This is great content right here A key thing that i think hasn't been pointed out here is that Ian was able to make these EQ changes quickly because he had pure objectivity (and experience lol)... meaning, the music was new to him so he had a fresh perspective... it's not as easy to do these subtle EQ moves to your own music because you've already been working on your music for hours/days/weeks/months, and objectivity vanishes fast when you hear the music over and over.... Objectivity is what makes hiring a mastering engineer worthwhile.

And at the end he says thanks for listening, after all that valuable information give in this video. Best video about mastering

@masteringcom

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@WillieMCruz

6 жыл бұрын

Musician on a Mission thank you friend

@WillieMCruz

3 жыл бұрын

@Brady Atlas just get a girlfriend you can trust 😁 And keep making music instead been spaying

@harrisonlanden436

2 жыл бұрын

Instablaster.

8:38 "would you push me, push me to the limit" looooooool

Thank you so much for the info..finally a video that explain "Mastering" in a simple way and without all that "mambo jambo" that others use and make it feel so difficult ...thanks again ..great job ..great info...

@ProductionAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

Glad it's helpful !

Oh man you're the real deal. Just clicked into the vid and stumbled upon your explanation of the "closer tiger". When I hear an idea like that I know I'm in the right place. I know I could learn a lot from this. I think my track is suffering from high top and some phasing issues when playing on laptop speakers but sounds really good on my headphones. So hopefully I'll learn to fix it here.

really excellent video on the subject - I'll come back to this when I've finished mixing current song!

That house/dance type song sampled love is a battlefield

I've done Ian's Home Mastering Masterclass, Home Mastering EQ and Mastering with Multiband Compression series and wouldn't hesitate to recommend them to anyone interested in more content like this (and I'm not getting paid to say this!). The single best thing I learned was the importance of level matching, which Ian has already talked about a bit here. But there is much more great content available! Great job condensing some of that into a single video.

@ProductionAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks ! Glad you enjoy the stuff

@masteringcom

6 жыл бұрын

So good to hear!

Thank you very much Ian! Very inspiring!

Thank you very much, this gave me a lot of insight into mastering, and specifically why you master....

Fantastic! One of the best tutorials.

Very informative, and pleasant listening as well!

Learnt so much, Thanks so much

I was digging that last song!

Great vid 🔥

Great video tutorial, well presented and easy to understand. thanks ;)

Cool on using the trim, very helpful.

@masteringcom

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :)

The process you make easy to understand. So many others cloud their information with advanced techniques. Thank YOU for this!

Best mastering video to date for me. Thanks a mil.

@masteringcom

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks!

great! enjoyed watching.

Thanks for this awesome tutorial!

@ProductionAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

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This was the most comprehensive tutorial to master I have ever seen. Simple but so critical process and prone to mistakes. It needs that surgical approach to achieve the optimal result. What I have noticed is that your EQ level meters were clipping almost all the time. Isn't that affecting the audio by causing internal clipping?

@ProductionAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

No, because the DAW and plugins use floating-point calculations. You *would* need to be careful about this kind go thing if you were using plugins that model analogue gear, though

so what i got from this: 1 subtle limiting comp 2 Levels are most important 3 GREASY LITTLE PIG 4 No real rules on EQ

A drum and bass producer in my own time, I came out of this nodding my head to "this is not a new wave" X'D

Thank you so much for the info, but what I noticed in this video is that there is no mention of bad frequencies that you have to remove, was there not a single bad frequency in these songs ?

Merci bro ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

Hello, I'm having a hard time noticing how you're currently mastering with LUFS. Should you consider RMS as well? After the merge and the RMS level is good, should you take a gain reduction to achieve the right LUFS? Could you make a video about it? Thank you and congratulations for the great work.

Great video, thank you :)

I am also very impressed and will be watching this video again whilst step by step adjusting my current track to improve it. My problem is more the first example with low levels and I need to learn how to bring it up without being too extreme.

learned a lot cheers

@ProductionAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

Pleasure !

