16Khz Spek

Hello, a friend of mine is a producer, and he said to me his productions only reach 16khz and not 20khz.

he uses cubase and said to me that tried everything to make his tracks reach 20khz but he can't.

anyone knows what may be causing it ? thx :)

export it as .wav and see if that still happens, so that we can cross out the mp3-conversion as a problem.

other than that, make sure the master channel is clear, no filters, no limiters and mix it down then. could be that one limiter or EQ cuts off the missing pieces.

he said he uses a compressor and a limiter on the master channel, and said that he needs the compressor to master the song, but the limiter he can take care of.

he asked what he can put in the master channel, and what volume to export in .wav

any help is good guys, thanks for the reply under92 :D

if you mix everything down in your DAW, then leave the master channel clear, maybe add a limiter, but nothing else. im pretty sure the stuff he puts on the master channel cuts his tunes off at 16khz. and just do a normal mixdown in .wav and see what happens, mine usually peak around 20-22khz

Yeah your friend should not be "mastering" in his working project file.

I usually chuck a limiter and compressor on my master bus while working so I can turn them on once in a while to see how things sound 'loud', but I turn them off for the export. And the limiter is just there in case, to protect against really loud sounds that come up from time to time from buggy VST's. haha

Yeah your friend should not be "mastering" in his working project file.

I usually chuck a limiter and compressor on my master bus while working so I can turn them on once in a while to see how things sound 'loud', but I turn them off for the export. And the limiter is just there in case, to protect against really loud sounds that come up from time to time from buggy VST's. haha

right, most people i know do it like that as well. basically just with a limiter on the master channel that drops everything down by 6dB, just so that you have that extra 6dB of space. although i never really tried that out myself.

i normally put a limiter on the master channel, but i just set that to 0dB to avoid clipping. i dont really master any of my stuff afterwards, i normally just mix internally and got the mixdown so far that it sounds good on a proper system. but thats just homemade procedure that works for me, definitely not a high-end mixing right there.