How To Master a Song

[L3mitz]

Do labels master your songs?

[JoshTizza1]

do u master via your software before mastering (properly)

[Graymanz]

Is this an actual published song by you? and if so, where can i buy it?

[DABIDZNISS]

i cant find the adaptive limiter!!!! wtf can someone tell me where it is?

[Graymanz]

@DABIDZNISS under 'dynamics' i belive

[SoundJunkieVlog]

Question:

Why don't you do your drums in the Ultrabeat plugin?

[TheDutchGorilla]

Thanks, helped a lot! Keep up the good work:]

[ThaRealDJNine]

nice beat

[laurentschark]

Hey Ryan ! Great Tutorial ;) Just to go a little deeper, the only mistake I noticed is at the beginning. You should be careful and reset your bus compressers. Indeed when you changed your buses volume to avoid clipping at the beginning, you should also check the input, then threshold of your compressers ;) Otherwise great tips ! Well done

PS : this is in the case the compression is done on the volume output of course. To be confirmed on Logic (not sure)

[TheKnismesis]

wow.. that song sounds amazing at the end of the video! :)

[DjGranSasso]

hey man, i love your tutorial and i've a request for massive: can you make that synth that Mord Fustang uses for his tracks?

[FenderStrata]

How do I contact you for mastering?

[Den5ity]

Please do a tutorial on how to bus

[cavalrymusic]

Hey Ryan, are you using parallel compression on this track when mastering? Just curious because I can't decide whether you are using the drum bus for Parallel Compression or for an overall fine tuning of the drums... I would really appreciate your feedback, thanks so much!

[nzmusic101]

@cavalrymusic from memory I was doing no parallel processing at all in this track. Not on drums or on the master.

[cavalrymusic]

@nzmusic101 ahhh didnt think so! Thanks so much for the feedback! And just to be clear, what exactly do you add or do to the "Drum" bus that its needed along with the kick/snare/percussion busses? Just curious for an idea on why its used, thanks!

[tjnovak27]

@nzmusic101 You should release that song that is on this tutorial

[djindahouse]

hi we make sure there is loads of head room at the beggining of this stage but once those plug ins have been apllied the output reads a red 0.0.

Is that what we are after? A loud mix or is that still peaking a bit?

If that is still peaking do we just adjust some of the setting s to pull it back some on the busses?

lots of questions :) Thanks Ryan!

[nzmusic101]

If you are looking for more advice on mastering from producers visit the forum at my website :)

[mcprice40]

just curious...you mention at the beginning of the video that you use different plug ins on the master than in the video...what plug ins do you normally use for the limiter and compressor?

[nzmusic101]

@mcprice40 yea when i master my tracks or clients work - i usually run the track through an outboard compressor and then for the limiter often use the L2 or the Massey Limiter :-)

[djindahouse]

cheers ryan. leg-end!

[rubikbabylon]

great tutorial ryan

cheers

Tygris

[hitchandpikeworship]

Thank you for the tutorial on mastering! Really good and much appreciated!

[guitarsalert]

can u do a video on the Vst's you use , thanx man :D

[newzealanddude92]

I like to now use Izotope Ozone in Soundforge. Great mastering tool in great mastering software. Used to mix and master in Fl Studio. Would recommend people who use Fl Studio to never make the same mistake I did =P. Fl is horrid for Mastering hahaha

[DJChrisMack]

@newzealanddude92 In what sense is it horrid ? just curious...

[Magnifikate]

@newzealanddude92 when i use ableton i use izotope ozone aswell :D but when im on reason i prefer to use their main m-class masterer which comes with it..

[NeZvers16]

@newzealanddude92 I won't agree. It depend on how you are using it. All DAWs with possibilities of VST are in equal possition, but if you are not familiar with your DAW... nothing good will come out of that!

[bmar22]

Where is the Low Cut plugin...I can't find it anywhere.??

[computerhelp1432]

how funny, i was looking online just yesterday finding out how to master, and the next day this video comes out. god is good.

