Ok, several people started comparing this with Dan's video - a video that I was totally unaware of (so thanks for sharing this- I love Dan's videos!). However, I would suggest you watch the video before jumping into conclusions. Even from the first minute you will realize this has NOTHING to do with Dan's video. It's about me sharing my experience of working in the music business for over 20 years- and how I navigated the loudness wars when you *DID* need to make things insanely loud. This was *before* KZread and *before* even LUFS were a thing. We were talking RMS levels back then. And you needed to be loud if you wanted to make a living as a mastering/mixing engineer and producer. So please, before commenting without watching the video at all, watch first and you will realize this is not a relevant video to Dan's. But the title is still relevant. Lots of love, Dom

@reziahamed6654

9 ай бұрын

We do LOVE YOU & Dan both the same way Dom... Dom or Dan... Just the best in business... So....Screw the obnoxious freaking comments from the poor newbies....🤓👍👍🥇

@jason.martin

9 ай бұрын

Who is Dan? but my real quesiton is how did you cycle through the colours on your shirt? :)

I've been in the audio industry for over 20yrs, albeit in a remote area of Canada, but still... I've never known about this plugin!!! And none of my Nashville, Vancouver, L.A. or Vegas friends ever mentioned it either...Thanks so much for pulling back the curtain on these specialized secrets and giving a leg up to the rest of us!

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

I’m not surprised! Back then when I was stun under NDA’s, I realized many people knew about it but would avoid telling others.

Love the color shift on the Tee along with all your audio tips! You're an inspiration to me and I would think the rest of the Cubase community. Thank you!

Excellent demo and very good soundtrack!!👍👍👍

Love how your t-shirt changed colours haha! Invisible Limiter is quite good!

Thank you Dom. That was once again a great video..

Bro im tripping with your T-shirt! 😂😂 Thanks for sharing this btw

Thank you for sharing your love for the Invisible Limiter! I know it will be a good one to have in the arsenal when needed, so that's just been added to my list! That was a fantastic demo of it Dom. And btw - I didn't get the tshirt, but I did get the matching mug because sometimes, it's got to be analogue! 😃👍

Thx for sharing Dom

The original AOM Invisible limiter was a close kept secret for a long time, I remember also seeing it in an Armin Van Buren session in one of this production courses a couple of years back...

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

Very well kept secret. Everybody back then was suggesting Elephant and some other limiters. I honestly believe that people were trying to mislead people because the loudness wars were so aggressive. Also, Invisible required a bit of research in order to get the most out of it so some people would not get past the ugly GUI :)

Totaly agree.. good point of view sharing is caring! Thanks for the advice i´ll try it out 🙏🏼

Thanks for the video, it is an amazing plugin, I’m using it since 2013🔥

Great video, thanx for sharing your expertise (again)!

As someone else wrote, I'm sad to report that Dan Worral still holds the crown. Still, I'm excited for the video, as I'm sure I can learn something here (this comment was written before the video premiered)

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

The video is not about LUFS at all ;) I share my real-world experience when LUFS were not even a thing and people wanted masters as loud as possible. In my opinion going for extreme loudness this days is a moot point. Just wait for the video to be out ;)

@Schaddn

9 ай бұрын

​@@DomSigalas Invisible Limiter is amazing, it retained quite a lot of dynamics and still squashes everything nicely with a healthy crunch. Since I'm on the younger side, this insight into how things were back then was really interesting. I'm glad to have you as my Cubase teacher these days :)

@user-ki9hq5yf5s

9 ай бұрын

sooo... is that what the cool kids do these days, comment on a video before watching it?

Amazing hue cycle in your TShirt!!

Your t-shirt changing color the first time, had me tripping 😂 Awesome video and awesome stories!

You are telling my story as well. Just because of the history I share with A.O.M. Invisible Limiter G2, it will stay my favorite limiter forever! Thank you for sharing.

Love this video, it would be nice to maybe a 20 min or so demo video on how to use all the features of the limiter on a live mix?!! great work! :)

Welcome to M1! Love it.

So nice advices but how beautiful songs also you are working on / worked...!

Thanks Dom! I don't know how much you earn from your channel, however I notice that your passion for music production comes out in each video of yours (maybe I should use a translator... sorry for my english...)

Thanks, Dom! These plugins are fantastic tools. Creating a melody, crafting lyrics, and producing great music with 100% amazing instrument support is the most challenging part for song and music producers. If a track gets over 50 million clicks, then you're in the game. 😊 Currently about 150.000 new music tracks are released on YT alone per month.. A lot stuff needs to be mixed and mastered. 👍

During the same period when everyone turned to the L2, I easily got much better results with the Steinberg stock Maximizer.

