Perfect Mastering Chain (How to Get Loud & Clean Masters Every Time)

[@FurkanTopal]

7:06 if anyone wonders how he opened two different track's span plugin screen at the same time, go to your preferences > plugins > auto-hide plugin windows: off

[@joeydomhof6480]

Legend! I have been wondering that for a long time, haha

[@danficaradj]

you just solved a 10 year issue for me

[@ScottishLandmarks-qn9rl]

think you can hold control also and click the plugin. To have the ones from multiple tracks up at same time

[@borisvillar]

So many useful mastering tips here I’ve never seen on any other channel Thank you 🙏

[@oliverhoschi6135]

Would like to say thanks! i´m producing music since 1998 but the Mastering was always a mystery for me. Now after 25 Years of making music, i can master my tracks myself with insane results. God bless you my friend!

[@seanconleyy]

Hey Will, I am sitting here about to master my first official track I'll be releasing on Spotify within the next week or two and I just wanted to say thank-you. Kind of a surreal moment. I've been starting every morning of my day for the past year learning music production through your channel and to see how far I've come from exactly one year ago when I decided to go all in on this is crazy. I cant believe I know the skills I have now, and that is all thanks to you. Your teaching structure, course, youtube content, and friendly/easy going personality is always the highlight of my day and we appreciate you more than you know.

[@tivasthegamer9817]

As someone doing the exact same thing right now, I get you on the feelings. I would love for you to share the name of the track to fiind it on Spotify so I would gladly listen to it. Best of wishes and good luck on your release.

[@HaiderTonight]

Your tips have immensely helped me. Thank you so much!

[@EDMTips]

You are so welcome! Glad my videos have helped you so far! 🙂

[@seadoo14]

My fav tip in here was about the reductive EQ, cutting out the ultra low end below 30-40hz. I never imagined doing that, but I just tried it out and was able to get my overall master louder as you mentioned, without losing that low end energy. Another awesome video full of highly practical tips.

[@fender97]

Yes, you cannot hear below around 30hz instead you can feel it more. Try it with a frequency generator app on your system. Too much sub low end can take the energy out a track because the speakers have to move a lot of air.

[@StormbreakerYT]

Sometimes it can destroy your low end . I never do it and yet nobody complains . Also make sure when you eq your low end that your eq plug-in is set to linear mode otherwise your phase of the lows will change resulting in a different sound

[@YkItzUnknwn]

For sure 20hz - 40hz just a bunch of unnecessary info a lot of the time but it REALLLLLY depends cuz it can get uh uh real fast hitting that 25-30 mark

[@yuge42oc10]

It was the simplest and easiest to understand Mastering Tips I have ever seen. In Japan, there were no engineers who could give such easy-to-understand explanations. It was very helpful. Thank you very much.

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, Yuge, Glad it was helpful!

[@scottbitz5222]

As someone who does live sound mixing, even if a live system is capable of putting out under 40hz, it can just muddy up things anyways especially with edm where you can easily push any frequency to any level. Since I'm also a bassist, on a bass guitar the low b on a 5/6 string bass is ~30 hz and the low e is around 41hz and many headphones you barely hear the low e and even cheap guitar tuning pedals can't even process the low b due to how they're built! If you really want to, when you're playing a show have a live mix with some of those lower frequencies with a shallower HPF so it still attenuates and doesn't just rattle the subs, stage, etc!

[@EDMTips]

Great tip!

[@JohnJohnCrusher]

Shallower? As in slope? Or a higher cutoff frequency?

[@AKAtAGG]

reference track, reference track, reference track. Single most important stage. great video as usual.

[@TheWillsMusic]

Thank you, I feel i am a better artist after I watched your video! Can't wait to apply and practice all the new tricks!

[@EDMTips]

Thank you for your comment! Happy to hear!

[@surdaybeats4255]

hi! I do not really enjoy writing coments, but now I feel like I have to. I've stucked with my music few year ago, and fortunetly your videos started to answer my questions that I was analizing. I must say that it is truly the best edm tips channel on YT. Congratulations ! And thank you master. Greatings from Poland :)

[@EDMTips]

Love to read such comments man! So happy my work helps you this much! :) Stay strong and all the best for you! 🙏

[@callmespitz]

Really helpful video, thanks so much.

