Master 3 Genres with 1 Plugin | LANDR Mastering Plugin

when it comes to mastering and artificial intelligence Lander has had over 10 plus years in the game since their online mastering service launched they've been the go-to source for uploading your tracks to get that professional finished polish on your unmastered music even though it's not that hard to bounce out your track and upload it to the website to get it mastered it would be way more convenient if all that technology could just be somehow put right into your dah right on the master bus so that we could just bounce Our Song out once and be finished so Lander has come up with what I think is truly the most userfriendly AI mastering experience with their new Lander mastering plug-in now this plugin Works in literally every do and it gives you everything you'd expect if you've ever used their online mastering service but it takes it a step further in customizability and flexibility to really dial in your sound to Perfection so what I'm going to do is put the Lander mastering plugin to the ultimate test and load it up in three different Daws and master three different styles of music right inside the production session so so let's dive into Ableton first in a downtemple dance track that I produced for Cara called stranger and we're going to drop Lander mastering on the song I'm going to play it from the beginning while I load up the plugin simply type in mastering and drop it on your master bus now when you open the plugin it's already listening a smart trick that they always recommend is for the best results have the loudest part of your song playing when you first listen so I'm going to skip the intro and go straight to when the drums kick in and let's [Music] reist and here we are inside of our AI generated Master chain now it did some assessments to predict our genre and Target loudness and things like that but what it gives you are a really nice amount of simple options to really dial in and perfect the sound that you had in your mind here inside of Lander mastering first are your master string Styles and this offers three different starting presets for variations in tone Dynamics and width warm generally has a more vintage character with an emphasis on Lower mids and smoother highs on the opposite end of the spectrum you have open which is way more modern sounding with an emphasis on punch and presence finally right in between the two you have balanced which is more controlled with a focus on Clarity and depth let's start with balance and then switch between the other presets and see what we hear [Music] I really like open on this one so I think for this dance example I'm going to stick with this preset now we have an equalizer we could just boost or reduce low mids or highs and now that we're into into the tweaking section we don't have to keep looping the loudest part we could just kind of loop the whole song and let it play as we make [Music] adjustments mid-range sounds [Music] smooth I need to me a stranger me a stranger go turn up [Music] theow sounds nice here now I have presence which is a combination of mids and high frequencies it really helps your vocals stand out nice so I'm going to skip forward and adjust this while the vocal is playing [Music] this is really your loudness kind of EQ range when you push this the song just feels louder even though you're just boosting a section of the EQ so I really love this [Music] presence and then of course you could counteract it with a little dsing so me strer but this is mostly something I would do in the mix rather than on the master chain but if you didn't have the flexibility of making an adjustment in the mix it's really nice that they have it in here beside the dester we have our overall loudness knob and this is basically how hard we're pushing our volume maximizer or we could even push it a little bit less by turning it to the left let's go forward when it's bumping strer me a Str and you can see we're getting pretty loud here on the [Music] lufs let's go down a little [Music] bit stereo field for extra width that sounds nice maybe less and then a compression section you have the amount or ratio of compression and then you also have the speed slower compression to the right and faster compression to the left a little slower and a little lower I need to find a Str a strer take my and then finally you can increase the harmonic saturation for that analog warmth on our Master [Music] chain find Str let's see our track before and after oh my goodness back on that was a huge difference now of course that wasn't gain matched but they have a gain match button right here so when you bypass it you're not getting extra impressed by the increase in volume you're just hearing the change of [Music] tone by [Music] Str back on let's turn off pain match turn for loudness a little bit more cuz with dance music I think it's okay to be a little extra edgy with how hard you go with the loudness and we are ready to export our Master through Lander mastering so as you can see you don't really need to know a ton about mastering to take advantage of the power of AI and really dial it into taste to make it match your original artistic intent so this song is ready to bounce let's jump into our next and check out Lander mastering on a different example here in logic I have a hip-hop track pulled up by Cara called room with the boom and we're going to drop the same plugin here on the master chain let's just load it up