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Kristian Kohle has worked on countless chart hitting albums from bands like POWERWOLF, ABORTED, ESKIMO CALLBOY, VAN CANTO, DYMYTRY, HÄMATOM, EMIL BULLS and many others from all over the world.
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I've been mixing with headphones for years. About to take the dive into studio monitors and doing my research now. Probably getting some Kali monitors. Hearing a lot of great things about them for the price point.
The v30's in my Mesa 4x12 are from 2001. They are closer to your 2000's then your 2002's. One of the 2023 Chinese 8ohm v30's I bought for a Marshall cab sounds similar to your favorite 2002, the other one is pretty nasty sounding. V30's are all over the place. You've really got to test them out individually and find each speakers sweet spot when micing them. Cheers fron the United States Kohle!
Said it before and I will say it again, you do not need plugins of any description to get loud mixes. Learn to mix first. Everything else is a crutch for bad technique. I can easily hit -6 or even higher with no limiting or compression what so ever on master busses or groups. Learn to mix, 'density' is in the mix and arrangement and choice of sounds. No where else.
This is the most tonedeaf comment I've seen in a while. Sure, you can get to a "decent" point by adjusting the levels of your tracks; but let's get one thing straight: that is not mixing. You do, in fact, need basics such as compression, eq, limit/clip, reverb, delay, etc to *mix* and especially to get anything towards a modern mix.
Say8ng you can turn your tracks up in order to hit -6 is not only an incredibly weird flex, it's also not impressive or difficult. Hitting -6 does not mean everything sounds good. 😂
@@jamisondebolt5590 You completely missed the point. *slow clap* imagine sounding this smug and completely not getting the point of the post. Who said anything about any of those others tools? My point was LOUDNESS is created via levels, choice of sound and arrangment. Which you turned into hurr durr you need reverb and eq. The topic at hand is plugins that explicitly get you loud mixes. So it is those I am saying you do not need. Because loudness is created via these other areas. But hey you know better right. Confidently incorrect 101. All these loudness plugins are the complete opposite of what most people crave which is punch and a feeling of weight and power. Which all come from dynamics. Something every one of these plugins destroys. They all add distortion as well. And the net result is nothing but mix after mix of loud, harsh and flat sounding mixes with no excitement, dynamics or punch. Modern mixes mostly sound like complete arse as a result. But hey if you like your music sounding flat, overly distorted and harsh with no real low end. You do you. Loudness is the antithesis of good mixes.
@ferociousmullet9287 when I say "modern mixes" I mean like 2000s and forward. I'd agree, much of what comes out these days is far too sterile.
@ferociousmullet9287 my point stands - it's pretty standard practice to hit -6 or above without any effects on the master bus BEFORE mastering. This video is obviously about making that "louder" (perceived loudness, lufs, etc). I still stand by my previous statement that getting your mixes to the volume standard at which it is commonly stated you should be at before mastering "with no plug-ins on the master bus" sounds pretty dense, considering that, as previously stated multiple times, is the *commonly practiced standard* to get your mix to *before applying anything to the master bus* 😘
thumbs up if there's girls here ...
I'm afraid not ;)
Awesome 🙏👌🤘
Great video tons of good information
Glad you enjoyed it
I love my vintage Chicago Jensen speakers, and despise the "new" Italian Jensen for calling their speakers "vintage" when they are NOT, so when you lookup "vintage jensen" you get the recotron imposter speakers which are totally different. My 1964 Deluxe Reverb clone had a Italian Jensen P12N at first, a good speaker, but when replaced with a Weber 12F150 it sounded so much better is was like a different amp! Some of the Italian Jensen speakers are decent, but in general I don't like them.
¡¡ tremendo !! muchas gracias , amazing
Hi, Kristian. This if the first video of yours I have seen and found it very informative. I have been interested in speaker design for many years, though mostly in the hi-fi world, but in recent years in guitar amp speakers. One area of particular interest to me is dispersion. All the guitar speakers I know have a very limited angle of dispersion in the upper end of the frequency range and need therefore to be tilted back for home use. I would like to hear what you and the experts at Jensen and other speaker manufacturers have to say on the subject.
Welcome first of all! Since I’m just a stupid guitarist and music producer I guess we need Ignazio to answer this one!
Great review mate. Learned a lot. Thank you
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I'm using reapers Event Horizon clipper ... sounds way better than trying to get the same loudness with a limiter.
if the mix is good, its not necessary to have a m,astering chain all youll need is a saturator. but since were talking about clippers/limiters ide say : Inflator, StandardClip, Newfangled Saturate & Pro L2. Dangerous Bax EQ & Mixconsole v3 brainworx are good for shaping before you clip into a limiter 🤘
Would this work reamping with let's say Amplitube instead of real amp?
Personally i prefer the cleaner limiter even of has his disadvantages. Clipper Is good for some distorted drums but not on cymbals they sound harsher fizzy
These sound great! METAL!
