Database: Sam Gellaitry On Mastering Backwards

“This is how I master everything: I have this [FL limiter] Maximus on the reverb..But there’s this preset I’ve made over the years that just compresses the low, mid, and the high–I’ve got that up really high. To mixers and engineers: they’ll probably look at that and get disgusted. Because this is like rural behavior: I’ve got like 15db gain on a limiter. And basically when it comes in it’s cutting off a lot of stuff [off the waveform]. But I don’t look at it, I just listen to it.

But every project has this [limiting] on it. So if I have a sound and it doesn’t sound good, that’s not hitting–it’s the sound’s fault, essentially. It saves time having something that basically puts [volume]…It’s like mastering backwards, which probably isn’t a good idea but it works for me in terms of having it sound thick and loud.”

Sam Gellaitry

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