Loudness Tips Every Mastering Engineer Should Know

Learn the essentials of loudness for mastering in this video...

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[kozmobluemusic]

0:26 wait, how long have you been withholding this information?

[COMATRON.]

loved your vidz - don't become an ad-hore tho plz.

[kwgamusic]

These are not tips, but an advertisement for a limiter plugin.

[Wayo]

Hi, great videos!!! I use a Yamaha PA System 400BT with its own analog mixer. My question is, I play solo live shows and I have a monitor speaker but I don’t want to use that speaker, I want to use my Shure earbuds as monitoring and to hear myself while singing and to hear also the backing track on my earbuds. What do I need to do that? I also use an IPad and I connect it directly to the mixer. Please help me 🙏🏼 do I need something like a Behringer P2 or can I just use an adapter from 1/4 to 3.5mm and that's it without using the Behringer P2? 😢

[goodtimejohnny]

Or you can break the rules and use your ear. There are so many commercially released songs that when imported from CD (gasp)😂 will show +6 db peak. Looking at the WAV file you can see that a limiter was used. No audible distortion if you crank your stereo to 10 unless of course you are the type of person that adds any sort of EQ, in that case distortion and perhaps speaker damage will occur. Depending on the music you may also notice compression pumping away. Anyways like you said, it is most important to use your ears. These digital platforms will pull it down if you're too loud visually. Just make sure the sound isn't distorted before sending it to them.

[paulpaulzadeh]

Is not so strange that all of this EQ, Plugin, Compression, Loudness sounds like SHIT.
let it be this so called mastering 😂