A Czech band? Nazdar!
Volume doesn't matter if it sounds like shit....fyi
I'm only using the normalize function on reapers export/rendering, is that a bad idea, should I rather use some plugins for that?
You need limiting to chop of the peaks so you can normalize again. That will make it appear louder to or ears without having a higher peak level.
Too late for us who just discovered this, it seems </3
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Interesting stuff.
New Fragments Of Unbecoming?! 😮😮😮
Indeed! 😎
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Never loud enough! Unfortunately! Man I have flatline in every mix! It's great!
You're an inspiration, bro🤘
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Hehe, the Jensen are sounding much better for Metal. The Lightning and Nighthawk is a better V30.
shit yeah!
"The platform will automatically compensate" Smashes mix anyway. "Don't do anything that makes the mix sound worse, only louder" Does things that destroys the mix. I honestly don't understand the way you think, man.
I thought I explained it. Let me try again: We're used to a certain amount of limiting these days and consider that pleasing. Nothing wrong about that. Just don't go beyond the point where it sounds good to your ears. In this example I go a little too far to demonstrate the difference between the plugins.
Urgh… painful, this sounds horrible, no intent to offend, but this does not sound like music
What is the plugin / method used to stay at high volume when you have only 1 guitar or just vocal AT a moment in a song ? Like "pictures in the gold room" intro of Chimaira
There's no difference really.
So the long and short, limiting is more like compression and clipping is more like a saturation. Listening to the toms portion, made me realize that bands didn't use different size snares as toms. To be fair, that could also be an artistic decision.
I compress with an UnFairchild (UTA) and limit with the Safari Pedals Lion Master
-14 LUFS -1db True Peak FTW
Nice vid Kris… Now I’m curious about what LUFS target that you usually aim when you master tracks in real world? From this video I saw at the Flatline 2 momentary or short term tab around -9 LUFS. Thanks before 🔥
TBH, I don't really care about the numbers. I just go to the point where it's loud and still sounds punchy. I still use an RMS measurement and aim for roughly -8dB max.
@@KohleAudioKult Thanks for your response. And I wanna know your opinion about big mastering engineers mastered their tracks at -6 or -5 LUFS. I have several friend that master their song in Sterling sound and other big names, when they gave their mastered wav tracks to me, I measured it and average level are either -6 or -5 LUFS. What’s your opinion about it?
What do you think about the bottom up mixing method where you get each individual track closer to peak loudness more so instead of doing the whole mix?
That has never worked for me, no additional loudness from limiting groups and stems. And I did quite some testing.
Would love to see you give Newfangled Elevate a go. It uses similar multiband processing but has transient emphasis controls too.
I still buy CDs. I don't use streaming, only files on physical media.
Sadly you can't buy MD3 anymore :(
Yes, you can! 🤩 Just scroll down to "buy native" and there you go! www.tcelectronic.com/tcelectronic/product?modelCode=0815-ACI
@@KohleAudioKult wow, now I found it, thanks. On PC there were like 10 dead links to websites where I should buy the plugin and none of them still did... On good old Kleinanzeigen hardware finalizers seem to be pretty inexpensive. But I'm not sure how different all the versions are. Definitely something I got to look into
I'm a crappy mixer and i just use the match eq,no doubleing guitars most of the time and throw a ezmix master and use my mac speakers to mix and they have been better for me then using monitors. When i do double guitars they come out thick ...don't knock it till you try it.
My chain for loudness is Flatline 2 > Oxford Inflator > FF Pro L2 > Weiss MM-1. Flatline 2 doing the heavy lifting, Inflator for character, L2 for 0.5-1.0db boost then Weiss in transparent mode to add the last 1-2db.
Love these how-to’s! Nice Kristian-thnx!!
for me the best clipper are the Sir audio (the best one) and the TDR Limiter 6 GE Clipper Module
I'm glad you're talking about this loudness madness! I've been loving Flatline 2 and now I'm definitely curious of that MD3!
Give it a try!
After attending baphometrix's school... I need to pull back my volume levels out of the clippers for extra them... "dynamics" 😅
Flatline 2 Hybrid Mode - Definitely a game changer. 💯 My current Mastering chain consists of Pro Q3 (Fabfilter) into Kotelnikov Mastering Compressor (Tokyo Dawn) into Flatline 2 in Hybrid Mode (Submission Audio) into Pro L2 (Fabfilter) (Serial limiting) - Such incredible tools, hand-crafted by professionals for cavemen like us to use. 😅
Great video as always man! Based on what I'm hearing here I really like the Flatline. I don't do my own mastering but would you suggest getting the plugin regardless? The hybrid feature seems great.
Do you ever do one thing thinking another. I do, then I'd hate when other would pretend to know what I was doing mixing the samples rates. What Mike Patton and Paul Anka could had in common with Michael Anthony and Tony Maserati?! I don't know. I'm not really a Diesel guy. Namastè.
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