Help with a project for exam

Nuendo
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Hello, after a short course on mastering, i have been asked (for exam) to work at an audio file doing the following
Use at least 1 parallel processor
1 upward
1 saturation/distortion

Then i have the specs for mastering
1 at 44100 16 bit -10dB RMS or 12 LUFS, no dc offset no true peak
1 in youtube format, 48khz, -14 lufs, no dc offset

As i said the course was too quick with so many information and no paper to watch at

So i have some trouble remembering everything

To start:
i have set a compress in parallel, just using in the send chain…that should be fine, right? (not talking of the settings yet… :slight_smile: )
About the upward…can i use SQUASH? If yes how do i use it?

The file now ha around -6 LUFS integrated and around +6dB true peak

The other problem is that all the course was made on reaper…using different tools for everyhting…but i don t want to start fighting for basic learning with reaper

thanks for your precious help!

2

You need a basic course first…

The course was not useful, I doubt…
If this happens, you didn’t understand digital audio at all.

So nothing to take home after the course?

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those values are straight from the file before edit…it s not my edit, it s what i was given…
i work at it to obain what is specified

1 at 44100 16 bit -10dB RMS or 12 LUFS, no dc offset no true peak
1 in youtube format, 48khz, -14 lufs, no dc offset

i have just finisched the basic course, but you should know that 5 4 hours lessons are really basic. Don’t have notes, or book also…so you can imagine the first time practising a real master is something really different
It is when one start to have a clere idea of all the lessong taken before

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Turn the level down? Just a simple volume change.

hard to tell… more info needed.
Nuendo is different from Reaper on this.

That’s a pity, a very good course would provide information that is written somewhere.

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yes, we could but his book, but for now i don’t
anyway i am not here talking about the course, but to get som ehelp for the mastering work

no it s not just a volume change, i need to use all those process i explained above
and also you should know it’snot only a matter to low down the volume
This way anyone can do mastering, even my little son

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Isn’t that the reason you booked the course?
You pay somebody money and we teach you how you do proper mastering for free?

To achieve the particular goal (that’s why I quoted just that part), just a volume change is necessary.
I wasn’t talking about the need of using the processes.