EDM Mastering For Maximum Loudness

Discover the secrets to mastering your EDM tracks to achieve commercial loudness without fancy plugins. Easy tips for any DAW!

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Brief Summary

This course is all about mastering your EDM tracks to be super loud and professional without needing fancy plugins. You can achieve commercial loudness using just your DAW!

Key Points

  • Master your EDM tracks for maximum loudness
  • Learn to use native and free plugins effectively
  • Achieve that 'wall of sound' effect

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the principles of loudness in EDM
  • Use techniques like Mid/Side EQ and multiband compression
  • Create professional quality mixes ready for clubs

About This Course

The loudness war is not over yet. Learn how to make your tracks loud and sound good. Commercial loudness made simple

Learn how to make your EDM tracks as loud as you want.  Yes, even as loud as those tracks from your favorite producers.  The best part is you don't need any special plugins, you can use the ones you have in your DAW or any of your favorite plugins.  All the "secret" are right here in this course.

Getting your tracks to sound as big and loud as commercial EDM tracks is not easy.  It takes a mix of production skills, great sound design, a well balanced mixdown, and mastering chops to get to the insane loudness levels of today's electronic music tracks.  Whatever your opinion on the loudness war, loudness is essential when it comes to EDM; especially if you're looking to get signed or get spins in the clubs and that's a fact of life.

Mastering EDM for loudness can be done in a number of different ways.  In this course, you'll learn the tricks of the trade, the plugins and the techniques used to achieve maximum loudness.

Whether you're looking to master house, trance, mainroom, or anything in between, this course will show you how to master your electronic music to be loud, clear and punching through those club systems.

When mastering for loudness you'll be using tools like

  • Mid/Side EQ

  • Multiband compression

  • Saturation

  • Parallel processing

  • Limiting

and some other goodies to achieve that "wall of sound" effect that many EDM tracks have and that can sometimes be very difficult to achieve.

This course was made using Ableton live, its native plugins and a number of free plugins to master a festival style EDM track for maximum loudness.  Don't worry if you don't use Ableton Live because you can use ANY DAW.  Links to download the free plugins used in the course will be provided for you when you sign up as well so you'll be good to go!

If you're looking to push your tracks to commercial level loudness while still maintaining listening quality, and if you want to stop worrying about your tracks not being loud enough, then this course is definitely for you!


  • Use free and native plugins to make their EDM tracks as loud as possible

  • Create the "wall of sound" effect

  • Get your tracks as loud as commercial EDM tracks

Instructor

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Fuad Murad

Electronic music producer and mixing/mastering engineer with a soft spot for melodic chord progressions and musical subtleties.  With over 5 years of experience teaching mixing, mastering and production in addition to several signed releases, remixes and ongoing projects, my life revolves around this beautiful genre we call "EDM." Whether you're just getting into the game or a seasoned pro looking...

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4.9 course rating
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Tamer F.
4.5
9 months ago

Some industry secrets are being revealed here as well as many instructive techniques to achieve maximum loudness. Well done

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Muhammed A.
5.0
2 years ago

Very short & right into the business. What we needed.

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Jan W.
3.0
4 years ago

Good and understandable content, but quite some topics could have been presented in a more technical and generic manner (e.g. providing a downloadable PPT-slide with a typical master chain, which often is provided free by many YouTubers out there).

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Andrew K.
5.0
4 years ago

This course is great, just as well as all Fuad's courses! Now I see that It is not too difficult to achieve good sound!

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Jose P.
5.0
4 years ago

thanks for this most useful video, even if you don't want to get to a ridiculous -7 rms (as stated) the info and ttips in this video are extremely useful, thx!!!

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Ulf B. K.
5.0
4 years ago

Great - great - great! Does what it promises! By the way also a very enjoyable track You used for an audio example- I had so much fun listening to it after the initial tweaking!

One tradeoff in Your mastering process: You sacrificed a lot if leg space (means lower bass NRG). But that's the way it is I suppose...

Once more great content, worth every Cent!

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Egis D.
5.0
4 years ago

Coool! Let's implement these skills :)

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Colin S.
2.0
5 years ago

he doesnt explain the compressors well enough. mid - sides? mid center?

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Chris
5.0
5 years ago

It is AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

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Rafael D. C. C.
5.0
5 years ago

Very instructive and it teaches you how to master a song to reach loudness just with just Ableton standard stock plugins and a free whaveshaper.

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