Is Your Mix Ready for Mastering?
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
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Preparing a mix for mastering can be a very nerve wracking thing. This video should hopefully serve as a little checklist for you to be able to make the objective judgement as to whether or not your mix is ready to send off to a mastering engineer. There is a lot of nonsense floating around about the role of mastering and why its so important to get a lot of things right prior to sending the mix off.
00:00 - Intro
0:29 - What Is Mastering?
1:34 - Is The Mix is What Youre Going For?
2:12 - Are The Creative Decisions Already Made?
3:28 - Does Your Mix Translate?
4:13 - Did You Get Feedback?
5:55 - Can You Listen all the Way Through?
6:30 - Mastering Prep Tips
Here is the Checklist:
1. Does the Mix already sound like what you're going for?
2. Have the creative decisions already been made?
3. Does the mix translate to the best of your ability?
4. Did you get feedback from others you trust?
5. Can you listen all the way through without wanting to fix things?
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Another great video Anthony. You are regularly referrenced in conversations across music forums, Reddit and the like, as a go-to content creator on the topic of electronic music production.
Great production values in your videos, valuable advice and guidance backed by practical yet deep knowledge of the fundamentals. You are a master at communicating and taking technical concepts, distilling them down into digestible and understandable bits and making it fun to learn. Keep up the great work. So many of us appreciate your efforts!
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You've been probably the biggest help in my UA-cam journey as a passionate amateur DJ & producer - Have been DJing vinyl for years but naturally gravitated towards music production as I get older. Having no formal training or knowledge and being totally self-taught in all aspects of my musical journey over time, the hardest thing for me was asking questions and trying to understand where mixing a track finishes and mastering begins. And I feel like a big part of electronic music these days is mixing while you're creating. Thanks for the video, this one helped a lot!
Talking about these things with you and everybody else on the Seed to Stage discord has given me SO MUCH perspective on this aspect of music making. There is so much misconception and misinformation out there about what engineers are supposed to be doing. Asking your engineer to 'fix' something or work out some issue in sound design is definitely something to avoid - but my engineer tells me that this happens fairly often - even from experienced musicians.
The advice of asking yourself 'is this the best that I can make this sound at my current skill level?' is simple, effective and ensures that your engineer is getting the best starting point.
One thing I'd say is that developing a relationship and rapport with someone who either loves this part of the music making process or can be your 'master swap buddy' and finish each other tracks together can give you incredible insight into mixing your own tunes much better.
Dude your new haircut looks great! Thanks for great content as always.
The chapter on 'Does Your Mix Translate' is great. This video as a whole is valuable information. Thanks, Tony!
This is awesome, thanks so much 🙏🏾
This is such valuable information for me right now 🙏
Realizing I might know more about mixing and mastering my own tracks after watching this 🤔
thanks teach!
thank you
This channel merges art and science
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If I have a group of tracks that all have their own individual limiters, such as a track In for the drums with a transparent limiter, a track In for the bass with a heavier limiter, a track In for my synths, etc. and these track In's are then sent to a Pre-Master, when it comes time to export stems for my mastering engineer, should I turn OFF all of the limiters? The track Ins that have limiters are just apart of my mixing process.
Hey man would you happen to offer 1 on 1 sessions I’m just looking to tackle a few questions and I really like your teaching style , cheers !
Hey thanks for asking, I offer a mixing and mastering online course and a community discord where I answer questions along with other members of the community. It costs about what 2 1 on 1 sessions cost and you get it for a lifetime. I no longer have time for 1 on 1 teaching. You can check it out here: seedtostage.com/
alright ! thanks man appreciate it :) @@SeedtoStage
Could you explain this -14 LUFS for streaming platforms? I recorded some WAVS from spotify (without normalization, highest possible quality) and my every reference track (Boris Brejcha) has around -8 to -9 LUFS. Why everybody is talking about -14?
-14 is a common agreed upon loudness level that streaming platforms use to that there arent sudden changes in loudness from song to song on playlists for example. Commonly EDM mixes are much louder, but on most streaming platforms those mixes will get turned down. Check this out for more: www.loudnesspenalty.com/
@@SeedtoStage hmm but as we can see these loud mixes are not turned down...
I used to master my tracks at -14 but they turned out to be much quieter than others, so now I don't stick to it at all.
In my opinion, sites like .loudnesspenalty are misleading, because by uploading a -8 LUFS track there, this site will mute it. Spotify won't actually do this.
@@wizzy2600 read the text on the website i posted to you. If loudness normalization is switched on, any mix above that level is definitely turned down upon playback. Where are you getting your references from?
If you turn off Normalization then of course the song won’t be turn down. But then there are more chance for some song to sound way louder than other ones. When you turn on Normalization On the Spotify set -14 as a general target and automatically adjust each song individually so they all are around -14. That’s why Normalization On is the default setting
In the end it doesn’t matter as much. As long as you don’t over compress the track it will sound good any where and the streaming services will take care of the loudness
ok, everything is clear now. Thank you guys for clarification :)
And if so , how much would they be. Maybe I can get your email or something