The Master Section V4 in Wavelab Pro

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The Master Section V4 in Wavelab Pro

hello everybody Andrew Blake from thedigitalaudium manual.com today we moveon to our fourth video as we continue todiscuss the master section in wavelabPro but before we start I want to remindyou that there's a link below to thefree content navigation guide which isan easy to navigate webpage with linksto all the content on this channel andbesides that in the near future I'mgoing to begin adding tips and otherbits of information that will only beavailable there you know things likesimple steps that will get you startedand up and running quick things that arein the videos but are written down insimple steps that serve as quickreminders when you need information downthe road if you're working with programslike wavelab or Cubase plugins or thecable guys shaper box and many manyother projects that are in the worksthen I know you're going to find justlike I have that this is an invaluablestudy Aid and the other thing I want tomake sure you understand is that this isnot a simple PDF this is a constantlyupdated page that has any informationthat is new or any Time videos arechanged really anything updated and onceyou have it you will always have thelatest information constantly updated soif you haven't gotten it already go tothe link below click on it and save itto your favorites it's my gift to youand it's absolutely free Okay so let'sget started so we're moving on to thisfourth video of the master section we'vebeen discussing it for a few videos nowall the previous videos in thenavigation guide and the link belowlet's start off talking about theresampling pain that's this thing righthere and you can click it and open itand shut it on the right you can turn iton and off and when you turn it on thenit lights up and you can see if youclick on it these different samplingrates now I'm not sure if everybody'ssound card shows the same thing this iswhat mine shows and I'm not sure ifthese are defaults by wavelab but youget these basic sample rates in here youknow 44 1 48 and on up 96. most of thetypical sample rates that you would usebut then if you keep going you have alist that says customize the samplerates and that opens up you know otheroptions so if something's not here thatyou would expect to see you can just goto the list on the left you know andthen move that inand if you have stuff in the menu thatyou don't want to see you could take itout there but let's do a couple ofthings here let's run some tests and seehow this you know affects our sound andfirst of all let me just talk about whatsampling rates are why you use themwhat's the you know what's the use of itwhat's the value of it the typicalscenario for those that may not befamiliar with this kind of stuff is inyour you know wave lab environment oryou know in Cubase or whatever youbrought your files into wavelab from youmay have a very high sample rate meaningyou recorded your files at you know 48000 Hertz or whatever you know you mayhave used in your project to takeadvantage of you know the bestcapability of you know capturing thebest sounds possible but then the daycomes where you actually need to eithermove things onto a CD or wherever you'regoing to download them or whereveryou're going to move them to and at thatpoint you're probably going to movethings into a more usablesample rate for example if you take itto a CD you're going to move it to 44.1because a CD won't accept 48 or 96 000or whatever these other options are soyou're going to need to convert yourfiles from some sample rate to someother sample rate when you're looking inwavelab in the audio Montage like we'reat right now every time you click on afile this is a great feature if you lookdown here in the lower right itautomatically tells you what the samplerate of your file is so for mine in thisMontage it's at 44.1 we're going tochange that in a minute so I can showyou the differences but you always havesome kind of running visual so you knowwhat you're dealing with so let'sactually change that if I go up to thesampling pane hereand I changed it from 44 I'm going tomove it all the way up to 96 000 Hertzand now a couple of things happen thisthe file itself Still Remains at 44.1because we haven't really changedanything but if you look down here onthe bottom right of the master sectiondisplay shows you 96 000 Hertz becausethis tells you that the master sectionis now playing your files at this higherresolution so the first benefit ofhaving this thing in the master sectionis you actually can preview audition andhear the difference of what changing thesample rate on your audio file is goingto do most of the time you probablywon't even hear any difference at theseextreme changes in the sample rate butyou have the option to you know auditionthem and check them out anyway now as wejust said this is really just affectingthe playback and what you're hearingbecause it hasn't changed the file yetthe file is still playing at itsoriginal You Know sample rate the onlything this is doing at this point isletting you hear the difference untilyou render the file so let's go aheadand render the file now if I go up to myrender Tab and here's something againand if you've never experienced ityou'll want to pay attention to thiswhen I render a file I have the optionon the bottom to choose the format andyou can actually pick at this point whenyou're rendering off files to do thesame thing to change the You Know samplerate at this point to whatever you wantvarious MP3 files or other differentkinds of files you might want to convertthis to you won't hear it you know untilyou actually render it off but you havethe option right here to change thingsbut if you look in the factory presetsat the bottom you should see somethingthat says wave default if you take thewave default that kind of passes throughexactly what you have in the Montage toyour rendering without changing it sofor example I have this thing now set at96 000 Hertz when it passes through therendering it's going to stay at 96 000Hertz it's not going to change anythingso let's go ahead and do that I'll hitmy rendering button renders off the fileand now this opens up in the audioeditor as a rendered file and the samething if I look down on the bottom rightit gives me some you know idea of whatthe file sample rate is and now it'stelling me it's 96 000. now let's doanother rendering we'll keep this at the96 000 on the resampling pane but whenwe go up to our render tab let'sactually change the format to somethingelse I'll change it back to 16 bit 44 1.so it doesn't say wave default anymoreit says the 16-bit 44. let's go aheadand render this off and now we get afile in our audio editor and if we lookdown on the bottom right it says 16-bit44 1. so be aware you have a couple ofchoices when you're doing this and youwant to know how they're affecting yourfile you have your resampling pane whichallows you to hear and check out thesedifferent sampling rates or hit thatcustom sample rate you know and changethose options and this allows you tohear right now in real time what thesample rate changes will do but alsonotice that when you go to render thattrumps everything that whatever you setyour