This tutorial should be an example for UA-cam. Most UA-cam beginner tutorial lack the ability to teach at a granular level. They teach as if the new user already have prior knowledge. It's so frustrating. This tutorial is granular, simple, concise and complete.
And you started recording the video at 03:00 am and completed at 03:39 am people who disliked your tutorial must realise how much effort you have put into it to educate us. 🙏🙏🙏
4 Years on and your knowledge is still helping people all around the world. Thank you for making such an easy to understand and follow video. I now have a better understanding of how things work. Brilliant tutorial.
@@TheRealAudioProfessor can u please make a another tutorial on how to master EDM and get that loudness and that feel, vibe!!! Please do it It'll help alot🙏
Thanks so much! I've been there. If you're getting stuck finishing, check out Dennis DeSantis' book "Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers". It'll up your game, for sure.
Really loved this video, not least for 'The Big Lebowski' reference. The clearest and most coherent introduction to mastering in Ableton that I've yet seen. Excellent stuff,
this tutorial is a bit old but just came across it and it has saved me so much time losing my head trying to find the right audio effects, thank you so much
Before this, I never knew how to combine all tracks into one (dragging the file into a new one, or whatever you did at the beginning), you sir, are a genius, thank you!
Dude. You are dope. You're Fresh. You're cool. Your intelligence is so evident in that you are able to make things so clear. This was the list of Everything I wanted know. Awesome presentation. You're the kind of mind that defines what a teacher should be. There are so few of you in this world. Thank you.
This is the greatest thing about UA-cam. Once in a while you get to be taught by someone you'd never meet otherwise. We need to take down the campuses and create global learning resources where the best teachers, like you, rise to the top. Then the correct salaries will be awarded. 5% of teachers are great and deserve to be paid hundreds of thousands if not more. Unfortunately, bricks and mortar model is what is destroying teacher salaries, turning teaching positions into side gigs, which is a crime. Can't wait for the changes to come. Keep this up. With appreciation ~ Pete
Thanks so much for the very kind words! They really made my day. I'm inspired to post more as soon as I get a chance. I have probably 100 lectures or more that I can post, so stay tuned. They'll be up as soon as I get a break from my regular job of teaching, which is at least a bit ironic.
@@TheRealAudioProfessor The future is bright and the reach is now far and wide beyond the lecture hall. This is the best time to be an experienced teacher - who has the ability. Twenty years from now, you'll be able to say "Well, my dear nephew, I got into the teaching game early. That's how I made my fortune and all you see around you. Now, Higgins! Fetch me my robe. I wish to spa before my lecture. Higgins! Look lively now! Chop Chop!" ;-)
even though my track belongs to the completely different genre, following along with this, skipping few steps with brightening and so, now it's finally sounds somewhow descent, night and day difference! can't thank you enough for this video!
Beautiful tutorial, thank you so much. I've made a few songs in the past few weeks and want to release them, but don't know much about mastering. This helped a ton!
You have such a wonderful coaching style - this video was perfect from end-to-end; thank you for being so prescriptive and thoughtful with your approach.
Mastering has always befuddled me. People act like it’s this dark art so I didn’t bother thinking I could do it even though I have mixed a fair amount. After this tutorial I feel confident I can master my own records. Thanks for uploading!
I must thank you for this video. Mastering was one of those things I always wanted to do, but found too daunting. I have used this video as a guide for mastering a few of my tracks and while I still have great deal to learn on the subject, it has put me on the start my journey. It’s a truly valuable resource.
I'm really happy to find thistutorial as a begginer producer, but with some previous technical knowledge. It's important to properly use native plugins for later using more advance ones. Thank you so much Professor. Get going with the content, I would recomend you to focus on videos like "What is LUFS?" ;D.
Fantastic video. I'm not sure how it will apply to a rock track using Neural DSP plugins but I'm just starting out so this is a great start 🤘🏻 cheers dude!
I personally do. Sub frequencies are less directional, so having them in stereo is mostly pointless. Speakers wind up being more efficient if they’re pushing the exact same low-frequencies. It makes for a tighter low-end. It’s certainly a subtle difference, but mastering is all about subtle differences.
Thank you so much for this, I was literally following along and adjusting as necessary for my own track...it helped having you basically coach me as I go, thank you Prof 🙏🏾
Can you do a version for ableton live LITE? If that's possible. You teach soooo well, I was following every single step and really understanding, only hold back was that I wasn't able to follow most because of the difference in suite and lite plug-ins available and I'm not sure if I can substitute some such as the EQ 8 and Glue Compressor either of which I am not seeing avaliable in the lite version.
