How to: A quick way to master your music

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Mastering is probably the most overlooked step in production, yet sometimes the most important. Mastering can be easy and repetitive once you have perfected the skill. Mastering should (in my opinion) always be done by someone other than the mixing engineer. A fresh pair of ears can hear the song in a different light and maybe catch some thing the mixer may have overlooked.In the following tutorial I'll show you how to master your songs and get a perfectly loud track that is acceptable to the human population before you send off the demo or post your mix to the internet. Let's face it. No one want to listen to something thats really quiet. We want it loud and in our faces! With that said, this tutorial is by no mean a way to get a super high quality master. This tutorial is meant for the time you need a quick master before uploading your music to the internet or sending a mixtape off to labels.

Some key things to remember before the mastering stage:

Make sure you gain staged your mix correctly, you should have a good amount of head room on your master output. The mix should be sitting between -6dB and -12dB at it’s loudest moments). Never peak higher than -3dB.
If you were to take a mix that peaks around -6dB, you'd find the song is quiet in comparison to other finished music. To fix this, let's get to mastering!

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[deontefentress]

No cap I chose yo video cus I seen the length of it was 7:11😂💯

[SassyMakeup]

A great teacher explains complex ideas in simple ways

[nathanstatham]

Dude, it worked really well. I slightly adjusted a couple elements to fit the song. (its a metal track) and it worked out perfectly without being too quiet or too loud and distorted.

[dannymolns]

Would loveeee to see a current version of this! You have come a long way in 7 years and i would love to learn anything extra you have picked up along the way!

You rock! 🔥

[beamygod]

my favorite way to master is putting distortion on the whole output

[propmaster]

This is perfect. I’m not gonna pay a mastering engineer to master my 60 sec instagram audio😂

[ayonamusic]

Hello bro, I know you were trying to be humble by not praising your job, which is good but you know what?, your setting is actually the only setting that has given me the best output so far. No long story or feeling too big, you are real.
Thanks a lot and keep doing the good work..
I will share the link soon 🙏

[conleyguitar]

Thanks for the video. This works great for acoustic guitar tracks as well. Keeping the stereo out low and using the limiter to boost really brought back the life to the guitars. Quick, dirty, genius.

[sweetgoose]

this is a game changer for bedroom producers and music maker. You just helped me breath life into a track ive been working on for months. Thank you!

[Leonard]

First mastering tutorial/video that actually does work. Thanks!

[iComplexity_]

This helped so much! I CAN'T even believe Even though it's not perfect it is light years better than what I was doing!!!

[HeyZues]

Most things on the internet / anything that converts into mp3 will cut off EVERYTHING above -1.5db. If you're limiting to -0.1db you're about to have some information clipped off. This happens for pretty much anything now that deals with streaming mp3s & even soundcloud. Just a quick note. I made this mistake when I was learning. (by no means am I a master but it's something I wish I would have known when I was younger.)

[ianaspages]

omg you are my superhero!!! I just did all of it and the track sound amazing!! Thank you!!!

[AlekPlaysMinecraft]

It's better to shoot for -12-15 dB. You get a ton of headroom and you can use the adaptive limiter to it's fullest potential without getting any distortion. I found that it is also better sounding if you bounce in real time, although that is inefficient for longer works.

[Guapelito]

Those of you saying you are getting distortion are likely pushing the gain on the limiter too much. What he has done here is indeed the basic steps you would take to master a track.

[jarueparr]

Thanks alot Adam.. You are probably the best source for info regarding Logic, hands down!!!

[ShantKmusic]

that adaptive limiter is the best. thank you so much, it helped alot for my music. Thank god im about to upload new music and learned this lol. you rock!

[aaronodonnell_music]

Nothing dirty about it, perfectly good method for mastering, particularly for beginners 👍👍

[christofers]

One of the most helpful videos I've stumble upon. Thank you!

[greyblenaut]

Hey thanks for making a quick and easy mastering video thats not annoying, seriously. I do not wanna fish through twenty minutes of rambling and dudes saying "yeah its straight fire" to find out one thing