Mastering In 5 Steps • Ableton Live Devices Only (Free Preset)

This video is for ultimate beginners to learn mastering in Ableton Live (I am using Live 11). I will show 5 steps to mastering your tracks using only Live's default devices, and you can even download a free preset to practise with!

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:16 1. Tidying Out The Track
03:51 2. Gain Staging
05:40 How I publish music
07:19 3. Creating The Master Chain
16:55 4. Ableton's Mastering FX Presets
19:33 5. AI Plugins That Help With Mastering

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This video is edited by Iiris Mäki ❤️

MY TOP 10 PLUGINS:

MUSIC GEAR/INSTRUMENTS:

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[JacobLeavenworth]

This is so helpful! Thank you for making this. I learned how to produce music on my own mostly through trial and error, and I assumed that I could do the same with mastering, but I have quickly learned that with mastering it's so easy to get carried away, and suddenly I'm ending up in a place where my tracks are constricted and unpleasant after years of liking how they sounded. This is a great place to start (and a great place for me to learn subtlety for mastering lol) Thanks again!

[djterhinator]

I've been afraid of mastering up until now. This made it sound much more approachable, so I'll happily give it a try. Kiitos! 👍

[iamwildeofficial]

Wow! Straight to the point and giving many options! As a beginner in this world I understand that there are many many ways of mastering a track, and also that the mixing part is really important, but until I've found this channel, I never saw anyone telling that default Ableton presets were also fine to get a decent result.

Time to dive deeper into this channel :)

[CHONK-Music]

I must be watching this again for the 5th time while trying to master my new track.
Such good advice for a quick master.

[timcharleneoloughlin]

OMFG!!!! I have spent hours looking for this solution and never would have thought about inputs!! Thank You!!

[KibatsuMusic]

Thanks so much LNA. Your great videos have helped me out a lot in my latest production. I stepped up my mixing and mastering game thanks to you! 🎸🎵

[GABRIELDIEPANDAWAMPE]

Ma'am thank you so much you are the first one who explained it so well thats a game changer for me

[greilark]

I love your workflow and all your VODs. When mastering recorded mixes (where all the tracks are pre-mastered for the most part, would you recommend skipping ozone or some of the dynamic compressions that come with it? Since most of that is already taken care of, it is more about bringing the gain up rather than making any impressions on the audio to where the DJ has already made most of these dynamic choices.

Thank you for sharing and caring!

[Sam_Saylor]

absolutley awesome. So well explained, you just demystified something ive been scared of for twenty years since i dropped out of music production at uni.

[cyberjessmusic]

Thank you soooo much!! I''ve been recording and mixing for so long but never got to the mastering part until now! Your videos are very helpful and your music is excellent! :)

[omarelmasry]

Wow… I love how you made peace between me and mastering 😅.. that was a ghost for me.. and I really loved the part of the mastering racks. They’re already made.. didn’t know about that..
Really A BIG FAT thank you for your informative and simplifying videos ❤

[justjoannec]

Thanks so much for this video! I have a whole bunch of songs that I have been trying to mix and master. This video was super helpful getting me to the poing of being able to do them for myself! I got the HOFA plugin and that really helped a lot! I tried using it and it worked well! My only suggestion for making these kinds of videos is to talk slower or at least leave pauses. I had to watch the section on that plugin many times over because it was hard to understand the settings. Maybe also that could be a thing to put below. The settings in a new plugin. Thanks again though!

[matsai_music]

I love your voice and energy! You're a star :)

[sounds-r-foundproductionz]

You, Lady, are the absolute best! Thank you so very much.

[alexbreugelmans]

Hi Lina, i am wondering how you mix AND master in same session? Do you route into mixbus, leaving the master for ... mastering? And what if you would try different mixed versions? Greetings, love your work ❤

[gonzaaaprooo]

THANK YOU I LOVE YOU THIS WAS SO USEFUL ❤❤❤❤❤

[nualakeller]

Just used this video to master my first track. I'm really chuffed with how well it went! Thank you! 🥳💙

[djpapakuma]

Thank you for your video, LNA! It was a great explanation of each step, and you laid it out really nicely! I look forward to trying your approach and watching your other mastering videos! Cheers!

[IronxIx]

This is simple in description but with all the volume automation I've done I find the task of getting each track to only peak within -6 to -12 dB to be daunting. I guess future tracks will have to vary less in their volumes.