render to if you make a change likein this case I pick an actual sampleright here the rendering will overrideanything else you've put here on theother hand if you don't want it to ifyou want it to pass through keep thisvisit that wave default option you havethis other kind of comparison thing hereif this button right at the verybeginning of the sampling Pane and itsays use the preferred sampling rate andif I click on that mine automaticallychanges to 44 1. now why in the worlddoes it do that let me show you why if Igo back to my file Tab and I go down tomy preferences and I go to the tab thatsays audio connections and then once Iget there I find this tab that saysoptions at the bottom of that there's anoption here that says the preferredsampling rate and again you can changethat to whatever you want but this kindof sets your default level of what youwant your sampling rate to be andthere's various things that happen inwavelab that will you know go to thispreferred sampling rate when you setthings up but it also in this resamplingpane allows you to always audition thatpreferred sampling rate so again if I dosomething like I've got this at 96 000but I want to make a quick comparisonwhat it sounds like at my preferred ratewhatever that is in this case 44.1 I canjust click this button and immediately Ican hear the difference between the twothen you have that thing like we hadbefore you got the monitoring point soif you click that your meteors are goingto read right at this point so you cansee what your levels are right at thepoint of being the sample conversionthen moving down you have your actualmaster faders and you want to be awareon your master faders that they affectyou know what things are going to getrendered off any number of things so ifI play this and I turn my music downeverything gets affectedme personally I never change the levelson my master faders they always stay atzero and if you pull those down you canjust double click on those faders or ifthey're up you can change them but thisis one of the main areas in wavelabwhere you'll actually hear clipping ifyou drive this too strong you have anoption of how you want these meters todisplay you actually can pick singledigit or double digits if I right clickon the numbers I have the option to sayone decimal after the separator or twoif I pick onewhen things are playing and I change itmy meter shows one or two decimal pointsand then as one note to the actualmeters on the master levels here andit's mentioned here that if you want areal accurate reading on a level itselfyou want to use their built-in levelmeterup here on the left I'm going to show itto you and this actually takes a readingafter everything after the ditheringafter the meters after everything it'sthe final meter in the chain and now westep on to another fantastic feature inthe master section this audio Channelprocessing if you have never messed withthismess with it let me show you somethinghere what this does is it gives you awhole bunch of series of differentum down mix type situations it startswith the default channels whatever youhave which typically is just a stereomix then it has these various mono mixesit lets you hear the Left Channel theright channel only then it lets you hearthe mid Channel and the side Channelonly if you don't have some headphoneson grab some headphones put them on andlisten for the next few seconds as Idemonstrate these I'm going to play thissong and right now you're hearing thestereo mix I'm going to hit the one thatsays mixed to Monoforeignmix I'm going to go to mix to Mono leftto right and what this does is it kindof phase inverts the left and the rightchannel so if you have anything that'sidentical it's going to phase cancel itright out kick drum just disappeared outof thereI can hear the Left Channel and itdoesn't throw the left hand on the lefthand you still get to hear it in bothheadphonesright Channelthe mid Channelthis is so revealingand then finally the side Channel[Music]depending on what you've selected youalso get these little icons that kind ofshow up so you can see here when I go toright channel only it shows an R upthere if I hit mid Channel it shows an Mthe last option here on mine is grayedout because it says mix to stereo and itonly applies if you have like some kindof surround system or more than twospeakers then it will mix it down tostereo so you can hear that but if youhave not used this before I'm going totell you that you're going to want tonot only hear your song you know do thisthrough your song but take yourreference songs and throw them up intoyour stereo track it won't do this onthe reference tracks but you got tothrow your reference up into the stereotrack and go through your reference andlisten to these different down mixes ofmono and left and right and mid Channeland side Channel you are going to hearthings that you've never heard beforeand you're going to get such anunderstanding of what a professional mixand mastered song does and how theyapproach things you're going to hearwhat the bass does how they you knowaffect the bass it's just it's such alearning experience if I could adviseyou I would tell you spend five minutesevery day beginning your session bygoing through these and listening tothem just to get your head and ears intounderstanding what happens when youchange these different mixes the theamount of understanding and perspectiveyou're going to gain from that is just II can't tell you how important and howvaluable that is next to that then youhave the true Peak analyzer and that'sthat's either going to make your meterreflect what's you know the digitalsignal is or it's going to show you whatthe actual true Peak information is Ialmost always leave it on the true Peakbecause that's what I want to know ifyou want your faders to be independentor you want them to link you have thatoption as well and if you're worriedthat you may hit a fader and not reallyrealize you're doing it you have theoption to lock everything and then yourmouse can't change these faders andthat's going to wrap it up for today asusual if you haven't grabbed yournavigation guide be sure to grab thatbefore you go has links to all thecontent on the channel ever growing freeto usethere for your benefit they're for mybenefit great study guide and easyaccess to all these subjects when youneed to get to themso today you know you're going to wantto turn your resampling tab onexperiment with that see if you canchange your different sampling ratesmaybe do some renders and see how itaffects the different you know renderswith your sampling change your masterlevel change the decimals on those butabsolutely with undoubtedly mess aroundwith this channel processing where youcan see the different you know and hearthe different mixes from mono and leftand right and your mid and your side I'mtelling you if you want to you know gainLeaps and Bounds on your perspective ofhow things sound you're going to want tospend a few minutes doing that and Iwould say like I said do it regularlymake it a routinewe are getting through this mastersection we have a few more things to goand our learning on this subject will becomplete and on to other topics ofInterest as always it's great to haveyou guys here I'll see you in the nextvideo