Thanks Dom. The best decision Steinberg has ever done was get Dom on board. I just love these videos and Dom is just doing an amazing work and always fully dedicated and enthusiastic about it. You can't fake that. His explanations and insights are so well communicated and it has helped me incredibly in recent years. Thank you so much for the work you've been doing, Dom.
Hi Dom, I'm rewatching this super useful video after a while and I would ask if it's possible for you to build a complete mixing course too, like the mastering one... I always watch your videos but having a complete course would be really great! I guess I'm not the only one hoping for this... Best wishes, Art
The Crest factor or dynamic range is something I never knew about till this particular mixing engineer on UA-cam called Baphometrix totally break down how control the Crest factor,within your mix and and not your master and he blew my mind 🤔🤔,he used clippers,saturation,eq to raise the RMS in the mix at the end he got to -6 lufs without using a mastering limiter on the master🙏 then he concluded that if your dont take care loud transients in the mix and how they sum up.then a mastering limiter will never get that done properly hence you cant get a loud mix.
@@DomSigalas Hey, I don’t know why but Im just now seeing your Mastering Course. I am interested in the Mastering In the Box…are you planning on discounting it again for the holidays (7/4??). Excellent content btw
Not the exclusive age old photo!! 😂 I am about to begin mastering my first project I have been recording since 2021 and I have found your cubase videos so invaluable and helpful every step of the way! I bought your 80s drum kit a while back but will try to purchase some more of your stuff when I can because I can’t thank you enough in words for how much you have helped me during this process! You’re awesome 🎉
Dom, MASSIVE thank you on the courses. I just signed up on the Mastering in Cubase one and dropped a comment inside on the intro. I'm looking very forward to this and am grateful for the opportunity to learn from you in detail :)
was trying to contact you and tell you that u are awesome and love ur tips and guru-ish stuff regarding music .. also u have that artist in u which is more than what u do .. i dont know if im making any sense .. buit great to see people who are REAL Experts at something .. cuz social media has alot of weak knowledge but you are the BEST man .. love ur work love ur channel u helped me in making better music or atleast gave me a waayyy better understanding of producing and everything Stay blessed and hope to meet u someday though im not in ur country but would love to 🙂
Miss my home studio right now!!.. Why I listen it just before going to bed 😂 As always, you rock Dom! Thank you so much! I got to get your masterclass asap!! And yeah, the effect on your shirt is really cool!
Okay, Dom, you had me at "I just released a new course..." Just enrolled and I'm looking forward to working through the course as I master one of my own tracks that I just finished mixing. Super excited, mate! 🤜💥🤛
Dear all this problem causes the snare, because sum of snare from overheads and room mic channels makes drum loud, so what you can do is to find proper balance or compress the area around 210hz. The same effect does the parallel compression bus with kick, it multiplies kick and snare too and makes it very dynamic and fat. Use limiter on kick and snare tracks to have better mixes
Amazing explanation . . . This is the reason why I bought hardware with transformers on it. As you mix into it the peaks are shaved off for you. Alternatively passing the individual tracks through transformers as if you tracking or recording also help you get really loud. I really had to buy it to understand how transformers affect the peaks. I was not understanding only watching youtube videos. It was an handson approach for me. Transformer on, peaks shaved nice and sound is full. Transformer off peaks are going everywhere and nothing loud. Guess all that explain why pro gear with transformers are still loved . . .
Thank you Doctor Dom, very good video ! Is it possible to make a video where you create a loud track, mastering it loud with the Cubase LE DAW and recording with the minimum tools ? Low budget for a high quality project ?
When the crest factor is as bad as that, I’d just go back to the mix engineer and be like fix it. While that can be addressed in mastering, that’s a major mixing issue. But if you are to fix that type of crazy peak issue, I think the best approach is manual clip gaining. There are a ton of ways to do this but I find RX super useful for doing this because of the tools in that program make it so much easier to do
That would be my first course of action. But the reality is many people produce and mix their music themselves and cannot necessarily do a better job- or can simply not afford mixing.