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, I am glad you found it helpful 🙂🙌🏻

[@dimitriz273]

I use SPAN to reference like you do here but, you can actually sidechain the reference and have both waveforms in one spectrum analyser. That's so much easier !

[@lubro_official]

Mate this video was so helpful. Never really took the time to properly learn mastering, plus my mind was cluttered with so many tips and tricks from KZbin tutorials. So I needed a new approach and dial down on just the basics. I found your video and applied this chain to my Mix... It worked wonders. None of my previous tracks have ever sound so furbished and clean. Brilliant video man. You're a lifesaver!

[@russellnashsynth]

Funny meeting you here, dude! Wassup??

[@lubro_official]

@@russellnashsynth Hey buddy! Nice to see you hanging out here😂

[@EDMTips]

Thank you for watching! What are you favourite plugins for mastering? Let me know in the comments below 👇👇👇

[@djrandalldean]

honestly i LOVE the shadowhills compressor. I nabbed a free copy when Plugin Aliance did that big give away to announce the partnership/merger. The three "metal" options at the bottom give so much color to the sound that complements my sound that i find myself using it on my bus for vocals (-1 db per each of the two compressors) and then zero compression just for saturation on the master chan all the time.

[@Barncore]

That Bark of Dog plugin is already a hipass filter (with a resonant peak), and then you used another hipass filter again with Pro-Q, just so you know. Great way to get phase issues

[@WolfeBMusic]

2 questions: 1. do u always master your tracks in a separate project or do you ever just do it in the original project file i.e. with all the tracks not just a stereo mix? 2. in this video, did u have compressors and eqs etc on your master bus in your original project? or do you save that all for mastering?

[@papabear_music]

One of the best tutorial on youtube... I did most of the things before watching this video... but now... my master just sound top end!!! Thanks Will!!! One of my fav channel together with @AlexRome

[@EDMTips]

Thank you, Simone, I appreciate the support! 🙂🙌🏻

[@AdamEzraOfficial]

Hey man thanks for the videos!! I was mentored by a Mastering Engineer. I was taught to master looking at RMS and to forget about LUFS. LUFS is perceived loudness while RMS is true volume.

[@danielecherivel7831]

Can you elaborate a bit more on how to monitor RMS levels?

[@AdamEzraOfficial]

@@danielecherivel7831 most DAWs come with “metering” plugins that show you the LUFS and RMS. If not pick up a 3rd party plug-in that does. RMS is the old school metering, but it might be worth your time mastering in LUFS since the industry is changing its practices. For LUFS mastering you want your target to be around -8 to -9 LUFS at peak energy the RMS should be around -10 or -12 if the stereo perceived is good, so yeah you are looking at that range for RMS. If the mix is good and the stereo field is lovely spread your LUFS will be a -3 DB difference usually. LUFS was developed to combat the loudness wars with the -14 LUFS but none of the professional engineers adapted it. All the top 20 tracks masters in the charts are ranging from -5 to -9 LUFS at peak energy. So do what the pro engineers do, not what Spotify or KZbinrs recommend. Spotify will level it out anyway. However if you master the -14 LUFS that’s when the problems occurs, it’s a quiet master and there is an option on Spotify to turn normalisation off to hear the true master. So let’s say you are listening to Justin Bieber and his master is -6LUFS ( which one of his masters actually is). Then you flick to yours at -14 LUFS, it will just sound bad and people would need to reach for the volume or just skip your song. How long does it take for a listener to listen before the stream counts? See what I mean? Hope this helps.

[@chateautemp]

'Livin' in a paradise..' is now in my head. I see what you did there. :)

[@EDMTips]

😎

[@chateautemp]

@@EDMTips Still using the Black Rooster Pultec?

[@nickfarrant9581]

Getting back in to producing and finding my way again these tutorials are brilliant many thanks for sharing

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, Nick, glad you found them helpful! Anything else in particular you’re struggling with and would like me to cover on the channel?

[@adammason1587]

Will droping gold as per usual. Mr. Midas Touch himself.

[@sandwich-breath]

I dunno about this one, there are a lot of problems with the info being shared.

[@ricobonimusic]

Very nice tutorial, thank you.

[@marciojunior9266]

Thank you so much Will!! You're the best!!

[@EDMTips]

You're the best!

