I hate questions like this.Do you really expect to get the answer to this topic..
My beats always sound flat and quiet. I'm trying to make them sound more dynamic, more in your face.
[h=2]How do you get a perfect mix and master on FL Studio[/h]
answer is quite simple: you don't, at least not without spending 10000 hours of learning how to mix and master (total of 20000 hours)
How do you get a perfect mix and master on FL Studio?
But if you don't know how to mix, please don't try to learn how to master now.
Well most likely you'll need external VSTs
Why not? "bad" mastering is no worse than "bad" mixing... plus, "mastering" (regarding the audio processing part of it) is "easier" than mixing... and how else does one learn if they don't try during the time they don't know how to do something?
I know what you mean when you say it's easier to master than mix, but why would you spend time learning how to polish something that sounds bad? The trap one can fall into when working with a weak mix is trying to fix the problem in the mastering stage.
Rather, it's better to get the fundamentals of mixing down first (reverbs, EQ, compression, panning, etc). Of course you can learn anything at any time, but it's so much simpler and more time-efficient in the beginning to learn how to manipulate single sounds (mixing) than it is learning how to make broader changes to the master channel (mastering).
Also, what a producer learns early on carries over very well when he/she's ready to start doing those broader changes.
Fact: If you are "mastering" your own music, then "mastering" doesn't exist. If you are "mastering" your own music, then it is still part of "mixing".
(and the fundamentals of mixing and mastering are exactly the same... just more involved when it comes to mixing)
I just can't agree that the fundamentals are the same. There's a clear separation between the two processes. Mastering involves more than just messing around with EQs and making things louder. Its focus is to prepare a track so that it is playable on a majority of systems. (As well as matching levels of different tracks in an EP or an album). There are just so many small things to listen for and making the proper changes can be pretty tricky if you don't know what you're doing.
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I don't think it's right to suggest that mixing and mastering can ever be the same thing. I'll be quick to admit that even with two years doing music, I haven't really gotten mastering down. (That's def less than 10,000 hours haha). For a new producer, it just makes more sense to focus on the techniques involved with making a track.
...and that is still no guarantee you won't suck...
But you'll be at a level to be able to determine whether you have any talent for it.
Up to a certain point, you can say "he's not good because he has not been at the craft for a long enough time."
But after a certain point, it becomes "yeah, that guy just has no talent."
And do you think it is less tricky and that there are less little things to listen for when you are trying to blend 100 individual tracks in a session together into a cohesive song than it is to deal with a single stereo file?
if you are just treating your own stereo bus on your mix (or your own stereo file of your final mix), then it is essentially part of mixing. You have control of everything from A to Z.
2 years? Is just a beginner. Really.
no offense, but that is an incredibly short amount of time.