You are a hero and a cool teacher. As a Ableton noob, with experience of a few months, this helps me a lot. Can´t thank you enough! Keep up the good work. Really good editted aswell
I have another questions... :) What's the max volume of the unmastered track? How much headroom? And why powr3 dither?? ^^ Thanks a lot for that great video!
That’s a really great question. In reality, most anything that’s not too quiet is fine. I think around -3db to -5 or 6 gives a good headroom for when you start EQing to prevent clipping.
@@TheRealAudioProfessor Ok that's what I was thinking! :) Please could you answer my other questions... Why powr3 dither? And how can I get the same result of the Bass Mono function of Utility when I don't have Live 10...? (I have Live 9) In the easiest way as possible...! Thanks again!
I’m looking up options for the Bass Mono. For POW-R 3 dither, it’s designed for the most complex material, like a full song, while 1 and 2 are designed for single or minimal instruments. In reality, the type of dither doesn’t matter much at all, despite what others may say. As long as you have it, and it’s set to match the output of your bit rate
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Helped me A LOT! Such a bummer that the glue compressor doesn’t come with Ableton 10, at least not with the intro version 🥀
Will do. I have a sponsored video coming out shortly, and thanks to everybody’s encouragement, I have several Ableton videos sketched out to be released in the next two months.
Wait do you have the video of the mixing of that track? Did you use the master track in the mix project before exporting to do this master part? Im confused 😅😂 Do i do this directly in my mix or do i export my mix and do it in a new project like you do here?
Hi, thanks for the tutorial. One question regarding the EQing of the sidechain compression: isn’t it necessary to activate the sidechain-button and select the source to get the effect working?
In this case the sidechain is the internal (audio) signal. He's removing the low end frequencies from the compressor detection circuit so that it's only compressing audio above that frequency.
I know I wrote a comment.... I can't find it... IDK Great tutorial! I have been Using this on all my new tracks. Also was wondering what track you were playing in the tutorial and if i can get it?? Thx Jason Rios!
Thanks, Jason! That’s actually a song of mine that I haven’t quite finished yet. I try to use my own stuff to avoid copyright notices. I’m aiming to finish it up in the next couple of weeks and make a tutorial on mixing in Ableton Live with it. I’ll let you know.
@@TheRealAudioProfessor Awesome man! I am almost done with one I am working on. I'll send it to you so you can see how your students are doing! Haha. You are a great teacher! Keep it up!
@@TheRealAudioProfessor I could not change the audio in youtube. It is mixed pretty well but not mastered. This is a copy of the mastered version. sorry it is on soundcloud... soundcloud.com/jason-rios-825963596/fly-with-me
Can I fix the LUFs to be as low as yours mine are 14 - 20 . and also my dbs start at 20-40 then immediately jump to 1.2 for the rest of the song is that okay to export???? with the LUFS high and The dbs jumping at the very beggining? it stays a constent 1.2 through the song but the lufs are high?
Very helpful thank you, having a problem though that it's still extremely quiet when I upload my track to Soundcloud...the .wav volume is fine, and the loudness is between 12 and 1. Feeling confused.
Soundcloud is one of the few services that does not do any volume normalization. It’s the Wild West of audio levels. If you want to make a master slam there, you need to crank up the limiting. Ableton’s doesn’t sound that great when cranked that hard. You may want to look at a 3rd party limiter, like Waves L2 or L3. In my experience, Slate Digital’s FG-X sound the best with that hard of limiting.
This tutorial should be an example for UA-cam. Most UA-cam beginner tutorial lack the ability to teach at a granular level. They teach as if the new user already have prior knowledge. It's so frustrating. This tutorial is granular, simple, concise and complete.
And you started recording the video at 03:00 am and completed at 03:39 am people who disliked your tutorial must realise how much effort you have put into it to educate us. 🙏🙏🙏
And still 15000 e-mails to answer! 😂👍🏻👍🏻💪🏻
@@NickWendelsGuitarLessons 🤣🤣🤣
no one disliked the video
@@samuelbitran1890 really? Who are those 11?
"Really ties the room together". Best quote ever
It's a nod to the movie 'The Big Lebowski'
Classic.. :)
4 Years on and your knowledge is still helping people all around the world. Thank you for making such an easy to understand and follow video. I now have a better understanding of how things work. Brilliant tutorial.
Finally i got a perfect step by step mastering tutorial ❤️🙏love u dude👍
Thanks so much for the kind words. I’m glad that it helped out!