@PierluigiCarrozzi

9 ай бұрын

Cubase Stock Maximizer is a very good and underrated plug-in, indeed

Thanks Dom, my new best tool

Yea, in the forums nobody would talk about this plugin; but now since it doesn't matter anymore because of streaming qualifications, I'm going to let you in on the secret. Thanks, Dom.

I'm still a fan of the Brainworx bx_XL V2 Limiter. It's so old and so basic, but really easy to get great sounding results. It's nice that you can control the M/S image at the same time. Great video!

@nicolasfromk-town9333

5 ай бұрын

Brainworx masterdesk thrue peak is good to.

Your shirt keeps changing colors and is freaking me out! Lol awesome video tho and thanks for the great plug-in awareness! Much respect for you!

Lol love the T-shirt . Love the video innovations you do

Excellent info and demo, thanks. The Invisible Limiter sounds very clean despite the clip mode and super high input levels. I don't have it yet, as I've never heard of it. For now, what I'm doing is clipping followed by a brick wall limiter, with the LVC Clipped-MAX into the Venomode Maximal 3. I like to ride the fence on having some dynamics and somewhat loud. Nice color changing shirt too.

This guy got a great spirit

Thank you very much !

Thanks you so much ❤

thank you Dom

I'm more interested in your colour changing t-shirt Dom!

The mastering chain in the "loudness wars" days 😀, the crazy ways to obtain updated information 10-15 years ago, so so true in hurts :) As a sound designer for 2 decades, this video really made me smile and remember the victorious feeling and satisfaction once I found my ultimate output plugin/s that really "did the job" and enabled the desired RMS on a song or soundtrack without squashing the mix. I had a very similar experience with my growing clients community once I won the loudness wars, so maybe it is true to say that you should never compromise on your mastering and always aspire to improve your sound methods. 🎸 Cheers Dom!

I like that you're gain staging right your shirt . Nice shirt btw

Thank You!

The fact that he's showing it on a raw mix is crazy... sounds dope!

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

Exactly-which is never something you should do in real life!

Thanks you so much

I agree. Best Limiter on the market

...no resistance..no question...just be all right..!!!

Love you Dom, screw the haters bro !

It’s really funny, I’ve used this plug-in many times and long before I had any idea what i was doing. I was able to get some really quiet recordings/ samples up to some usable levels that I couldn’t get on any other plugin. It’s cool to see that I wasn’t crazy in tinkering around with this thing:)

Thank you 🦇👌❤️

I second that.this Limiter is very very good .most modern limiters distort everything where A.O.m INVISIBLE Limiter still sounds transparent and clear !Must have for any Metal maniac !

Thanks Sir

Thanks a lot!!!!!!

I'd forgotten about this one???..........I had an early version on an old computer. I need to look into it again........thanks for the reminder, it's really impressive! 😉👍

A.O.M Limiter makes me think of the "Don't look back" album from Boston...I just love the saturated sound they killed in the follow up million selling album "Third Stage"...

I too liked invisible limiter from the get go. It has a really clipperish vibe.

nice story, thanks Dom, so would you suggest using invisible limiter before another true peak limiter as Pro L2?

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

Yes, do the major work when it comes to limiting with IL and then top it off with true peak limiting and squeeze 1-2 db more with ProL2 it’s a very good combo!

Bettermaker Mastering Limiter 2.0 is also worth looking at it because of the many extra features it has. Hardware clipper, overtone generator, Mid Boost (to soften mids) etc.

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

Yes I want to get this one for my analog mastering chain!

Thank you very much, I have also used the Stealth Limiter from IK Multimedia very loud and extremely clean, although it didnt exist at the period of AOM Invisible limiter. there is also FG X froma slate extremely trasnparent is loud and clean, I came to look if there is something ne and better than the old ones.

i like the colour changing t shirt effect

Thank you for the info. I use KClip3 is powerful also ASH from Acustica

You're the best! Btw back in the day I was working as a high-end audio developer and we were devel plug-ins for the digital 8 bus and I got one of the early versions of auto-tune, it was trippy and kind of crappy. Lol 98-99.

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

Yes it was this ugly green colour wasn’t it? And the mic modeller plug-in! Aaaahhhh!

the changing colors tshirt got me tripping haha The Loudest master I ever heard is coming from Donny & Katharsys - Panic EP. it has some insane values, it hits at some point the -0.9LUFS mark :o The whole process is not only the last limiting stage but the entire process that make the production super loud. But damn, so impressive technically.

