ARE YOUR Masters Being DESTROYED When You Limit Like THIS?

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Hello, I'm Nicholas Di Lorenzo, Studio Owner, Mixing and Mastering engineer at Panorama Studios.

I'm an Italian-Australian born and raised in Melbourne. I've been a creative professional for 10 years managing some pretty awesome projects for artists, labels and producers all around the globe.

What motivates and drives me?

My family,
Good food,
Great coffee.

You can find me on many platforms:

[Nathankaye]

Here is the main problem with the notion of mastering for each different streaming service; most music distributors do not give you the option to provide different masters for the different streaming services. Meaning, that you provide them with one file, usually a wav file. And they upload to all 150+ stores. So your master must adhere to what will work best for all of them, which is an averaging. In other words, you can’t do a separate master uploads for Apple, than from Spotify. This myth needs to be busted.

[kellsmadeit]

Thank you for these videos & touching on topics such as these. Music can come out insanely loud, punchy and translateable on even the worst & most realistic poor DA systems like smaller flat screen TV's, with True Peak ON and out ceiling of anything like - 0.5 to - 0.3. If the mix is right and loudness acheived within, TP and out ceiling should make basically no difference, and will still compete with the absolute loudest and best. This can be dependent on the quality of your limiter as well, I am using and referencing the Pro-L 2.

Also anyone who is not checking their finals on poor yet realistic DA systems like smaller flat screen TV's may be in for a slightly rude awakening, though hopefully not! Modern Cell phones don't count, their speakers and DA conversion are actually quite decent.

[davidasher]

Didn’t you do a blind test between TP limiting and (not TP) limiting where you couldn’t tell the difference? Curious as to why you still have such a strong opinion about it. Maybe there’s more to the story? Definitely would like to see you explore that topic some more. Thank you for the wonderful content!

[vinylmastersgr]

Many new greek digital songs have True Peak over +3 and distort awfully. Integrated LUFS are around -9 to -8 in Greek commercial music but since 2019 true peak was not surpassed +1, usually it was 0.5.
The other problem is the hard bass and hard drums and no high end because here also they follow the tempates of Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish.

[substance]

Modern neurofunk tracks with inter-sample peaks of 1.5dB in the WAV and over 3dB in the 320kbps mp3: HOLD MY BEER 😅

[NoQualmsTheArtist]

That's because true peak sounds like crap, I don't know why it just does 🤷🏾‍♂️
I'm sure someone smarter than me will let me know in the comments 🤣

[RobMitshi]

If anyone here is into making electronic music, feel free to ask me some questions lol, I'm not offering courses, just looking for friends/good music and can offer some good feedback, cheers, keep producing.

[entity]

I hate the way TP limiting sounds as well. I think Sonible's Smart Limit has the best sound of all TP limiters but I still prefer no TP limiting.

[ryde]

Please do a video on why you don’t like true peak limiters

[oscarpatxot]

Even myself, that mastering is not my stronger skill, I also hate the sound of TP

[trevorellis-guice]

I’ve been using adptr stream liner to check for this. Are you trying to not clip at all?

[leckel]

I use limiters and clippers with no oversampling and no ISP limiting. I’ll usually MONITOR ISPs and adjust the output trim accordingly, but that’s all.

[deadislander]

i also hate true peak limiting, as soon as i turn that button on, my kicks are trash

[diezdoce.mastering]

Can you do a video of your workflow with Izotope RX when mastering? That would be really interesting

[LGDCexode]

Great video! I was wondering if you had tried the stealth limiter from Ik multimedia that tries to reduce Iintersample peaks?

[isc]

Just leave 1 db of headroom and move on

[guthhalf]

If your song have to be louder to be better, you need a new song.

[BurningBushPedagogy]

Rocket science, why people like to teach like they are talking about rocket science, nothing complex that can't that can't be simplified, I been avoiding your videos because of this pattern of yours, but I clicked bc of the interesting title, then started hearing someone speaking very fast as if they are more interested in showing off how well versed they are than care if people will actually clearly understand what they trying to get across.

Jezzzz bro calm down, even the multi Grammy winners won't sound like this.
This is feedback for your channel, take it or just think we are haters, your choices, but I won't anyone who teaches the way you do, calm down, its not quantum physics.

[Limit]

Yay let’s start making masters sound good at 96kbits

How about next we start developing an iPhone limiter that helps negate limiting for those last 2 notches of volume 🤦‍♂️

Good luck out there