My best MASTERING advice for beginners

After years in the music industry this is my best advice for beginners.
This video is all about mindset. Sometimes in our careers as mixing and mastering engineers, producers, and songwriters we make decisions without really asking WHY. We do this because sometimes we make assumptions about what needs to be done without really just listening, diagnosing correctly and only solving problems that exist. Learning to have intention in everything we do is key to both life and music creation!
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[@idaridaridaridari]

this is probably the best advice i have ever gotten! thank you a lot :)

[@ofcl.faculty]

👏👏👏 very nice video. Something that came to my mind: I came back to music after a long break and try to teach my younger cousin to be focused on the important things. Don't do drugs, focus on yourself, stay healthy, stop gaming all day, stop chasing or thinking about girls he can't get, stop procrastinate putting out or even start his music thing because he thinks he has time. Guys if you're in your early 20s focus, work hard, study for yourself, what ever it is.. and by your mid 20s you gonna be living the dream you always wanted. also if you're older.. it's never too late to start. don't let anyone tell you

[@screendrem]

To increase perception of loudness without increasing the LUFS level...this is one of the kingpins of mastering that people are after.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Compression, and reducing those peaks without ruining the clarity and dynamic range is the task.

[@briansumanofficial]

Great advice and super glad I stumbled onto this video! Thank you!

[@SharigramaOfficial]

Thank u so much, send you greetings & hugs..! Let's Rock 🤟

[@richarddelconnor]

I heard you mention you’re in Salt Lake City. The first two American Zen albums, and the Buddha Zhen Chinese music album, were recorded in my living room in Salt Lake City on 5th South during the 1990s. I began as a recording engineer in 1974. So if you’d like to know what I’ve done and how I recorded in Salt Lake City I’d be glad to share that information with you. I’m also the designer and builder of the future disc mastering labs in Hollywood California during the 1980s and did custom studio work for the village recorder RCA, MCA well, many studios that you’re familiar with.

[@moce727]

Well, what's most dissapointing about my journey is I've been making music since 2013-2014, never knew about what Mixing was cause it was not mention (or I couldn't understand the meaning since I was learning english meanwhile watching those producing videos so I was doing both at once lol) what mixing was. On 2018 I've started making beats and recording vocals for rap and latin music and there I discovered what mixing was and started approaching to it. Well...It's been a long journey until December of last year were I've decided to pay for a mixing course and learnt about differences between brands and types of analog/digital EQ and Compressor, all types of them and a bit of thinking about not making much changes, but very subtle to just make it sound better. So yeah, all my way until now I've been told from youtube videos to do so many silly non-sense things just because "it worked", now that I've decided to start from 0 I feel I'm gonna be much much better. So yeah, to finish off my long comment Imma give an advice I would give my 13 years old self: Try to learn from the bottom what things are and how to use them instead of watching those "This plugin changed my way of mixing" or "STOP DOING THIS on your mixing" because they're certainly so stupid

[@asmixroomchv4610]

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[@T-BOUNCING]

EVEN IF YOU ARE A WORLD CLASS MASTERING ENGINEER IF YOU MIX DIFFERENT GENRE AND YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE SECOND EAR TO NAIL A MASTER ..SOME AUDIO /SONGS REQUIRES PRO EDITING THAT TAKE MORE THAN 15 MINUTES.. I HAVE MASTERED SONGS FOR TOP PEOPLE IN THE WORLD I USE THE BEST OF TOOLS AND ALSO INTENTIONAL AND SELECTIVE BECAUSE MINUS EXPERIENCE AND GOING TO SCHOOL FOR AUDIO ENGINEERING I USE THE BEST OF TOOLS.. MODERN MASTERING IS BEYOND USING IZOTOPE AND EQUALIZERS AND MAXIMIZERS.. BECAUSE OUR NEW GENERATION PRODUCERS AND MIXING ENGINEERS USE KZbin TO LEARN AUDIO .. 75 %'OF THE MIXES IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW ARE EITHER OUT OF PHASE OR SPARTIAL PROBLEMS.. THE MORE WORK YOU DO ACROSS THE GLOBAL WORLD YOU REALIZE SOME SONGS ARE OF ISP THAT RELATIVELY ADDING TO DISTORTIONS... E.T.C .. MY OWN MASTERING ISNT JUST TO MAKE SONGS LOUD BUT IMPROVE THE AUDIO WHEN NECESSARY..SO THAT SHOULD BE MORE THAN 15MINUTES AND ADDING BREAKS INTERVALS

[@MombaFam]

agree with Dane really a good teacher

[@prudentknightofficialyoutu1853]

good advise and to the point ...

