This brilliant video should be treated with caution as following the advice that it contains has improved my mix ten-fold, and the results have instantly gone to my head. I almost feel like calling myself a mastering engineer which I patently am not. Cheers Yoad!
26 years of experience and that modest performance. I hope I now understand somewhat more of the precious importance and subtlety of the mastering process. Thank you very much!
This is so so gold. It has changed my entire life after this honestly. I learnt proper mastering from here, and after this, suddenly everything has become magical. i knew what was going wrong, it was just the final master. My tracks lacked the right mastering. This is incredible and you are genius. Just so so thankful for sharing your knowledge. Sir. Regards. Best. Ratna.
Thank you Mr. Nevo for this great tutorial. I love your "26 years of experience into .5 dBs" philosophy - simply brilliant. One of the BEST videos I've watched on TH-cam.
Man....this guy really knows what he's doing. I'm amazed at how subtle everything he does is, yet what an impact it has. Best mastering video I've seen!
For me the best I could accuaried from this video is "Mastering is not mixing" in other words that applies to, don't expect miracles in the mastering process if your mix is badly done.
And that is where it goes wrong I think. Sometimes in the dance industry you have to deal with poor mixes and then it's your duty to make the best out of it!
Well, people can share their opinions on your Mastering positively and negatively but I SAY FOR A FACT THAT YOU ARE @ THE PINNACLE OF YOUR CARRIER AND THE BEST SO FAR. Keep it up. You will surely Master some tracks for me. God KEEP you and bless you.
And still an excellent tutorial video! Valuable information from an experienced audio engineer who is also directly involved in the development of plugins. Great stuff! Thank you Yoad!
It makes a noise, like a distortion sound but, it is very subtle and it is produced by all instruments and makes them sound like one, like one harmonious instrument, warm and wide. You can hear it if you concentrate your ear focus. Like a little bit of overload and it last like one second or less.
have been working with a rock sound for the first time in years and that SSL setting you have at 6.11.really gathers in all the extranious sizzle and crap at the top end...very handy..thanks mate
Excellent tutorial about mastering, ,this gives an idea of what to do but he's following his trained ears, and we only get that mixing or mastering day by day year by year , have a nice day to all
I know Im randomly asking but does anyone know a method to get back into an Instagram account? I stupidly forgot the account password. I would love any help you can offer me.
Iam a rookie in mastering, everything was etremly helpful thank you so much for that! By using the Q clone my mouth stood open, as i saw an alien landing.
Yoad, I just found your series of videos about mixing and mastering and just have to make a comment in the last one, the mastering one. Man, you just made mi humble song sound like a masterpiece. I just learnt in the last hours to think about so many things that is gonna take me weeks to play with all my other songs. Please let me know where to send the beers (or the bottle of peruvian pisco). Cheers.
GREAT VIDEO!! Question: Why would we want to get "a little bit of clipping on the A to D" ?? Isn't clipping in digital audio bad? Why would we want to clip anything? He says in the video that he did that because he wanted to "get an extra .5 db of level" at 2:50. But then the first plugin he uses specifically to lower the overall gain to get more headroom... which, correct me if i'm wrong, defeats the purpose of having the extra .5 db of level to begin with... right? What am I missing? Is it just that he wanted to get the most sound possible from the neve console badly enough that he was willing to sacrifice the possibility of clipping to get that maximum Neve tone? Anybody have any insight here? thanks in advance. I love this video.
He clips it giving him .5 db more because it has clipped .5db at the top meaning the waveform is smaller kinda like hard limiting but different. Not a fan of clipping myself rather have a quieter song then clipping.
***** Yep, you're right, the clipping is limited to only a few samples, as he shows, so you can't feel it, but it has some kind of "impact" when the song is mastered (at least i think so, otherwise it would be any useful for him to slightly clip the song)
goldensleeves Hey I may be wrong but it makes more sense at around 17:00 when he's applying the limiters. By clipping or flattening off the edges when recording the audio from the desk, he's still able to use that .5db gain at the end, even after reducing the gain for headroom because the parts are now flatter so it takes .5db longer for the limiter to react and start working, so in turn should then give you an extra half a db gain overall.