[@sumofdem]

I just made my best master ever, with the help of this video. THANK YOU!🙏🔥 Best teacher out there.

[@EDMTips]

Hell yeah! Stoked to hear that :)

[@ChudinSound]

@@EDMTips Never Hell, Just Heaven

[@ChudinSound]

@@EDMTips Nice Video man... Follow Jesus Christ he is a way .

[@robdollah2114]

What about a transient shaper? Thanks a lot

[@DjAli652]

شكرٱ ويل .. أنا أحترم عقلك يا رجل كل الحب لك من ليبيا ❤

[@EDMTips]

Appreciate it! 🙌🙏Thanks for watching and supporting 🙂

[@theshakez]

One of your finest tuts sir!! 👌👌👌

[@EDMTips]

Thank you! Glad you found it useful :) anything else you’d like to see me cover?

[@EDMTips]

Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed it! 🙌🏻

[@theshakez]

@@EDMTips To be honest Will you've got it all boxed off...cant think of anything sir lol. 👍👍👍

[@maddenfootballtalk6544]

Excellent tips. Alot to take in and things to keep in mind.

[@EDMTips]

Absolutely! I am glad you found this helpful 🙌🏻 Thanks for watching and supporting 🙂

[@alban6101]

Well done Sir ! A good video here ! I have to admit that all is here ... Good tips and tools, what, when, why ? ...Thanks

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, glad you found it helpful! 🙂 Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙌🏻

[@jaysundj]

A "shortcut" way to master your tracks is to throw on a Linear Phase EQ on the Master. Roll off everything under 30Hz, make a 2-3db boost at around 2500-3000Hz, then add a 4-5db gain at everything over 8000Hz. This will give your track a lot more clarity from the get go.

[@reubenbyars455]

Can you simplify that in Ableton terms? 🙂

[@EDMTips]

Love it! Great tip 🤙

[@mageprometheus]

Thanks Will. As a God Mode sound designer and producer I don't ever need to mix or master my perfect tracks. Mage! Mage, wake up! You're dreaming. 😄

[@EDMTips]

😁 Don’t miss up on mastering, Mage!

[@sandwich-breath]

Way to make it all about you. Lame.

[@vladimircerovic]

This is epic content. Needed this info so bad!

[@EDMTips]

That's great to hear, and I am glad you found it useful :)

[@manuelmparis]

Thank you so much, Will. Your content is pure gold!

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, glad it was helpful! Anything else in particular you’re struggling with and would like me to cover on the channel?

[@scottlarock7924]

Stop. Thank you so much for reminding me about that 808 State song. A thousand likes.

[@russellnashsynth]

Thanks for that Bark of Dog recommendation; I'm going to give that a shot!

[@EDMTips]

Go for it, Russell! It's a great plugin 🙌🏻

[@iconicmusic4459]

Best channel on KZbin and that’s a fact, could you show us a video on how to make a full piano house track with just one hook vocal ? Like stuttered effects and chops, cheers

[@flipsyder]

absolutely amazing info

[@EDMTips]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! Any point in particular you found useful?

[@flipsyder]

I think I liked the information the most, the part about adding warmth to the tracks and that mastering is very intensive 😮

[@Gregory637]

Learned a ton! Thanks

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful! 🙂

[@1loveMusic2003]

Great advice in this video

[@EDMTips]

Awesome! Glad it was helpful! 🙂🙌🏻

[@FurkanTopal]

May I ask what did you volume down the mastered track at 6:33 to -12 db and then changed to -10db while your unmastered track is peaking to only -7db? How will we understand if we are doing right like this?

[@v_guck]

Hello Will. Happy New Year! Great Video. I used that mastering chain on my latest track and it worked fine. Thanks a lot.

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, glad it was helpful! 🙂🙌🏻

[@Ilddans13]

Amazing! I am so grateful I found you! Thank you for sharing all this gold so generously and passionately!

[@ztothepunk]

Saved. Hopefully this applies to non edm as well.

[@EDMTips]

Indeed it does! Try it on your track and let me know how it goes :)

[@VentureNW]

Thanks Will. I had a similar chain and found that things are a bit easier to keep most of this inside of the full Ozone 10 chain.

