How to Master a Dance Track - Tips and techniques (FFL!)

[@DjHousefromChicago]

Amazing how clear the music & him speaking sound together. Like being in front on a well equalized sound system talking to someone with no ear ache. 👍thank you for sharing God bless!

[@Spooki_]

Anyone else see the irony of the audio being out of sync for a video that is about audio mixing? 😅

[@mb3official]

Most of the current hiphop, trap and rap music on KZbin is at -9 LUFS(i) and on iTunes is at - 12 LUFS(i), measured through the entire length of the song using iZotope Ozone 7 as well as Logic Pro X stock metering plugin. The momentary and short-term LUFS levels frequently peak at -7 or -8, thereby indicating that masters are still being made loud, irrespective. AND that respective streaming services are NOT normalizing loud masters to the LUFS(i) levels mentioned in this video.

[@NoQualmsTheArtist]

This feature is turned on or off in your settings. But default it is usually turned on. Nobody masters songs at different levels for different services. You master 1 good loud ish version for all services. Maybe a separate one for vinyl.

[@ivangeorge4478]

"Your loudness mostly depends on the mixing process" . That's just mind-blowing

[@briancase6180]

He means the *potential* to be loud depends on the quality of the mix. If your mix has a high crest factor, the final achievable loudness will be lower than it would be if your mix has a lower crest factor. There aren't many meters that show crest factor, but SPAN and the dpMeter do; there are probably others.

[@ARadicalCut]

I would even add that it starts at the arrangement and sound creation / selection process. Dont layer sounds with pronounced transients atop of each other for example.

[@michaelmilano4457]

true story bro! it s all about the mix (little secret: use saturation and/or clipper!)

[@foljs5858]

Well, many believe you loudness is all about putting a limiter on heavy duty during the mastering process...

[@phantom_him]

That's actually one of the most important points to make. Just because you know it doesn't mean everyone does brah.

[@annother3350]

As well as two bars at the start i recommend two at the end too!!

[@tsasproject]

Great! I've seen a couple other videos with Anthony Chapman, and I think he explains really well whats going on in each mastering process. Thumbs up!

[@sevsmith2476]

such a humble guy👍

[@Frequen-Z]

seriously awesome. much appreciated.

[@alveek]

Nice pajamas! And really great video.

[@pointblankmusicschool]

Why thank you :)

[@playagibson]

Alvee K. E

[@briancase6180]

This a really good instructional video; thanks! Was it just me or did anyone else notice that when he solo'd the side, it was more mono, and when he solo'd the mid, it was more stereo?

[@alexjosh1257]

That was gold! Thank you for "sharing" your experience.

[@willievaughn6474]

Awesome thank you

[@Skimatik_DnB]

I can’t believe how hard he is using the black box lol 😂 I also use it from time to time on my masters , but I main,y use it in my mixes 🙌 absolutely love the black box 💚 thanks for sharing ✌️💚☯️

[@aZeee]

Looks like he has the mix knob turned almost all the way down tho, so driving it hard and putting a tiny bit of it in parallel to the dry signal.

[@xguidosan]

really nice house track!

[@mb3official]

The brainworx equalizer (v3) for some reason makes the phase shift sound very obvious when you enable "make mono" option. On a side note, I have found that iZotope Mid Side eq found in Ozone and Neutron does a better job and you can re-create the bass shift and presence shift manually in both Ozone and Neutron.

[@KletoReese]

MB TV Many thanks for this! I'll have to give this a try.

[@stefbetable]

21:32 the Black Box plugin dry/wet is set to 0! How wouldn't you notice?

[@nairodism8072]

yes

[@agiraffe3801]

Lol

[@omt2360]

Really good video thanks! I produce dnb....interesting comment that dnb can be pushed further than 4 to the floor. For obvious reasons I'd love a dnb video

[@Pynner]

Gold Jerry, gold!

[@mtb-schrauber6053]

so interesting content and she only sit there "ye ok" lol? remembers me to school teacher is explaining math and im thinking about icecream :) or maybe she thought all the video: damn these jeans are so tight I want the same

[@mochorocho]

lol @ the comment about grungy top end of analog set ups- I prefer that on dance tunes over the digital hifi sound of modern age.

[@WadeNorris.]

Great stuff

[@midimusician6359]

Nice video!

[@fbforce]

Good one!

[@DomXM]

6:22 !!!

[@wesleyleigh4063]

I just don't get how EQ's could sound different from one another, other then by the slopes used and whether they are linear or non linear. like what really is the difference between the Bx digital EQ shown here and ableton's EQ eight (beside the mono-maker and the single band Dynamic EQ included)?

[@YouTubeSupportTeams]

hype

[@マシュードーラン]

There really isn’t a big difference whatsoever. It comes down to what an EQ is capable of. Some emulate analog better yada yada yada but it’s more in what you’re doing with it

[@colourist]

Great FFL :)

[@TheMerrifreak]

wow, she just stunned me, no more focusing on the quality instructions...

