Mastering Kendrick Lamar's 'HUMBLE' with Mike Bozzi
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Publicado 2021-05-20
A sneak peek of Mike Bozzi's 'Mastering Workshop' series in which he explains the techniques he used to master Kendrick Lamar's Grammy-winning song, 'HUMBLE'.
Hosted at Bernie Grundman Mastering, engineer Mike Bozzi introduces you to the specialized facility and its equipment, then gives a synopsis of his professional background, musical influences and mentor Brian Gardener. He discusses the achievement of tasteful loudness in modern mastering, common issues with mixes received, submission advice, mastering single tracks versus albums, sample rate, bit depth, working in dual mono, his monitoring setup, outboard gear and signal path. He proceeds to master three tracks in the style of hip-hop, trap and R&B by artists Kendrick Lamar and SZA. In each case, he critiques the mix, matches overall loudness for comparison and proceeds to master while A-B’ing with the unmastered version. He divulges on precise EQ alterations, de-essing, soft saturation and limiting considerations, and explains why he uses little or no compression or stereo widening. He also comments on streaming platform algorithms and mastering for various formats.
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Listening through my iphone speakers like “ah yes, i see what youve done there”
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he's bobbing his head by half a db.
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I see this man is already sitting down, being humble.
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Love how we are all trying to listen carefully to the dynamic changes and colour of the mastering while Kendrick is just swearing in the back
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the irony of this seemingly clean cut guy mastering this track is uncanny
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They seriously don't give producers and mix & mastering engineers enough credit tbvh
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This man can straight sit up in a club and read a literature book with glasses on.
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Never heard about any artist showing up to his mastering sessions before. Mad respect to Kendrick
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This guy probably has the best audio settings in Warzone
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When a guy doesn't bop his head to HUMBLE you know he's a professional
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Yo the way he brought the vocal forward in the master was crazy. Amazing engineer.
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When he enables that EQ boosting at 800Hz & 1.6kHz (I'm assuming by +1dB each), the vocal's midrange comes right to the front. It's so satisfying hearing him enable it
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I love how straightforward he is as a mastering engineer. What’s the simplest solution and do it.
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Shoutout Mike Bozzi he's one of the best mastering engineers I was able to meet and work with, literally took one of my songs, and made it punchier, livelier, louder, fuller and got rid of almost all bad frequencies
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They couldn't of picked a better engineer to master a track called "Humble", this man embodies the meaning.
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The clicking of the console is sounding so sexy
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Title should be "Underwhelmed man makes a song sound better"
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5:46 every parent when their kids listen to rap
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The importance of good mixing/mastering in the music. High quality