let's drop Lander mastering me in of the with boom think and let's skip forward to the loudest part of the song which will probably be over here with all the vocals let's just hit cancel to reset the listening baby over you baby I'm all over you over you I'm all over you over you I'm all and just as easy as that you have your AI generated Master chain so let's start this over from the beginning and now that we know what all these controls do I'm just going to listen as the song plays all the way through top to bottom and dial in the flavor that I like yeah find me in the back of the room think that you think CU I know that you want it I do too if I'm honest I'm honest definitely a little L with the e in my body is the key open up if you do it right it's getting hot what's up I'm sorry I'm not sorry didj Spin The Back Spin the back like one on one one a bad one a b like yeah over you baby I'm all over you over you baby I'm all over you over you I'm over I'm over you hey this is sounded pretty good already find me in the back of the room with the what you think about try on and off I know that you want it I do too if I'm on it l with the E and my body is the key hey find me in the back of the room with the boom what you think about that you think cuz I know that you want it some stereo with I do too if I'm honest if I'm honest yeah L with the e in my body the key if you do it right it's getting hot I'm sorry not sorry he didj spin it back spin it back like B one on one one a b one a b and here we have our you baby I'm all over you over baby I'm all over you and bypass over you I'm all over you I'm all over you boom for this song I chose to go for warm I felt it match the hip-hop style to have that thicker smoother base in there turned down the loudness because the mix kind of already had a lot of good loudness going on even though it wasn't clipping the master going in it's still had plenty of loudness just coming from the mix and the vocal recordings and the synth so we didn't need to do a lot of extra loudness pushing with the mastering plugin itself which is the goal we reached a nice level of minus 9 or 10 lufs which I think is perfectly where you want to be for hip-hop or dance track you always want the streaming platform to be turning down your song slightly you don't want to be delivering your song at a turned down level to the platform let's take listen to Our Song and it one more time if you do it right it's getting hot with I'm sorry I'm not sorry NJ spin it back spin it back like one on one one a bad one a bad like over you baby I'm all over you over you baby I'm all over Master over you I'm all over you over you I'm all over you so there you have how I'd use this in a hipop example in logic using Lander mastering finally we're going to slow it all the way down and see how this can handle a smooth and delicate ballad that we have here in FL Studio let's open up our [Music] mixer more plugins search for the word mastering and let's open up Lander mastering and since this song is a ballad there's not really a loudest part it's just piano and singing let's just let this section play right in to your love taking it day by day until [Music] my and here we are in our AI Master [Music] chain so for this I'm definitely going to turn the loudness for this genre we're not going to need it that's the story [Music] of [Music] bounc Rome J I like bounced for this let's keep going into our EQ I'm drowning in the wav taking me deep away it's only black and blue I love how this feels in the low end you're here to stay probably not too much of the highest we already lost we're so but definitely a little presence for this I might actually use the dser distance the distance turns into goodby just Smooths out really nicely to call me but you don't even try skip the wi at zero just piano and singing That's theory of I'm definitely going to use more compression on this to glue it all together hey and this is where it is [Music] Romeo jul a little bit of saturation let's play this from the top [Music] again might do a lot of saturation on this one let get it nice and warm TI let's push the loudness a little bit more feeling that you lost all of your Fe let's reset our lfs by just clicking on [Music] it yeah - 11 - 10 is where I TR be for this [Music] one you're right maybe we need a little distance let's bypass distance turns into goodbye and back up to see let's see how that get with [Music] match back on let's do a little less compression a little less saturation story of my this is ooh Romeo and Juliet hey and it's as simple as that to create a master chain for any type of song using the power of AI right inside the doll you already use I love how Lander has taken AI mastering and brought it back into the doll which is quite personally where I prefer for my master chain to be because it gives you the best of both worlds where you could still make adjustments to your mix and still have the flexibility and ease of AI mastering if you want to try Lander mastering for yourself I'll include a link in the description below catch you guys next time in another video peace out

Channel: Reid Stefan

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Keywords: LANDR, Mastering, AI, Plugin, Overview, Test, Demo, Review, Reid stefan, Puppet, Ableton 11, Logic Pro X, Fl studio 21, Tutorial, AI Mastering

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Length: 17min 2sec (1022 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 18 2023