Master is peaking but none of my tracks are

[Trevoire520]

Lol might pass because I'm just a broke soul recording music. I appreciate everyone help though. Anyone wanna hook me up to a place where I can read on some good mastering techniques?

Search for a thread called "getting your loudness" very good info there.

A loud master is a mix of good mastering technique and having a well balanced mix. A good mix will be able to be mastered louder than a bad mix.

 

[Derykus]

If you have one small piece of feces (one track) in the middle of a room (master buss), it probably won't smell too bad (no clipping). But if you shovel many small pieces of feces together into a huge heaping pile of steamy crap (all of your tracks), it's unmistakably going to look and smell like shit and your master buss will clip and the mix will sound like shit.

 

[timislegend]

^ so, what you saying is...

 

[updog]

If you have one small piece of feces (one track) in the middle of a room (master buss), it probably won't smell too bad (no clipping). But if you shovel many small pieces of feces together into a huge heaping pile of steamy crap (all of your tracks), it's unmistakably going to look and smell like shit and your master buss will clip and the mix will sound like shit.

one small piece of feces in the middle of a room? that's about the best analogy i've ever heard about anything

 

[Melodeath]

Nothing wrong with a peaking master buss, if you know what you're doing, and pull it down before you export.

 

[Ermz]

Mix with your tracks around -18dBFS and you won't have this problem.

Don't worry about loudness for the majority of the mixing process. If you want to mix with the perspective of a loud master then simply put a rough mastering chain on the master bus. Something as simple as the 'Loudness Maximizer' in Ozone 4 will do. Try putting it on after your mix is about 80% ready for some perspective.

 

[drew_drummer]

It's not called build up. It's called maths.

 

[-Noodles-]

It's not called build up. It's called maths.

I was literally about to post the same thing.

 

[kylendm]

Thanks everyone, can't wait to get proper sounding mixes. I guess all I've ever put out were just rough raw tracks that sounded alright together. Loving this forum!

 

[iamironman88]

Mix with your tracks around -18dBFS and you won't have this problem.

Im having a go at mixing to this level but i find myself turning everything down quite substantially to achieve this, is this right?

 

[waltz mastering]

Im having a go at mixing to this level but i find myself turning everything down quite substantially to achieve this, is this right?

Pretty much. You can insert a trim plug before your fader and be in the ballpark.

 

[Damage, Inc.]

Part of gain staging is recording at the proper level, and you need to have an idea of how loud everything is going to be in the mix to do this properly. In metal, the kick, snare, guitars, vocals and sometimes toms are usually at the forefront of the mix. It won't hurt to record them hot (no peaking). But if you thicken up your mix with textural parts, you may want to record them at a lower volume so you're not having to drop the fader way down to get them to fit properly. You'll have the best control over volume with the fader near the top of its range.