The BIGGEST Mastering mistake (and how to FIX it) + HUGE Announcement💥
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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
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Thank you so much my friend. You got it right- if I had to fake that it would be a torture 😂
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This was definately helpful, as it was perfectly explained. Thank you!
Thank you very much for these wonderful tips on getting a loud master.
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.
always go straight to the point
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@@DomSigalas this was very much needed since I'm a new Cubase user 🙏🙂↕️
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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
Nicely explained .
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 👍
Thank you!
Makes sense, a good effect Fx chain and good sound selection combined with soft clipping and compression works great
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Thank you my friend ❤️
The Crest factor or dynamic range is something I never knew about till this particular mixing engineer on TH-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
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And yeah, the effect on your shirt is really cool!
This would have been a lot more helpful with audio examples that we could hear. However, you explained your premise on mastering quite clearly.
Meister !! ❤ thanks 🙏
Great video Dom! Thought you could've talked about and incorporated clipping as well though :)
Would love to hear how you use clippers
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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 🎉
Thank You
Great advice. I love the idea of automation to remove the crest factor on big peaks.
What kind of FX samples would be most useful in your productions?
You’re the best Dom, as always. Thank you 🙏🏻
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?
Thanks a lot because I ALWAYS have this problem!
Wow thank you so much
Thank you so much!
What a great! Tutorial Dom! Thank you! A lot of what you said is well pointed out. Thank you again!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and in an easy to understand way.
Hello master... once again THANK YOU... and I say it again every time you make me richer...
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?
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THANK YOU for this explanation! 😁👊
will the course ever have a discount code again Dom? I'm relatively new and missed the offer, thanks
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This helped me fix the problem with my too loud stabby psybass being the source of my bad mix.
Thank you always 🔥💯
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 ?
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Thank you so much for this video
Thanks Dom. How about some videos on how to master for TV?
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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..
Hi... Is there any 3rd party alternative to wavescope?
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❤️
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 :)
REAPER also had great visualizers and the ReaLimit limiter is also very transparent.
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!
BRAVO!
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 👍
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 🤣
Hi Dom !
Love your videos man ❤
Do you have a mixing course as well?
Hey Dom, thank you for all you do, you're amazing. I am not a mastering engineer and have only really my own music to master. I use Cubase 13 Pro, but have been looking at Wavelab 12, I was wondering if I need it given your courses use Cubase and don't mention Wavelab. I appreciate your Steinberg affiliation, but would really appreciate an answer to this.
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?
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.
thanks this will help me with my dj mixes as well ...subbed peace
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 TH-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!
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Awesome T-shirt
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
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
Time for the Steinberg Overall Mastering Plugin 😉, like with the vocal chain plugin...
Great video. Thanks for sharing. 🎶🎸☮
Dom, even within the audio clip, could the peak of the same audio be manipulated by zooming and with the pencil as well? Or better, how do you do it from the outside with the brush tool? In principle I think the two ways of processing it would be very similar. Best regards Master😉.
I would always suggest doing this with the pencil tool as I show on the video :) check out my video about gain staging where I go into detail about this ❤
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.
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All fair
Awesome video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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
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!!! 😎🤘🍻
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.
How do you make that shirt color effect ??
Can you please make a mixing course??
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No, not soon but get in touch with Lindsay and she might sort you out at courses (at) domsigalas (dot) com :)
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
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.
You are awesome. Thanks for this trick :)
I heard some people suggesting to use soft clip instead of a limiter to reduce these peaks... What is your opinion on this?
maybe use both? clip as transparent as possible then limit as much you need for your loudness target.
@@mynameistechno might be good advice, as I had problems using the clipper transparent and getting much effect 🤔😅
@@ericbernardi8116 Pro L2 has the unity gain option - i just turn it on, gain as much until i hear the degradation of the signal and then dial it back a bit > turn off the unity gain option. l2 is a clipper with attack full cw and release full ccw settings (no tp and lookahead).
Hi Dom I want to buy your mastering class using only Cubase Plug-ins but, I don’t know where to go to get this class. Would you please assist me in making this purchase? I am not really good at buying things online and I really want to buy your course with the 40% discount before the time runs out and I am just seeing this advertisement on 7/17/24. I hope I am not too late. Anyway please how me by telling where to go to make this purchase? As usual I wish you continued success with all of your future music videos and musical endeavors and I also wish you continued success financially as well. Have a wonderful day and week.
Great info! Do you have your PSR set to +4.0 Ref Level and 0% Time Smooth?
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.
Awsm lesson
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 🎉🎉🎉
so basically use a brickwall limiter on the drums, with a max 3db reduction, am getting this right?
I wish i had your skills Dom.
That's why I make these videos ❤️
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...)
Do i have to put brickwall limter in the mixbus or in the masterbus ?
If you’re still in mixing stage then take those peaks before you get into the mastering stage :) if you’re mastering then add them first thing in your chain :)
@@DomSigalas Thank you so much
@@DomSigalas how much the release of the brickwall limter you put on ?
H Dom. I really would love to buy your Mastering Course but, I just saw your TH-cam video on “The BIGGEST Mastering mistakes (and how to FIX it), on July 16, 2024. When my son came home and showed me how to get to you course I found out that I was watching your video months behind the due date. So I had to ask would you still allow me to purchase your Mastering Course by August 4th 2024. I am on a fixed income now and I really can’t afford $299.00 at one time now at my age. If this is even possible, please get back to me at your earliest convenience. Thank you in advance, if this even possible. Have a wonderful day.
Hello my friend!
Get in touch with Lindsay at courses(at) domsigalas (dot) com and we’ll help you out ❤️