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Well, I post this topic to share what I've learned and to solve a question. The fact is that, when you make a song, a Dubstep song, there's something more than just collect your own sounds and melodies and mixing them. The master is one of the most important things and well, if you are a new producer, it's probably harder than making your mix.

FL Studio comes with many master plugins, valid for any song, whatever you do.
Well, we have to to compress the song and to get the song with no differences between each sound of the mix. You can do it with Limiters, Compressors, and most important on FL Studio, the "Maximus" plugin, that gives you the opportunity to work with the waves in 3 parts: the low, the medium and the high.
After making all of that, we've lost Gain... So there's my question: I tried to increase the volume without affecting the quality, I tried so much plugins and I learned to use them, but when I export as a .mp3 file, the volume goes amazingly down, so my songs doesn't sound very loud... I've searched master tutorials, but any of them are useful to me... I'm new on this...Could you help me find the way ?

Thanks, here is the song I just made.
Soundcloud

I hope you help me !

You need to learn mixing, not mastering, my friend.

You need to learn how to pick better sounds (drums included), how to mix, and then how to master. Mastering is the easiest of the three. I just use maximus, put it on the "Pow" preset, and tweak. From there I put on a Limiter and crank the gain until it's JUST hitting 0db. I don't squash it, I just make it hit 0.

ChadDub wrote:You need to learn how to pick better sounds (drums included), how to mix, and then how to master. Mastering is the easiest of the three. I just use maximus, put it on the "Pow" preset, and tweak. From there I put on a Limiter and crank the gain until it's JUST hitting 0db. I don't squash it, I just make it hit 0.

>2014
>using maximus presets for mastering

mromgwtf wrote:

ChadDub wrote:You need to learn how to pick better sounds (drums included), how to mix, and then how to master. Mastering is the easiest of the three. I just use maximus, put it on the "Pow" preset, and tweak. From there I put on a Limiter and crank the gain until it's JUST hitting 0db. I don't squash it, I just make it hit 0.

>2014
>using maximus presets for mastering

Everything I do is made with presets. I really don't care for sound design, which is why I don't make EDM.

ChadDub wrote:I really don't care for sound design, which is why I don't make EDM.

ChadDub wrote:

mromgwtf wrote:

ChadDub wrote:You need to learn how to pick better sounds (drums included), how to mix, and then how to master. Mastering is the easiest of the three. I just use maximus, put it on the "Pow" preset, and tweak. From there I put on a Limiter and crank the gain until it's JUST hitting 0db. I don't squash it, I just make it hit 0.

>2014
>using maximus presets for mastering

Everything I do is made with presets. I really don't care for sound design, which is why I don't make EDM.

Using presets for synths is nothing bad, but you know, using maximus presets for mastering... or even BASING on maximus presets for mastering... like, they just squash every band to hell, raise lows and highs, and lower the mids.

But didnt he say " I just use maximus, put it on the "Pow" preset, and tweak"

Yeah, I did. But three year olds can't read so I let it slide

As said focus on the mix first. One thing I like to do when mixing is whack a limiter over the mix so I can hear what it will sound like at the end. You can then EQ each element to maximise how much loudness you can get out of the mix.

MaZa1 wrote:But didnt he say " I just use maximus, put it on the "Pow" preset, and tweak"

ChadDub wrote:Yeah, I did. But three year olds can't read so I let it slide

mromgwtf wrote:or even BASING on maximus presets for mastering...

Look who's a three year old who can't read.

[+] Spoiler

In case you don't get it, basing on a preset = selecting a preset and then tweaking it.

out of curiosity, what is the general consensus on using synth presets in a tune? like not using pure presets, but like using a preset and the changing certain aspects of it so it sounds how you want it to?

GreenWaffle wrote:out of curiosity, what is the general consensus on using synth presets in a tune? like not using pure presets, but like using a preset and the changing certain aspects of it so it sounds how you want it to?

Everyone is going to have their own ideals and concerns over using presets/samples/etc etc etc etc.

Its been discussed to death, at the end of the day, do what you want to do imo. Just worry about making what you want to make and let other people decide if they like your stuff.

That being said, when I was first producing, I used presets on a lot of plugins and that really slowed my growth as a producer since I never really fully understood what was going on 'behind the scenes' in the plugins I was using (or even, when I should actually be using them). Needless to say, the results were poor.

'Mastering' is especially something that a factory preset will never work for imo. Every tune/song presents it own challenges and each tune needs different processing to be 'mastered'.

A slight tangent; but I think a big problem is that many producers simply have a misconstrued/distorted idea of what mastering even is.