At first you needs the clean mix, that's holly true. If you have just minimal errors or imperfections when you mixing and then comes to master it, it will just multiply these things. Now if your it's clean, you can start working on it, people starting their chains with EQing to make needed cuts. On that I used to insert some bass mastering plugin to right set the bass. There is some nice plugins from PSP guys, and it works fine with your tunes, to go futher you can adjust the parrameters to your actual bass frequencies not simply use the default ones, and it's very strong plugin, if your track have lack on the bass on the the sub, you can use saturator to add some color, and it will sounds more professional and bring particular focus to your low end. Next one I like to use is Multiband dynamics. This one will brings you needed effect in the way of get the track together and bring nice density to it, there are tons of multiband plugins on the software basis, but some are really amazing but you must be aware and pay attention f.ex. to not remove nice highs and let the low end play more than rest of the track. Next one that could be possible used is opto compression or / passive EQing. If your track sounds more "hyperactive" try to play with Opto, and it will brings you needed results. On the other side - If you track is bit dark and needs more life to it, try use mentioned Passive EQ. This one is really nice choice and you will never regret it when it comes to final processing. This rack of plugs maybe sounds bit over-processed but you could maybe need exciting and imaging for you. It will show you how your track could be ornated. Last one is limiter but it knows everybody, you must find that one which will not removes your peaks if you don' wish to, but you need to make good compromise. If you are interested in mastering service for few bucks, feel free to contact me on fiverr: www.fiverr.com/topmastering
Divid Lewis thinks maybe 2db is crushing the mix? That's bullshit, the dynamics are preserved very well in this song, great tutorial. This is what mastering should be, preserving the dynamics while adding level enough to stand up to other commercial mixes.
L2 might be the most used compressor/limiter of all times... but I'm guessing people like variety and don't tend to using only 1 tool but L2 does the job beautifuly
Am I the only one hearing artifacts of bitrate compression in high frequencies? It seems youtube audio compression negatively affects the sound. Great tutorial nonetheless!
DamageIncM Thanks alot bro. Btw, what stereo widening plugins would you recommend, or is it safer just to widen using panning at the mixing stage? Also have you ever tried mastering in surround (like Dolby 5.1)? I think videos like this are important in sharing knowledge. Especially as you said, 'Don't restrict yourself to the rules'.. I've been hearing 'make sure u dither' for years & in this vid Nevo said, the waves analog plugins' hum/hiss noise takes care of that, so he exports with dither off, lol.. I tried a master with dither off it actually sounds better..
YOHAN HENRY MUSiQ Sorry to butt into the middle of a conversation, but if you are still looking for a stereo widener (also will mono below frequencies you choose) try the bx_Control from Brainworx. it's not cheap, but you can try it free for 14 days here:- www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/bx_control_v2.html. I use it on almost every dance track I Master. (and whenever any track needs widening for that matter) I just use the mono-master control to select what I want as mono (usually around 70hz / 100hz) and the stereo-width control between 125 and 135 and that's it.
***** kool bro, thanks alot for the info, I'll definitely check it out.. Btw, Do you do dance/pop vocals, if so do u know how they get the sharp, bright sort of phased voice tone (I also hear it in Chris Brown songs)?
+MBar Music yes, I actually used to only use ozone strictly, but it sounded pretty digital especially when pushed hard... But I find I can get a better sound using waves emulations of analog units like the cla, & limit using the L3.. I'll try putting ozone's widener in my mastering chain, hopefully it can add that extra uumph, lol.. Thanks for the advice..
In the latest videos I have watched, he is the only one I have seen use a series of limiters in a chain. I had been asking myself if that was a good idea. Guess it is. :-)
Hello Mr.yoad, many thanks for the wonderful tutorial,i just wanted to ask you why is that you have a Mono track mastering instead of stereo?? salute from milan.italy.
![ILLSLICK - KILLSHOT REMIX [FULL VERSION]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RIK8RrqIAzE/mqdefault.jpg)
5 years later, I still refer back to this video for insight and re-polishing some ideas.
Me too
And this is what we call mastering with an OG in the field🔥🔥🔥🔥
2021 and still can't find better results than this video
it doesn't get better
This brilliant video should be treated with caution as following the advice that it contains has improved my mix ten-fold, and the results have instantly gone to my head. I almost feel like calling myself a mastering engineer which I patently am not. Cheers Yoad!
26 years of experience and that modest performance. I hope I now understand somewhat more of the precious importance and subtlety of the mastering process. Thank you very much!
