Mixing loud: Managing your dynamic range using limiters
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- Understanding how to get the dynamic range you want is part of a professional-sounding music production. It's the key to making your music loud and punchy, if that suits your genre.
This tutorial explains how you can gain control over your dynamic range using basic tools included in any DAW. It explains compression and expansion, and some basic audio technical concepts you need to know early on in your music production career to help your ideas have impact.
Once you are comfortable using limiters to reduce the dynamic range of your signal, a world of new options will open up, like compressors, saturation, and clipping. Your mixes and masters will sound more punchy, clear, exciting and loud when you apply these principles.
Content:
0:00 Introduction
0:52 Recap of peak, RMS, Dynamic range
2:05 Two processes: compression and expansion
3:36 Using a limiter for downward compression
5:14 Workflow tips for limiters
6:39 Compression is not the solution to everything!
7:06 Genre-related loudness and mastering engineers
8:01 Other useful tools
8:45 LUFS - Loudness Units & tonal balance
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By volume you mean volume of channel/gain or volume of sample. That's all I need to know. Thank you my man every video pushes me to direction I pursue.
This is one of the best and most understandable explanations of limiting/compression/expansion I saw so far!
Nice! Yes I found it hard to direct my students to good resources on this that are not too boring/technical/indepth. Just the basic concepts.
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does the upward compression work as a gate ? it can be used for getting rid of the noise.
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I totally agree. It's even so that I'm thinking of Switching to Ableton instead of Cubase and FL studio that I'm already using.
@@JanEkbom Ableton is great. I use Logic more, but own Live as well.
Keep in mind, most of what you’ll learn in a Live tutorial can be applied to another DAW.
I wish this was there 10 years ago when I started producing.
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Very good video! Remember: dynamic is your friend, it is the breathing soul of your music.
Finally someone who properly takes the time to explain the base principles behind a confusing concept instead of just demonstrating how they use the concept. Thanks!
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This wax my break through tutorial for getting my track louder. I had to think about it a bit as to how to do it in Reason, but got there. I only applied it to the kick, share and bass. You can even achieve it with the Maximiser in Reason.
Great lesson! Nowadays the streaming services have control over loudness, something which gives the artists the chance to not take the life out of their music by overcompressing their creations:)
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I love this because I tend to mix drums loud, but only in peak loudness, mot RMS loudness. You’re the best!
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So far, your videos have been the simplest, most direct explanation of audio mastering while be very thorough. Thanks!
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I commented a while ago on your 'intro' to subtractive synth, and since then I've tried to watch as much of your output as time has allowed. The way you describe dynamics here is way - and i mean this - beyond what most YT production teachers are doing. I realise these videos are also an advertisement for your paid courses, but there really can be no better advert. You're a very clever man, who understands how best to give the information that's needed without any need of excess info that will only confuse. I say again - were I new to this, you would be my teacher. (edit: as a mastering engineer I really appreciate how you describe what we do and how not to piss us off!)
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This video really explained a lot for me. Like I got a lot of the stuff that people were talking about but this is one of the few videos that made me see it in a more constructive and efficient way
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Mind blown and curiosity piqued! Excellent and very understandable video over a topic that could have been easily more challenging to understand. Thank you.
This is excellent, so clear and easy to understand
Thank you so much,this is exactly i was looking for,this is the best video i've found in internet...so easy to understand !
Great explanation. Simple yet effective, all the best to you!
more videos dealing with compression and limiting pls! you made such a hard concept for me so easy now. Thank you for your hard work man
Man! this lesson is so good. Thanks for this brilliant explanation of this subtle and sometimes puzzling process.
Good info. I've never heard anybody really explain the subtle difference btw upward compression and expansion. I also liked your condensed music theory video.
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What an awesome video, I am actually learning this for audio book specs. So simple to learn! thanks
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@@OscarUnderdog I'm still confused by true peak and lufs. I know the latter is for streaming platforms
@@ELLIOT8209in short, true-peak measures the absolute max amplitude of individual samples of audio. LUFS is like RMS but it takes into account the natural frequency response of the human ear
LUFS and RMS are designed to communicate information about how we hear things. True-Peak is designed to communicate objective information about the signal which is really only relevant for other devices. TP tells you how devices will react to the signal, RMS/LUFS tells you how you may react to the signal. Hope that makes sense
Clear explanations, that's what I was looking for.Keep on.
I now understand how to effectively use a limiter and I’ve watch multiple videos already. Thank youuuu
Wow man this is gold!
best explanation of different compression styles i've seen - thank you!
caveat- i'm not super down with less dynamic tacks so some of the suggestions here seem a little extreme to me. intentionality is golden though - appreciate that.
Wow! I had instant Incredible results! This rudimentary technique has completely reenergized my enthusiasm for producing music.
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Thanks for this. I found your explanation very intuitive to follow. I learned a lot!
so useful. loved it.
The Best Explanation i have heard please continue this series on dynamics even eq
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The most usefull video about RMS that I've ever seen :)
Brilliant advice wonderfully explained.
I tend to prefer lighter compression on most elements of my tracks, but sometimes you can definitely get some cool results going more extreme with the settings to really alter the sound and of course sometimes heavier compression is just a necessity based on the sound itself and where it sits in the mix. I'm also a big fan of routing all the top percussion through parallel compression to give those background parts a little more presence in the mix and bring more texture to track without bringing down the peaks of the foreground parts like the main hat. Makes things nice.
Great explanation of the Limiter! In my case, I was only using the Limiter on my Main and didn't realize I should also use on the individual Buses which really helped with my overall song loudness which I was struggling. It also seemed to help me solve some kick drums issues I was having getting right. Thank you!
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Still coming back to this, for more advice
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Helpful. Thank You so much.
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please do a video on the impact low end has when mastering, I find it difficult sometimes to get to the required levels without the low end distorting, great channel !
1:46 _"...and you feel like your track is now tonally balanced and well mix, etc., but it's still more dynamic than the reference track. The question is what tools can you use to bring your dynamic range..."
I completed that sentence in my brain before hearing the rest like: "... down and destroy an otherwise great sounding track".
Let music breath! Let music be dynamic!
I agree :) but I want the dynamic range to be a choice, not an accident due to lack of skill!
@@OscarUnderdog Perfect answer.
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Very Helpful. Thanx!