Polishing Your Mix with K Metering - K System Metering Explained

[@DetlefRecktenwald-Healing]

Hi Freddie, I installed this plugin and followed your advice. Awesome!!!. Thank you again I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge

[@DistinctMastering]

Glad it helped!

[@photicsonar]

Danke!

[@DistinctMastering]

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[@photicsonar]

@@DistinctMastering This Video is simply mindblowing. I was searching for a good and well explained gain staging video with the K-Scale and you nailed it. Straight to the point and comprehensible. Keep up the fantastic work and have some joyful x-mas days.

[@thomasyoung5680]

Thank you for clearing a lot up for me.

[@DistinctMastering]

You are so welcome

[@MoveTrueRecords_]

Just heard about this. NEW SUB

[@DistinctMastering]

Thank you!

[@manykzdj792]

Thanks

[@DistinctMastering]

You're welcome!

[@manykzdj792]

Should I gain stage like that trap beats too?

[@DistinctMastering]

This trick can work for any mix or genre! Its a metering scale system.

[@manykzdj792]

thanks, Freddy which affordable subwoofer would u recommend to pair with "PMC result 6" speakers, for small bedroom studio, really need and advice from a professional engineer like u, thank u so much for your videos, valuable information, your channel will grow!!!@@DistinctMastering

[@HANGTYME]

i gotta try this.

[@DistinctMastering]

It’s an amazing trick

[@MurdaMetz]

Did you set all the levels peaks to 0 = -14 on k meter ?

[@DistinctMastering]

Yes

[@gurmeetbajaj7763]

sir i cannot understand about k metering what is work of k metering

[@DistinctMastering]

To even out your sounds/samples and build in headroom

[@igorkhomenko2508]

For all the practical purposes how is it more advantageous than gain staging to VU Meters? I don't think K metering system is about gain staging,. It helps set dynamics level of the whole composition. And the levels of the K metering are suggested for different genres.

[@DistinctMastering]

VU meters behave like logarithmic hearing. K metering just helps build in head room and gain stage along the way. Whatever you please is best, however for producers like myself that use lots of different samples K Metering can help adjust them all to one balanced level before mixing. If you're recording live instruments you're likely already doing this on the way in. I would not substitute K metering over VU meters I would use both if you prefer.