How to Make Your Master Loud WITHOUT Distortion

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[mttlsa]

That metaplugin oversampling everything is exactly what i need. I was thinking about this just yesterday and today this video....

[maxssoundtracks]

I have been suffering from this issue for a while now! 😅 This video was just what I needed. It was straight forward and helpful!

[slychnidos]

Waaay better! Honestly I had no idea oversampling is that powerful!

[jtproduction]

Yes Tips were on Point. LISTEN: I took that advice went drove to my Home Studio and applied those techniques immediately and Boom my mix was Louder. I followed exactly. Bus Track run all individual vst/instrument tracks under that Bus. Throw Two Compressors on the Bus adjust attack ratio volume. Now! Use those faders adjust up or down and when you hear each individual track distorting too much pull back boom after a little bit of EQ just hear how your whole track not only get loud Commercially but it just opened up
That's My Rant for the day...
Thank You Sage Audio
JT3 Production

[godzmic]

There are so many different ways to accomplish loud mixes, no one way is the only way. But thanks for the info bro, educational

[MiracleDee]

Thanks for the video. Gained a lot. (I'd like to mention that Cakewalk is a DAW (free) that has inbuilt oversampling for plugins. Very useful feature. Can be turned on /off whenever needed).

[hydos]

Tips we’re on point and the track was fire 🔥👌🏾👌🏾

[stevewills]

The DDMF tip is golden! I would have never tried this without the tip. Cheers!

[ghostfrom]

Noticed the TP and Oversamp reduced the low end impact quite blarringly. Great video!

[tehillimmusic]

I don’t usually subscribe after watching one video, but this was very important piece of information that not many other channels talk about and demonstrations were clear. :) Really glad I bumped into this. Things that I always knew and practiced in my masters but maybe at times did it just for the sake of doing it or just hearing the difference in only musical sense, without truely understanding the technicalities of what happens. At the end of the day, yes its all hearing and feeling the music, but as engineers its always good to have further understanding. Thank you :)

[AudioAssassin]

It's interesting that oversampling is off by default in Fabfilter's Pro-L2 but I guess that's because the performance of each oversampling level is dependent on the power of your CPU. Fabfilter must have decided to switch it off by default for smooth performance with slower CPU's. After watching this video I set oversampling to 4x and saved it as the default setting. Great video and thank you for the free info <3 :)

[briancase]

As always, this is a great tutorial; thanks. One thing: for many modern genres, distortion is part of the vibe. I don't mean gritty, sandpaper vocals, but nonetheless, clipping is just what we've been trained to like. Given that, you left out a clipping stage before the limiting stage. A good, oversampling clipper is good here, such as standardclip (worth the $, has lots of filtering choices) or freeclip (it's free, duh). Standardclip let's you set a reasonable rate for producing and a higher rate for printing, but both offer up to 128x (necessary to eliminate aliasing completely). Some mastering for EDM and pop will not use a limiter, only a good clipper, believe it or not. Try it some time in suitable material, you'll likely be surprised: it's another step in attaining competitive loudness (unfortunately, we still must play that game). Also, it's *great* that you mentioned the metaplugin oversampling container!

[DalleyMusic]

This is the first video you guys did that I think was incomplete. You failed to mention how; 1)True Peak limiting option can change/dull the transients 2) Regarding Oversampling/aliasing: no mention of "fold back" that happens with the highest frequencies that get involved with aliasing which get folded back (as usually discordant harmonics). I think that would have made it a more complete explanation. Also a recommendation for anyone experimenting with these settings on FF L2, ..only experiment these things first using the "unity gain" option. You will hear what the plugin is doing without the huge volume changes as shown here. One last thought; to highlight "Master Loud Without Distortion" I think the song genre type could have been better. That style of music is not going to be mastered for loudness usually so I would have chose something that would, like Rock or EDM which also would make it easier to hear much of what you were trying to display much more obvious. I usually like your videos but this one missed the mark for me.

[aam]

Another really useful and insightful video so thanks for this. However, I find it better to leave oversampling off on the FabFilter Pro-L2 as oversampling appears to affect the sound in a slightly nasty way. I appreciate that this is counter-intuitive but just wondered if you had found this to be the case.

[Adzer-dimf]

Subtle hard clipping before limiters will also gain some extra headroom

[akagerhard]

Heads up people... distortion is not always a bad thing. This is not only true in producing and mixing, but also for mastering. Always compare oversampling vs not oversampling and also compare higher oversampling rates with lower ones. More is NOT better, it's different.

[ukubeatz]

Great video! Definitely learned some new things

[CharlyPreissel]

Great.
Thank you pretty much.
Appreciate

[verdi]

Hi. Thank you for this tutorial. A question I processed a choir and my distortion occurred only on hi-mid and hi frequencies. Would you use dynamic EQ or multiband compressor. Or what else? Thank's in advance. Jan.

[cezarciucium]

This is usefull info! Thanks! More videos like this!