[@robin_miller_music]

Really great video on mastering, thanks Will

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, Robin, glad it was helpful! 🙌🏻

[@robin_miller_music]

@@EDMTips Question, how do you get both SPAN windows open at the same time? When I do it, as soon as I click on the other track to open its SPAN window the first one automatically closes. I don't know how you get both open at the same time?? (Yes, I'm on Ableton)

[@robin_miller_music]

@@EDMTips Or I could have just Googled before asking, ha ha!! For anyone else who comes here with the same question it's Preferences > Plug-ins > Auto-Hide Plug-in Windows = Off

[@tnc7004]

Great video! So useful!

[@EDMTips]

Glad you liked!

[@gabriyels]

You've just showed amazing process full of details, so useful to learn, thank you!

[@hanswurst737]

Amen brother, these tutorials are so so good and helpful. One question though: Should the reference track be in the same key as your own track? Because otherwise I think it is not that wise to compare exact frequencies down to the Hz. A track that has a bassline in C will of course have a lower frequency bassline than a track in G.

[@EDMTips]

Thank you for watching and supporting the channel, Hans! 🙌🏻

[@EDMTips]

Well, ideally, but the style will be more important than the key

[@projectnitefall8058]

if your going the route with the seinheisers id recommend getting peace as its free and they have eq curves for the 650s. thats what ive been using as a free option.

[@StormbreakerYT]

Soothe 2 is best way to get an anti annoying sound . Dynamically reducing the 3-4k frequencies makes your track sound less harsh and more smooth without lacking there . Also Tonal Balance Control helps me to make sure I have enough lows,mids,highs . Sometimes my tracks have waaaay to much highs and really quite bass . I only use eq and a limiter and those two plugins for mastering . No compression , no saturation, no Ozone 9 or 10 . And it always sounds completely dynamic, aggressive yet smooth and I peak around -5 to -6 LUFS . Perfect

[@ivomatos336]

Excellent tutorial! thanks again! :)

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome! 🙂

[@dennisverez-i8x]

You can actually put your master and reference with different colours in the same window in SPAN, taling about making it easy.

[@EDMTips]

Great tip, Dennis! 🙌🏻

[@themoslife]

incredibly helpful, thank you!

[@EDMTips]

Rock on! You're welcome! 🙂

[@yomoney2871]

Been watching your videos on mixing and mastering and i got way better in one week!!! You the Man💪💪💪💪

[@EDMTips]

Awesome! You’re welcome :)

[@jweezy93]

Great content 👏

[@EDMTips]

Thank you 🙌 Really appreciate the support!

[@GarethRees-y8e]

Awesome video

[@EDMTips]

Thank you, glad you found it helpful! 🙂

[@amaninthehighcastle7027]

Can you please make a video for us about multiband compression? I think that`d be amazing

[@EDMTips]

Great suggestion, I will add it to my to-do list! 🙂🙌🏻

[@amaninthehighcastle7027]

@@EDMTips Cheers Will , I'm 100% many people will much appreciate it as one of the most complicated topic and you always show us everything well depth but simple and clear, thank you for everything 🙏

[@kiwanoish]

Nice video, thanks! Would someone please tell me why all this tips and talk everywhere about leaving headroom; -6db; etc, if all you have to do is just turn the track down with one knob before mastering?

[@jakobkr9508]

Thank you edm tips

[@Endless_Skyway_Adventures]

The part you left out of your Spotify “hack” is that if your breaks are too low in volume the don’t contribute to the integrated LUFS. So if you want your “hack” to work the low volume song sections should be within 6 or 7 db of the loudest sections, that way they contribute to the integrated LUFS calculation.

[@laserjakk3629]

On the Limiter, you didnt touch the output. I saw some producers using -0.3db at output. They said, when the track is downloaded in mp3 tend to raise about 0.3db and it can clip. So, this way you lose a little bit of gain but avoid clipping when someone will buy your track in mp3, like beatport, etc. Can you confirm that?

[@jhm8614]

Amazing video Will, just finished my first full track so timing could not be better! Thank you for all your work

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome and congratulations on finishing the first track! Huge milestone! 🙌🏻

[@wrigleymusic]

One more helpfull tutorial! Thank you so much! BTW, was your reference track in WAV or MP3?

[@EDMTips]

Ideally wav, but 320 mp3 is fine

[@Neek-VII]

Ty man helped alot.

