Mastering Your Music for Spotify: Pro-L 2 Settings Guide

Streaky offers exact settings for FabFilter Pro-L 2, advising against True Peak limiting and emphasizing oversampling for clean, punchy sound.

### Mastering Engineer Reveals FabFilter Pro-L 2 Settings for Spotify & Offers Discounted Mastering Courses
* 🎵 With over **40,000 artists uploading their music to Spotify daily**, it can be challenging for your music to **stand out among the crowd**.
* 🔊 The only professional mastering engineer on YouTube shares the **exact settings** for the FabFilter Pro-L 2 limiter, including **turning off True Peak limiting**, using **high oversampling (at least 16x)**, and setting the output to **minus 0.1**.
* 🎚 In the advanced settings, the engineer recommends using the "**all round**" style as the go-to, with "**Dynamic**" and "**Punchy**" as alternatives to enhance transients.
* 🔍 Look ahead should be set to a **quick value** to maintain sharpness, and the attack and release times should be set to **fully release** to let all transients through.
* 🔗 Channel linking should be set to zero to make the limiter work independently on the left and right channels, achieving **extra loudness**.
* 💸 The engineer is offering a **75% discount** on the mastering for Spotify course, an ozone 10 mastering course, and an **80% discount** on the ultimate mastering course at streaky.com.

with over 40,000 artists uploading their music to Spotify daily, it can be difficult for your music to stand out, let alone fit in. You may have received advice on YouTube, but how do you know who to trust? As the only professional mastering engineer on YouTube, I can provide you with the actual settings and systems that I have used for my clients over the past 25 years. You can trust me to guide you in the right direction. Let me start by telling you the exact settings to use for the FabFilter Pro-L 2 before you upload your music to Spotify. So, going across the bottom here with these settings here, first of all, True Peak limiting. I have that turned off. The main reason for that being that I don't like the way that it hits the transients. It makes everything sound a little bit numb, and I want it really punching. And I'm usually going for something that's loud, so I turn the True Peak limiting off. You may have heard people say you need to keep that on. It's not true. If you look at anybody

that is uploading on Spotify. All the main mastering guys, like myself, if you look at any of the meters, you'll see that it's going over in true Peak. It's not really needed, so I don't use that. Next long is oversampling. When it comes to oversampling, I want the max I can get. This makes it super clean and clear. So if your computer is strong enough, then use 32x, but definitely use at least 16x. It does make a massive difference to the quality of the limiter. Next up, I've got dither off. I'm going at 24 bit. I don't need to be dithering for the output. I put that to minus 0.1, so I'm just coming a little bit below the full Peak. It's just to give us a little bit of Headroom, but not too much. Now let's move on to the advanced settings. In here, we have style. Now, my go-to first of all is all round, but I will use the a b feature at the top here to test Dynamic and Punchy.

but those three are the main three that I'm using. But all round kind of does the job on most tracks. The Punchy one is good for getting a transients a little bit sharper. So on some music, if I do want that little bit extra, then I'll listen to that. But then check that against the all round. So do that on the a b, and then you'll see track dependent. So with the look ahead, it is trying to look ahead as it says and preempt what it's going to do when it comes, when it gets its input signal. So I want that to be quite quick. I found that when I have that on longer, it takes away from the transients and things don't sound as sharp and is bitey. So I don't really have that on too much. But what you have to watch with it is if you don't have it on a tool, you can get some Distortion. So I have it on a little bit, and I will try and listen for that on different tracks because some tracks, if it's classical

music, for example, you can get away with a bit more, but when it's something like a hip-hop track or a dance track, then I'll have it on super quick. So, next is the attack and release times. Now, this doesn't work the same way as a normal compressor. The attack time is for when the release starts working, so I usually have this on fully all the way around so that the release isn't getting hit at all. So, basically, all the transients are coming through. I'm not using any release time to kind of hold on to the signal because I don't really want to do that. Now, if there is some distortion, I will bring the release time up, and I'll give it a little bit more of attack to say on classical music that might happen, but usually dance music, hip-hop, pop music, it's better just to have this all the way around on full level so that you haven't got any release going in, and you're just getting really quick transients, and it makes the track really

really loud and clean. And something else to get that loudness is channel linking, which is next. So I always have these at zero. What this does, it means that it's reacting differently on the left and right. And this is a real game changer when the limiter is just working on the left and right independently rather than both of them together because you just get extra loudness. It's like having two a limiter on left and right rather than one just on the whole stereo signal. So that is a really good little top tip there for you to put those on zero and check out how they sound on your mixes. You can download this FabFilter Pro-L preset from the link in the description. So now you have my exact limiter settings. Would you like to know the system and methods I use for every track that I master? Well, this month is mastering me at streaky.com and I'm offering 75% discount on all of my mastering courses. So if you're uploading your music to Spotify, then you might

like to try my mastering for Spotify course. Alternatively, if you have ozone 10, then I've got a course where I run through every single module, and I also show you how to master from start to finish with ozone 10. If you want to go deep into mastering every single aspect, then you'll want my ultimate mastering course. That's on an 80% discount. I've left all the links in the description below for you to get these discounts, or you can go to streaky.com. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like and subscribe. See you next time.

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Mastering Your Music for Spotify: A Professional Guide

With the overwhelming number of artists on Spotify, standing out can be challenging, but the professional mastering engineer offers trusted advice for using FabFilter Pro-L 2.

He recommends turning off True Peak limiting for a more dynamic sound, using maximum oversampling for clarity, and keeping dither off while aiming for a slightly below full Peak output.

Additionally, he suggests using the "all-round" style as a go-to, with the option to test "Dynamic and Punchy" using the AB feature.

Using the "Punchy" setting can help make transients sharper, but it's essential to compare it with the "All Round" setting for each track.

The "Look Ahead" function should be adjusted for each track to avoid distortion, with classical music allowing for a bit more leeway.

For the attack and release times, keeping the attack at a full level and adjusting the release time can help prevent distortion, with different settings for different music genres like dance or classical.

Maximizing Loudness with Channel Linking in FabFilter Pro-L

Channel linking at zero in FabFilter Pro-L can significantly increase loudness by allowing the limiter to react differently on the left and right.

This creates an extra level of loudness, similar to having two limiters on the left and right channels.

You can download the FabFilter Pro-L preset for these exact limiter settings and consider taking advantage of a 75% discount on mastering courses for music upload to Spotify.

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