"Always Leave 6dB Headroom For Mastering"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2023
- In which I explain why the video title is a myth, why you should leave some headroom anyway, and how best to achieve that.
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Mediocre teachers make simple ideas complicated. Truly clueful teachers, like Mr. Worrall, make complicated things simple.
Difference between Dan and other TH-cam teachers is that he’s not a gatekeeper, he wants people to have a proper understanding, beware of gatekeepers that will try to confuse you and make things seem more complicated than they are because they simply want to make the process seem harder and in turn make themselves seem more knowledgeable.
I've been arguing about this with people for YEARS and new people are still wrong about it. Especially turning down the master fader, I swear some people think their DAW is going to explode if they touch the master fader.
It's amazing how many things are just repeated parrot fashion without thinking about it. I've had this argument with people multiple times, and they wouldn't accept the linearity of PCM audio, or that it could be dealt with by the receiver as long as it's definitely not distorted... which I've always been careful about. And most of these people were more qualified than me in terms of actual on paper qualifications.
This could be a regular, short-form video series, where Dan calls bollocks! on popular audio myths 🤣👍
I think knew all of this, but it's very comforting to hear the David Attenborough of mixing youtube confirm it for me.
This is a myth created by mastering engineers because they're lazzy to lower the volume
As someone who has received mixes for mastering that leave plenty of headroom, I can attest that it does make my job easier if I know nothing is clipping throughout the mix
As a fellow Brit I love the use of the word “bollocks” it’s the perfect word to use lol. I’ve had similar discussions before about this and feel slightly vindicated lol. Magic as always Dan
Always made me confused when my teachers would say this in school. I’d think “why don’t they just turn it down? Or up?”
I'm a mastering engineer. Agree with everything. I ask for un-dithered floating point files and don't care AT ALL about level.
Aaaaaaaand that's settled!
Thank you for just straight-up getting to the point and debunking all of these mixing myths and methods. Love your style! Long time fan! Good luck getting to 100K Subs! 🤜🤛
Thankyou so much Dan. You’re giving more people than you know the chance to make so much more music better. You’ll never have the chance to listen to everything youve influenced in this life from all of your videos, but your mentorship online is such a helpful tool for people like me! I recommend you to every sound nerd friend I have
Thank you so much, Dan! Nobody, keeps it simple and to the point like you. And for this specific topic, for which many others have had videos run over 10 minutes at least, this is priceless.
Thanks for every upload you do, Dan! You're an inspiration of clarity and understanding in continually regurgitated landscape of TH-cam.
You gotta love these. Need to see SHORTS & REELS with tips like this! 👍🏾 awesome channel
I always wondered about those mastering engineers who are unable to adjust a simple gain control.
The fact that I understood every word of this, including the stuff about dither, is testament to how much I have learned in the past fifteen years (as an amateur producer, not a career engineer). And mostly it's due to TH-cam, particularly excellent channels like this one. Many thanks for the valuable guidance over the years, Dan!
I love your "simple ideas" because that's so much more my speed. Thanks Dan!!!