[@EDMTips]

You’re welcome! Glad you found this helpful 🙌🏻

[@juanhincapie7234]

Excellent video! I've learnt a lot from you, thanks a lot! just curious, how could I apply the EQ part if I don't own a fab filter license?

[@micky5237]

Thanks again Will you’re a one man band music making machine - more great tips 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, Micky, I am glad you found it helpful! 🙂🙌🏻

[@aaron_sigma]

Great tutorial Will! Thank u so much!

[@na_der]

Amazingly informative as usual! Thnx a Billion, Will! Q: Now if i hv already used Bark of Dog on the low end bus while mixing (as recommended by u in a previous tutorial). Is it ok to be used again during mastering as u mentioned in this video?

[@G.C.S]

tysm for the info bro !!!

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, glad it was helpful 🙂

[@simonbusshart1463]

Thanks a lot for this awesome video! I'm producing Techno for clubs. Do you have any tips for bass heavy tracks?

[@tannoytube]

Thank you very much. This chain work fine, and is realy clean! less is more. Thank you

[@Steyreon]

Hi Will, thanks so much for your great content! 🎯 What do you think about the Sennheiser HD600?

[@EDMTips]

They are not a bad choice. I prefer HD650 myself.

[@andreafabretti9588]

You have 6-7 db of gain reduction on the limiter. This is a problem? I know many producers who think gain reduction on the limiter has to be a maximum of 3 db. Nice video!

[@rubenrojano78]

Thanks a lot for this video Will, it was amazing 🙏🏻

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it! 🙌🏻

[@amigazo3972]

Your channel and work is insane dude. Thanks a lot for all the good info shared. It would be the channel of my dreams if you used FL Studio 🤭

[@Sniper_T_2x]

It’s the same thing across all daws

[@aagora]

🎹Very helpfull! Thank you! 🎸🎤🎧

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, glad it helps!

[@DiMK_46]

Only one question regarding the Fab Pro L2 output volume: shouldn't it be set to -1db and work as a ceiling ? I am so sure i have missed something in the meantime.

[@adwind3055]

Another great tutorial, Will. Very comprehensive and clearly presented. Thanks!

[@briancase6180]

Quite a good walkthrough, I think. Thanks. One beef: when you said dynamic range at the end, you actually meant dynamics. These are terms of the art for us, and we need to use them correctly.

[@adieproduction]

❤ thanx .. that was really helpful and so well explained

[@flipscopet.v9145]

any other alternatives for the oxford inflator

[@CaspianC]

Thanks for the amazing content. How do you open 2 plug-ins(in your case Span) side by side? For me only on the track which is selected I can see the plug-ins and when I click on the other track the first one disappears. I'm w windows user and Ableton 11. I even tried to keep the plug-in open on my second screen, but still the same. Any advice? Cheers!

[@kowboy1000]

ableton -- live--preferences--plugin--put second last box(auto hide plug in windows) to off.

[@djronancoficial]

hello will, thanks for your awesome content as always, did you have video about true peak limiting? i saw many people saying to stop using truepeak limiter, but its confuse, what is your professional opion about? Thank you!

[@Devilsou]

I was surprised to see Bark of Dog being used considering it's just an EQ with a narrow band, and you got Pro Q and so one quite able to do the same and with even more control (and as quickly)... The rest feels maybe a bit much for mastering (but nothing worrying), like most of pro says, and that's the same for me: the less the better at that stage, one or 2 color eq, one compressor and one limiter you're probably good to go ;) After its music so whatever works in the end :D Amen'

[@rikgreen520]

Hi Will....apart from any EQ and compression processing on your individual tracks....do you do any processing work...eq, compression, saturation, limiting on your master track(2 bus) before you start to master your track completely or leave all of that for the actual mastering of the track.? Thanks.

[@unpluggedaman]

Thanks a lot

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it! 🙌🏻

[@foodstampz]

Excellent needed this

[@musicbyfaint]

Hey Will, isnt it much easier to just upload the -7 LUFS file to spotify and spotify will reduce the loudness to -14 LUFS?

[@NikArcher]

that was useful, thanks :D

[@EDMTips]

Stoked to hear that! Will you try this chain on your next track?

