Ableton Mastering Tutorial (Stock Plug-Ins ONLY)
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2017
- How to master a song using only the the stock plugins that come with ableton only. This method does not use any 3rd party plugins.
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Lmao man why is it always when i am high that i have to find things like this
Great video 11/10 for the puppet and the damn bottled medusas
When you're high you search some crazy 💩
I found EQ eight to work great when you switch off adaptive Q. This takes away the harshness in boosting mentioned in the vid.
thanks for bringin this up
How do I turn adaptive Q off from the eq?
and over sampling mode helps
I don't know why but I have a feeling the Whole Loops lady is the puppets mom
same
lol
MiLF!
Girlfriend's Mom... (wink, wink)
🤣🤣🤣
I missed the first 3 minutes of the video because I was spacing out on the puppet thinking about what the process might be to have the puppet talk while he is talking.
indeed.
I'm almost certain that he just records voice over as he does everything in ableton, then afterwards syncs it with the puppet. I've spent ALOT of time thinking about it lmao
1:02 this parallel compression tip has helped me in SOOO many tracks ❤️
Could you do a version of this for rock / punk? The EQ variance with live percussion especially, sits differently than all electronic
On the real though, my production started going forward since the day I found your channel. Thank you so much. Would be awesome if you kept uploading these tutorials!
Thanks Reid for taking the time to make helpful material. Your the CoOLEST!!!
Even though this video is really old, thank you for this, it helped me learn a lot. Thank you for taking the time to make this! greets from germany
The ultimate confidence booster. Thank you.
Great stuff love it
Love the channel man, best tutorials in my opinion.
Hey man you have some of the best Ableton tutorials out there. Loving the realness!! :p
Sounds so different at the end compared to the original. Great practical tutorial !!!
What a fun track! love it
Thanks Reid. Really useful.
There's a New Whole Loops sample pack dropping next week stay tuned!
Nice! Loving the videos. Any compositional styles / arrangement kinda videos coming?
Can you make another video on how you made and organized the mix? Curious as to the gainstaging and grouping, I don't know how to do that stuff.
I took notes. Great work
bro I love this guy
THANK YOU!!!
this guy is my hero
0:52 that voice crack tho
Keep going!
Amazing beat
Legend
hey im just wondering why my glue compressors needle isnt moving in the return track?? but its still feeding through.
every time I come back here to learn something new, I make sure to watch the iiiiiiiiiiiiiiits production time, 2 or 3 times when I'm done watching
OMFG -- a 'muppet" avatar for yourself ...that you faithfully puppeteer throughout your video. I subscribed in a millisecond. Stayed for the great content but liked for the Muppet. F*ck yeah. Love it.
U R AMAZING !!!!!
Love these tutorials. Also you sound exactly like Criken2. It's like this is his secret music production identity.
Awesome video man! Why did you use saturator on the drums and not just parallel it?
Another great video!!!
What RMS are you getting by doing this?
Great tutorial - seen many on the mastering with Ableton stock plugins. Just why the heck do we do a double glue compressor on the return track? Is this for everytime or just trial and error with each track...
Great video!!
We are new to the live scene.
Just wanted to know why send them to sends and not just process them on the group??
Then group the groups into a mix bus channel ?
Thank you!
Because he’s doing parallel compression which mixes the dry signal with an overly compressed signal. You can’t do it straight on a bus or group
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Awesome tutorial but where do I get those jellyfish? :-)
The Hypnotic Jellyfish Aquarium
This was a strange but otherwise enlightening experience. Bless.
Funny loop I love it
Awesome !! i ve heard that When you are mastering your own music, you can bounce out the groups of tracks as .wav files to put into a new project it gives you much more control over each group of tracks, or ‘stem’. what you think about that is it true ????
Nice tutorial, but at the end when the puppet turns to talk to us I felt like he was going to murder me. haha
Do you use the same patterns to master a rock song or other Styles where you have real instruments ? I Love Ableton but I don’t know how to master other genres of music
Hey Reid, I was wondering if you add compression and EQ to your individual sounds. Thanks for another great tutorial they are awesome!
Yeah i would love to know as well. Cuz I always EQ and compress every individual track, and then I just put a limiter on the master.
Yes he does, maybe not all the individual tracks, for example if you have two similar vocal tracks you can process them together if you want, that would save you some space. After mixing the individual tracks you can do what he did in this video.
Hey Reid , awesome video as always. Ive reached the end of my mix but unfortunately haven't gain staged properly, I'm just about to clip without anything on the master (@-.05!), is it advisable to pop a utility on the master to bring it back by 3 or 4 db so I then have headroom to use limiter?
You could do that, or you could just select all the groups/tracks and turn them down until the headroom is achieved. This is what I do as long as I don't have any volume automations on the tracks (grouping tracks is helpful to circumvent this).
vocal sauce/master sauce comparison to stock plugin vid plz
I just learned so much from a puppet
I like ur shade.... lol.... God bless you
Where would i put Multi-Band Dynamics in this chain of audio? THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO MAN! :D Peace.
