HOW TO MASTER LOUD - INSTANTLY Get FAT, Clean + In Your Face Results

In this video I talk about one of the biggest mixing mistakes that people make that prevents them from getting clean, high-quality, loud masters. See a comparison of 1 song mixed 2 very different ways, and discover how loud each version can be made during mastering.

If you think that some type of magic mastering chain or limiter secret is going to make your song sound good and be loud, think again. Don’t fall into this trap that keeps so many people from getting great sounding masters.

★ SKIP TO SOMETHIN’ ★

0:00 Intro
1:06 Bad Artifacts from Too Much Limiting
2:22 Comparing 2 Different Mixes of the Same Song
4:50 Analysis of the 2 Mixes - What’s Different?
6:14 Comparison of Masters of the 2 Mixes
11:00 The Big Mixing Mistake
12:55 What Techniques Did I Use?
14:36 Outro

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[DeltaWhiskeyBravo]

Excellent discussion. I've grown to embrace clipping as a way to control my dynamics more than heavy limiting. I think it sounds better while maintaining loudness.

[cryptout]

I’ve been using this technique for a while now but never understood why hard clipping sounded better. Now I do, thanks again for sharing your knowledge ❤

[nolanroberts]

And a man like Vespers. I REMEMBER THE DAY I FOUND YOU ON THE OLD WILD WEST YOUTUBE, AND YOU CHANGED MY WORLD THAN. The capitals were intended, because I felt like I was drowning in bad misappropriated information until your brilliant videos were made known to me. Never had anyone talked about templates, top down mixing etc., at least not in an electronic music context, and although I no longer use Ableton and have switched to Studio One, I STILL follow your advice because it always works when you apply it correctly and with receipts. now I know their were others before you, but no one has left me more informed and not only feeling able to do the work and complete the task, but getting tangible results and walking away with signed music. The only comparison I could make to your breadth of knowledge and ability to discourse it in a meaningful and memorable way would be Dan Worrall, or Streaky's Youtube channels. Thank you so much for offering your insights in such a digestible way. Takes a lot of time to do these videos with such high quality and for you to offer them outside of your academy is admirable and pretty selfless, more humans would do better to be a bit alike you sir. Cheers and God Bless!

[Studiomix]

Great video, each time you sum signals you get new peaks, If I want to mix loud I use a lot of busses and at each summing stage I use a clipper eventually to get rid of those peaks before hitting my masterbus compressor.
The clip to zero technique is really interesting if you want to mix loud as f*<k but only works when you’re working completely itb 👍🏼

[DipshankarDas]

Thank you for making these types of informative tutorials :)

[ryancole]

Definitely NOT too much mate, its such a nice, smooth intriguing tune. Really grabs the ears

[Leftblu]

Love the effort put into your voice in intro. can hear huge difference to how your voice sound when you share ableton screen part.
Also love that your examples are DnB songs because Im currently doing this type of DnB tracks a lot and it helps me somewhat better.

[samprock]

Gosh, 10 minutes “everyone make mistake, my mix is good……” to 3 second shaving peaks with hard clipping advice …. commercial for advice. Glad to see YT advanced form content like this for the most part.

[kooistradurk]

Studio is looking sweet Drew, and great content as usual. Shoutout from Holland. Cheers, Durk

[DUSKOsound]

Thanks for all of these Mastering Workshops 🍻🔊

[Rhekluse]

I love this! Very nicely explained and executed, mate. Bless!

[ryancole]

Excellent stuff mate, very grateful man!

[resonatingergonomicsdnb]

Great video zooming in on the samples. Brought some understanding. Do you have any videos on Normalization and when to use and not use?

[NEVUoficial]

thank you for these tutorials, very interesting info

[sascha]

if you focus on quality - what is strongly recommended for the future - then one of the most important tasks is to end this mindless loudness war. to take part of the loudness-war, you are reducing your target group more and more and more every year.
but in the meantime, it can be observed with many colleagues that they themselves are making their hearing worse and worse by getting used to the inferior quality that this produces. so, this is the importend task. the creator has to make better decisions before the target group can do.

[georgesprackling]

Hello, very good. Do you set limitless, up with the bands set up on the way the track falls, as in low-end, kick drum,

They look like they are set to specific areas in the waveform.

Thanks again.

[froknzok]

Thank God, YouTube and other platforms are lowering the volume. 👍🏻 Pizza sound sucks. Real pizza is good. I remember the electronic music from early 90s lot of punch because of less cracking limiters. Back in the days we just turn the volume up. However, limiting wisely works.

[sokoleski]

Dude... you are so clear and well spoken. Perfect tempo ...and the examples and prepp work is just stellar, i learn so much. Cant thank you enuff. 💚 Please keep em coming. YOU are really lifting my mixing game ‼

[niklassilen]

-5 LUFS in mainstream pop is not at all common any more. I'd say we're in the -8 LUFS range now (maybe -7 short term).

[epicloops]

What kind of loop samples would help you speed up your beat-making process?