plug in is bypassed or not working should not see this video... just kidding about your comment on the bypass button..thank you man ..you great..

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Im not a music engineer but what you're saying makes a sense, thanks for the knowledge

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[@timnordberg7204]

This was a great explanation, makes a lot of sense. When do you think it's appropriate to use a multi-band limiter? Obviously this will vary mix to mix, but generally, does it make more sense to use this sort of processing on a buss for instruments or vocals? Or are MB-limiters used more as a rescue measure for poorly mixed material that can't be changed?

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Hi. The answer is in the first comment which is pinned.

[@nicholascastucci4547]

Awesome video! Thank you!

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Thank you for your knowledge

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My pleasure

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Great explanation.Thank you

[@AndrewZeleno1]

You are welcome!

[@davidmoore5089]

A "chaotic equalizer" wow that's deep 💯

[@JuicemanGravy]

It's crazy how much you can learn by learning what not to do! Great video, good advice, love your product as a teacher too. Gonna be getting involved when I can One thing that sucks is if you dont understand all the lingo of producing, mixing, and mastering, you'll get confused. To those specific people: keep at it! Eventually, itll make sense.

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Thanks! A lot of new videos will be posted since August. Now I left for teaching new groups of students.

[@surgicalaudio8829]

As always a good video thank you ! But what do you think about Limitless plugin ? (which is a multiband limiter) For me it's really a game changer in limiting, you can make it fit any track, so much control on settings

[@mrslickbeats]

learnt something today, thanks!

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Glad to hear it!

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You are a master at explaining amazing wow

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bravo Andrew good done :)

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dude this fucking awesome thank you for making this video

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[@LucasMichalski]

Great tutorial Andrew, thank you. Just have one quick question, during mastering I always use 2 L2s (so one is not working too hard causing some distortion ect), but have a question regarding using limiters during mixing. I`ve noticed that few people use L2 limiters on separate tracks during mixing mostly on snare, guitar solos and adlibs and some backing vocal adlibs. What is your opinion about using limiters during mixing and when do you think you can use limiters best during mixing. Thank you very much for your answer. Lucas

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Honestly it would take a book to type my answer here. I teach this stuff on the course exactly in the way to have a reason to use a limiter. From what I see how you say it it looks like you care about what other people do instead of listening and finding reasons to have it on some track in a project. Of course you need a lot of vision to see this reason. And if you even know the reason it can spoil some other instruments in the mix. So It's not that easy. Anyway consider that a limiter compresses which changes the form of sound. It can be simply for tone reason. It can be to control exceeding peaks which force a master bus compressor or maximizer to compress more on their side. It can be to polish transients. And so on and so on. But it can be harmful as well. You can loose clarity of a punch sometimes. So it's better using more soft clipper than a limiter. I'd better stop :) It will take forever to explain it.

[@LucasMichalski]

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[@AndrewZeleno1]

Thanks a lot! Appreciated! Motivates to make more videos.

[@kierancarrighan4060]

Как всегда шикарно, понятно и доходчиво! Огромное спасибо!

[@AndrewZeleno1]

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[@ForeignCPT]

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[@Ehabmxd]

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[@kkbeatss]

This video is so good! I was using multiband bcs I thought it did the same but better, didn't realise how it manipulated frequencies depending on the input. Thanks!

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Glad it helped!

[@MrVitalic85]

Very interesting, thx a lot

[@AndrewZeleno1]

You are very welcome.

[@Tazmanian_Ninja]

Interesting point, regarding the reverb (sense of distance due to darkening and brightening of the signal). How about multiband clipping then?

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Clipping doesn't make a lot of sense in multiband. But Clipping is a different story. It shouldn't suppress the level hence almost no effect on frequency balance. But we know other nuances of clipping.

[@nicholasparis5281]

Eye opening thinking in reference to the bit about multi band compression akin to 'putting a chaos equalizer on top the master mix as a whole'.. I think that's probably why separating these bandwidths for compression in the Michael Brauer tradition where he's got separate compression busses for lows, mids, highs, and ambiance (adding imaging plugin on after ambiance compression); achieve that dancing compression balance 'in the mix' - like as opposed to producing a photorealistic painting, then going jackson pollock at the end (but with frequencies in our case).. doesn't make much sense you're right... The only workaround I might think of is to mix into the multiband limiter from scratch, but then it seems that other automations would be needed to then compensate bc you're still not compressing the whole track as you said.. and adding an L-2 after a L-3 lol... no way! It's a high CPU count, but maybe multi-band compressors could be used on a few individual tracks before reverbs and other auxes? Great Content Andrew! Love your work!

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Thanks!

[@TonyKilaBeatz]

you are a genius!