He's so good, Even his mouse has reverb on it
lol
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
and compression! you hear this transients?!
lol
Na you deserve an award for this comment
when he added the second limiter.... it became gold. thats life changing knowledge
This is so so gold. It has changed my entire life after this honestly. I learnt proper mastering from here, and after this, suddenly everything has become magical. i knew what was going wrong, it was just the final master. My tracks lacked the right mastering. This is incredible and you are genius. Just so so thankful for sharing your knowledge. Sir. Regards. Best. Ratna.
I have just experienced the 35 mins of 26 years hard working of the master of mastering issues : Yoad Nevo. Thanks to Waves
Thank you Mr. Nevo for this great tutorial. I love your "26 years of experience into .5 dBs" philosophy - simply brilliant. One of the BEST videos I've watched on TH-cam.
Man....this guy really knows what he's doing. I'm amazed at how subtle everything he does is, yet what an impact it has. Best mastering video I've seen!
For me the best I could accuaried from this video is "Mastering is not mixing" in other words that applies to, don't expect miracles in the mastering process if your mix is badly done.
And that is where it goes wrong I think. Sometimes in the dance industry you have to deal with poor mixes and then it's your duty to make the best out of it!
1:58 - comparison of original version
2:36 - A to D clipping
3:25
3:51
4:23 - compression
23:29 - limiting
What a wonderful video from someone who's senstivity and experience is far beyond that of so many people that I meet. Thank you.
I truly feel like I should have paid to see this.
Same here. I am so grateful to Yoad Nevo!
Truth.
A true 'master' class lol
@@likeyouiam5996 Plus bought their plugins lol
aboslutely, this is gold. he is really incredible.
Thank you Mr. Nevo. I'm learning so much from watching and listening to your tutorials.
I learned a lot from just this one video.
this is what teaching is all about ! great approach to teaching , straightforward, transparent and honest ! i learned a lot... many many many thanks !
His knowledge is vast. Very impressive to watch him work.
Thanks for your time Yoad (and Waves)!
Thank you! Old but Gold :-)
This is just priceless!!! Thanks alot for these videos! Too many people these days associate mastering process with just slapping L2 or ozone..
Well, people can share their opinions on your Mastering positively and negatively but I SAY FOR A FACT THAT YOU ARE @ THE PINNACLE OF YOUR CARRIER AND THE BEST SO FAR. Keep it up. You will surely Master some tracks for me. God KEEP you and bless you.
And still an excellent tutorial video! Valuable information from an experienced audio engineer who is also directly involved in the development of plugins. Great stuff! Thank you Yoad!
Great to learn new tricks when you think you know a lot already. Thanks Yoad!
he's a genius! This is what I was looking for. great guy!
This song is so 80's, I like it.
Thank you! This is one of the most comprehensive tuts along with Mixing EDM Music with Dave Darlington.
This mix sounds so clear, warm just perfect.. i wish could record at this quality :(
Amazing tips.We really love Waves :) Definitely recommend all Waves plugins. Thank you guys!
Oh man, I love that 80s-styled remix
Not Yoad, but Yoda ! Jedi Master ! Excellent
I was thinking the same thing LOL Loudly!
It makes a noise, like a distortion sound but, it is very subtle and it is produced by all instruments and makes them sound like one, like one harmonious instrument, warm and wide. You can hear it if you concentrate your ear focus. Like a little bit of overload and it last like one second or less.
Does this guy teach or course
I like his explanation this are clear and well explain
have been working with a rock sound for the first time in years and that SSL setting you have at 6.11.really gathers in all the extranious sizzle and crap at the top end...very handy..thanks mate
wav plugins are gold. dope mastering
Awesome....I learned a lot from this single video Thank you so much ..
Thank you for this! Super cool video! A+++
the la2a compressor boosts high fq which gives the illusion of wider stereo
Excellent tutorial about mastering, ,this gives an idea of what to do but he's following his trained ears, and we only get that mixing or mastering day by day year by year , have a nice day to all
Great video, never hear anyone explain mastering in so educated way. Bob Katz could learn a thing or two from this guy.
Incredible! ALMOST a decade later, can someone link or suggest similar for (GHASP!) EDM...?
Do EXACTLY what he said to do!
If you don't have the Waves plugins... get em.
This guy is solid gold.
Great video. Thanks Yoad!
I know Im randomly asking but does anyone know a method to get back into an Instagram account?
I stupidly forgot the account password. I would love any help you can offer me.
