You're welcome! That's very cool to hear. I really appreciate your comment. I've seen other videos on Maximus floating around here on youtube and I don't really feel like they did the plugin justice, so hopefully I can change that. Maximus shouldn't have to be this mysterious complicated plugin, I feel if its explained in the right way, it really is a simple and effective tool, to get what we want from it.
When I select the preset Clear Master, I don't see any audio data in the input part of the Master band on the left side of the screen. When I select a specific band though I see the incoming audio. Not sure why. Also, does Maximus work similarly to fruity limiter in that the threshold line has to be cutting into the audio signal for it to have an effect? On the right part of my screen, the peaks of the audio aren't touching the top line. I can tell that the preset is having an effect though because when I toggle between Default and Clear Master the audio gets noticeably louder on Clear Master I did just figure out that when I use the clear master preset, it raises the pre gain on all the bands a lot. Then I have to somewhat adjust the compression ratio graph to cut into the sound. Is that called driving the signal into the compressor, where you raise the pre gain and then cut into that signal with the compressor?
With the Clear Master preset, on the master band the compressor is set to 'Comp Off'. If you look to the right of the vertical list of bands, you'll see the slider with different options such as 'On' 'Comp Off' 'Muted' and 'Off'. As far as the the threshold digging into the signal, that is a uniform concept for all compressors, if the threshold isnt digging into the audio, no compression/limiting will happen. With fruity limiter it is no different. I would like to point out that on fruity limiter, you can switch it to compressor mode, which will give you 'Threshold, Knee, and Ratio' controls, and as you move those, you will see how the blue lines that appear move as you move the knobs. That is a great visualization as to how the knobs relate the the graph in real time. You are correct that increasing the pre gain is driving signal into the compressor. Using presets can be a little difficult to get right because the presets are settings that are 'pre-set'. I know that sounds super obvious, but if something is pre set, it wouldn't be able to get every different signal to sound the best it can. With that being said, they can be great starting points to then adjust specifically to your signal. Hope this helps my man!
@@jonaudio Interesting, thanks. I guess using the colored 3 bands view, can control the volume of each band. And when you raise the volume (pre gain) of a band, then you drive the signal into the compressor, and can control the amount of compression using the compression graph on left of screen. Seems like using maximus for mastering is meant to paint in broad strokes across the sound of the whole song. Also it's a maximizer, so I guess it's meant to drive the sound of the entire song into a compressor to make the song hit harder and smooth out the dynamics. I know in mixing compressors are known to make sounds hit harder, e.g. you use a compressor on a drum kit sound to make it sound larger than life. Will have to do more research about compressors. Seems knowing about the analog days could help understand software compressors
Thank you for helping me understand Maximums better than anyone ever has! You deserve so much more recognition for this knowledge!
You're welcome! That's very cool to hear. I really appreciate your comment.
I've seen other videos on Maximus floating around here on youtube and I don't really feel like they did the plugin justice, so hopefully I can change that. Maximus shouldn't have to be this mysterious complicated plugin, I feel if its explained in the right way, it really is a simple and effective tool, to get what we want from it.
Grateful for this tutorial, it was clear and concise
That's great to hear! Now Maximus won't be as daunting as it seems and you'll get some good masters out of it.
Very useful! Imagine turning on all Those tiny bottoms😂
the sky is the limit, imagine all the possibilities haha
When I select the preset Clear Master, I don't see any audio data in the input part of the Master band on the left side of the screen. When I select a specific band though I see the incoming audio. Not sure why.
Also, does Maximus work similarly to fruity limiter in that the threshold line has to be cutting into the audio signal for it to have an effect? On the right part of my screen, the peaks of the audio aren't touching the top line. I can tell that the preset is having an effect though because when I toggle between Default and Clear Master the audio gets noticeably louder on Clear Master
I did just figure out that when I use the clear master preset, it raises the pre gain on all the bands a lot. Then I have to somewhat adjust the compression ratio graph to cut into the sound. Is that called driving the signal into the compressor, where you raise the pre gain and then cut into that signal with the compressor?
With the Clear Master preset, on the master band the compressor is set to 'Comp Off'. If you look to the right of the vertical list of bands, you'll see the slider with different options such as 'On' 'Comp Off' 'Muted' and 'Off'.
As far as the the threshold digging into the signal, that is a uniform concept for all compressors, if the threshold isnt digging into the audio, no compression/limiting will happen.
With fruity limiter it is no different. I would like to point out that on fruity limiter, you can switch it to compressor mode, which will give you 'Threshold, Knee, and Ratio' controls, and as you move those, you will see how the blue lines that appear move as you move the knobs. That is a great visualization as to how the knobs relate the the graph in real time.
You are correct that increasing the pre gain is driving signal into the compressor. Using presets can be a little difficult to get right because the presets are settings that are 'pre-set'. I know that sounds super obvious, but if something is pre set, it wouldn't be able to get every different signal to sound the best it can. With that being said, they can be great starting points to then adjust specifically to your signal.
Hope this helps my man!
@@jonaudio Interesting, thanks.
I guess using the colored 3 bands view, can control the volume of each band. And when you raise the volume (pre gain) of a band, then you drive the signal into the compressor, and can control the amount of compression using the compression graph on left of screen.
Seems like using maximus for mastering is meant to paint in broad strokes across the sound of the whole song.
Also it's a maximizer, so I guess it's meant to drive the sound of the entire song into a compressor to make the song hit harder and smooth out the dynamics.
I know in mixing compressors are known to make sounds hit harder, e.g. you use a compressor on a drum kit sound to make it sound larger than life.
Will have to do more research about compressors. Seems knowing about the analog days could help understand software compressors