@@TheRealAudioProfessor can u please make a another tutorial on how to master EDM and get that loudness and that feel, vibe!!!
Please do it
It'll help alot🙏
Great tutorial. Thank you! I will use this the day I finally finish a track.
Thanks so much! I've been there. If you're getting stuck finishing, check out Dennis DeSantis' book "Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers". It'll up your game, for sure.
@@TheRealAudioProfessor Interesting! Thanks!
@@TheRealAudioProfessor I second this. If you are reading this comment, go and check out the book right now. You will be glad that you did it :)
I built me an Audio Mastering rack with these tools. They work really well and I'm grateful that I found this video!
Really loved this video, not least for 'The Big Lebowski' reference. The clearest and most coherent introduction to mastering in Ableton that I've yet seen. Excellent stuff,
Best mastering tutorial I've seen so far!
this tutorial is a bit old but just came across it and it has saved me so much time losing my head trying to find the right audio effects, thank you so much
Before this, I never knew how to combine all tracks into one (dragging the file into a new one, or whatever you did at the beginning), you sir, are a genius, thank you!
Thank you so much! Great tutorial
Dude. You are dope. You're Fresh. You're cool. Your intelligence is so evident in that you are able to make things so clear. This was the list of Everything I wanted know. Awesome presentation. You're the kind of mind that defines what a teacher should be. There are so few of you in this world. Thank you.
This is the greatest thing about UA-cam. Once in a while you get to be taught by someone you'd never meet otherwise. We need to take down the campuses and create global learning resources where the best teachers, like you, rise to the top. Then the correct salaries will be awarded. 5% of teachers are great and deserve to be paid hundreds of thousands if not more. Unfortunately, bricks and mortar model is what is destroying teacher salaries, turning teaching positions into side gigs, which is a crime. Can't wait for the changes to come. Keep this up. With appreciation ~ Pete
Thanks so much for the very kind words! They really made my day. I'm inspired to post more as soon as I get a chance. I have probably 100 lectures or more that I can post, so stay tuned. They'll be up as soon as I get a break from my regular job of teaching, which is at least a bit ironic.
@@TheRealAudioProfessor The future is bright and the reach is now far and wide beyond the lecture hall. This is the best time to be an experienced teacher - who has the ability. Twenty years from now, you'll be able to say "Well, my dear nephew, I got into the teaching game early. That's how I made my fortune and all you see around you. Now, Higgins! Fetch me my robe. I wish to spa before my lecture. Higgins! Look lively now! Chop Chop!" ;-)
even though my track belongs to the completely different genre, following along with this, skipping few steps with brightening and so, now it's finally sounds somewhow descent, night and day difference!
can't thank you enough for this video!
Beautiful tutorial, thank you so much. I've made a few songs in the past few weeks and want to release them, but don't know much about mastering. This helped a ton!
Thanks so much for the kind words! Best wishes for your health and your songs!
You have such a wonderful coaching style - this video was perfect from end-to-end; thank you for being so prescriptive and thoughtful with your approach.
Thank you so much for the wonderful words. They really made my day. I'll hopefully have some more good content in the upcoming weeks.
This has been immensely helpful! I've had to watch it several times, because there is a great deal of info there. Thank you.
Mastering has always befuddled me. People act like it’s this dark art so I didn’t bother thinking I could do it even though I have mixed a fair amount.
After this tutorial I feel confident I can master my own records.
Thanks for uploading!
Thanks so much! Hope it works out for you.
I feel the same way.
Awesome tutorial!!! Many of the previous comments go for me too. Thanks man...
really nice video, helped me to master my first song today
Thanks for this video and all the help! You are great :)
Thanks so much for the kind words!
This is should be essential learning for everyone new to mastering. Wish you great success with the channel.
Brilliant tutorial, especially with the advice on streaming services, thank you :)
Thank you so much for the kind words.
You can enable oversampling on the glue compressor by right-clicking on the title bar 🙂👍 And "high quality" mode with some other stock plugins.
Amazing and your short cuts are great, I just learned the ctrl shift W move.
I finally managed to master with the help of true Master Lorne Bregitzer... and I am over the moon. A Million Thanks.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Glad it helped out!
@@TheRealAudioProfessor U R welcome. 💪💪💪
Great, finally the Master chain I was looking for! Thx :)
His dudeness abides this video
Many thanks from Brazil!!!!
Thanks for video .I looking to get the wave form more straight and not up and down on it .
Amazing! This is the best tutorial I've ever seen. Thank you so much and btw are you on Instagram?