Hi Dom! First of all thank you very, very much on your endless teaching passion, yours informations are gems for all of us, keep it coming! ❤❤ Second thing, Modern 80'S Kit MAX™ is a bomb, good work!👍👍👌👌 And last but not least one question, is your under lips beard part "panned right side" on purpose, or?😉😃
Most people don't mix with enough crest factor these days. Also peak distribution variance is the thing that we find the most interesting, far more important than the body of the track. The peak distribution of the most played records of all time have that factor in common. Think 12-24dB range from each other. When you reduce the crest factor distro over RMS too much the spread of transient events goes down to under 2dB of spread. This is the equivalent of taking all your midi and putting the velocity at 127 for everything.
So…I’m not 100% sure on what you mean…are you saying mix into a limiter on mix bus or to put a limiter on the tracks that have the peaks? Thanks for the info.
I get peaks with electric bass playing style fluctuations a lot. So to compensate i don’t just record one bass track i record di bass and mic the amp with two separate gain stages so if he stabs the bass i can refer to the quieter track to avoid distortion. Not always a luxury depending on field recording equipment input channel capacity of course.
Maybe 10 20 years ago. If you work with a lot of new artists most likely now a days they’re recording and mixing their own stuff. I’ve had many artists multiple times send me songs that were completely recorded on their phone or ipad and although it’s impressing because feels like yesterday we were happy, we were able to record voice memos when you look at it that way it’s not that bad when you want to be a professional what do you think? It’s still a app not 100% there yet but it will be soon.
Dry good question! The reason is clipping is a very aggressive process- and the difference is audible. What I show is transparent- you will not be able to tell the difference. Reserve the clippers for later in the process after you’ve massaged those transients so they have to work less with fewer audible artefacts :)
For the pencil tool trick, how would you feel about going into the audio inspector and using the pencil tool there to redraw the sample peaks to a lower value? Would the main difference be just that one process isn't destructive, as in altering the original file?
Always love your presentation Dom. Unfortunately with this one...its for 'listener' that have a an issue with background noise...and leftovers from the 90s. Of course its all so context dependent...but to make a great mix louder, in an audiophile sense, you turn the volume. Crest factor is a weapon, not a problem...and listening (like sitting down with lights dimmed and REALLY listening) to music is an art form all by itself; unnecessarily squishing range and peak forces peeps out of the musical sound stage very quickly in this context. I encourage everyone to, above all set up a decent reference system and AB as much stuff as you can from your mix position, find what really works and just for the sake of the argument compare eg the original of Sledgehammer to a recent remaster...the original has amazing bass and punch because of physics...you cant get something for nothing and despite its age, shows how things are really done with cold hard demonstration of the art. The bottom end of the new mastering is smeared and crowded...actually flaps the sub in a bad way. Great info by Dom but keep your eyes (or ears) open because sometimes 'new' has baggage :-) It suits some genres to smooth everything. The reason why peeps 'love' 6db of headroom might be because they dont know anything else (for the master slammers in the comments) lol You are a great contributor Dom...not sure why you dont use wavelab though...such fast analysis tools, especially the statistics tools, make cubase look painful to use. BTW Where is the vid re: pencil tool? EDIT: Found in the gain staging vid for anyone else
I totally understand your concerns my friend. But hear me out: all the amazing records of the 50s 60s and 70s etc didnt have the issue I’m showing here so often because these problems were alleviated by the natural compression when people still recorded on tape or through analog gear). The frequency range was way more contained too compared to the super clean and detailed digital recordings. Tape has natural compression that is also very pleasing to the human ear. These problems started with digital recording (and lesser mixing skills). What I show here is non -destructive to the music. It solves a problem. The number one thing is to keep your ears open as you said. But here I am trying to help people with a super common issue. I cannot go through all the ins and outs on a short UA-cam video. I do masterclasses and courses for this. And of course I use Wavelab :) but my audience uses primarily Cubase so I try to show them the tricks with the tools most of them have. I hope this answers your questions ❤️
Hi Dom I hope you are doing well, we love all your videos, can you show us how you set up Cubase preference to make Cubase work smoothly. with fewer dump files
Does the mastering capabilities of cubase compare to the T-RACKS? Because I mean I literally just dropped the T-Rack plug in on something and like wow it sounds 30 to 40% more full... I would really like to see some cubase templates or something that could do something similar with a mixed down track..
