From NOOB To PRO Mastering Chain in 15 Minutes (+ FREE PLUG-IN)

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This is one of the most common struggles for producers: Mastering your tracks like a PRO!
In this video I'm gonna show you exactly what to do -- no matter your level of expertise -- to master your tracks in a professional way so that you can comfortably share your songs with the industry.
Plus, I'm sharing a new FREE plugin with you that recently made it to my mastering chain! You don't wanna miss it!

🎸 EQUIPMENT

🎶 THE MUSIC I USE IN MY VIDEOS!
Endless choice of songs, effects, all royalty free!

🎞 STOCK FOOTAGE
The best stock footage I've ever seen for content creators!

💻 EDITING TEMPLATES
The templates I use for Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut & DaVinci Resolve!

🎥 MY YOUTUBE GEAR

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00:00-00:57 Intro
00:57- 01:34 0. New Session
01:34-04:40 1. Bus Compressor
04:40-05:42 2. Mastering Compressor
05:42-07:34 3. Saturation
07:34-11:12 4. Mastering EQ (FREE!!)
11:12-13:04 5. Mid/Side EQ
13:04-13:36 5a. Stereo Image
13:36-13:53 6. Linear Phase EQ
13:53-15:16 7. Limiter
15:16-16:50 8. Trick The Listener!
16:50-17:17 9. BONUS! Final Polish
17:17-17:28 FINAL RESULT
17:28-18:00 Outro

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[nckcn]

Great video bro! Just one thing about the sidechain feature in the compressor. You mentioned that the SC filter means you wont be compressing anything under the cutoff you set, this isn't true. The SC filter is the detection parameter for the compressor, meaning what the compressor will react to as an input. If you set the SC filter to 100hz for example, this does not mean anything under 100hz will not be compressed. Rather, that nothing under 100hz will TRIGGER the compressor. This is really useful (especially in mastering) because the low end information contains much more energy than the mid and high range which means the bass and kick will dominate the triggering behaviour of the compression. Small detail I know but really important that people don't think this turns your bus compressor into a multiband compressor - Love your vids!

[jg.juliag]

so so helfpul, as always🙌🏼 waiting for the mixing video!

[Frank-mzkb]

Just found you last week. You are a very good teacher. For me the best mastering-video I saw (I saw a lot). I really appreciate your effort and look forward to your mixing video. Thanks for the channel. 👍🏽

[matthewcassette]

Well done, this was super helpful. I appreciate how articulate you are when explaining my least favorite part of production.

I feel more confident now to master.

Molte grazie!

[rohinarun]

Bad habit ur vids are so good man please never stop uploading!!

[SaverioGrandiChannel]

Great video! Love this mastering chain. I’ll do the same with my songs. I’m going to download the Pulsar plugin 😊

[Penthox]

Have you made that mixing video you talked about in the beginning? I looked for it on your channel and couldnt find it

[lexflp]

Do you also also master songs with vocals on it like this?

[MalikAmer]

I’m glad that i came across your channel, what an amazing informative content.

[xAudio]

i am always afraid to go near mastering. thanks for the insight

[mmckmusic]

Great channel man, keep going and you'll quickly gain a lot of subscribers no doubt!

[tutubeos]

Great video! I was about to write: do you know soothe2 ? 😂 The volume automation before the drop is great. I also do two more automations in that same spot. I automate a filter that cuts a little the high frequencies and another one that narrows the stereo image, so when the drop comes in, it sounds even larger 😎

[Wadyofficial]

Good one bro. We need mixing tutorial asap

[Atwinterboy]

question, if you also sang over your own beats how would you go about mixing and mastering the beat and vocals. would you mix beat in its own session then bring into a new session with unmixed vocals, mix those togther with the beat and stem that out to master all together or what?

[Abdulwahabalisaed]

Wish you knew how much your videos are helping us i swear 🤍🤍🤍🥹 please keep uploading! And also can you share some of the free plugins that are on your library, I mean like if you have some please share because most of the plug-ins are so expensive. ❤

[psyberfunkmusic]

Free version of solid-state bus compressor is BUSTERse

[joshberrios]

2:15 u know whats even cooler? Do that before compresor so u have also more density in the chorus AND if u send that to an external mastering engineer u wont miss that effect when he hit the limiter 💪

[shadrickchimanga]

When is the mixing tutorial coming out?

[tommiscap]

POV: sei italiano e impazzisci quando lo senti parlare in italiano🤣🤣

[perrykeshahwalker]

Why not just bounce everything to a stereo file instead if stems.