After u mix the song, whats the very next step to begin mastering?
Do you recommend using ableton love standard or Ableton Live suite ?
Great video! Thanks a lot! In regard to the groups you make: Would it be safe to say you're grouping by frequency ranges? (E.g. the leads and vocals are largely occupying medium ranges so you group those together?
Yes indeed :)
Do you have a similar tutorial for mastering a wav file? Sometimes I end up having to remaster something that I had commissioned or some people say* that it's better to master after the export...
Bro. Your fucking awesome.
How do you adjust the levels for different platforms? For example Spotify or UA-cam? Do you just turn down volume?
your channel is fucking dope. thank you!
i love you
Just to further understand, when gain staging. You put your Master track at -8.0db by default?
Your videos are great Reid. Just to clarify: this is the final mix/master of this track all done in this session? I know it might sound like a dumb question, but over the years I have had so many different producers tell me they bounce out a 2-track of the mix then master in a new session...or even go as far as bouncing out separate stems to a new session to re-mix...which all seems redundant to me. NEVER have I heard one of these guys tell me they mix AND master all in the same session, but so far your tutorials have been awesome and quite honestly, I would follow your lead from now on! Thanks again!
DJ Organic first of all, great name. Secondly, I’ve done it both ways and hear no difference so most of my tracks are produced mixed and mastered all in the same session.
Thanks Reid, and I appreciate you taking the time to reply.
Should the parallel compression be done after you're finished with your track? Or while you're still in the process of creating your song? Like is it a finalizer? If you know what I mean? Lol sorry for all the questions.
Idk if this helps or is correct but usually you do this when finished and while the mastering process (have read some manuals about it)
Can you do the same with ableton live lite?
If I put a limiter on it makes my audio sound a bit robotic/gives it a weird effect.. how do I fix that?
Yo how is the song called tho? its amazing! lol
Can someone tell me where i can find a finished version of this track? thanks
dude same its catchy as hell
God bless this fucking video
This shit gave me asmr
I shouldn't do too much subtractive EQs on Master?
so do any of these tracks individually have ANY compression EQ or anything on them to begin with or are you running everything at the end through the return as an "all encompassing" bus?
Same question, anyone? Reid?
Do I need ear training to learn this, I haven't seen the full video yet...I do have a proper headphones, ATH M50x
Nope you just watch the steps and try it for yourself 👍🏻
What are the jellyfish??
3:52 to pass commercial
first in 2017 is still a thing
Hey man I'm wondering if you could clarify something for me. I often see producers searching for the "frequency that doesn't sound good" (5:19) But what does that mean? If I highlight any particular frequency, it usually doesn't sound good to me. I don't understand how to discern. Thanks in advance
You sort of have to trust your ears a little! That's with everything on the master, actually. But, just find which frequencies sound worse/louder than the others on the spectrum. It is usually required to cut in the mid hi-s and hi-frequencies.
Thanks!
Yo, this is late but listen for like a consistent ringing when you boost, find those peaks, and drop them. Don't go overboard though. Like 3-4 of those kind of cuts is probably all you need
@@EthanRadell is that why sometimes I hear this nasty sound (example like on pads instruments or piano) when playing my beats in my car speakers it makes this weird sound sometimes?
To clear things up, basically all you have to search for are resonance peaks (which tend to sound like a weird windy whistle), distorted frequencies (they usually appear when the frequencies of some elements in your mix sort of multiply and get distorted) and smoothing some harsh low/mids/highs. These things you can previously correct in the mixing process by listening carefully to the sound itself, some reverb plugin or saturator you may have. Although sometimes you can't just solve every single detail when mixing (sometimes even without messing up), mastering is a great place where you can fix those very few tiny problems. Frequently (and almost always) a grear mastering is done and led by a great mixing :)
p.s sounded like a autohelp book at the end lol
Riley Reid Stefan
why don't you explain sends and return tracks?
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My mix is now extremely quiet...where did i go wrong?
Same did you figure this out?
my compressor isn't responding?
Yeah this tutorial sucks, he must have ableton configured in a very strange way to get this result.
@@benengland1710 You're right. He didn't mention that you're supposed to set the send compressor and saturator as pre fader in order to parallel inject. They are both set to post in this video.
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your box is in the way of so much
I’ve since improved my video editing techniques 🤷🏼♂️
Hey Stefan it will be great if you invite Decap on here my friend ;-) and thanks for this video by the way
I’m sure this is all super helpful but there’s a lot of stuff here that I wish was more clear and slower. I will look elsewhere for help
Positive Vibes 2 lol
Bruh this song is actually lit can i get a DL link lol
you haven't taught me anything you just showed me what you do. you need to explain why you've added these things.
Marcus Piper this isn’t a beginner tutorial mate
Still completely useless thought because I’m not a beginner 👍🏻
I agree! If your the second video that comes up you should explain in depth more. This is completely useless to me as well.