[CS5n531]

you still EQ all of your synths individually, right? the way your video was presented made it seem as though you send your synths all to one "synth" bus and do everything from there

[nzmusic101]

@CS5n531 yes I still eq and process all the synths individually :-)

[MrFijiWiji]

is head room really necessarily?

[rounce55]

@MrFijiWiji yes. if you are in the red it cuts of frequency.

[MrFijiWiji]

@rounce55 i use fl so im not exactly sure what "in the red" means. do that mean its exceeding 0 db? clipping?

[nzmusic101]

@MrFijiWiji yes clipping - you definitely want headroom for when you master

[ChadLikesGuitars]

@MrFijiWiji Are you kidding? In the mixer on FL There's a bar with numbers on the side, and near the top there is a BIG RED AREA.

[MrFijiWiji]

@ChadLikesGuitars okay so going in the red does refer to clipping/going over 0 db. well its not the same that it is int the video. i just didnt catch that similarity.

[JustinMPerea]

On Ableton I use groups instead of sending them to separate buses. Same idea right?

[xTLOWWW]

ur so good at what you do lol

[RockXero77]

What's the ohms to DB ratio for us FLers?

[IEatHarlots]

Why are you guys so worried about getting your tracks mastered properly so labels will like them? If your track sucks, your track sucks. No amount of mastering will change that.

[davidgtr]

@IEatHarlots That can be true but you can also have a good song that wont sound as punchy as the professional ones just because you dont master

[IEatHarlots]

@davidgtr Yeah but my point is that half the people commenting on this video aren't making songs good enough to get signed, but they're thinking that mastering will fix their songs for them.

[ExpoMuzik]

you honestly think somebody would give you it's own track for a fucking wealth only to master it?

[JesperSjostedt1]

@ExpoMuzik Chill dude... learn to master the mastering yourself otherwise it's great that someone will do it for you

[DJMozace]

Is that a normal supersaw ? how do you make that "lead" sorta sound (kinda similar to Porter Robinson's) that goes so well with complextro ?

[Morgarothroku2]

I can't support this, but respekt for your work.

[QwasiMusic]

What are the specs on the mac you're using, ryan?

[MarcioYTchannel]

hey guys

you dont need to be so worry about the mastering

you can say to the label that the mastering was done only for demo submission, if the label likes your track they will probably make a good mastering by a nice engineer

[mhudlow87]

in your choppy complextro songs they snippits seam to meld together so well. are there techniquies to making the a more diverse collection of samples flow better and avoid that fast channel changing sound. how is this melding different when working with audio samples vs your middy reigns.

[MarcioYTchannel]

thanks :D

[JamesCaraang]

what made you switch from ableton to logic?

[nzmusic101]

@JamesCaraang i got it from a friend who sold me his computer that had logic on it...no real reason now that i look at it.

[TwistedLogicSyndrome]

Haha Sausage Fattener has a scary face that changes when you change the fatness :)

[nzmusic101]

@TwistedLogicSyndrome cool aye!

[NotoriousMLC]

i have sausage fattener. does wonders

[gizroc]

why dont you use the multi compressor on the master channel?

[myusernameis360]

what program do you think is better, logic or ableton?

btw can you get logic on pc?

[nzmusic101]

@myusernameis360 in all honesty they are just as good as each other. Logic is only for mac

[DoAproductionss]

@nzmusic101 Cubase 6 is what I use. I've used Logic for some time, I used Fruity Loops, but Cubase just seems so much more smart.

[Mr4Enzics]

@myusernameis360 You could probably get an earlier version of logic i think 7 and up are for mac only.

[nzmusic101]

@NexDnB haha used to use ableton back in the day..

[KagePointer]

Hey man, what's the actual process for getting someone to master a track for you? Do you send them stems of the song or do you send them the actual song?

Nice track btw, melody reminds me of HBFS Deadmau5 Remix :)

[nzmusic101]

@KagePointer If you want someone to mix and master a song then you send stems. But if you want someone to just master your track, you just need to send them the stereo WAV file of your whole track.

[evercoop]

:)

[nzmusic101]

@evercoop :)

[evercoop]

@nzmusic101 :)