hey guys welcome back to another episode of trapping in Japan they only show on
YouTube about trapping and in Japan this is the bonus episode I decided to
construct after do my mixing series on Ableton and I decided why don't I just
master the same beat that way you guys can understand the full process if you
haven't you can watch my mixing series up here also link it down in the
description so today we're gonna master that be using only able to intense tools
let's get started
okay so before we do anything make sure premaster is hitting negative 3 to
negative 6 decibels it's something I mentioned in the other video if you
still didn't do it what the fuck are you doing
once you're all caught up let's hop into our da double use don't listen I'm bad
headphones well you can this not bad headphones beats also believe something
on good headphones too so there's something good headphones first and then
check on bad headphones later on also so let me go over a few things here when
you export it you're gonna want to export it at the bit depth that you've
mixed it in so for me that was 16 and then you're gonna want no did there if
we're gonna do it nice for dithering that's gonna be done to the mastering
stage you're gonna want to export you there as WAV or AIFF your sample rate
should be whatever sample were you mixed it in and you're gonna want to give
yourself some coffee smoke some weed or smoke cigarette whatever you do
masturbate whatever you gotta do add it all of that now that I'm back I'm
ready okay you're gonna want to open up a brand new Ableton file you're gonna
want to drag in your mix down file we're gonna name this master the track that we
put all right mix down on another one we're gonna name reference just have
been on heroin sprawl heroin I know what you guys are
thinking this video series is never gonna fucking in but you're wrong this
is the end of it here I don't know what we do after mastering it we're gonna
we're gonna unmastered it this is how you master a song this is part 17 of how
to make and deconstruct the song and it reconstruct it and then deconstruct it
again just keep going I do my process a little bit different
people so what I do is I do my limiting or maximizing when I get started that
way I know whether or not we are going to be hitting our max levels and if
there's any sort of issue with the NYX jumbo put a limiter on our master track
not our actual master track the one that we need master this is gonna get a
little confusing okay we're gonna change the look ahead at 1.5 and then we can
just leave the release on auto for now and you can leave the ceiling where it
is 0.3 is free fair and safe I'm gonna name some of the goals of mastering it
could be to clean up a file it can be to make it as loud as possible it could be
to make it hit a target volume you can use it to enhance the quality of a file
make it sound more rich you can boost certain things you can cut certain
things there's a lot to be done in mastering you can convert the file type
bitrate all that you can get it ready for people this to in any format
essentially and to have it as good as possible so with that in mind usually
the hardest part is getting as loud as possible so I usually try to do that
first once I know I can get it as loud as I
want without destroying it then I know whether or not we need to go back into
the mix and fix anything and yeah that should be good so first things
first I'm gonna try to push this as much as possible and see if we how loud we
can get it so once I have this limit around here I'm gonna start pressing the
game up so as much Headroom as you have you should be able to push that much on
the gain at least Rath back so we should be able to do at least 3.5 here without
it messing up the sound all right so that sounds pretty good but let's
compare it to our reference file that's a cool comment the saxophone put my
child is just sleep in the beginning and that was a great day and this is 10 at
10 that's what I'm here to do guys I'm
gonna put your children to sleep okay we got a reference track you're gonna pick
out something of a similar genre something that you could see playing
back to back with it I learned it from William West out of here Drake people
are tired of that song already come on then Jesus dude I was just coming in
here taking up my fucking air time alright so I dragged in the reference
file and I put it on the other track here so as you can see we need a quite a
bit we have to do quite a bit to make our loudness on the same level so we can
push our limiter more again let's try do that let's push it another two decibels
and see how it sounds
as you can see we're still not compressing very much we're only doing
like one or two decibels of compression which is good let's try push it the six
decibels again see what happens
still sounds fine let's compare it with our reference
it's almost there I think with a little more game it
should be there so let's try push up one more now we're gonna compare it with it
so they're pretty much I say with every bot on the same level right now except
the reference the snare hurts quite a bit more you're gonna have to keep
certain things in mind like that while you're comparing your original reference
you may want to switch our reference track if that that confuse you too much
you can adjust the release timing here if you want it may be easy just to leave
it auto for you but it's you so far we don't really have too many knobs to
twist so I think you should be able to handle this right so I think it's about
good there you should go without saying but you're
going be listening out good headphones or I'm monitoring setup since I'm doing
this video I have to use headphones I cannot use my monitors due to feedback I
would be using monitors right now I
would say it's about the same loudness so now that we've got that out of way
we're gonna we're gonna group this control jury or command G alright then
