Your limiter isn't the problem, your mix is slamming it.
If your metal mixes pump, distort, or fall apart when you push for loudness, these 3 tricks will give you louder metal mixes without killing punch, made for home metal recorders.
Loudness doesn't come from crushing your final limiter. It comes from creating headroom BEFORE it. In this metal mixing tutorial, I'll show you how to make your mix louder, clearer, and more aggressive with 3 cumulative moves
TOOLS IN THIS VIDEO: Fortin Nameless, Trackspacer, FabFilter Pro-MB, Black Salt Audio Clipper, Waves L1, Ozone 5 Maximizer, SSL Fusion, Reaper
Timestamps:
00:00 Why Limiters Fail
00:41 Three Headroom Moves
01:22 EQ for More Headroom
01:50 Filtering Guitars and Vocals
03:23 Master Bus Cleanup Mindset
03:51 Sidechain Compression Basics
04:18 Low End Ducking Tricks
05:01 Snare Vocal Guitar Pockets
07:14 Peak Control with Clippers
09:14 Mix Bus Clipping and Final Limiter
10:37 Wrap Up and Next Steps
🎵 TRACK IN THIS VIDEO:
Huge shoutout to Fight From Within for letting me use their song "The End of My Rope" for this mix demo.
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