Thanks so much! You can track me down on there, @lbregitzer and @theaudioprofessor
Thanks pal, very helpful and useful
Thanks a lot! I would like to know, wether I can adapt this things on a vocal integrated master or not. Regards and Blessings
this lesson gave me a lot of useful tools.thank you
Awesome! Glad it helped out.
Thanks so much Lorne, all questions answered.
Great video man. Really helped me understand what the steps of mastering really are!!
Awesome, thank you!
Nice! now i can make my mastering sounds better.
Amazing tutorial. Explained clearly and super useful process you have that easily results in loud and more colorful sound!
Great video! Hello from the colorado college music dept :)
God bless you cat!
Great work!
SOLI DEO GLORIA
(To The Glory Of God Alone)
Father, Son & Holy Spirit
-Ronnie
Simple, yet helpful. THanks!
most helpful tutorial thanks
I must thank you for this video. Mastering was one of those things I always wanted to do, but found too daunting. I have used this video as a guide for mastering a few of my tracks and while I still have great deal to learn on the subject, it has put me on the start my journey. It’s a truly valuable resource.
Thank you so much. Yar... and also
could you please share your preference settings
Thank you so much for sharing! This helped me to complete my projects. 🙏🙏🙏
i tried this method and i loved it ... i could probably do my own mastering here on :) thank you
Awesome! Great to hear. Go for it!
Guys it really works, I checked
Thanks for the tutorial, master Obi-Wan!
I'm really happy to find thistutorial as a begginer producer, but with some previous technical knowledge. It's important to properly use native plugins for later using more advance ones. Thank you so much Professor. Get going with the content, I would recomend you to focus on videos like "What is LUFS?" ;D.
Thanks so much for the feedback. I’ll definitely do more videos of that style. I make them as a result of questions brought up in my classes
Very good tutorial!
Fantastic video. I'm not sure how it will apply to a rock track using Neural DSP plugins but I'm just starting out so this is a great start 🤘🏻 cheers dude!
you are a great professor, i learned a lot!
Liked and subscribed! This is a great tutorial man! 🤟🏻
Thanks so much! I’ve got a lot more Ableton content coming out over the next month.
Great tutorial. I only miss the differences of the Dither Options.
What a good tutorial thanks!!
Thank you man, this was extremely helpful! Subscribing right away
Thanks so much!
This video was so helpful! Great tutorial that helped me get started and understanding the mastering process. Now a happy subscriber :)
Awesome, thank you!
thank you so much this is really helpful!
Thank you! this was extremely helpful
Awesome! Glad to hear it, thanks!
Thanks ! realy helpful and very clear explained.
I appreciate this! Really gets me wanting to go master some of my bands earlier work
Thank you so much. I love your tutorials, keep up the good work!
QUESTION! Do you leave your Bass Mono button on the utility on after finishing? And can someone explain to me the purpose of that? Thanks!!
I personally do. Sub frequencies are less directional, so having them in stereo is mostly pointless. Speakers wind up being more efficient if they’re pushing the exact same low-frequencies. It makes for a tighter low-end. It’s certainly a subtle difference, but mastering is all about subtle differences.
Thank you so much for this, I was literally following along and adjusting as necessary for my own track...it helped having you basically coach me as I go, thank you Prof 🙏🏾
Great video 👍 thank you
excellent thank you for this video !
Great tutorial! Thank you! But how about if theres a vocal in it? i dont really get at mastering
Awesome !!!! Thanks man !!!!
You’re welcome! Thanks for the feedback.
@@TheRealAudioProfessor Your welcome mate!
Thanks for the video. I made notes.
Thank you for this! Straight to the point with the explanations I need :)
thanks man, great tutorial
Can you do a version for ableton live LITE? If that's possible. You teach soooo well, I was following every single step and really understanding, only hold back was that I wasn't able to follow most because of the difference in suite and lite plug-ins available and I'm not sure if I can substitute some such as the EQ 8 and Glue Compressor either of which I am not seeing avaliable in the lite version.
I know this is super late but you could use EQ three for mastering or you can get an EQ plug-in if lite supports VSTs. I recommend tdr nova.
PERFECT lesson!!!
any 2023 mastering update for ableton ? :) any eq changes you would make now ?
"Chorus goes on forever." That really cracked me up.
you made me finished a track thank you so much 💕❤️
You’re welcome. Thanks for the kind words!
So helpful. Thanks!
You are a hero and a cool teacher. As a Ableton noob, with experience of a few months, this helps me a lot. Can´t thank you enough! Keep up the good work. Really good editted aswell
Thank you so much you really help me :)
great video
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
that was great man thank you
What -db would you recommend the mix be before mastering , great video thanks.
