LOUDER Mixes With THESE 3 HACKS?🤔

Toronto mixing engineer 5PiECE demonstrates 3 techniques to achieve louder mixes and masters. Achieving louder mixes isn't just a numbers game - its about presence, impact, balance and feeling. Sure - you can crank a limiter to the max and get a louder mix, but that isn't always the most musical solution. In this video, 5PiECE overviews 3 (or maybe 4 actually) of his go-to simple yet effective strategies to increase perceived loudness in a mix by utilizing compression, stereo imaging and saturation plugins. In fact, one strategy involves no plugins at all! He even covers how to think about loudness, including overviewing the Fletcher Munson loudness curves, and more. If your goal is to achieve louder mixes and masters and understand how to increase perceived loudness, then this video should help point you in the right direction. SUBSCRIBE If You’re New -    / 5piece   🔊 PLUGINS USED IN THIS VIDEO 🔊 Izotope Relay (Included with Neutron 3) - https://bit.ly/35znrIA FabFilter Pro Q3 - https://bit.ly/3q5B6k2 Waves SSL G-Master Bus Compressor - https://waves.alzt.net/5gBN2o 🎸SONGS USED IN THIS VIDEO 🎹 “TINGS” By EverythingOShauN - https://bfan.link/tings-1 "AWE" by SRE - https://open.spotify.com/track/6YphNz... "Hero" By SRE - https://ffm.to/whosyourhero 🎥 TUTORIALS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO 🎥 My Compression Playlist -    • When To Use Compression in a Mix   How To Fix Frequency Masking (Part 1: Kick & Bass) -    • How To Fix Frequency Masking with FabFilte...   How To Get Vocals To Cut Through a Mix Using Saturation -    • How To Get Vocals To Cut Through a Mix Usi...   📲 SOCIAL MEDIA 📲 WEBSITE - http://www.5piecemusic.com SPOTIFY - https://spoti.fi/3xq3C2q INSTAGRAM -   / 5piece   FACEBOOK -   / 5piece   TWITTER -   / 5piecemusic   YOUTUBE -    / 5piece   🎞️STOCK FOOTAGE & SOUND EFFECTS 🎞️ Sound Effects from Gfx Sounds - https://gfxsounds.com Stock Video from Pexels - https://www.pexels.com CHAPTERS 0:00 Which is louder - A or B? 0:59 What's Perceived Loudness? 1:34 How Do You Increase Perceived Loudness? 1:43 Method 1 5:43 Method 2 - Part 1 10:02 Method 2 - Part 2 12:56 Method 3 17:05 Using Saturation on Vocals DISCLOSURE: Some of the links on this page are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I may earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase and/or subscribe. Affiliate commissions help fund videos like this one. Copyright 5PiECE Music 2023