MASTERING ENGINEERS ADVICE — limiters
LIMITER TRICK NOBODY ELSE WILL SHOW YOU!
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VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION Welcome back. I'm Streaky. Today, I'm going to give you a top tip that's got me loads and loads of work. It's something that I used to do in the past and no one could do it at that time. Now it's very easy to do. Some guys doing it, some guys aren't. I do it occasionally. But it definitely is something that people really, really like. So you're probably wondering what this tip is. Well, it's something that's going to get your choruses really popping. And the thing is when tracks sound flat, you're always trying...
TRY LIMITING LIKE THIS!
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VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION Welcome back. I'm Streaky. Today, I'm going to show you the limiting secret. Now the limiting secret. It's not about me personally, obviously. This is what I'm asked in the comments a lot. What I get asked is how do you get something super loud and putting it through a limiter, it always distorts and I can't get it loud myself? I thought I'd do a video today just to explain to you exactly how that's done so that you're not just smashing it through one limiter. And then it all sounds distorted and you can't get...
WHAT LIMITERS I'M USING FOR MASTERING
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Limiting never used to be really important. When I first started mastering 20 odd years ago, we used to master to 0 PPM. And only when it was peaking over will we use a limiter, a clipper-type one. That left the level about -14 LUFS, which is kind of where we're going back to. But ever since the TC Finalizer came along, and people started to smash their tracks and work from home with them, the whole mastering landscape has changed. Now limiters are used to get things as loud as we possibly can, whether that's -8, -6 or -4...