AWSUM VID Dude! A1

Great video! That -12db trick is a brilliant idea!

@him6944

6 жыл бұрын

can u explain:)

@petermcdonna4160

6 жыл бұрын

Having a gain plug in pre set to -12dB to go back and forth to a lower level is a great idea, IMO. It's quick and consistent. I like stuff that slots into your work flow and keeps things moving with minimum fuss.

@robburgess4556

6 жыл бұрын

Peter, where can we find your track? Every time Ian switched to it my ears perked up and I felt happy. :-)

@petermcdonna4160

6 жыл бұрын

Cool! Thanks Rob, glad you like the sound of it! Actually that track is one of 6 that I've just finished recording for an EP I'm releasing soon. In a couple of weeks I'll be making one song free to download and I'll be putting the EP for sale on Bandcamp. I'll be releasing it under the artist/band name of "Jackleg Jones" so once it's available I'll put a link, in this comment thread, to Bandcamp and the Facebook page. Thanks again!

@JohnMorris-ge6hq

5 жыл бұрын

Never mix by the meters.

Thanks man 🙏🏼

@masteringcom

4 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

Great explanation. I was wondering why de VU meter was set on -11DB and not at the -18DB standard?

@c0ns1d1ne

Жыл бұрын

That's around the target level for the 'ideal' loudness these days. I've watched a lot of Ian's stuff and he used to set it to -10dB. I wonder when and why he decided to change it?

fresh trax fo sho

Excellent video! Does anybody know where that calibration value of -11db he puts in for the VUT meter comes from? How do you find this number?

@masteringcom

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great video thanks! Anyone who knows the name of the Loudnessmeter with the 3 bands Hi, Mid, Lo (balancemeter) I cant find it :/

Just? True, I've seen weird things... people tend to put more plugins just because they can, not because the mix needs it. Depending on the mix you might need more, but mastering a good mix shouldn't need more than EQ>Limiter, really. Great video as always, Ian!

What about using a multiband limiter?

less is always more, you just show n proved that once more.

Rock is just out_standing

Let's say that you have a mastered recording and you don't have access to the files. The kick is low in the mix and you want to bring the kick forward. The low end has a lot of info between 60 and 200 Hz. When i listen to the track it appears that the kick is mostly top end. Can this problem be addressed in Mastering?

Really like the punk track; ‘New Wave’ by Peter McDonough (have l got the spelling right?), where can l find this track please?

Thank you for sharing Sir! But isn't a mistake to put gain correction BEFORE eq?

@gregorybfratis

6 жыл бұрын

Carra Nen I was thinking the same till he went back and adjusted the gain after eq’ing. Makes sense.

@carranen

6 жыл бұрын

I think you'll never be safe of clipping stage doing this manner...

I thought EQ in mastering is broad strokes and no more than 2 dB? Particularly the third new wave track. A part of me feels like you took too many liberties with that track. Its possible that the mix is mid range heavy for artistic license. It's not "perfectly balanced" but neither were the Beatles. How do you discern whats "better" and what's just different?

This is a fascinating and incredibly informative video to watch - thank you! It may be me, but to my ears the first song sounds a little less loud than the other two. I'd appreciate feedback on this - maybe I have a monitoring issue (I'm using AKG K 240 headphones, which I'm very used to).

@ProductionAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

I'm not really saying the loudness is matched, by the end - just that they are _balanced_ - that's an important distinction. They sound 'right' to me, next to each other - but your taste may vary. One reason could be the amount of upper mid energy, where our ears are most sensitive - I definitely think the third track has more of this than the other two, for example.

@petemusgrove7422

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for clearing that up, Ian. I was listening in a different way - for a different "thing". Again, thanks so much for sharing!

@ProductionAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

Pleasure, hope it's useful !

Very helpful and as you said "its simple its not easy but its simple" great tip !!! thanks very much!

@ProductionAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

My pleasure :-)

18:00 - I just didn't understand when you know how much sub-bass is enough. How do you know you're not overkilling it? I have a sub-woofer but I never understand when it's too much for all those cars and "shitboxes". Could you please elaborate on that?

@iam3rdSyllable

6 жыл бұрын

bigavsha This is an important question!

@dablizzoduve4576

6 жыл бұрын

bigavsha yes

@ZajaOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

I also need an Answer to this, please 🙏🏼

@maurosomm

5 жыл бұрын

You can use SPAN to check the Low end (Left side), it have to be at 30. You MUST check/compare professional tracks of the specific genre you're producing in order to match the same levels. Good luck !

@rickyguitarman3839

5 жыл бұрын

@@maurosomm yeap, spot on bruh!

I am Jayanth from Bangalore,India. I want your help in mastering audio for movies. Please let me know how to contact you in order to discuss with you wanted to know the cost for mastering 5.1 for movies.

Where can i hear patricks music?

Name of the first song?

name of second song.that middle one....please

@herbsmanno1

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/dpagj82zlNCxhaw.html

Hey guys one question: how do we know the limit of the limiter, do we have to put the volume at his maximum until it crashed to the headphone ?

@phucduongnguyen67

4 жыл бұрын

No man , use it gentle (depends on genre for example : Doom OST by Mick Gordon) ! Just go look it up on internet for a while , keep doing it

Great Video ... Just a quick question, why do you work at - 12 LUFS when almost all the majors like KZread are auto compressing at -16 LUFS .. Please correct me if I`m wrong

@heavymetalmixer91

6 жыл бұрын

Actually KZread works around -13 LUFS, but the point is that he masters songs according to what it sounds good to him, not to a number nor for the sake of loudness.

@ProductionAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

Right - more on the way I suggest people tackle this here: productionadvice.co.uk/how-loud/

@mcsweet1966

6 жыл бұрын

Cool Thanks again I will try the -9 LUFS short-term , I'm new at Mastering so at the moment I'm using the free HOFA 4U Meter Fader & MS-PAN do you have any comment on the plugin or can you recommend one. Thanks again for you Video

@heavymetalmixer91

6 жыл бұрын

If you're searching for free plugins I recommend Voxengo SPAN, iZotope Ozone Imager, YouLean Loundess Meter, KiloHearts Gain, TDR NOVA, TDR Kotelnikov and Sonic Anomaly Unlimited.

lmho 2 plugins hey, but your screen shows 6!! Including the perception plugin you trying to sell!

@ProductionAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

I see what you mean, but there are only 2 plugins actually changing the sound (EQ & limiter). I don't actually use Perception as part of the tutorial, and there are plenty of metering alternatives available for free in all the popular DAWs, so I overall I don't think the title is too misleading - sorry if you disagree!

so funny he balances left/right for the punk song, pulling out a trim plugin, while VUMT has left/right trim right there ;)

@ProductionAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

Right but the VUMT is on the master output, and would affect all the songs. Since I only want to adjust the balance on one song, it's better to apply the change on the clip directly. Also I prefer all my meters to be transparent - there's too much risk of forgetting to remove it, and accidentally applying the changes to other projects. (In Wavelab the master output plugins are independent of the project, by default)

@miropajictechno

6 жыл бұрын

oh true. didn't think of that :)

7dbbgain on eq. I thought mastering wqs about subtleness?

When you talk about Fletcher-Munson at around 7:00, I think you've got the explanation a bit backwards, haven't you? Maybe I'm misinformed, but as I understand it, our brains are wired to make more sense of the 2-5kHz range because we are social animals that communicate with speech in that frequency range. We don't need to hear high pitched squeaks like whales, dolphins or bats in our daily lives, and we don't need to hear the low rumbles of distant thunder like thirsty elephants do, so our brains pay little attention to low or high frequencies. Hence we have to artificially boost those frequencies with "smile EQ" to make them *appear* as loud as the mid-range sounds of human speech that our brains are 'hard-wired' to focus on. In effect, our ears don't really notice bass or high treble unless you turn it up.