Are you using a clipper ? I think it s better than a limiter because it doesn t alter dynamic. Also you can solve the problem track by track, or groups. Better before the mix file
I Started mastering pretty young... maybe 12 or 13. It's a Hard habit to break. Relationships and marriage sometimes help, or sometimes increase the need for mastering.It's illegal in my home cumtry... thus my leaving to the great nation of Whatwashingon D.C. Long live Pizza Parlors!
A somewhat offtopic question but how do you connect your Kemper to your RME? Is it digitally (spdif) or via the analog outputs into the preamps? Brilliant video as always!!! 😎🤘🍻
This is great. I learnt earlier on that gain staging from beginning of the mix is key to the successful mastering. My issue is I compare my tracks a lot and I realized that when I turn the interfaces volume all the way up, my tracks distort a little and other professionally mastered songs don’t distort at the same level. I’ve compressed, I’ve gain staged and done all my basics. My guess is I myt be pushing the limiting too hard but I want it to sound as loud. Any ideas?
The compressor gain reduction meter picture on your TShirt is highly out of dynamic control. You should take extra care to use a multiband compressor to take out those colour changes 😂 Just kidding 😂. Very informative and useful advice for every sound engineers out there. Highly appreciated 🎉
While I appreciate Dom's insight, this "crest factor", as it's being referred to, is not necessarily a "bad or wrong" thing. This depends entirely on the music, which we are not hearing. If anything, this lets us know that the dynamics have been maintained and the mix was at least not brick walled (over compressed or limited on the master bus), which is a very good thing. This will at least enable the mastering engineer to work with it. It may or may not be a bad mix. I have encountered both experiences, where visually, it appears whatever is causing the peaks, might be problematic. I would contend that judging a piece of music simply by the graphic, before even hearing it, is at the very least odd, with the possible exception of it being brick walled, which would require remixing in most cases.
I often find on a rock mix that I'll have a PSR around 17 - 18 on the drum buss and about 13 on the mix pre limiting, and 11 - 12 post. It's a great check. Incidentally, 20 years as a mastering engineer - what moisturiser do you use dude?!? :-)
The colour changing t shirt is crazy 😂🙌
is that just a thing now? I like it.
Dom got master video editing skills as well 🤌
U still love the effect 😂
What kind of magic is this?
@@martinlarrivee5081Dark magic, probably.
dom is like the very few teachers in school that are very cool and get the message across, you really learn something. thanks for your work
Truly appreciate this ❤️
Love from Jamaica yeah man🎉😊🇯🇲
This was definately helpful, as it was perfectly explained. Thank you!
Thanks Dom. The best decision Steinberg has ever done was get Dom on board. I just love these videos and Dom is just doing an amazing work and always fully dedicated and enthusiastic about it. You can't fake that. His explanations and insights are so well communicated and it has helped me incredibly in recent years. Thank you so much for the work you've been doing, Dom.
Thank you so much my friend. You got it right- if I had to fake that it would be a torture 😂
@@DomSigalas Exactly!
Hi Dom, I'm rewatching this super useful video after a while and I would ask if it's possible for you to build a complete mixing course too, like the mastering one... I always watch your videos but having a complete course would be really great! I guess I'm not the only one hoping for this... Best wishes, Art
Dom your vids are full of so much amazing information. I learn so much from all of them. Thank you for what you do.
