Mastering a Song from Start to Finish | In The Box Only
Video Overview & Insights
In this video, I master the same song I previously mixed entirely “In The Box” (ITB), finishing the whole production using only plugins.
Thank you, Witty! Your tutorial improved my mix so much, and I absolutely love the result. I followed all your plugin steps, and your M/S chain was on a whole different level for me. I learned a lot and feel really inspired. I skipped the Black Box plugin since I used hardware (HG-2 + Neve MBC) for the analog touch right before your Limiter chains, and the result turned out amazing. I’ll be a lifetime supporter!
No expensive analog hardware. No outboard mastering chain. Just 100% plugins.
This is a full look into my real mastering workflow, showing the exact process, moves, and decision-making behind bringing an ITB mix to a polished, release-ready master.
Recomendo 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾♥️♥️♥️
I go through tone shaping, dynamics, loudness, final limiting, and the small mastering decisions that help the song feel finished.
Hope you enjoy the process.
Thank you so much my bro watching from Nigeria I am an upcoming mixing engineer 🫶🫶❤️
🎧 Listen carefully with headphones or studio monitors for the before and after differences.
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Nice amazing…bro how you recode your screen with audio in mac can you please help me🙄
Previous ITB mixing video:
https://youtu.be/Qlbhmq6KuZA?si=P63UCGoPc4MzZX9_
Beautiful
🕒 Chapters
0:00 INTRO
Nice work❤can u do a video on mixing n mastering with only waves plugins?
0:37 Initial Listening
1:22 Surgical EQ Cleanup
Bravo!!!👏👏👏👏
3:30 Tube EQ / Musical Tone Shaping
5:43 Tape Color and Analog Glue
premium sound! Good stuff!
7:09 Mid/Side Compression
8:52 Maag EQ Air Band
Cool stuff. Have you ever compared the Slate VTM to the UAD tape that you used? Any thoughts?
10:24 Harshness Control
11:55 Tube Saturation / Harmonic Depth
Bruh, that was super dope! I was worried when I saw you continue to add plugins! But it sounds great. So this is actually not fully in the box since you used the Blackbox outboard gear? Why? Just curious
13:00 Vocal Presence Lift
13:53 Gold Soft Clipping
Thank you, very uesful!
15:45 Final Brick-wall Limiting
16:47 Final Master Playback
Why don’t you do the mastering in the mix to better bring alterations to wrong takes or imperfections ?😊
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Bravo❤
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Where is the song?
🎙️Studio Gear List:
APOGEE Symphony I/O Mk II 16x16 SE
muy buena la tecnica y lo que compartis, gracias....
Apogee DA-16 X
API 5500
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API 2500+
Avalon AD2044
Black Box Analog Design HG-2
Calrec Mixer (Vintage)
Dangerous Music 2-BUS+
Drawmer 1960
sweettttt
Drawmer 1973
Flock Audo PATCH
plugin latency casue your mix move out of grid man nice song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Focusrite Red 4Pre
Genelec 8361A
man you videos are very useful, thank you for showing the workflow.
Golden Age Project Comp-2A
Merging Anubis Premium
no Lavry Gold or B2 Bomber Converters??? 😮
Neve 1073SPX
Rupert Neve 5057 Orbit
Thank you for that! 🙏..i love you
Rupert Neve MBC
SSL G Series Bus Compressor
please tutorial with ozone!
SSL Matrix
SSL XLogic Superanalogue Preamps
Your mix ITB and now this mastering process were both inspiring and helpful. Thank you for that! 🙏
SSL XR621 Mic Preamps
Tonelux OTB-16 (Modified by Paul Wolf)
This is awesome bro. Thank you so much ❤
Tube-Tech CL 1B
Tube-Tech CL 2A
excelent bro!! what's the song name??
Tube-Tech SMC 2B
Warm Audio WA76
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PLUGINS Mainly USED in Mixing & Mastering
Apogee Clearmountain 8068
Fantastico.
Apogee Pultec EQP-1A
Apogee Clearmountain Domain
Thank you!!
UAD dox 160 Compressor
UAD Manley Tube Preamp
UAD SSL Bus Compressor
UAD Hitsville Reverb Chambers
UAD Neve 1073 Preamp
UAD SSL E Channel Strip
UAD LA-3A
UAD LA-2A
UAD Capital Chambers
UAD Pure Plate Reverb
FabFilter Pro-Q 4
FabFilter Pro-L 2
FabFilter Pro-C 2
FabFilter Pro-R 2
Leapwing Audio Joe Chiccarelli
Plugin Alliance Mäag Audio EQ4
Plugin Alliance SPL Machine Head
Plugin Alliance elysia alpha compressor V2
Plugin Alliance Mäag Audio EQ4
Plugin Alliance Purple Audio MC77
Plugin Alliance Vertigo VSS-2
Lexicon LXP Native Reverb
Valhalla VintageVerb
Waves Renaissance Vox
Waves H-Delay
Waves L 1Waves G-Master Buss Compressor
Newfangled Audio Saturate
Newfangled Audio Punctuate
Undertone Audio - UnFairchild