Dan Worral won it fair and square from a purely technical position, although his track was pretty banging too 😉

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

What is everyone talking about? Can you point me to Dan’s video? I love his content!

@chrisibbetson

9 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pZN1sKeKpZiypNI.html @@DomSigalas

@R3myBoyMixMastering

9 ай бұрын

@@DomSigalas kzread.info/dash/bejne/pZN1sKeKpZiypNI.html

@ephjaymusic

9 ай бұрын

​@@DomSigalasnot sure if you could see the link?

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

Name of the video would be cool! I’m interested :)

14:20 - which Limiter would you use for Solo-Piano ? Can´t find many Tutorials about Mastering Solo-Pianos (VST) ! Thx, Dom, for your great character and your really great Vids !!! Ben

I love the Smart:Limit from Sonible

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

It’s pretty amazing indeed!

Aah yes, the L2! Everyone was using it. I didn't master but for roughs i was using the oxford inflator. Fun times 😅. Nowadays i'm on a combo of Limitless and L2. Have to try the invisible limiter as well

tshirt changing collors ? BOOM!

by the way I remember those old days , studios, producers, mixers engineers, etc.. almost everybody kept their secrets to their own and even misleading people, maybe one dude shared its thing and everybody was doing it, that info was money-making, those were the days of the selfish, I remember going to studios and some engineer waited til we get outside for a coffee to do its thing on the desk.. terrible days. You have many bad things today but lucky for us theres a better community than it was before. Thanks Dom for being part of that. 🥰

Amazing :)

Loudness is still so important especially in modern metal. If you want aggressive, you need to go loud almost always. Invisible Limiter is a great plugin, I'm glad we have a lot of great options today as well, I even used it on a master this week!

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

100% agree. Loudness is inherent to the sound of certain genres. Try and master -14LUFS for metal and enjoy the recipe for failure 😂

@AlucardXIX

9 ай бұрын

@@DomSigalas yes! There's people pushing -4 LUFS today in metal. Maybe a bit too loud still but yes every genre sounds best at different loudness levels, that's part of why I always hated the "-14LUFS is the standard" talk

Interesting video, I normally use softube's weiss MM-1 for character in combination with ozone for level and true peak but I might have to play with this one. Generally I only need to do a quick and dirty master for mix evaluation by clients but I'm always looking for a better chain.

I noticed that your T-shirt changes colors 😳 but anyway, you are the best as always 👍👍👍 Thanks

1:30 your shirt changed from green to blue , wow!

T shirt means everything !!!

Awesome… the color of your tshirt changes the whole time

Dom, would love to have a comparison between Mac and PC.. doesn't have to be complex.. add any project then import the same into the same project again.. and so on and on.. I think that's realistic and produce honest results.. would be awesome..

I’ll give this a whirl!! I am currently using KClip, Standard Clip or Inflator in clip mode on with Sonnox Limiter 3. I like how Invisible limiter clips! Will be fun to try!!

When you push it...ahhhhhh...I get it. Mush have. Thx.

Invisible Limiter is amazing

I am grateful for the information you give us so generously. I have used many exciting things you taught us in my songs. You should be credited in every song I make. But I don’t do that because I am always learning and making many mistakes. I don’t want anyone to blame you for my mistakes and say “Ouch, that part sounds really bad, did Dom suggest that?” ☺

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

You’re so kind my friend! I wish you the best- and what you do is research and we should always do this. This is also a part of our art and it makes you who you are. Trust me, most people don’t have the patience to watch educational videos they just want things to happen magically! What you do is recipe for success ❤️

Im using Acustica ASH in combination with Ozone 9 Maximizer as final limiter but I am going to try this Invisible Limiter G3. A lot of top mastering engineers like Streaky, Luca Pretolesi and David Gnozzi are recommending use final brick wall limiter with good amount of oversampling but without true peak function enabled - as true peak algorithms somehow smear transients in unpleasant way... Thanks for another great video Dom!

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

I agree- always use your ears! If true peak doesn’t sound good just make sure you don’t have oversample peaks :)

@kelainefes

9 ай бұрын

What if the intersample peaks sound good? 😝@@DomSigalas

Great video. What’s the verdict on the G3 vs G2?

Have you managed to compare it to Sonnox Oxford Limiter? Or even Massenburg's MDW DRC2 :) (I would be really curious to see how these compare!)

