Man, I've seen a bunch of great mix/mastering videos over the years - but never one that's blown my mind, like this.

I Mouth De-Click every vocal track in my session when mixing. I don't know how anyone lives without it. Total life saver 💯

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Bang on!

Gosh. This is one of the few channels where almost every video is a game changer for me . I recently upgraded to rx 10 based on intuition, and you just showing me why. So greatful you willing to share your knowledge Nicholas. Thank you

Mate this is gold! The transient clip gain. So simple.

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching man; My pleasure in sharing this!

My first move in RX is checking and resolving phase rotation issues, this can often give you, depending on the mix, 2 to 4dB more headroom…

@yaaseensadan5936

25 күн бұрын

How do you do this?

@murraywebster1228

24 күн бұрын

Phase Check Module

The insights on using this tool to focus on low- and high-frequency amplitude detail is probably the most effective way I have seen to approaching re-balancing a bad mix in mastering. Adjusting the amplitude range to visually isolate the bass, kick, and snare to assess their relative energy and bandwidth has made improving these relationships with EQ lightning quick, as there is no more need for sweeping around to find the fundamentals and the Q. In addition to that, being able to make a few rough EQ moves in the app and rendering it out to see how the moves have actually affected the energy provides the insight you need to start making those corrections with your ears in the actual mastering phase. Brilliant; thank you.

Ok… I guess I need to watch these videos multiple times because it’s all coming back to me now. I was pre occupied with the low end attenuation thing and the phase discussion we had in the comments I forget you went over it so clearly in the begging of this one. I think its a good thing to do for mix prep because it’s not hurting anything and regardless of how effective it may be on some material it’s good practice to prioritize quality like that. Bravo!

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Thanks again for watching; and YES! it's these 1%er's built up across the way which make a big difference;

Likely my favourite video of yours so far. Some really smart, pragmatic stuff here. Thanks for sharing in such a clear and concise manner. Great examples! Much appreciated Nicholas.

What an awesome walk through on the use of RX in mastering! I would love to see you go through the uses of other tools in the RX suite. I have a hard time finding useful tutorials for practical scenarios, but you absolutely nailed this and made it super useful!

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Great suggestion! I wish I could; but the reality is I rarely use the rest of the suite unless it's an absolute bender of an issue with the material; Appreciate you watching!

Thank you KZread gods for sending me this, and THANK YOU Panorama MixMaster for putting up this video. I already did all that on occasion and without adjusting the spectogram, but touching up the bass and sibilance with them settings is just a walk in the park, I'll keep running my chains as is and just prepping files this way, relaxing everything that can be relaxed. Just more done with targeted processing, less is more, more is more, I don't know where this workflow fits in but it is awesome!

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Awesome; welcome to the channel glad you found this vid!

Damn. This changed my mind about rx completely.. mind blown. From now on i'm doing this. Thank you

So awesome man. Hats off to you for sharing.

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a ton!

Excellent vid. Very helpful - especially concerning crest factor. Thanks.

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate!

Nice one! lots of great techniques there, thanks for sharing.

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!

Another thing I check and often fix on RX before getting down to mastering is phase rotation. The amount of songs, specially those heavy on synths, have so much DC offset killing your headroom and sometimes adding distortion when you pass it through analog gear. Great video!

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Yeap! Definitely when it's a big issue I'm using this feature too; however I need to look more into it; as there are some instruments like horns, trumpets which have naturally occurring asymmetric wave-forms, and I want to do some blind A/B's on this material to see if it negatively impacts the sonics at all;

@Limit5482

Жыл бұрын

@@panorama_mastering it does compromise some aspects of the audio but I'm not sure exactly when and how but it has happened to me many times and I stopped using it unless it aimlessly

Amazing workflow and tips!

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it! Thanks for watching ! :D

This is solid gold. I never thought to use RX for Mastering; I'll add some of these concepts to my workflow when necessary!

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Enjoy!

This is truly excellent. Thank you for sharing this video, very insightful. 👏

@panorama_mastering

6 ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

This is awesome stuff. Thanks man

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! My pleasure!

Thanks for this. Very useful stuff for RX. I do music, not dialog, so this is very helpful.

Awesome! I was just jonesin’ for some technical mastering videos.

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed it!

You are the best!

Thanks For the video

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Hello, Cool video. I am having trouble understanding how -16 - .02 = 6.2. Can you please explain what I am missing? If the crest factor is equal to the integrated minus the peak wouldn't that be .02+16=16.2?