[@NikArcher]

@@EDMTips actually, I'm playing around with it currently :) I don't have every plugin you use, but similar ones and it already sounds better than my previous setup. Less aggressive and I never used a limiter at the end and my glue compressor was also set up the wrong way. I'm just a hobbyist who never is happy with the results, and I am usually just trying to fight my way through with the help of tutorial videos and this time I notice quite a difference that I like :D

[@EDMTips]

Stoked to hear that! 🙌🏻

[@mrgalaxyfamily]

How do you pull up the two tracks to compare span or ozone imager? Every time I switch tracks the other screen disappears

[@EDMTips]

The answer to this is going to be revealed on Tuesday so keep your eyes peeled for that one 😎

[@richrobertsuk]

I'm having problems putting two instances of span side by side, when i open one on my master channel then try to open one on my reference track, the span instance on my master track will minimise!

[@TacoTingles]

Following this video while testing things out for myself was very useful and for the first time I managed to master my track properly ! Thank you soo much :)

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, glad you found it helpful! 🙌🏻

[@JuergenFrey]

Very good tutorial - as always! Thank you very much. And beside this: I really like the demo track. But unfortunately the Vocals are gone in both edits and they were really beautiful. What happend?

[@EDMTips]

Unfortunately They aren’t mine to share….you’ll have to get them from Splice

[@jamesgrant1880]

Great video Will, and useful points, except for the bit about loudness for Spotify, which I'm afraid you've got really wrong. For the Beatport version, you are probably over-limiting (for this subgenre), as 7dB gain reduction is a lot, and is likely to lead to audible artefacts when limiting. On the other hand, for the Spotify version, you are probably under-limiting, which will lead to a spiky and weak-sounding mix when compared to similar tracks. Isn't the whole point of mastering to get your track sounding consistent with other tracks in the subgenre? If you don't believe me, take an SPL meter and measure the loudness of your chosen reference track, 17, both on Spotify (with loudness normalisation disabled in your Spotify settings) and of the Beatport download. The loudness is exactly the same! And yes, I'm using the extended club mix. All Spotify loudness normalisation does for tracks louder than -14 LUFS is turn them down, so they sound the same volume as other tracks (assuming peak loudness is -1dB of course). When you've got 100K+ subscribers I think you have a bit of responsibility to be certain you know what you're talking about, so I'm disappointed to see this on what often is a very helpful channel full of great content. I hope you take this constructively. Cheers.

[@sandwich-breath]

No disrespect, but the entire video is a gross misrepresentation of mastering.

[@mr.sandman7098]

Yeah the loudness suggestion here seems pretty off... Of course Spotify lowers to -14, but if you submit a track at -14, without limiting it/barely limiting it, it's going to be far quieter than commercial tracks because you're missing the compression the limiter gives which makes the track far more full. They might both still be at "-14" but as shown in the video, the dynamic of the limited version is ~6 which is pretty good, but the dynamic range of the non-limited version is ~12... not good.

[@cooperw2606]

Do you think the software Landr is ok for mastering? I’ve always been unsure about it

[@djdazza2796]

Cheers Will, thanks for your knowledge, experience and passing it on!! I also try and mater through my headphones, it's just something I prefer, The Oxford inflator, is there anything in ableton stock that does a similar job to this, I mean is it like a saturation tool?

[@krzysztofmajrowski102]

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[@JulianFAK]

Hi, one question, why when he uses the limiter L2 he put it to sound to 7 LUFS but the signal in red in the plugin is distorsión? Isnt it a lot for the limiter? Dont sound muddy?

[@TheBinaryWolf]

I created a customized Linn drum kit, using various LUF meters to obtain a balance in playback volume of each instrument sample. The results were consistently unreliable and unacceptable. Only by making incremental adjustments to the samples during the mixing phase was I able to avoid the sidestick from "cutting" through, the Hi-hat from getting buried and the toms from disappearing in a fill. Maybe I am overlooking something. So I'm hoping you will offer a tutorial on how to use a LUF meter, such as to achieve balance in volume of a drum set because a crossstick will sound a lot louder than a snare when indicated as equally loud by the software.

[@maus3454]

I recently switched to Izotope Ozone 10; this does all of this automatically, especially when using a reference track

[@AllmedialabNl]

No it doesn't, but it can give you a indication of the frequency range and other parameters that you have to adjust your self!