Picking up where we left off in our last lecture, which was the intro to mixing, where we did the leveling, noise removal and fine tuning with the pencil, let's get started with what I call master compression. And that's because you're putting a compressor on the master track. But before we do that, let's get let's clean this up a bit. I don't need this track anymore. So I would duplicate this and this is my own naming convention no put clean at the end. Or if I was numbering these, I would put a roll up the number and I'm gonna delete this track of the noisy audio.

Now I'm got two tracks. Not to look at the lights and it's sounding pretty good. But what I love doing is putting on a multiband compressor on In the master track. Have you ever heard that if you work for 10,000 hours at a specific skill, then you now in this case, I've a very noisy video, which I'm using because that can often happen. You often have to deal with it. Let's double click this.

The default preset for the multiband compressor is called broadcast and broadcast does a lot of compression. It's compressing it a lot. That's why it got so much louder. It sounded more distorted. It's doing a lot of stuff. So this is a severe compression.

I'd say 80% of the time, putting the multiband compressor on the master track and leaving on broadcasts and having the brick wall limiter set. After you've done your initial leveling your mix sounds 10 times better and you're done. That is like my biggest secret A giveaway that I've learned. And every time I share it with an editor in person, they can't believe how easy it is. I've even shared it with a good friend of mine who's a sound mixer. And although this is kind of skipping a lot of steps that sound mixers do, he couldn't argue with the results of it.

He said, Wow, that sounds pretty good for the amount of work you need to do on it, which is exactly what we're trying to do here. Because if we're trying to do a ton of work, then we've learned logic, we've learned Pro Tools, we would learn all the tools that we need to do this, but instead, premier is giving us these great mastering tools built in. So again, you can tell I'm getting kind of excited by the multiband compressor with broadcast. But in this case, if you put it on and it sounds bad, you think it sounds worse. Have you ever heard that if you work for 10,000 you can toggle it off here. Ours at a specific definitely sounds worse.

Next, drop it down to classical math. Saw it changed up how it's compressing thing cific skill, then you become a master of it. My name is Jason Randell. I am here to give you a fake dialogue story. Got no one here with me, which is fine. My eyeline keeps shifting whenever the broadcast doesn't work I like leaving the classical master on.

And again what that's doing is spraying the low parts of it up and the high parts down and it's giving us a more even sound overall. On top of that, we can hit the brick wall limiter, we don't have to go get another limiter, which means it's never gonna peak. This plugin right here. This is going to prevent it peeking from above zero if it got close. So it's really great. It's really great to put on the master compressor.

I know in this particular example, because I have so much noise on this voiceover it didn't showcase how good it can sound but I really do urge you That's why I made this its own separate lecture, instead of merging it into another one and you may be missing it, I really want you to go on the master track of the audio mixer. amplitude compression, pull up the multiband compressor. It'll start with broadcast and the brick wall and just see how that sounds. I'm telling you, I think it'll sound really good. And if it's too loud, because it will make it louder, you can drop the overall gain here, or boost it up if you need to. And then if this one's too intense, drop it down to classical master.

And then there are also other ones in here that are pretty good.