More Details Fewer Plugins = Happy Producer That's why I created Modern Samples, to help producers like yourself get past that problem, so you can focus on creating - which is the most important thing. Remember: You can't boost what isn't there Sometimes EQ can help get the drums to cut, but if all your samples are dull and are focused mostly on the low end, EQ just isn’t going to be enough. You need some more of that in your samples. Remember the optimum frequency range I just told you about? So when they play their tracks on car stereos or other sound systems, they commonly say how it sounds “boomy,” “dull”, and “quieter” than the pros. You need to arm yourself with sounds that not only thump in the low end but also cut through the mid range.Ī lot of new producers want big fat kick drums, but they never pay attention to how focused the midrange is in the samples. Quality Drum SamplesĪnother critical component to louder mastering is going to come from the samples you use. It’s best to produce and arrange your tracks with this region in mind. You stand a better chance of ruining the track than helping it by boosting every sound in that region. So if your entire beat is produced low enough that most of the instrumentation is below that region, then good luck on making it loud!īut before you get excited and start boosting everything in that 2-5kHz region, remember that we are most sensitive to it. Humans see a dip around 2-5kHz on the Fletcher-Munson curves, which means that we are most sensitive to that frequency range - any sound in that frequency range is going to sound loud to us. If your arrangement is very low on the music scale, it’s going to be a lot harder to get the track to sound loud because you are moving farther away from the optimum range of hearing. Like I said, I’m going to show you my analog chain and then show you how to replicate it ITB to sound pretty close. So if you don’t have an analog chain, don’t stress about it. Of course, I don’t have all the same equipment.īut I’ve been setting myself up so that all of my mixing stays inside the box and all of my “mastering” is done on analog gear.Ī lot of pro mixers are mixing 100% in the box, but then their work gets sent to a mastering guy who's using heaps of analog gear. Over the years, I’ve developed my mastering strategy to reflect that of mastering engineers working in very expensive mastering studios.
In this article, you’re going to learn how you can master your beats inside the box using nothing but free plugins.Īnd on top of that, I’m going to show you how to use those free plugins to replicate my $6000 analog mastering chain.īut there’s a little bit of a caveat here. All samples used for the beat in this video are from Hip Hop Drums Live
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