@Spencer Casen Instablaster =)
thank you SOOOOO MUCH for explaining these plugin features. I have mercury needed the tutorials.
Nice concise explanation of dithering, Yoad's a G!
i love this man, he knows what he's doing :)
Iam a rookie in mastering, everything was etremly helpful thank you so much for that! By using the Q clone my mouth stood open, as i saw an alien landing.
Thank you so much Waves for such a brilliant tutorial ✌️
I'm actually watching this in 2022.. are u doing all the processing on the master bus or you processing individually?
Golden tutorial, I love the English accent_it favors Africans, keep it up.
Really Been Helpful To Me...Appreciated
Yoad, I just found your series of videos about mixing and mastering and just have to make a comment in the last one, the mastering one. Man, you just made mi humble song sound like a masterpiece. I just learnt in the last hours to think about so many things that is gonna take me weeks to play with all my other songs. Please let me know where to send the beers (or the bottle of peruvian pisco). Cheers.
I needed this! Thank you Yoad Nevo
I Love Waves Audio. .!!
I So Much Like Your Great Tutorials. .!!
Pure gold! thank you Waves!
Thank you for demonstration. Salut from Romania
GREAT VIDEO!! Question: Why would we want to get "a little bit of clipping on the A to D" ?? Isn't clipping in digital audio bad? Why would we want to clip anything? He says in the video that he did that because he wanted to "get an extra .5 db of level" at 2:50. But then the first plugin he uses specifically to lower the overall gain to get more headroom... which, correct me if i'm wrong, defeats the purpose of having the extra .5 db of level to begin with... right? What am I missing? Is it just that he wanted to get the most sound possible from the neve console badly enough that he was willing to sacrifice the possibility of clipping to get that maximum Neve tone? Anybody have any insight here? thanks in advance. I love this video.
He clips it giving him .5 db more because it has clipped .5db at the top meaning the waveform is smaller kinda like hard limiting but different. Not a fan of clipping myself rather have a quieter song then clipping.
***** Yep, you're right, the clipping is limited to only a few samples, as he shows, so you can't feel it, but it has some kind of "impact" when the song is mastered (at least i think so, otherwise it would be any useful for him to slightly clip the song)
goldensleeves Hey I may be wrong but it makes more sense at around 17:00 when he's applying the limiters. By clipping or flattening off the edges when recording the audio from the desk, he's still able to use that .5db gain at the end, even after reducing the gain for headroom because the parts are now flatter so it takes .5db longer for the limiter to react and start working, so in turn should then give you an extra half a db gain overall.
he clips it on the neve console!!! .. analog clipping is tasty to ears.... not like digital clipping...
Very nice, solid stuff! Thanks Yoad.
Instantly made my shit sound better
+Randy McCray What do you do make beats?
+Troyondabeatz I make beats...
+Troyondabeatz Go to LFE BEATS ON REVERBNATION...
I hope with diff settings. His settings wont be the same for urs, obviously.
Nevo = Legend
Brilliant, thanks!
A lot Learnt from this…Thank you!!!
At first you needs the clean mix, that's holly true. If you have just minimal errors or imperfections when you mixing and then comes to master it, it will just multiply these things. Now if your it's clean, you can start working on it, people starting their chains with EQing to make needed cuts. On that I used to insert some bass mastering plugin to right set the bass. There is some nice plugins from PSP guys, and it works fine with your tunes, to go futher you can adjust the parrameters to your actual bass frequencies not simply use the default ones, and it's very strong plugin, if your track have lack on the bass on the the sub, you can use saturator to add some color, and it will sounds more professional and bring particular focus to your low end. Next one I like to use is Multiband dynamics. This one will brings you needed effect in the way of get the track together and bring nice density to it, there are tons of multiband plugins on the software basis, but some are really amazing but you must be aware and pay attention f.ex. to not remove nice highs and let the low end play more than rest of the track. Next one that could be possible used is opto compression or / passive EQing. If your track sounds more "hyperactive" try to play with Opto, and it will brings you needed results. On the other side - If you track is bit dark and needs more life to it, try use mentioned Passive EQ. This one is really nice choice and you will never regret it when it comes to final processing. This rack of plugs maybe sounds bit over-processed but you could maybe need exciting and imaging for you. It will show you how your track could be ornated. Last one is limiter but it knows everybody, you must find that one which will not removes your peaks if you don' wish to, but you need to make good compromise. If you are interested in mastering service for few bucks, feel free to contact me on fiverr: www.fiverr.com/topmastering
Outstanding tutorial....Learned a lot..Thanks
There's that great mix ebgineer called Raz Klinghoffer you should all check out
Divid Lewis thinks maybe 2db is crushing the mix? That's bullshit, the dynamics are preserved very well in this song, great tutorial. This is what mastering should be, preserving the dynamics while adding level enough to stand up to other commercial mixes.
definite jewels were dropped on this one!