@AutPen38

2 жыл бұрын

That is to say, our ears didn't prick up at the sound of a sabre-toothed cat quietly stalking its prey (we aren't gazelles) because we were too busy singing campfire songs in the middle octaves after we'd already found our dinner. :) Humans need to be able to talk about football in a busy pub. We don't need to hear the low growls or high pitched squeaks of animals and probably never have, since we've been top of the food chain since prehistoric times. We got to the top of the food chain by communicating with speech in the mid range frequencies.

I would say there were actually 3 plugins, because a gain plugin is really important as you showed.

@ProductionAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, fair point. And even more if you include the meters :-p But actually, the gain could easily be handled by the limiter, I only separate it out for clarity. So really there are only two processors :-)

@ProductionAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

OK, fair point :-) The gain _could_ be applied in the EQ plugin, though :-p

@DaveChips

6 жыл бұрын

to be honest,most of plugins like fabfilter,ozone,t-racks already have both input and output gain so external gain plugin is really not an issue... meters on the other hand,yeah i agree that they could be sorted out as third plugin :)

@Wizardatwill

6 жыл бұрын

but his screen shows like 6 or 7! he is just trying to sell his plugin he created! the course was garbage just all notes and 2 videos! Then the amazing pitch fest of the plugin he is selling! smh

middle song: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dpagj82zlNCxhaw.html

My Master Chain . . . Reverb > BitCrusher > Red Wine > Shouting > Regret > Sadness.

The title says mastering using two plugins but I lost count of the plugins. Its more than two. Good info though.

@velifurkanturkoglu1387

5 жыл бұрын

Mastering is processed by two plugins, rest of them are generally plugin for meters that mostly come along with your daw, just hook them up and check the meters

@gcastroism

2 жыл бұрын

its only 2 main plugings.He is not counting the gain becuase it comes on every daw and is very commonly used.

I love Ian's training but it's better that he works on one project instead of 3 projects I have been so confused I can't Detect what he did

First one has too much bass, but great video anyways

first i respet you too mutch but i used my ears...to do this mastring,,,here u need me to used fap filters stuff or wavlap prog.,...why you not talke about numpers or frequns or trubbl or bass... and at last thanks for this jop

tell me howwwwwwwwwwwww :))

Driving in a trans-am...

the internet seems to be filled to the brim with awful mastering "tutorials". Where the main point of the "tutorial" is just to market some plugins. Yes, I have bought Ian Sheperd's great plugins. They do what they're supposed to do. That does still not hide the fact that this is an awful tutorial, and if any of you reading this really think these three tracks are "good enough" after this treatment, then better adjust your ears.

@DM-hm4us

6 жыл бұрын

The mixes are pretty bad to start with to be honest.

@JohnMorris-ge6hq

5 жыл бұрын

Visit Gearlust. The engineers on there will give you could advice and we will not try to sell you plugins.

@JohnMorris-ge6hq

5 жыл бұрын

@Hugh Jones As a mastering engineer of more than 17 years I can tell you the worst thing you can do is master your own music. For mastering you need three things: A fresh set of ears, detailed full range monitors (20 - 20000hz) and a properly treated room. You can't mix or master what you can't hear.

@C.D.J.Burton

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnMorris-ge6hq Haha "the worst thing you can do is master your own music". Do you have any tricks for working with headphones a little shy of the 20kh mark? I know this doesn't answer to the problem at hand but, Rob Swire (Pendulum/Knife Party) I think said something like he sweeps a low-pass filter up and down (presumably a focused band-pass too) to be able to better identify areas in need of EQ. I haven't heard this anywhere before - but his tracks are quality so I respect it. Ever heard that before?

As a fellow mastering engineer I respect you sir. But people mastering their own songs is not a good idea. You need a FRESH PAIR OF EARS and a full range detailed speakers and properly treated studio.

Girl all the bad guys want!? (Bowling for soup) Anyone??? 😂

I was genuinely disappointed when this video ended.