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Thanks!

[@KBSKasyapMusic]

Loved it sir :) Is there any video of yours about Mastering a track to professional standard? Couldn't find it :(

[@AndrewZeleno1]

I have to keep real stuff for the course. So I upload only additional stuff on KZbin. But anyway check the next video next week. it will be huge. For now check this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIeyiqGOr8iErqs

[@ario9907]

Holy shit I actually understood this clearly! I wanted to disagree with you since I use the L3 in a lot of masters but you proved how it makes the freq bands unbalanced. Is the Fab Filter Pro L2 a good Limiter?

[@cisko3000]

yo, what mic is that being used in the video?

[@auldstock]

Great vid as always Andrew, thanks and keep them coming!. Can someone detail a situation where this kind of limiting would be useful? I ask out of curiosity, and a desire not to feel like an ass anymore because I bought this damn thing 2 days ago :D

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Read the first pinned comment to this video

[@wes_the_scifi_guy]

Very happy to read this since that was my only limiter. Just bought a couple months back. But I only used it on one track master and then got ozone 8 elements the other day and liked the maximizer better as this problem was why just didnt know till now. But I do like making a send with L3 for just my sub and controlling/adjusting the amount it limits the sub frequencies from the 100-300 frequencies. Same for my mid bass- having a send to control the low mid from hi mid limiting. Then that is sent to master ozone. As it’s my music so planning this was experimenting but came out very nice.

[@AndrewZeleno1]

I hope you understand that you use high ratio limiter in L3. You'd better go with a multiband compressor where you can control soft knee, ratio, attack. Which you can't in L3.

[@Mr.Seth1]

Nice explanation

[@AndrewZeleno1]

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[@AndrewZeleno1]

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[@shaun9100]

Thank you Andrew! My mix got MUCH BETTER after removing the Multiband & just using the L2! It's a HUGE DIFFERENCE just like you said!

[@AndrewZeleno1]

You are very welcome!

[@employerstips7495]

Отличное видео!

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Спасибо

[@victorvictor1397]

Hi! Great explanation but is it also applicable for multiband compression? It uses similar principles (compresses only specific ranges for whole mix) but a lot of mixing engineers use it on master buses.

[@AndrewZeleno1]

If you read the title of this video it says "Read the pinned comment first". And if you read it you will find the answer. MB compression is a totally different thing.

[@chirick86]

Спасибо за ваши курсы. Когда настолько круто за бесплатно, что даже хочется купить.

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[@vlado303]

Great video! I'm just here because I wanted to check some "professional engineer"... So I sent him my favorite pro tune (as a reference track) and my mixdown. Finally I received my track damaged by multiband maximizer as I suppose. That received master was one quieter and later louder and lost selectivity of sounds in the song. Basically all my time to make good sounding mix was lost for some unprofessional guy... I made my own master using ONLY a little eq and softclipper. It sounding great, loud, without any hearable distortion. So at the end - the most important is to make good sounding mixdown. If the mix is made well then mastering should be easy. Multiband compression sucks. Cheers for video! You have a sub! 😎

[@AndrewZeleno1]

I heard about your situation from 70% of my students actually.

[@DocKaosBeats]

What level do you level all of your sounds and how do you adjust your settings for mastering like on your softclipper? Sorry I'm a beginner at this trying to learn

[@fallenleaf24]

I have quality audio equipment. its not the best but its good. I don't care how loud it is I care about how good it sounds. This is a brilliant example of how this works! well done!

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Thanks for sharing!

[@LucyAmberon]

Really interesting tutorial

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[@nitram419]

Andrew, interesting video. I have Studio One v 4Pro which has a "multiband compressor". It seems to do similar things to what you describe here. However, there must be a positive reason why Presonus included it. eg. If you have too much bass kick for example, and you put some non-multi band compression on the mix then compressor's reaction to the kick will push down everything -- even pushing down the high frequencies! But with multi-band I leave the mids & highs untouched. Surely that's a benefit?

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Did you read the first pinned comment to this video? Read it. I'm not talking about multiband compressoer here.

[@covidpassforslaves5623]

OMG. You are totally correct. Again after reading your first pinned comment it makes it even clearer. Everybody who has some stupid thoughts just read the first pinned comment with some extra clarification on the subject.

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Cool!

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:)

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[@POWAYESCONDIDOMARK]

Would setting the priority on waves multiband solve problem you created by not using priority on waves multiband compressors?

[@AndrewZeleno1]

No. It doesn't fix it. It will do the opposite thing. When there is no kick it will affect in the other way. Still not flat.