Your shirt changing color is awesome. Distracted me the first time watching the video but amazing lesson taught right here! Thank you!!
i jut scrolled down to see if someone noticed tht :P
The Crest factor or dynamic range is something I never knew about till this particular mixing engineer on UA-cam called Baphometrix totally break down how control the Crest factor,within your mix and and not your master and he blew my mind 🤔🤔,he used clippers,saturation,eq to raise the RMS in the mix at the end he got to -6 lufs without using a mastering limiter on the master🙏 then he concluded that if your dont take care loud transients in the mix and how they sum up.then a mastering limiter will never get that done properly hence you cant get a loud mix.
yeah that series was life changing
Couldnt agree more. Baphometrix clip to zero during mixing stage really is game changing
Thank you very much for these wonderful tips on getting a loud master.
always go straight to the point
Can't WAIT to start the courses, very excited. Thank you Dom!! ❤🙏
Hope you enjoy them as much I did making them ❤️
@@DomSigalas this was very much needed since I'm a new Cubase user 🙏🙂↕️
@@DomSigalas
Hey, I don’t know why but Im just now seeing your Mastering Course. I am interested in the Mastering In the Box…are you planning on discounting it again for the holidays (7/4??). Excellent content btw
I just watched this to be asked to join for the courses, but the actual problem wasn't fully disclosed.
Because you didn’t understand, you mean.
Yes, too many words for such a simple problem. And very little useful.
Thank you for this Dom! I always manage to learn something new every time I watch any of your videos and you truly are a source of inspiration 👍
You are an Amazing teacher among teachers
Thank you my friend ❤️
Not the exclusive age old photo!! 😂
I am about to begin mastering my first project I have been recording since 2021 and I have found your cubase videos so invaluable and helpful every step of the way!
I bought your 80s drum kit a while back but will try to purchase some more of your stuff when I can because I can’t thank you enough in words for how much you have helped me during this process! You’re awesome 🎉
Makes sense, a good effect Fx chain and good sound selection combined with soft clipping and compression works great
Dom, MASSIVE thank you on the courses. I just signed up on the Mastering in Cubase one and dropped a comment inside on the intro. I'm looking very forward to this and am grateful for the opportunity to learn from you in detail :)
was trying to contact you and tell you that u are awesome and love ur tips and guru-ish stuff regarding music ..
also u have that artist in u which is more than what u do .. i dont know if im making any sense .. buit great to see people who are REAL Experts at something ..
cuz social media has alot of weak knowledge but you are the BEST man .. love ur work love ur channel
u helped me in making better music or atleast gave me a waayyy better understanding of producing and everything
Stay blessed and hope to meet u someday though im not in ur country but would love to 🙂
Miss my home studio right now!!.. Why I listen it just before going to bed 😂
As always, you rock Dom!
Thank you so much!
I got to get your masterclass asap!!
And yeah, the effect on your shirt is really cool!
Nicely explained .
Mastering Class. Bravo. Looking forward to this. Value 4 value. I will support this course.
Thank you so much my friend ❤
Hello master... once again THANK YOU... and I say it again every time you make me richer...
Always love your content Dom. I'll look at your mastering course now for sure.
Great advice. I love the idea of automation to remove the crest factor on big peaks.
Okay, Dom, you had me at "I just released a new course..." Just enrolled and I'm looking forward to working through the course as I master one of my own tracks that I just finished mixing. Super excited, mate! 🤜💥🤛
This would have been a lot more helpful with audio examples that we could hear. However, you explained your premise on mastering quite clearly.
Great video Dom! Thought you could've talked about and incorporated clipping as well though :)
Would love to hear how you use clippers
What a great! Tutorial Dom! Thank you! A lot of what you said is well pointed out. Thank you again!
Thank you!
