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Something that I see well, or hear people doing a lot is they'll start adding just top end to a master. And that's just a really kind of cheap, easy trick to get something to sound louder and better instantly. You just add some high end and suddenly it's more open. And it's more kind of, and it's louder, obviously and then you add some limiters on it and you're done. And that's kind of, okay, it gets the job kind of done in a weird way, but you're never going to be able to get it sounding like incredible like that. It's just going to be, you might as well put it into LandR or something, it's a very kind of get it in the ballpark territory.
Now, what you want to be able to do, to do good mastering, and the key is to not add any top whatsoever. So that might sound like crazy to some people. But what you want to try and do is, I always work from the bottom up to the top. Now I don't add any top, at all unless I'm absolutely desperate because adding the top is for me a cheap gal. I don't like it. I haven't pushed myself. I haven't tried anything new. So what I'm trying to do is I'm really trying to craft the low end and craft the low mids. And once I can get that, that's where the kind of feel and the dynamic and the kind of the sexiness of a track is really. That's where you get the beef and the solid foundation. And the top can kind of do what it wants then, it's not as important, it's not as interesting. The tops fine. It's usually quite open.
Most people in mixes can get their mixes, can get their mixes sounding great in the high end. They don't really need a lot of help in the high end. Most speakers are going to play back pretty flat in that area. It's only when we start getting below 500 hertz, 600 hertz, that the room starts getting involved and people are getting, there's they're getting a lot of backwash from the back wall and things like that. So there's cancellation going on, they can't really hear what's going on, really super low in the subs anyway, and into the kicks and stuff. So I'm in a position where I can hear that. So I can then say, okay, I'm going to craft that area. And once I'm crafting that area, once I get that right by just doing a few ... And I try and do as little EQ tweaks as possible too. That's the other challenge I give myself. So it's adding no top and adding like seeing if I can get away with two or three tweaks.
Now if I can, then I know that is I love it because it's like okay, I just took one little frequency out there and boom, it's all set in place and it's like a nice I like that. And so they obviously depends on the mix. Not every mix is possible to do that. But it's certainly the case that most mixes don't need top end. And when you start putting top end on, you're fooling yourself. So try not to. As I say, challenge yourself as someone who's mastering whether it's your own stuff or someone else's, to craft the low end and get the really low stuff happening. The subs and things and then get the low mids going. And once you can get those right and cleaned up, once you can hear what's going on there, the air will perceive everything else as being a lot flatter and a lot more balanced.
So then you won't need to add some top. By all means, yeah, add some top. I'm not saying you shouldn't. But make sure that you've worked solidly on the lows first of all. And then move on to the highs. As soon as you start adding highs first, you're in all kinds of trouble in the low end. So go from the bottom to the top.

[leaningtower]

Excellent tip! In fact the bottom end and low mids should be well controlled. They should sound punchy and not boomy or muddy. The highs will shine through naturally.
The most important part is the balance you get in the mixing stage.

[luifranco]

I dig all the shade Streaky throws out at various targets in his videos that come along with these tips! 🤣🤣🤣👍🏼

[pawelk]

love your videos its helping me alot understanding, now i need to hear that, that balanced, pumpy groove shit xd

[danielkisel]

interesting and really valuable as always !

[iqi]

Learning this was my first aha! moment in mastering. It's like having "air" in a can and impresses people no end "wow, what stereo widening did you use?" - widening? Nah I never touch that shit mate. :)

[Barncore]

What do you mean by "craft the low end" exactly? EQ? Multiband compression?

[pawelk]

i know you want earn money, that reasonable i understand that, but those videos are missing something, we need full mastering session example on yt, that would be a fire!

[bartf]

Would love to hear your opinion on the new Waves plugin; Abbey Roads Studio 3. Thanks for all the content!
Cheers, Bart

[krass]

great advice! first worry about where the track actually lives (melodic elements in lows and mids), the rest (highs) will fall into place with what you did previously! It's also precisely the reason I hate Rode mics, at least the lower-priced ones. They just sound so extremely sharp (knives in ears level)... Also hear this on female vocals a lot where the poor girl is being turned into a leaky gas bottle (that fizzle sound you get when the main valve isn't fully closed and there isn't even a pressure regulator attatched)

[johnnyinterval]

but craft it how? I dig it.. but how do you do it?

[filipesantos]

mmorph n limitless can make u sound amazin eytime, i can send u a demo if u want