Mastering A Song - Start To Finish!

Take a peak behind the curtain at what is involved in mastering a song!
In this video I'll run you through the processing I used to master a pop song using only plugins to achieve a loud, clear and punchy master.

While every master is treated differently, this should give you a few ideas on how to approach mastering a song.

(00:00) Introduction
(03:22) Processing
(16:56) Loudness Comparison

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[spinlightstudios]

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[gonootropics.]

The key to being a mixing master is to have the whole band watching you as you confidently say "And I'm gonna make a cut at the 20hz range...you guys hear that?" 😅 Jokes aside good vid, you're a talented musician and make a lot of this stuff simple.

[believerbaeha]

bro is becoming one of my fav channels in the audio industry 💯‼

[CharfishDesign]

You’ve quickly become one of my favorite channels here. Thanks for the great stuff. Super helpful.

[necroticpoison]

Thank you for putting this vid out there. Insanely good to get to see something like this. Excellent song and master

[musiclover-rm]

Great video - one of the best I've seen on mastering as far as giving clear advice and not getting too technical - you make it feel like a relaxed and simple process, and you show that each move you make is small, but with purpose.

[joea]

I really appreciate your videos. Every time I look at videos about how to do vocals or mastering etc it's always pop and hip hop and stuff. I really needed to learn some things about rock vocals and mastering etc. So I just wanted to say thank you

[GingerDrums]

Great. Only questionmark: hard clipping is more transparent for taming transients, and using no oversampling mean we are not adding back overshoots, so why not do that? If you had said you are wanting to add clipping harmonics on the whole track, soft clipping with oversampling would make more sense to me.

[stephsandman]

This was great. I'd actually like to see how you master a song that isn't mixed that great as well. Thanks for the video!

[kallofkthuluz]

Dude….your the best. So many others on YouTube just try to give to “tricks.”

[JoeFaniel]

Thank you so much! Was very very helpful and insightful. I've not really tried to learn about mastering but this was easy to follow, thank you! :)

[Trs]

Thanks for these videos man helped me so much while producing my EP

[psychologygallery]

Great video!! Thanks a lot for sharing your workflow in mastering!!

[davidgaldamez]

I just love your material, it helps me a lot!.

[dj_hypercore]

Dude you are far and away my favorite mix instructor on YouTube. There's so much crap advice out there but you consistently release golden video after golden video.

I'm curious as to why you don't use Ozone to make the track louder? Also, I'm wondering what you think of assistant mode? How close does it get to a solid master? I'm using Ozone 10 and I find it totally wrecks my mix, in 10 specifically they added a bunch of extra crap that I can't figure out how to use but right out of assistant it just messes with the sound so so much. Do you use Neutron at all? If you could maybe roast mix assistant I think that'd make for great content haha

[tendingtropic]

nice video, the limiting with fabfilter l2 went a bit fast; do you have a video where you explain this in more detail?

[CodeOfPositivity]

Sir can you please do a mastering tutorial but with wave plugin 🙏🙏
Thanks love from Nigeria.

[ameeththomas]

Hey, I just wanted to know if you can do a video on mixing banjos and resonater guitars. Would be appreciated

[TopOfTheMound]

Does the pro l2 not have a threshold setting? There appears to be a tool bar on the right hand side I can't really see too well.

[caseymclane]

upon the first listen, I can hear
- compression - the sound is more glued together, the way I experience it is the "body" is either working well together with the "hair" or they're in their own separate worlds, and the mastering compressor is what brings them together those final couple inches
- corrective EQ - the "body" sounds clearer but I'm not hearing that much "hair" enhancement, maybe it was down to the client's vision or the reference tracks they sent you
- saturation on the transients, especially audible in the "hair" region
- some stereo widening? the "hair" seems to have gained more "VoLuMe" hehe