Mastering Tutorial--Post-Production in Ableton Live 7

Hey there,

I used ZD Soft Screen Recorder to capture my screen while I was resampling a mix during post-production work on a mix of audio loops, two guitar riffs and a drum loop for the beat.

I recommend building familiarity with compressor and eq eight, as well as saturator, in order to master your tracks in Live. You'll quickly get used to tweaking them on all your tracks to let everything ride together and be full without being so overblown it's forced.

Have fun!!!

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• saturator
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• mix

[nednednerb]

Just in case you're wondering, hapless viewer, I am a "seasoning" professional. If I made this tutorial today, I'd have 2 years more experience, plus professional training, to put toward it. I would make it differently today, but only because I know more tricks of the trade by now. I was entirely self taught at that point. But even that said, I will at no point offer any excuse for never knowing everything all the time.

[nednednerb]

Just in case you're wondering, hapless viewer, I am a "seasoning" professional. If I made this tutorial today, I'd have 2 years more experience, plus professional training, to put toward it. I would make it differently today, but only because I know more tricks of the trade by now. I was entirely self taught at that point. But even that said, I will at no point offer any excuse for never knowing everything all the time.

[freehugsbeats]

NEVER EQ STUFF IN SOLO

PURELY UNPROFESSIONAL!

[nednednerb]

@freehugsbeats True unless you're using the solo to zero in on what you're hearing. if you don't also EQ in context, it will never work and it wouldn't be making a whole mix. But it's not too ridiculous to use the solo function a little bit while doing ANY processing. Sometimes you don't know which element is the actual source of whichever frequency you're affecting until you take a listen in isolation.... At best, SOMETIMES EQ STUFF IN SOLO, BUT NEVER FORGET THE MIX, COS DUH

[4lphi95]

Hey Dude I Still Don't Get That 4 CHANNEL

[nednednerb]

@4lphi95 it's just irrelevant routing for my purposes of recording the video turtorial.

[nednednerb]

@camvscam Do you know how you could not lose your mind listening to the same take of a musical piece when you're in a real recording studio tracking ONE song for 6 hours?? Thankfully, I do, and I am at peace with it. There are much more annoying things on repeat that I could comment on.

[JelloOnline]

Holy shit, Jack Black is using ableton.

[bdashsni]

@nednednerb then make one!

[gettinnapkins]

no offense*

[gettinnapkins]

lol, his voice prohibits me from watching past 30 seconds.

[Everythingsleeps]

wish you would do more single demonstrations while mixing these

[izaatmusic]

@freehugsbeats says who?