Loud Mastering Trick!

[theoquayle]

6-12 db of gain reduction is absolutely criminal. Not to mention the additional clipping / limiting

[SomberSkies_]

Many people in the comments dont seem to get the thing about loudness so let me try to help here


Loudness itself isnt good or bad. Its a tool in ur toolkit to achieve the vision of ur client (or ur own). In order to understand WHEN to make ur stuff loud, u have to understand what loudness actually does to ur music.

As a mastering engineer u wanna understand the intent that ur client has made that Track with.
So if a client tells u "Yo, i want this track to be making people go crazy and jump around", then its ur Job to follow THIS vision. And loudness can be an appropriate/common way to achieve exactly that.

If u master a Song to -5 LUFS but it hasnt been intended to be LOUD/Compressed, it will RUIN the Song.
If u master a Song to -16 LUFS but it hasnt been intended to be QUIET/Dynamic, it will RUIN the Song too.

This is NOT a question about Genre, Skill, Rules, Technicalities or any of that bs. Its about understanding ur tools correctly.

What happens if u listen to a dynamic song loudly?
It sounds pokey and harsh
What happens if u listen to a loud song quietly?
It sounds weak and distorted

U choose

[dazzer_]

Video should be called 'How to smash the dynamic rage out of your music'.

[victors.]

Here's how I do it: Get fat transients during the mixing stage. When mastering use compression, saturation and pro-l 2. Push it to -6 dB gain reduction and you should be good. This depends mostly on the mix.

[StayTrueToMyLies]

Now do this in a way I can follow along in FL Studio and explain the concept of

[memeswillneverdie]

All these people don’t know anything, who needs dynamics anyway 😏😂

[simsgamer]

I didn’t know about super loud monsters. 😂

[KINGDOM_OFFICIAL]

Not me getting my tunes to -2 LUFS XD Sounds fine to me, just making a ton of sacrifices

[marceloribeirosimoes]

Great tip!
But to treat each track first works even better.

[aboliguu]

Loud master comes like 95% from the mix. You have to compress and saturate each element a lot (not so much that they sound bad, obviously) and you will hit -7 to -9lufs without even limiting

[kensmechanicalaffair]

It's usually the drums and bass that keep you from getting a louder master, crest factor. You'll just flatten the sound with those shitty plugins.

[therealoneal]

So we’re adding 3 limiters and a clipper? 😭 might as well just use one limiter (MAYBE 2) and/or use a mix bus compressor while mixing

[swapnilpradhan]

Why do my mixes pump on laptop speaker the lowend overtakes the mix

[Yamuva]

Can you do this exact one except in Ableton

[vasiliZaitsev]

NOPE ... EVERY LIMITER has a Tone. 3 Limiter and 1 Clipper? Thats not Transparent.

[rawmaterial]

Actually listen to what it’s doin to your phone speaker the more gain you add…that crushed up digital distortion 🤮

[mzg_music]

6-12db of gain reduction?! Bro you’re spreading bad information

[painauchocolate]

Please don’t do this guys. Please don’t rely on self mastering to do what your mixing process should have done.

Mastering engineers (properly experienced with a good room and chain) have developed their ears in conjunction with their passion for sound and technology.

Just save up the money and take a well mixed project to a well established mastering engineer, and allow him (NOT YOU) to make essential limiting decisions.

In two minds to report this video for crimes against humanity. ;)

[_CRiT_hits_]

So you're literally just crushing and clipping the dynamics and gain boosting it back 🤦‍♂️