[@metalfather8139]

Knowledge without wisdom can be only a little beneficial

[@ntobekomacozoma4485]

Woww what an advice and thank you sir..

[@mixnmstrng]

Thank you for your sound thoughts! =)

[@Elvis-dw7ux]

Excellent cheers from Toronto...

[@MrRamonRueda]

Good advice. Thanks.

[@gooshie3]

Thank you.

[@jason6006]

Great job

[@benonuigwe2046]

How do you use your laptop along with your microphone to record songs? How do you mix and master your recorded songs? How do you put the beats on your mix and mastered songs? Thanks 😊

[@davidasher22]

Here’s a question for ya… Why does a high-pass filter on a full mix raise the overall volume. I can’t figure this out and I’ve been mastering professionally for the last 3 years.

[@user-qn9oj8we8o]

I've always thought this happens because you are cutting out unnecessary frequencies taking up real estate in the mix thereby leaving more space for the good stuff to shine.

[@davidasher22]

@@user-qn9oj8we8o I’ve heard a similar explanation but that doesn’t make sense to me considering low frequencies appear to weigh heavier on the db scale. Meaning low frequencies will visually chart high but with less perceived volume. I believe it has something to do with phase but I honestly don’t know how or why. Every couple months I set out to find the answer but never get the scientific explanation I think it deserves. I also think it could just be the flawed way we measure volume. That wouldn’t surprise me at all.

[@davidasher22]

@@user-qn9oj8we8o maybe the phase shift alters the way the different frequencies affect each other resulting in more constructive interference? Man.. I guess that could be it.

[@samlivewire6623]

But... why would you do that? Are you just asking because you are curious... I hope you're not sending out mixes with the hi-pass filter on everything.

[@zamirbirnbach2966]

@@davidasher22 yes exactly, so by cutting out the low frequencies, you can then push the rest of the perceivable information to the necessary loudness levels. Thus increasing the overall volume you can hear.

[@JeffoftheShout]

I’m an FL Studio user and I used to use Maximus (multi-band compressor) on the master bus just because someone else told me I’m supposed to. When I listen back to projects with it engaged and then, with out, I realize how much I was undesirably coloring the sound for no good reason.

[@SirRyan31]

Multi band compressor sucks

[@ProjectHMF]

Most of the time multiband compression is just completely unnecessary in mastering.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

15 minutes to master? Hmmmm only when I make a track that I don't want to change and after listening and asking "Can I make this, or do I want to spend the time to make this better?" If the answer is no then its finished and on to the next project. I think people should learn to know when enough is enough, sometimes I actually end up making a track sound worse by messing with it for to long.

[@AuddityHipHop]

why you master is pretty easy though. isnt it just to make it loud enough as everything else, without peaking, and adjust tracks to sound consistent on an album? why you MIX on the other than is wayyy harder to answer. its basically to just "make it sound better". but like, how? identifying what the problems are is hard. identifying what the solutions are is hard. identifying what can and should be added to enhance the sound is hard. and actually choosing which plugins to use and then actually using them, fine tuning them, etc. is hard, and every setting comes with the same problems above, but now its many times over. plus every change needs to be so subtle, its hard to even hear a difference a lot of the time, but if you overdo it it'll sound bad when you get to later edits. ive accomplished quite a lot but mixing is by far the hardest skill ive ever tried to learn. a lot of it is subjective too but its another challenge just drawing that line. i have such respect for good mixing engineers.

[@mikewaldron4492]

No. You need to learn what mastering is. Volume is only a very small part of it. Tone, balance, definition.

[@AuddityHipHop]

@@mikewaldron4492 care to elaborate on that? what do you mean by tone balance and definition? can you expand on what those actually are, or link me to something that does?

[@Elvis-dw7ux]

Where r u located? Nothing under ABOUT....

[@PeteOnTheBeat]

I'm 31 masters in a beat :D Kinda need this advice

[@bearjammusic]

31... ouch.. at a moment, you cant even know if the quality is progressing

[@PeteOnTheBeat]

@@bearjammusic for sure. I have a project in Ableton where I have one that I like the latest ones. I was trying to get a sound I didn't like out (or tame it) of the sample but everything was coming out muffled. Finished the beat version 33

[@danielwhynter]

Hello I am trying to get in contact with someone from the company and no one’s is answering email…no matter can I get some customer service please

[@danielwhynter]

Can some one talk Jake to call me

[@JerryMain1]

hmm.. this advice seems to be aimed at people who have turned something that should be done for pleasure into a work process. A tip for the robotic professional