5 Magic Mastering Tips To POLISH Your Mix

Miami shares his best mastering tips to help you stay ahead of the curve and make your mix stand up to the rest. What is your approach when it comes to mastering? Let us know in the comments!

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[davidasher]

Hahaha! Kush! Love that guy and his band is smooth!

[Willigrow]

I agree with everything except the loudness. While I agree that we should stop abusing limiters, I don't really see commercial releases and big mastering engineers letting go of -9 to -6 LUFS. And a lot of times when people try to follow the guidelines the music ends up sounding weaker. Just master loud and let the streaming services pull it down if they need to.

[mathieugarcia]

Hahaha ! Loved the reference to Gregory Scott from Kush !

[vmattos]

When I get a notification of a new Miami video, I know that my day will get better. Mostly because of his beautiful smile, but also because those tips are always fire

[mikejulian]

AHAHA were you talking about Greg Scott, the Kush Audio guy? If so, that guy is a TRIP, love him and that company

[matt_nyc_audioengineer]

Miami, great tips man!!! So I top down mix but I am a full-time professional mixing and mastering engineer. I 1, 000% agree with you about it being something that people should hold off on until they are ready. I can confirm that you are correct, if you aren't careful and you shut those plugins off, your whole mix falls apart. I started doing it because I master my own mixes almost always and it just makes mastering a ton easier when you get there. Plus I notice that clients like hearing the mixes that way hahahahaha. Great video again man!

[ColtonVanceMusic]

DUDE THANK YOU!! Dan Korneff is the KING!

[roxnroll]

"Piece of Shure" - can't believe you snuck that in at the end - had me cracking up. Never heard that one before.

[Artec]

Hi, do you have any video where you explain the 'Auto' release setting? How does it work and differ from a short/long release? Thanks

[samkenny]

Holy shit! Love the impression of that 'other youtuber'-- hahah-- I bet he would too-- fantastic

[kevinellis]

I'm 100% on-board with what was said about mastering, and maybe it's been mentioned it in other videos, but I also think it's really important for musicians to think about the fact that if you send something to someone, who didn't also mix it, to master then you've also minimized the risk of a sub-optimal result due to ear-fatigue, room-anomalies, speaker-coloration, musician-hovering, exhaustion, etc. For the price of one more professional set of ears it's generally totally worth finding a mastering engineer you can depend on.

[endever]

Thanks Miami. Took me years to finally stop top-down mixing because it was what I was first introduced to. Glad to have a perspective lately that is a little more.... pragmatic. Your insight on this is encouraging.

[adbi]

Great tips! One I absolutely love that would be great in this video is using a Clipper before your Final Limiter. This will help tame the transients and square off the waveform and takes some of the heavy lifting off the True Peak Limiter. I love using the T Racks clipper because you can adjust whether it's Hard Clipping or Soft Clipping. Also surprised to see you not using the SC HPF on the demonstrations with the SSL and Finality. Awesome shit, love you guys!

[kshitijk]

I mix in a clipper (hard) and then a limiter (lightly), works for me currently!!

[MahmoudNader]

Thanks man, learning alot from you <3
By the way I love using clipper instead of limiters for heavy metal :O

[lionelluney]

As far as limiters or compression that’s usually before my Eq or in between 2 Eq’s . Because it’s only function with most of my music is to give it a Lil bump. And smooth the bass. If it’s my personal produced song I probably don’t need a compressor cause the sounds are mainly designed for maximum whatever I need anyway so all I need is to balance the volume between tracks

[Hansipp]

I am not a professional mixer, but I mix into a limiter, because I can't judge the transients of the kick and snare properly without a limiter. I won't say that my mixes fall apart when I turn the limiter off, but especially the snare pokes out to much. I have to mention that I also master my own stuff most of the time. So for me, it is just a huge timesaver!

[jacoby]

Miami you are a beast! Yet again great video

[miltonex]

Thank you thank you thank This is pure Gold!!!!

[metatronascension]

love the tips. would be interesting to have a video just on the stereo bus compressor. you stated you have different settings depending on the genre, maybe a video going over that and what you are listening for when setting it?