6 Things Your Mix Needs BEFORE Mastering

Real talk. Are your tracks master-ready? Let us know if these tips help!

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Why do we need headroom? If track is not clipped and picks dont go above 0db we can make headroom in mastering process with simple tool called FADER or GAIN :). Just bring it down and its done.

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Pro trick: Use a soft clipper to clip off the ends by -3db the kick and snare, that will make your mix & Master louder.. Just dont over clip it (so it doesnt distort or click)

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I’m having an issue since I’m newer to the mixing process. I have a vocal recording on a track with an instrumental. Alone both tracks don’t clip but together they do. It was recorded at a very good level and without much eq the vocals fit right in the track. I got rid of some of the low end and cut some troublesome frequencies causing the vocals to sound boxy and some that were nasally. Now I feel stuck because I don’t want the final mix to be clipping. Should I just turn down the instrumental and the vocals? The beat itself is already at -.3 db before the vocals are even brought in.

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Leave a dynamic headroom, not a level headroom, if it s at -6 and dynamically squashed, it's way worse than a dynamic mix peaking at -1. The mastering engineering will simply gain stage it with a gain trim . As long as it's not digitally clipping and fairly dynamic u re good to go even at -0.5 . But then again when property gain staging earlier in the mix chances are you re already peaking at relatively lower levels.

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A trick I’ve learned is to turn your master down to -6db when making and mixing your track.
Then export to wav and master it in a new project 😊

This video has me cracking up! Lots of great information; thanks so much. Love it!

Love you Isabelle.This is a great and useful sum up for everyone.

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Not trying to be a troll, but I've heard some well known professional mastering engineers say leave your mix bus processing on. Or send both a dry stereo mix and the processed one. They're reasoning is. They want it to sound as good as you can get it, then they enhance it. So if you want your mix at a certain volume, use a limiter or a certain amount of compression, do it. They can always throw a gain plugin on and bring the volume down to create headroom, if needed.
Point being, there's conflicting information out there. Could you go into a little more detail on the reasons for no limiter etc.? I'm sure you're right and I'm sure the other guys are right, just depends on the situation. Just curious. I've heard a lot of people say both.

Many thanks for all the tips Isabelle, I am now exactly before mastering stage and this was very helpful:-)

Great video! Lots of great tips!

This is great, thanks !

To this day, and even more if one is able to do all that is required here, I have no idea why would someone need mastering from an engineer or anything outside. It is quite simple to learn to use compression, EQ and limiters and get a good LUFs monitor.

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wow, this was massively helpful! i legitimately enjoyed watching it too, which i didn't expect considering a lot of this information is new (and confusing) to me. isabelle has the perfect personality for these vids, plz do a million more!

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Please, mastering my song!!!!!

-6 dB on mix master?

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If u want a know a mix is good, try this- low your master and listen to the track and if your track only can hear some drums or anything specially and other any track in a high vloume its not good am i ryt wht do u think

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