we're going to rename it max and that's going to be this is gonna be our maximum
setting master we're gonna want to make two different versions so we round make
the maximum loudness version and then we're gonna make a minimum lot in this
version the maximum loudness version is something you're gonna want to use for
like CDs SoundCloud or anything that doesn't really compensate for mastering
or the loudest Wars as they call it and then we're gonna have our minimum one
which is gonna have a much lower target loudness it sounds cleaner but we have
to worry about the loudness Ward's as much so we're gonna have a maximum one
in a minimum one and the maximum one you started already so and then within this
chain we're gonna add some more stuff so I'm gonna add eq8
I don't know if I'm gonna do any compression maybe
I might do a little bit of compression because if we do a little bit
compression we don't need to do as much limiting and it might sound a little bit
cleaner so first I'm gonna do with EQ eight is I'm gonna roll off some of the
low frequencies you've got to be careful with this it's very easy to go overboard
here we just want to get some of the low low frequencies that are just mudding it
up or causing some issues so I'm probably around like ten Hertz so you're
gonna want to listen here use your gears very carefully
let's say about there it's good for me I just coughs two decibels nothing crazy
I'm gonna make another eq8 here and this one is gonna be for sweetening it will
you use bells here so I'm gonna sweeten the snare area a little bit
you're gonna want to do that trick I taught you in other video where you
sweep through the mix to find good areas areas you dean the sound good and then
dial it back a little bit
then I'm gonna have all of these hit at about the same level of game I'm gonna
start out pretty small and I'm also gonna like narrow the queues of quite a
bit so maybe I'll do point one on the game so I'm gonna go in here and type
point one for all of these it'll make the queue about one still sounds like
it's a little strong some of that back I'm 2.05 on all of these there's also a
nice little scale knob here so we can bring back our EQ overall we can we can
dial back the scale and that'll bring it all back very useful in mastering so I'm
just going to put the scale about like 15% name upon a little blue compression
here the message the size a little bit threshold then I'm gonna turn down the
dry/wet and see where it sounds good in the mix
just something real subtle there kind of adds to it without really taking away
from it it's compared to a reference file again
I mean it's close enough for me it really the only thing we got to do to
make it the same now just go back and turn our snare up like five decibels and
then it'll be hurting about the same amount okay so I think we've our maximum
version sorted this is just a basic master here you can get much more
complicated with it you can you can have like some sort of mixture of like tape
effect running into it or you can start you bringing a little bit of saturation
there's a lot of different things you can do you can you can multiband
compress that's a that's a good technique for bringing out bass and
stuff like that I think I have a tutorial on it but I don't know if I did
mastering in that I just did in a mix right I did it on a sample that's what
it was okay so now I'm gonna do the minimum chain so I'm gonna just
duplicate this whole thing I'm gonna turn off the other one and i'ma rename
this one to min not known I'm in min which stands for minimum and essentially
we're just gonna leave all the settings the same but we're gonna dial back the
limiter okay so unfortunately Ableton doesn't
have its own built-in metering in here so we're gonna have to download one on
the internet real quick I'm just gonna use a free VST one and I'll link it down
in the description so you can join in on the fun stuff such as metering okay cool
we're gonna open up a project again and bring in this loudness meter so put the
loudness meter on your master track close all the popups we're gonna drag
the loudness meter onto our master track here and we're gonna want to make sure
we have our minimum chain and abled okay so we're getting around negative 10 L u
FS for our minimum version we're gonna on aim for negative 12 so I'm gonna dial
back to gain a couple decibels here maybe one and a half
okay there we go now we're at about negative 12 Lu FS so our targets for
each one are going to be different for the maximum we're going to be targeting
around negative 8 to negative 7 Lu FS depending on how competitive you want to
be with loudness Wars and then for the minimum version you're gonna want to
target somewhere between negative 12 to negative 14 Lu FS and this is more for
Spotify Apple music YouTube's most streaming platforms ok and now that we
are done you can export your track and make sure you have the right chain
enabled and then you name them separately so you do not get confused
this doesn't have to be the end of your mastering either you can you can try to
figure out ways to make it louder if you want you can figure out ways to make it
brighter whatever problem you feel like you may be having
just remember to try to work subtle and try not to damage your tracks too much
okay that's it for this video hope you guys enjoyed this video on mastering and
this series on mixing and mastering I'll do another series like this is Ableton
again once I find another project I think it's qualified I need something a
little more complicated and this one I wanted to do something real simple for
this project that way you guys can just get the basics of it and then next
project I'll do something with like twice as many tracks that we can get
into the more nitty-gritty aspects so another series should be coming
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