[@nicholasparis5281]

Wow, so if we're loosing some samples with no buffer time before the mix down track... I'd suppose then that the same thing would be true if we were bouncing a single or group of tracks in place then, correct?

[@snorresyvertsenhanisch2284]

can also use imager in ozone I guess, only thing I am scared about imager is the phasing graph there.

[@wowerman]

It would be good to hear processing straight from DAW.

[@ZerHour]

What file format do engineer's require of a mixdown or individual tracks do they require ? I export my tracks as wav usually ,there are many other options to bounce etc ? Individual tracks/sum mixdown etc ?

[@kasparnoe]

I was wondering how much gets cut around 145Hz as you can see in the bx plugin? And why did he do so?

[@robertmint3768]

24:43 nuff said!

[@gabrielstefan7247]

The sound is out of sync with the video

[@bright___clouds]

yeah too bad :( cant watch it like this

[@mimidhof2179]

I see on the bottom of your session 44 khz...! Would you really do mastering process at 44khz...!? Where in mastering it's generaly where we want to have any change keeping as much quality details as possible... or is this just for the purpose of this live event (technical limitation)..?

[@nifela]

*dusts off your comment* Sample rates above 44.1kHz only add the capability to sample/reproduce frequencies above 22.05kHz. 96 or 192 have the same exact replication of a sampled signal between 0 and 22.05kHz as 44.1kHz sample rate. A squarewave might look more appealing or as if it contains more detail with higher sample rates, but this is just due to the overtones beyond 22.05kHz. Your hears work like a low pass filter anyway, so both 182k and 44.1k sample rates hit your ear with exactly the same 0-22.05khZ signal (because everything above ~20k is low pass filtered by your ears anyway, you don't have hair cells that would resonate with higher frequencies). A different topic is using a higher bitrate. This is actually important for production - so use 24bits over 16 bits whenever possible. I hope that helps! If you want to read up on this, search for "digital show and tell" and "24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed" - both hosted on Xiph (.org). Samples are not played back in steps, so most visual representations of a sampled signal are highly misleading.

[@cevahircuma2400]

You totally right, you want to keep the digital artefacts as low as possible, that means in the non-audible range. You could either do that by print your mix in 96kHz and do the mastering in 96kHz, I do that a lot. Or you use 44,1kHz and oversampling, like in this case (have a look at the Pro-MB, uses 4x oversampling). This has nothing to do with nyiquist or having a greater frequency range, this is about digital artefacts from the plug-ins !!

[@Frankie_G_]

dope song too. link it to us if you post it!

[@pointblankmusicschool]

The track is by PB graduate Revilo, out on Point Blank Music: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sILaqqWinMipbNk

[@Frankie_G_]

thanks

[@revilouk9832]

soundcloud.com/revilo_uk

[@wizzack75]

thanks for the video! any need to re eq after saturation - i see some boxes add a decent amt of low end harmonics - is that ok being late in the chain? thanks! :)

[@annother3350]

Yeh but the difference is the AES recommended level says 'minimum'

[@helltitan5670]

Loudness war never ends

[@djmarcatkins01]

So we see you pushing to -9LUFS... what does Anthony Chapman make of this "Spotify Drops Loudness Target to -14 LUFS. What Does This Mean For Producers?" - ask.audio/articles/spotify-drops-loudness-target-to-14-lufs-what-does-this-mean-for-producers

[@1811can]

Abla çok tatlı

[@benno707]

tight jeans is the new trend

[@macrondo5852]

Spotify is -14 LUFs, no?

[@makinenandreas]

Is was -12 before and they have changed to -14. Maybe they did it shortly after they made this or so.

[@dk-cn1tc]

0:23

[@rubricaterecords416]

Collapsed Lung , no ways...

[@mic9check]

Painfully tight jeans

[@MrCasperexpress]

Psssttt Your balls are showing ... BUMBLEBEE TUNA..... BUMBLEBEE TUNA..... -Ace Ventura (Pet Detective)

[@Lostyron]

Death Magnetic by Metallica, -3dB RMS, so damn crushed. Can't believe people still make albums that way, just turn your fu****** volume knob.

[@soundcore183]

s m i l e

[@YoungNino2017]

Does she not have the best profile of any woman ever? I could look at her all day long

[@martinkulik9466]

Ibissa? Haha why ppl say that like that... It's ibiza. We not speaking spanish

[@alexkispal9726]

I am yo lung

[@snorresyvertsenhanisch2284]

why are so many music engineers either bald or chubby hahahaha

[@kelainefes]

Because that's how the average man is. 42% on men experience hair loss and more than that are overweight. Engineers are not hired based on looks or fitness and have sedentary jobs so there you go.

[@frostbitesk]

aah, her hair in the lavalier mic...makes horrible noise...i wouldnt expect this here :)) but good lesson anyway ;)

[@JRKEYS]

Lol Andrew Scheps

[@zenbromley8841]

yeah that made me laugh too. he's proud of it as well

[@nandoblondemobydick5438]

it is not about mastering it is about how to put a clipper then a limiter, no too much to learn from this time wasting video