Never saw anybody use the L3 after the L2... I will be trying that.... Thanks
I'll be using these techniques from now on.
excellent! a pleasure to hear you
At 2:26, as a mix engineer myself, I find it hard to point out, But that is indeed "What she said". Carry on.
cool & valuable lessons, thanks Yoad ;-)
knowledge is power, thank you for empowering me.
Excellent video Yoad
This was a great video! thanks for the upload!
L2 might be the most used compressor/limiter of all times... but I'm guessing people like variety and don't tend to using only 1 tool
but L2 does the job beautifuly
I don't have the beautiful HEQ, but I must have it now! That is an amazing device!
21:28 what mastering really is, the simple way.
I need more Yoad video!
Muy claro y conciso. Gracias !
great tutorial. learnt so much! Thank You Sir.
Thank You Very Much Sir!
🙂🙏
Brilliant video!!!! One stupid question though...... Why MONO?
It's interleaved stereo
Thank you for your response!
Fwuzeem
Great reference content video !!
...thank you so much. A great reference for future work. Regards . Rui. UK
ele sabe o que faz que isso
o cara é um genio
te amo Yoad!
Absolutely Brilliant Video.
Am I the only one hearing artifacts of bitrate compression in high frequencies? It seems youtube audio compression negatively affects the sound. Great tutorial nonetheless!
THATS A GIVEN! (Thumbs up emoji)
I would love to gain a work experience with your studio; at least for a while.
No pay; I'm cool with it.
wow, this guy is a genius
Awesome awesome AWESOME video! Amazing lesson. THANKYOU for posting! :D
Amazing tut waves!
Brilliant Yoad!
Wow.. absolutely brilliant!!
Yoad Nevo This video is GENIUS, lol, great Video... 26 years of experience. One question though, do you use stereo widening on your masters?
DamageIncM Well, specifically, I mean if producers use it in general, lol.. Do you produce, & if so, do you use stereo widening in your masters?
DamageIncM Thanks alot bro. Btw, what stereo widening plugins would you recommend, or is it safer just to widen using panning at the mixing stage? Also have you ever tried mastering in surround (like Dolby 5.1)?
I think videos like this are important in sharing knowledge. Especially as you said, 'Don't restrict yourself to the rules'.. I've been hearing 'make sure u dither' for years & in this vid Nevo said, the waves analog plugins' hum/hiss noise takes care of that, so he exports with dither off, lol.. I tried a master with dither off it actually sounds better..
YOHAN HENRY MUSiQ Sorry to butt into the middle of a conversation, but if you are still looking for a stereo widener (also will mono below frequencies you choose) try the bx_Control from Brainworx. it's not cheap, but you can try it free for 14 days here:-
www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/bx_control_v2.html.
I use it on almost every dance track I Master. (and whenever any track needs widening for that matter)
I just use the mono-master control to select what I want as mono (usually around 70hz / 100hz)
and the stereo-width control between 125 and 135
and that's it.
***** kool bro, thanks alot for the info, I'll definitely check it out..
Btw, Do you do dance/pop vocals, if so do u know how they get the sharp, bright sort of phased voice tone (I also hear it in Chris Brown songs)?
+MBar Music yes, I actually used to only use ozone strictly, but it sounded pretty digital especially when pushed hard... But I find I can get a better sound using waves emulations of analog units like the cla, & limit using the L3..
I'll try putting ozone's widener in my mastering chain, hopefully it can add that extra uumph, lol..
Thanks for the advice..
In the latest videos I have watched, he is the only one I have seen use a series of limiters in a chain. I had been asking myself if that was a good idea. Guess it is. :-)
Hello Mr.yoad, many thanks for the wonderful tutorial,i just wanted to ask you why is that you have a Mono track mastering instead of stereo?? salute from milan.italy.
I like his Snare drum preset in the h eq i just lower couple dBs in the high end sounds relay nice
THANK YOU YOAD & WAVES!