-6 db is the usual recommended
Thank you so much for this video!!!
Thank You 🙏🙏
I have another questions... :) What's the max volume of the unmastered track? How much headroom? And why powr3 dither?? ^^
Thanks a lot for that great video!
That’s a really great question. In reality, most anything that’s not too quiet is fine. I think around -3db to -5 or 6 gives a good headroom for when you start EQing to prevent clipping.
@@TheRealAudioProfessor Ok that's what I was thinking! :) Please could you answer my other questions... Why powr3 dither? And how can I get the same result of the Bass Mono function of Utility when I don't have Live 10...? (I have Live 9) In the easiest way as possible...! Thanks again!
I’m looking up options for the Bass Mono. For POW-R 3 dither, it’s designed for the most complex material, like a full song, while 1 and 2 are designed for single or minimal instruments. In reality, the type of dither doesn’t matter much at all, despite what others may say. As long as you have it, and it’s set to match the output of your bit rate
@@TheRealAudioProfessor Ok that's still confuse to me to understand what dither to apply... And if it's really essential to apply any dither!...
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Helped me A LOT! Such a bummer that the glue compressor doesn’t come with Ableton 10, at least not with the intro version 🥀
You can also use the regular compressor on the same settings should not differ to much
Thanks so much for your video! Could you make one about mixing in ableton? That would be so helpful. Thanks!
I’ve gotten a lot of requests for that, so I’ll make one in the next couple of weeks!
@@TheRealAudioProfessor Lorne, great & informative video! I second the mixing tutorial!
Will do. I have a sponsored video coming out shortly, and thanks to everybody’s encouragement, I have several Ableton videos sketched out to be released in the next two months.
Wait do you have the video of the mixing of that track?
Did you use the master track in the mix project before exporting to do this master part?
Im confused 😅😂
Do i do this directly in my mix or do i export my mix and do it in a new project like you do here?
Thank u really helped
is this tutorial suitable for a master with vocals integrated?
very helpful!
Thank you so much 🙏
my utility does not have that bass mono option
I'm guessing you're using Live 9? The Bass Mono was added to the Utility in Live 10
Hi, thanks for the tutorial. One question regarding the EQing of the sidechain compression: isn’t it necessary to activate the sidechain-button and select the source to get the effect working?
Yea I think he just ment eqing it not sidechaining
In this case the sidechain is the internal (audio) signal. He's removing the low end frequencies from the compressor detection circuit so that it's only compressing audio above that frequency.
I know I wrote a comment.... I can't find it... IDK Great tutorial! I have been Using this on all my new tracks. Also was wondering what track you were playing in the tutorial and if i can get it?? Thx Jason Rios!
Thanks, Jason! That’s actually a song of mine that I haven’t quite finished yet. I try to use my own stuff to avoid copyright notices. I’m aiming to finish it up in the next couple of weeks and make a tutorial on mixing in Ableton Live with it. I’ll let you know.
@@TheRealAudioProfessor Awesome man! I am almost done with one I am working on. I'll send it to you so you can see how your students are doing! Haha. You are a great teacher! Keep it up!
@@TheRealAudioProfessor I could not change the audio in youtube. It is mixed pretty well but not mastered. This is a copy of the mastered version. sorry it is on soundcloud... soundcloud.com/jason-rios-825963596/fly-with-me
I mastered with your tutorial
@@jasonrios1324 Listening to it now on my new monitors. Sounds killer. That kick hits nice and clean with great melodies. Keep it up!
Can I fix the LUFs to be as low as yours mine are 14 - 20 . and also my dbs start at 20-40 then immediately jump to 1.2 for the rest of the song is that okay to export???? with the LUFS high and The dbs jumping at the very beggining? it stays a constent 1.2 through the song but the lufs are high?
This is good stuff!
Well done, thank you!
Very helpful thank you, having a problem though that it's still extremely quiet when I upload my track to Soundcloud...the .wav volume is fine, and the loudness is between 12 and 1. Feeling confused.
Soundcloud is one of the few services that does not do any volume normalization. It’s the Wild West of audio levels. If you want to make a master slam there, you need to crank up the limiting. Ableton’s doesn’t sound that great when cranked that hard. You may want to look at a 3rd party limiter, like Waves L2 or L3. In my experience, Slate Digital’s FG-X sound the best with that hard of limiting.
SecretsOfRecording Thank you for the quick reply, I will look into those. You’d think they’d make Soundcloud more idiot proof for us noobs