[@montanoemmanuel]

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[@AndrewZeleno1]

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[@LokoTheChannel]

For this reason the most recognized mastering engineers do not use Multiband. Except in extreme cases where something has to be repaired.

[@AndrewZeleno1]

That's correct. But make sure you mean a limiter. Multiband Compressor is for fixing. Limiter is not.

[@romanfeelin5517]

Шикарное видео, Андрей. Всегда подозревал, что мультибенд максимайзер очень странный прибор и давно перестал его использовать на финалайзинге. Спасибо.

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Пожалуйста!

[@Byelmacetas]

does limiters change coloration?

[@user-db8np1er4s]

Up!

[@GREEZUS-CHRIST]

I assume it would be the same theory for multiband compression for mastering? Or is it only because limiting is so harsh?

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Multiband compression can be pretty useful. We are talking here about limiting where fixing things is not a part of its goals. And fixing things is not a area where a mb limiter is the strongest.

[@N1K5TA]

it all starts with a good clean mix ...if kick is too loud go back in your mix and turn it down , if hats aren't hitting as hard turn them up in the mix ...using MB comp on a bad mix is like trying to polish a turd. Its only useful if you don't have access to the original mix. Mastering should only be about raising the volume, light eq polish ,make sure mono comp ,light saturation maybe ,mono lowend and maybe some widening but most of the heavy lifting is done in the mix..cool video

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Absolutely correct!

[@volvot5turbo]

So is this also saying I shouldn't use C4 on the master bus neither?

[@johnisrael5183]

Thanks so much for this I've been thinking the same thing as far as mixing and mastering the last thing you want is some eqing situation...introduced at the last minute..... why would you go through doing just the right amount of warm and compression, just to introduce a new EQ at the end of the master bus the throw everything off, I've been saying the same thing!

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Thanks for sharing!

[@AndrewZeleno1]

You are welcome. btw her's my last video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaXKeJ-qp6igiLc

[@zeefour]

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[@AndrewZeleno1]

haha

[@zeefour]

@@AndrewZeleno1 Quality intelligence man. I dont aspire to be a professional engineer I just make the music. But hopefully with your videos I can make more Informed decisions with my plugins. Most of my decisions are based of listening and buts of advice I've had over the years. You earned a subscriber

[@DaveBessell]

It is an interesting point you are making. Would a single band limiter also affect frequency balance? Lets say the bass drum is loud, it will trigger the limiter which will duck everything in the track. If there is also a bright pad in the track then there will be a momentary loss of high frequency every time the bass drum hits the limiter. Not to mention the overall subjective dip in apparent volume. I think all of these processes have artifacts that may not be desirable.

[@AndrewZeleno1]

When you have a kick, kick triggers a single band limiter to suppress the whole volume not frequencies.

[@UndercoverRat]

I think you are correct in the way you are stating your point

[@thecliqueshallsetyoufree8745]

Hello Andrew I agree with you on this topic. Still have you tried MLimiterMB you can fine tune each band , it's a little tasking but somewhat different from the rest. Good video though.

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Thanks. Read the first linked comment to this video where I explain again why any multiband limiter is a useless thing for really professional mastering.

[@HueyVi]

I wanted to say something against your advice but after I watch your video completely, I realize that I was stupid haha. Thanks for sharing this, very helpful!

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Glad I could help!

[@sammiller9855]

What are your thoughts on using multiband automatic EQ adjusters such as Gullfoss and Voxengo's Taute which seek to maintain a steady frequency profile across the full spectrum?

[@AndrewZeleno1]

It would be a very long answer. I can make a video on it which will last for two hours. Also, steady frequency profile maintenance is not the only goal of these plugins.

[@AndrewZeleno1]

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[@AndrewZeleno1]

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[@mrfleamino9350]

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[@AndrewZeleno1]

Thanks! Check the other video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIeyiqGOr8iErqs&lc=UgxxCQ4huKu0m1T3xWx4AaABAg

[@Gamervidsman2000]

Came into this thinking you'd spew a bunch of nonsense. But everything you said is 100% true and accurate. I hope everyone takes this seriously! A little note to those that might say "limiting does effect the frequency range", probably don't have a good understanding of passive and musical limiters. Some will saturate your track to push specific frequency ranges, while other limiters are non-musical and will perform clearly. Meaning if you start boosting with something like a Pro-L and it starts to sound really bad before clipping at +1 or +2 dB, then the issue is most likely with your track and not the limiter. Good video, thought I'd just point that out there, @Andrew Zeleno.

[@youtuup]

why didn't I found your video's 5 year ago .. This is great stuff.

[@AndrewZeleno1]

Thanks! Check my last video. It's 4 minutes but very useful Reverb subject kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3qze5KKfa6pkM0