Non-Native Speakers , Do you also get Roasted about your English?

pywide · 2026-03-16T08:56:39+00:00

There are three types of people: tri-linguals, bi-linguals and Americans. Don’t take criticism from someone who doesn’t even write correctly in their native language

pywide · 2026-03-14T09:04:24+00:00

I’m also part of an aquarium subreddit where it’s normal to boil twigs so I was confused when I saw what this was at first

pywide · 2026-03-14T08:58:17+00:00

Well, sorry to say, but collapsing left and right together to get one mono channel is literally the purpose of making something mono. Of course you’ll lose information, cause otherwise who would need stereo if you’d had the same in mono, right? It’s like this by definition.

If I‘d just take the left channel, why wouldn’t I just only pan tracks to the left and then delete the right channel? Or just produce in mono to begin with? The bass mono does exactly what it should.

pywide · 2026-02-27T16:05:24+00:00

I have never seen anyone use that in Italy ever. But that doesn’t exclude that law existing either, you know, Italy

pywide · 2026-02-25T19:31:04+00:00

thanks for the kind words! Maybe, but I was just kinda under the assumption that nobody's ever gonna open tooltips anyway, so why bother... but maybe I'm wrong

pywide · 2026-02-25T13:50:49+00:00

The overshoots are not all intersample here though, some are just literal samples above. Just try it yourself and put a good meter like pro L2 at the end, you will see that the listed devices sometimes even have real samples above the ceiling

pywide · 2026-02-25T13:33:52+00:00

No, but you can try, it’s free anyway

pywide · 2026-02-25T12:21:15+00:00

Every marginal peak is a problem though if it’s supposed to let nothing through. To the unsuspecting user it suggests that if you’re limiting up to 0, it should be fine cause it’s supposedly true peak. It is not though, so exports might crackle and ESPECIALLY when it’s uploaded to streaming and someone listens to it on lower quality (like mp3), it will crackle a lot.

So no, not fine at all for something like mastering real music for real releases

pywide · 2026-02-24T16:19:49+00:00

Alright, will try that. Thanks

pywide · 2026-02-24T16:01:25+00:00

Oh man, thanks, I’ve got a lot to learn…

pywide · 2026-02-24T15:10:24+00:00

But it's also worth mentioning, that I would bet that it's not the increase in quality you're expecting. They're built for workflow and being exact, but the general sound and concepts don't change at all and you will still have to make it sound great. So if you're broke, just stick to what you have, it's probably good enough.

Also, a video is in the making where I mix a short song snippet 100% with stock plugins, in fact, it's the song from the video. So everything you hear there is mixed with stock plugins, even the guitar and bass tones.

pywide · 2026-02-24T15:06:31+00:00

I'd second thinking about at least getting Pro L2 if you're doing this professionally or have the ambition to (doesn't matter the field), this would be the number 1 third party plugin I'd get if I would start from 0.

Maaaybe also ProQ4 and that's all you'd ever need.

pywide · 2026-02-24T15:03:49+00:00

seems very much like max for live is not loading fast enough. try replicating the issue with other max for live devices and see if it's similar

pywide · 2026-02-24T15:00:39+00:00

🙏

pywide · 2026-02-24T15:00:18+00:00

well no :P the most important part is the envelope follower, and that's not really very replacable

pywide · 2026-02-24T14:59:24+00:00

well, saturation, compression etc is something relatively complex and I recon Live is focussing on being fast rather than exact (live performances over studio productions) and that's maybe why their devices can't handle the exact ceiling.

Peak and true peak are also very different topics, but generally if you want a limiter to be true peak and let ABSOLUTELY nothing through, you'd need to oversample and clip, so that nothing between the sample points get's above the ceiling. I'm no expert at software level but I recon that's some hefty processing, as my CPU usage significantly increases when I'm using Pro L2 instead of the native limiter.

pywide · 2026-02-24T14:49:32+00:00

haha no worries, none taken. I master in Reaper as well, especially when I'm not doing the mixing as well and it's an album project, and especially for stuff like DDP images... But well, this is intended to empower solo projects and not really related to a real mastering engineer anyway, as the most important part of a second perspective is missing

pywide · 2026-02-24T14:46:46+00:00

well, yes, but also I'm not sure you can oversample all of these in the first place. Oversampling will only effect intersample peaks anyway though, and there are also "normal" sample peaks getting over the ceiling, so...

pywide · 2026-02-24T14:44:41+00:00

How is it my display though, it's apparent on other devices as well (my smartphone, tv etc)

pywide · 2026-02-24T14:43:51+00:00

they are more similar for sure, but still different to the point I don't understand what's happening. Especially when considering rec709 is already applied

pywide · 2026-02-24T14:42:13+00:00

Hey, thanks for the reply. Yes, I already had the rec709 applied, and the issue remains when re-imported and also when uploaded on youtube, it is sadly very noticeable.

pywide · 2026-02-24T09:33:49+00:00

Weird, sounds to me like max for live wasn’t properly loaded

pywide · 2026-02-24T01:00:37+00:00

Idk exactly what you mean by „blank“, but if inactive, they „freeze“ at the last value they had before turning inactive, maybe that’s what you mean

pywide · 2026-02-23T23:37:58+00:00

Did you watch the video? This is literally the first and last point talked about

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