Very interesting! Have you seens the spectral clipper by newfangled audio, called saturate? It essentially clips things but keeps the detail to avoid those flat tops that traditional clipping causes. I'm wondering if I could set it to clip like 2-3db db of gain at most before my master chain and have effectivly the same thing as you did in RX here. Some food for thought, if u ever make a video on the subject I would 100% watch it.

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Interesting; definitely open to considering this!!

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Also; thanks for watching!

My computer is shitting the bed with those spectrogram settings. Trying to use the De-ess technique outlined here. For some reason every time I print my master and reference it on other speakers the sibilance in particular spots is a noticeable issue. Really weird because sometimes I will de-ess two or three times throughout my vocal chain. If I push it any further it messes with the ess sound, and I can't typically notice the issues on my ATH-M50x's. So frustrating...

oh, my godless ... nice Shot for a mind

Great tips. What happens when you’ve done all your work in audio editor and then the artist wants to swap out the mix 😅😅😅

Can you elaborate please how that +3dB of 63 to 150Hz in RX rendered differs to boosting 3dB with EQ during mastering? Thanks! Very nice video I just got the whole Production bundle at sale price from Izotope containing Ozone Advanced and RX and all that juicy stuff 🙂

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

I'm going to be updating the RX workflow tips!

@danielkisel5661

Жыл бұрын

@@panorama_mastering okay looking forward to that!

Awesome! A couple things that could be helpful - The "Instant Process" option can make those gain reductions by selection a little faster. Low End Focus in Ozone is similar to what you're doing to the kick. It has a "contrast" parameter that boosts the prominent bass information (kick and bass) while reducing the less prominent information (mud and noise). It's inspired by the spectrogram and the way image editors can apply contrast to an image.

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! That's interesting; we'll have to jump on a call to compare; as I was specifically comparing low-end focus to this technique yesterday in session;

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

P.s I just realised what you were refering to with the instant process option; I actually don't use that as I prefer to get a new read out of the selected region to decide whether or not to attenuate one channel or both;

Hi master!! Your Crest Factor Caculation was 6.2. How did you calculate that? I’m using your values in different calculators for this matter and no one came out any close to 6.2 ….. Thanks in advance

I’m curious.. when you use RX the way you did with the selective frequency gain on the kick drum it’s very similar to how an EQ works. Do you happen to know what sort of effect that has on phase? Does it alter the phase the same way as normal eq does or is it more like linear phase in that sense?

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Hey David; I'll be honest I'm not completely sure; I've actually in other circumstances flipped the phase of the original mix against an edited one; and it cleanly blocks out where I made that boost and attenuation (Probably should have included that in this video in hindsight) I'll look more into this now though; because I too am curious; warmly,, N.

@davidasher22

Жыл бұрын

oh.. ok. So the signal completely nulled? Or you mean you only heard the gain adjustment? I should do some tests myself. I’ll let you know if I figure out anything substantial.

@davidasher22

Жыл бұрын

@ N. Also, just a reminder.. I love this channel! I share a similar affinity for all things audio. I started blind testing myself last year (using the same Hofa 4u+ software actually lol). And it’s been humbling to say the least. But it’s also been eye opening or should I say “ear” opening. 🙈🃏. Anyway, keep up the awesomeness.

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Not nulled; but the flipped signal showed an identical "SQUARE"/CUT OUT of what I highlighted on the spectogram in inverse!

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Thanks as well for the love! Appreciate it!

11:40. Holy crap! The song is made out of giraffes..

@murraywebster1228

4 ай бұрын

🤭🤭🤭

As for this sibilance it wasn't a problem in the first place so edited sounded unnatural, but nice tip if there was a problem

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

It's definitely a handy trick! Thanks for dropping by!

Is it possible to know the title and artist of the song? Thanks.😊

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Daniel Tonik - On My Skin!

Do you ever alter the phase rotation with RX? I started doing that after i saw Bob Ludwig demonstrate it in a video. It can usually buy you 0.5 of headroom, simply by evening out the phase rotation. The sound doesn't change at all but the meter readings do. Pretty crazy Edit: Sorry it wasn't Bob Ludwig, it was John Mayfield: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hamNqLmeiNiroqw.html

@panorama_mastering

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I've seen this; when I have particularly problematic symmetry in a mix I will; However the verdict is out on this; reason being, some instruments produce naturally assymetric wave forms (Horns for example) Other engineers (Bob Katz) have said they won't do this on every master blindly because for asymmetric waveforms from instruments like horns it can change the tone; My take? I can't confirm neither deny this is a good idea based on experience, because I'm yet to do my own blind testing to see if this is a worthwhile technique to expore!