I am using this plugin 10 years now 🎉

8:17 from red to green '' its good to be analog '' 👍

I don't know if you noticed but your shirt is changing color all the time ,thats cool ,but the strage thing is the meter gauge on your shirt is changing too and that is really amazing😃 about limiter it helps me on making the low things that were recorded too low to get to a point that balance will be easier

I like what happens to your t-shirt colour 😂

3 minutes 05 . I love the purple:)❤

I like to do it with System 6000/MD4. The sound keep clean and the deep bass is still present. When i use A.O.M, to knok off 1dB. You hear the bass change.

Good episode. Nice chroma key effect. 👌😀

You ended the loudness war, but you casually (re)started the "Mac vs. PC" war. 😂 Dope video as always.

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

Hahaha! If I make a video about this it will start a war that’s why I try not to do it. But seriously, after several tests I was shooting myself in the foot not using the MacBook. It’s extremely powerful 😆

@ephjaymusic

9 ай бұрын

Love your smiler pfp. 😎👊🏻

bro i have headphones on and the fbi open up part scared me so bad lol. i turned around and everything

Hey Dom! you said you're using now a macbook pro. Can you do a stress test on your mac just as you did with your pc. It would be highly helpful to choose with the right one. What's the configuration of your mac system?

Unrelated - I recall you had a video doing a studio tour, but I don't remember you talking about your room treatment in it. Do you have any videos on room treatment & recommendations ? Those panels behind you look really cool.

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

I talk about my treatment in my studio tour video- it’s GIK Acoustics :)

Thanks for sharing. You said not for piano ballads. I mostly do solo piano. And i find it really hard to come to the 14LUFS and sound good on all systems without compensating the feel of the recording. What would you recommend for doing solo piano limiting? Thanks for sharing all your wisdom 🙏🏼

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

Pianos are hard to compress/limit. They are so rich in resonances, overtones and cover a super wide range of frequencies with very percussive midrange. I would suggest first, filtering the sub low end and taming any nasty resonances with dynamic EQ. Then add mild compression in stages and if you have a vocal definitely use sidechain dynamic EQ on the piano on it (watch my video on my no.1 mixing trick- this is the no.1 thing I do with pianos :) ). After this, limit on stages on the master bus. Avoid distortion or saturation plugins. Hope this helps!

@AdrianKuipers

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your ideas Dom. For Piano I now use Soothe2, The Softube Summit Audio Grand Channel and Softube Tape to smoothen things out and then use the God Particle to do some magic and use some Weiss mastering stuff at the end. This works quit well. Thanks again for your enthousiastic videos. Love to see a guy as crazy about music and VST;s as myself. @@DomSigalas

I just saw your t-shirt changing colours at 3:02 😂

I'm interested in getting this. I wonder if I should G3 though? It feels like it might be more versatile, but at the same time it might be overly complicated? Does anyone have G3? Is it worth it? G1 and G2 both look fairly straightforward by comparison.

Also, pls tell if there are like echo bounce fx in Cubase? (not to set the delay for too long instead)

What the f**k is going on with your shirt, it change colour?!? I want it!!😂😂😂

Your shirt was changing colors and I thought I was tripping 😂

BRO THAT FBI CUT JUST GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK, MONITORS FELT TOO REAL FR

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

So sorry man!!!

@guidokamper8005

9 ай бұрын

My heart still at 180bpm! damn, don't listen to that video with headphones!!

Dumb question, but how does one demo this? I can't find a link to a demo or trial on the manufacturer page! Thanks for an awesome video Dom : )

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

There is a demo on their website :)

Hi Dom, curious about which limiter you use now? and why? :D

Thanks for sharing! Did you know they have version 3 out there?

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

Yes I say it on the video, but I haven’t had time to try it :)

@martijnvandongen6713

9 ай бұрын

@@DomSigalas ah no worries :) Just wanted to give you a heads up.

Dom what would you use for piano ballads as a limiter ? just curious now that you said it wont work well with pianos

@DomSigalas

9 ай бұрын

Pianos are hard to compress/limit. They are so rich in resonances, overtones and cover a super wide range of frequencies with very percussive midrange. I would suggest first, filtering the sub low end as much as required and taming any nasty resonances with dynamic EQ. Then add mild compression in stages and if you have a vocal definitely use sidechain dynamic EQ on the piano on it (watch my video on my no.1 mixing trick- this is the no.1 thing I do with pianos :) ). After this, limit on stages on the master bus. Avoid distortion or saturation plugins. Hope this helps!

@SuperMax_____0.0_____

9 ай бұрын

@@DomSigalas It does Dom, your guiding through audio sea where you can get lost pretty easy is top notch thanks for taking the time to write and help 🙏