Marcus Piper it’s your job to know the tools, he showed you how he does it. Extremely simple. You should be blue to figure it out on your own 😂
just get better at mixing and using plugins then come to this, it makes perfect sense, if this doesnt make sense then dont call yourself anything above a beginner
isnt this mixing??? like 4 me mastering is made in another session with the mixed audio of the song. fr can someone answer me lol
Well what you're doing in that other session is what you're doing in the Master Track. The Master Track takes all the other tracks and controls them all at once in just one track
@@Grantcfo I know but I heard it was not supposed to be made in the same page
I need help. Whenever I try to mix I can't get my production to sound as full or even as loud as the professional mixes without my stuff peaking and becoming distorted. What do I do?
Ludo Leva I think I figured it out. I think you might just have add a limiter.
james arizaga I didn't use his settings. Never use the same settings on any track lol.
james arizaga I didn't watch the video all the way I just posted this on a bunch of tutorials lmao
This is what I learned this past month or so, with help from videos and tutorials and a friend:
1. on each track, try not to use an eq, use a filter to adjust the sound.
2. then, once all of your sounds are in place, add a Utility effect on each track. reduce the gain on each to -10db.
3. then place an eq 8 on each track and use the eq to BOOST and LOWER the frequencies, and to move the sound into the proper frequency range as to not overlap with too much with other sounds. Try not to add a limiter to the individual tracks, but if you need to increase the volume, then do so.
4. On the Master chain, add a Multiband Dynamics and a limiter, and adjust from there.
at each step, make sure you are not in the red anywhere.
Try not to use the eq 3, use eq 8, it will help to better understand what you are doing.
EQ 8: everything within the line is kept.
In the past I would never use eq 8, I would always use eq 3 because I got the sound I wanted, but when it was time to finish , I had problems. So no eq until almost the end, as I mention in the steps above.
I think when eq'ing, start with the kick and the bass, after that , the other sounds are easier to deal with. Just make sure your kick is coming thru as much as you FEEL it should.
i dont understand the first step
do you know how to Change a track from A440 to A432?
So how do you Change the Standard pitch down 8hz?
I once had a 432 Player Music App on my Smartphone.
8hz equivalates to 32 Cents. I can only tune my Nordstage down or up by 50cent steps, so I can not achieve the desired Standard pitch of 432 Hertz Right now. Can you help me to Recommend me a external plug in or an other way of Operation to do this please.
It converted the Music down by 8 hz but as a Producer, how can you shift down the whole track?
Much love to All!
On an audio file in Ableton, you "Detune" to -32 ct in the sample display, under transpose. If it sounds wonky, you'll have to adjust the warp mode afterward - usually tones or complex/complex pro works out.
Individual MIDI instruments are a little harder to figure out. Each one usually has a different spot to adjust. Some make it easy, but usually you have to click into the devices within the instrument. There could be a macro called "fine tune" - Grand piano has that. Or if it's another electronic instrument, you will find a knob or indicator that will say "detune" or "fine" in which you tune the instrument down to -32 ct.
You will know you are correct when you have a Tuner "effect" on the Audio (which you'll also have to bring down -32 ct) and it shows you're in tune.
Technically you're fine with your Nord Stage (wish I had one!)... 50 ct is equal to a half step, I think. So technically you'd be tuned to A=432hz when you tune down -32 ct there as well.
@@seekingtruth93 thank you for taking the time to answer my question! I learned what i wanted to thanks to your comment. Habe a wonderful 2020!
@@noahheyl3571 No problem!! I'm working in the lower tuning too. Have a great 2020.
@@seekingtruth93 is it easy to tune a physical piano to 432?
@@noahheyl3571 You would need to know how to tune pianos. Or hire a piano tuner to tune all the keys down. You need special equipment I think. Wish I knew how.
Is Abletons Stock Eq really that bad ???
Not really. Yes Pro-Q (2) is dank and has linear phase mode for mastering eq goodness, but eq8 will get you by for most stuff. Taking the time/practice to get really good at mixing is more important than which eq you're using imo.
I use ableton mainly and personally the EQ is totally fine. Sure other EQ's have color coded frequencies and stuff but sound wise it works great for a stock plug in.
I use TDR Nova plug-in. I can't remember where I got it, but it's free. I like it better, it's more user friendly.
I don’t like this puppet but thank you for the videos.
Dude’s using the same samples as major laser lol
this mastering isnt loud...
Muppet...
cool video, though i like the roles, but the pupet is kinda weird =p better get some animal or maybe a smiley icon puppet =p
Smh I literally got all those 3rd party plugins last night and mastered for the first time. This could have saved much trouble if it came out a day before hahaha
dude you are explaining it to people not to your self LOL
Good tutorial but I'd prefer it wothout the face cam cause it obscure's important stuff in ableton
Its saying lots of STUFF, but telling you NOTHING.
I don't get it.. you didn't press anything to send the vocals/synth ect to the return but it just works? that makes 100% no sense what so ever. Would no recommend this at all, makes no sense. wtf man?
at like 1:10 he selects the synths, vox, and fx track and sends them to the first return at -8. he then does it again at 2:25 or so for the other shit
Meanwhile demonstrating you speak alot and it's so irritating