You’re the best Dom, as always. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thanks a lot because I ALWAYS have this problem!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and in an easy to understand way.
boom💥💥💥💥 my problem is now solved ....thank you mr Dom🙏🙏🙏
Meister !! ❤ thanks 🙏
THANK YOU for this explanation! 😁👊
This helped me fix the problem with my too loud stabby psybass being the source of my bad mix.
Time for the Steinberg Overall Mastering Plugin 😉, like with the vocal chain plugin...
Thank you so much!
REAPER also had great visualizers and the ReaLimit limiter is also very transparent.
Hi Dom, what type of Plugin you use to change the colour of your T-shirt ??😃😃😃😃 Thanks for informative VDO
Well if you listen to many hip hop tracks- they always used to have Super loud snaredrums.
That’s on purpose - the mastering will compress the peaks
Merci beaucoup, thank you.
Avec plaisir
Thank you so much for this video
Wow thank you so much
Thanks Dom
Dear all this problem causes the snare, because sum of snare from overheads and room mic channels makes drum loud, so what you can do is to find proper balance or compress the area around 210hz. The same effect does the parallel compression bus with kick, it multiplies kick and snare too and makes it very dynamic and fat. Use limiter on kick and snare tracks to have better mixes
Amazing explanation . . . This is the reason why I bought hardware with transformers on it. As you mix into it the peaks are shaved off for you.
Alternatively passing the individual tracks through transformers as if you tracking or recording also help you get really loud.
I really had to buy it to understand how transformers affect the peaks. I was not understanding only watching youtube videos. It was an handson approach for me. Transformer on, peaks shaved nice and sound is full. Transformer off peaks are going everywhere and nothing loud.
Guess all that explain why pro gear with transformers are still loved . . .
So true. Analog gear have this amazing ability to shave off transients in a graceful way❤️
Def gona try the course
thanks this will help me with my dj mixes as well ...subbed peace
Thank you Doctor Dom, very good video ! Is it possible to make a video where you create a loud track, mastering it loud with the Cubase LE DAW and recording with the minimum tools ? Low budget for a high quality project ?
Thank You
Okay Where We can have one about Mixing pop music, and Pop Production Course? Really nice with this one. Congratulations for you and God Bless!
Thank you 🙏
When the crest factor is as bad as that, I’d just go back to the mix engineer and be like fix it. While that can be addressed in mastering, that’s a major mixing issue.
But if you are to fix that type of crazy peak issue, I think the best approach is manual clip gaining. There are a ton of ways to do this but I find RX super useful for doing this because of the tools in that program make it so much easier to do
That would be my first course of action. But the reality is many people produce and mix their music themselves and cannot necessarily do a better job- or can simply not afford mixing.
@@DomSigalas
All fair
Thank you always 🔥💯
❤ thanks 🙏❤
Hi Dom
Thanks for all the videos.
Can you post some of the commercial projects you’ve done that you are proud of?
Definitely music for National Geographic/animal planet and films that I’ve scored :)
Thanks Dom. How about some videos on how to master for TV?
Very good idea!!!
Great video. Thanks for sharing. 🎶🎸☮
You are awesome. Thanks for this trick :)
Hi Dom!
First of all thank you very, very much on your endless teaching passion, yours informations are gems for all of us, keep it coming! ❤❤
Second thing, Modern 80'S Kit MAX™ is a bomb, good work!👍👍👌👌
And last but not least one question, is your under lips beard part "panned right side" on purpose, or?😉😃
Most people don't mix with enough crest factor these days. Also peak distribution variance is the thing that we find the most interesting, far more important than the body of the track. The peak distribution of the most played records of all time have that factor in common. Think 12-24dB range from each other. When you reduce the crest factor distro over RMS too much the spread of transient events goes down to under 2dB of spread. This is the equivalent of taking all your midi and putting the velocity at 127 for everything.
I missed the 40% OFF! I hope there will be another deal soom! Great content!
