Buy the vst called trackspacer, does it for you automatically

idk about best but I've been told my mixes are pretty good

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Got my first client (outside of friends) over for a irl recording/mixing sesh

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Would anyone have a good reference for this?

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Make sure everything is clipping at -6 lufs

any tuts?

It’s a joke lol

Bruh

High-key though clipping plugins have helped

Tbh I would keep that s*** at -9 lufs, Mike Dean overexaggerates pushing like -4 which is way too loud.

Abuse a lot of settings on Ozone 9 keep that s*** relatively loud.

If ur doing any compression try -2-6 db mind u on a parallel bus. Adjust the compression to taste

If ur gonna Soft Clip than go for like -2db and if ur using Pro-L try an infinite release for loud peaks

Neoverb takes a bit more cpu up

I go with Valhalla, but I don’t mind using Neoverb if I got time

Neoverb has pretty cool parameter settings

When mastering I usually get my tracks to hit around -7 lufs before it starts distorting but it all starts with the mix, if the mix isn’t right you can’t get it anywhere that loud without any audible distortion

And actually keep the release as low as possible and the attack as high as possible on the Pro-L and the channel linking transients on 0% and release on 50% and the look ahead on the default setting. I found that you can really push things loud with those settings.

See post above

I mix, not master, so I have a novice question: Why aim for -7 if streaming services will turn it down to -14?

That’s where a lot of people get confused, the streaming services aren’t turning down any file it just plays everything at -14 if you have loudness normalization on, you can turn it off though. Apple music has it off by default and Spotify only has it on by default on mobile apps not the web player, etc.

When normalization is off the songs play at whatever level they were mastered at and that’s where you start to hear some tracks just fall flat when going from a song that was mastered really loud to one mastered at -14.

I’m primarily a mixer too, I only got into mastering when I realized everyone who wants their song mixed, wants it mastered too and would rather pay you extra to do it instead of going to pay someone else just for that. Plus I learned how to improve my mixes by a lot while mastering too.

I've been making beats on and off for a decade roughly.

I know this wouldn't be overnight learned thing but, I really want to purchase Pro Tools and learn how to mix. I want to dump my MPC beats into there and mix down a whole song.

Any recommendations on where to start? Any books to read etc?
Thanks all

For people with ZERO knowledge of mixing here's what I recommend.

Books:
Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio by Mike Senior
The Mixing Engineer's Handbook by Bobby Owsinski

YouTube channels:
Wayne.wav: youtube.com/channel/UCsjrTadAFqgr29SsPPN6QRA
In The Mix: youtube.com/channel/UCIcCXe3iWo6lq-iWKV40Oug
Reid Stefan: youtube.com/channel/UC4K6tc2C0hauYw5SoXNtkbA
Simon Servida: youtube.com/channel/UCBO9acnsfbzEL_7am5N2z8Q
Sean Divine: youtube.com/channel/UCPiiLifmu6_da4ipdXt2ecg
Creative Sauce: youtube.com/channel/UCESNxzJHzDnCIuRO0RhQLeA
Chris Selim: youtube.com/channel/UCr4af6MfAMfff8w7WqCa7Lw
Rick Beato: youtube.com/channel/UCJquYOG5EL82sKTfH9aMA9Q

I'd say start with books because even reliable YouTube channels have misinformation.

Hmm i see, I love neoverb because it sounds so realistic but ik most use Valhalla so I was curious about it

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