How to Master Dynamic Classical Music

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[willmarshall]

YESSS!!! I’m a professional violist and violinist here in NYC and during the pandemic I started my own recording studio specifically geared towards recording string instruments called String Garden. Would love to see more “string mixing” videos. I do a lot of remote string recordings for various pop and hip hop artists and would love to see how you all would approach mixing a stacked string quartet for pop/hip hop/etc. Keep up the good work! Love you all!

[odhinnswrath]

Would love a tutorial about mixing trailer music, this was fantastic though thank you.

[mus]

Kindly make a video on how much loudness is required for YT videos and different music platforms of a song.

[emanuel_soundtrack]

Really cool. But could you use classical music as an example?

[thomasgyllin]

Nice tips, thanks. It would be nice to learn about long term dynamic changes. How to treat a track with very variated dynamics over long time, with maybe 30 sec of quiet music, then 30 of loud music with percussion maybe. If you tune everything in on the louder part the quieter part will be unaffected. But maybe you need to glue something in the quieter parts as well. No one really talks about this. I guess automation can solve it, but would be great to see some real example of this.

[KrazyGames]

You have the best mastering videos on YouTube possibly the entire internet. It would be INCREDIBLE if you could go over certain albums and how they were mastered. Legends Never Die is one of the best hip hop mastered albums I’ve heard recently. Would love to know their techniques

[jhcmusicii]

Excellent video. I've been looking for something like this for a long time. It's also good to see Elephant. One of the best and cleanest limiters out there.

[-monarch-]

Thank you sage audio to make video on this topic, i was waiting for this topic from so many days, very well explained.Thank you very much.

[robertmitchell]

Good Video, and yes, less is more. Classical music is performed by acoustic instruments. The best mastering is tip is to keep the instruments, mix, and mastering as natural as possible. KISS!

[yvanroustan]

EXCELLENT ! as always...fast and very instructive ! thank you !

[DavidFedele]

There is hardly any information online about mastering classical music, so this is great! I have a question though, which is NEVER discussed. That is - mastering an ALBUM of classical music, not just a single track. I am working on an eight-song Neo-Classical album at the moment, and as I want to keep all of the dynamic range and am not using any compression or limiting in the mix .... there is a 5DB difference between the TRUE PEAK of the "loudest" and "softest" songs. If mastering a single, you can increase the gain of each track obviously .... but wanting to keep the mastering and levels consistent across the album, how would one best go about this when mastering? At the moment, I have my loudest track peaking at -1DB true peak, and my softest at -6DB true peak. Any thoughts?

[jarcauco]

Beautiful fragment. Useful guidance. Thank you 🍀

[Keroser]

AMAZING!!! I produce Trance and those pads / strings in the breakdown parts are always tricky for me. This was to the point. Please bring them more....

[haragab]

Thank you very much for the this Video. I concur with Vlad Sartini, yes we need more of full orchestral example.

[samkenny]

Great one-- saving this video for reference-- thanks!

[zax]

Amazing; can you make video about mastering hip hop trap music? I watched pretty much every video of yours and I wonder how you will master dominant 808 in trap as they can impact on other elements by pusing backward when listening on different speakers.

[Hengevelds]

Thanks for this! So appreciate it. How concerned should I be about phase/correlation issues? The more I leave the stereo image intact, the worse my phase issues seem to get. 😬

[operarocks]

Thank you for the attn for the classical genre. I'd very much appreciate your attention toward smaller ensembles, namely classical voice and piano. Specifically, in sub-optimal recording spaces.

[Tateshi-Starwalker]

No professional has talked about this!
Thank you very much!!
This helps me a lot!!!

P.S. I'd like to see how to master hybrid orchestral music like Hans Zimmer's and epic trailer music :)

[aderwson]

I got MaxxVolume for free but never opened it - thanks to this video I know it's roughly similar to MV2, which I never quite bought. You usually use MV2 when discussing low level compression, any particular reason for the change here? Thank you for the videos, incredible channel.