No, not soon but get in touch with Lindsay and she might sort you out at courses (at) domsigalas (dot) com :)
Awesome video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
So…I’m not 100% sure on what you mean…are you saying mix into a limiter on mix bus or to put a limiter on the tracks that have the peaks? Thanks for the info.
BRAVO!
What kind of FX samples would be most useful in your productions?
I get peaks with electric bass playing style fluctuations a lot. So to compensate i don’t just record one bass track i record di bass and mic the amp with two separate gain stages so if he stabs the bass i can refer to the quieter track to avoid distortion. Not always a luxury depending on field recording equipment input channel capacity of course.
Find whatever works for you ofc, but +typically+ you'd solve that with a compressor. (Generally, an opto.. like an LA2A clone...)
I didn't understand how to avoid or solve this problem in the mix. Anyone can explain?
Mixing>mastering, isn’t it? A well balanced mix doesn’t need a lot of work. Good stuff, Dom.
Maybe 10 20 years ago. If you work with a lot of new artists most likely now a days they’re recording and mixing their own stuff. I’ve had many artists multiple times send me songs that were completely recorded on their phone or ipad and although it’s impressing because feels like yesterday we were happy, we were able to record voice memos when you look at it that way it’s not that bad when you want to be a professional what do you think? It’s still a app not 100% there yet but it will be soon.
Why not a clipper as first plugin to cut the peaks?
Dry good question! The reason is clipping is a very aggressive process- and the difference is audible. What I show is transparent- you will not be able to tell the difference. Reserve the clippers for later in the process after you’ve massaged those transients so they have to work less with fewer audible artefacts :)
@@DomSigalas okay 😊 thanks for the quick response 👍
0:35 Wow! Dom, you haven't aged a day! (Except for the greys, of course😂)
Dom love your content❤
Watching you from Pakistan.
For the pencil tool trick, how would you feel about going into the audio inspector and using the pencil tool there to redraw the sample peaks to a lower value? Would the main difference be just that one process isn't destructive, as in altering the original file?
Always love your presentation Dom. Unfortunately with this one...its for 'listener' that have a an issue with background noise...and leftovers from the 90s. Of course its all so context dependent...but to make a great mix louder, in an audiophile sense, you turn the volume. Crest factor is a weapon, not a problem...and listening (like sitting down with lights dimmed and REALLY listening) to music is an art form all by itself; unnecessarily squishing range and peak forces peeps out of the musical sound stage very quickly in this context. I encourage everyone to, above all set up a decent reference system and AB as much stuff as you can from your mix position, find what really works and just for the sake of the argument compare eg the original of Sledgehammer to a recent remaster...the original has amazing bass and punch because of physics...you cant get something for nothing and despite its age, shows how things are really done with cold hard demonstration of the art. The bottom end of the new mastering is smeared and crowded...actually flaps the sub in a bad way. Great info by Dom but keep your eyes (or ears) open because sometimes 'new' has baggage :-) It suits some genres to smooth everything.
The reason why peeps 'love' 6db of headroom might be because they dont know anything else (for the master slammers in the comments) lol
You are a great contributor Dom...not sure why you dont use wavelab though...such fast analysis tools, especially the statistics tools, make cubase look painful to use.
BTW Where is the vid re: pencil tool?
EDIT: Found in the gain staging vid for anyone else
I totally understand your concerns my friend. But hear me out: all the amazing records of the 50s 60s and 70s etc didnt have the issue I’m showing here so often because these problems were alleviated by the natural compression when people still recorded on tape or through analog gear). The frequency range was way more contained too compared to the super clean and detailed digital recordings.
Tape has natural compression that is also very pleasing to the human ear.
These problems started with digital recording (and lesser mixing skills).
What I show here is non -destructive to the music. It solves a problem.
The number one thing is to keep your ears open as you said. But here I am trying to help people with a super common issue.
I cannot go through all the ins and outs on a short UA-cam video. I do masterclasses and courses for this.
And of course I use Wavelab :) but my audience uses primarily Cubase so I try to show them the tricks with the tools most of them have.
I hope this answers your questions ❤️
Hi Dom I hope you are doing well, we love all your videos, can you show us how you set up Cubase preference to make Cubase work smoothly. with fewer dump files
Contact Steinberg support. They should be able to help.
Does the mastering capabilities of cubase compare to the T-RACKS? Because I mean I literally just dropped the T-Rack plug in on something and like wow it sounds 30 to 40% more full...
I would really like to see some cubase templates or something that could do something similar with a mixed down track..
WAIT!!!.. Dom, @13:30 are you saying to bounce the tracks after brickwall limiting?
OR... Are you telling us to MIX INTO the brickwall limiter?
Can you please make a mixing course??
Hi Dom !
Love your videos man ❤
Do you have a mixing course as well?
Are you using a clipper ? I think it s better than a limiter because it doesn t alter dynamic. Also you can solve the problem track by track, or groups. Better before the mix file
I Started mastering pretty young... maybe 12 or 13. It's a Hard habit to break. Relationships and marriage sometimes help, or sometimes increase the need for mastering.It's illegal in my home cumtry... thus my leaving to the great nation of Whatwashingon D.C. Long live Pizza Parlors!
Awesome T-shirt
Nice one Dom. Channeling your inner Tom Lubin with the colour-changing shirts?
Hey, I guess the supervision plugin is not available in Cubase 10.5? It's really time for me to upgrade 😅
Yes I’m afraid so 🤣
I want to buy your IBT class, but I'm not sure about what some plugins you listed are. can you list them here ? THX
Didn't understand a thing because I was looking at the colour changing shirt all the time...XD
😂😂😂
A somewhat offtopic question but how do you connect your Kemper to your RME? Is it digitally (spdif) or via the analog outputs into the preamps? Brilliant video as always!!! 😎🤘🍻
But if I don't have Cubase, in my case I have studio one, how could I see the parameters you explain?
How are you doing I like what you are doing great work 🎉🎉🎉
Hi... Is there any 3rd party alternative to wavescope?
This is great. I learnt earlier on that gain staging from beginning of the mix is key to the successful mastering. My issue is I compare my tracks a lot and I realized that when I turn the interfaces volume all the way up, my tracks distort a little and other professionally mastered songs don’t distort at the same level. I’ve compressed, I’ve gain staged and done all my basics. My guess is I myt be pushing the limiting too hard but I want it to sound as loud. Any ideas?
The compressor gain reduction meter picture on your TShirt is highly out of dynamic control. You should take extra care to use a multiband compressor to take out those colour changes 😂 Just kidding 😂. Very informative and useful advice for every sound engineers out there. Highly appreciated 🎉
❤️❤️❤️
While I appreciate Dom's insight, this "crest factor", as it's being referred to, is not necessarily a "bad or wrong" thing. This depends entirely on the music, which we are not hearing. If anything, this lets us know that the dynamics have been maintained and the mix was at least not brick walled (over compressed or limited on the master bus), which is a very good thing. This will at least enable the mastering engineer to work with it. It may or may not be a bad mix. I have encountered both experiences, where visually, it appears whatever is causing the peaks, might be problematic. I would contend that judging a piece of music simply by the graphic, before even hearing it, is at the very least odd, with the possible exception of it being brick walled, which would require remixing in most cases.
where can I find a link to your credited work (Mastering)? I tried on your webpage but no avail...
I often find on a rock mix that I'll have a PSR around 17 - 18 on the drum buss and about 13 on the mix pre limiting, and 11 - 12 post. It's a great check. Incidentally, 20 years as a mastering engineer - what moisturiser do you use dude?!? :-)
I liked even before watching
How do you make that shirt color effect ??
Awsm lesson