Mastering EQing and compressions on FLS

I hope this helps, I'm not really good at explaining

My advice to you would be watch alot of tutorials like on how to use EQs and Compressors or how they work.

Also EQ out the necessary stuff. For example, kicks have alot of low end so you might want to eq (lowpass) the kick so that only the lows are there, not too much though or it might end up sounding muddy

Honestly the final thing is experience and knowing what you want and certain ranges to boost. Good audio equipment (such as a decent pair of monitors or headphones) will enable you to make better decisions. For kicks to get that kind of punch, you might want to boost the lower frequencies (not too much) I could be wrong here since I haven't done any production in months.

The method varies for every kick but I hope this gives you an idea.

Ideas of channel to check for tutorials SeamlessR (check his playlist FL Studio Basic Tutorials and FL Studio 12 Basics DigitalVideoFX BusyWorksBeats.TV

A plugin I always use on my master channel for final mastering is Ozone 5 You might wanna check it out

Sausage Fattener can help to add that extra punch to kicks also, use it gently though.

I will get back to you in detail about mix bus compression and limiting for good home 'masters' in Fruity after my son goes down for his nap....

Seconding elbeejay. Mixing is a whole separate skill that you're going to need to learn to get your tracks sounding good. Look up EQ, compression, and don't be fooled by plugins that will ''do wonders to your mix''. Ozone is a great mastering plugin, but you'll have no use for it until you really know what you're doing; heck I barely have a use for it yet after 2 years of plugging away at this (pun intended). Try to find tutorials that will take you though a full mix process once you know what EQ and compression are.

there are no absolute "best settings", what you're asking is how to mix your track.. there are whole books written on this, whole careers built on it.. don't take it as some light 'final step' to your production, it's a whole new skill. look up pensado's place, read some sound on sound articles about the fundamentals of mixing, you might find some good advice there.

yeah, but there's stuff that just will NOT work if you are trying to do everything in that Fruity Loops environment..... for instance I am a big fan of parallel compression, but its a mess to do it in FL the way I do it with hardware.

I am just going to focus on the OP's actual question with my own SOP for exporting annoying techno tracks from fruity loops for direct upload as mp3s to the interwebs (YMMV):

When trying to make Fruity Loops tracks loud to be uploaded to a site like soundcloud I am a big fan of slapping some RMS compression across the mix bus with a midrange focused sidechain to get things louder without letting the bass and treble transients dominate what the compressor sees, from there I might add some linear phase EQ to tailor the bass and treb frequencies a bit before reaching for the brickwall limiter to even out the biggest transients. Be gentle with that limiter, it was ruin your track if you get excited about how loud and powerful its all becoming....

if you get a good balance of compression, master EQ and brickwall limiting your track should sound good enough for mp3 (which already sounds so bad that I don't know why anyone worries about soundquality anymore)

Or you can call my friend Jeff at Peerless Mastering and ask him to do it the right way for you. He's very affordable.... haha

I can't get into the TDR plugins, I just don't like them for some reason... also, the way I do parallel (the Andy Wallace method) requires echo sends/returns because I like to set up 3 different compressors with EQ in front of them for low, middle and high and, well you get the idea

I've read about issues with linear phase EQ, but I don't hear any of them, the trickery sounds good to me for certain applications, gentle mix bus sweetening is one of them, but ymmv... I almost never do anything drastic with EQ of any kind though... if something needs a lot of EQ to find a good place in your mix then it might just be the wrong sound for the part and if you need a ton of mix bus EQ then you might just want to go back and start the mix over....

either way I think he should try to learn what compression does before trying to utilise it. :)

yeah that, but its a hands on affair, reading is good, doing helps it all make sense and it doesn't suck to get pointers from guys who have been doing it a long time... I didn't really understand compression until I worked as an assistant in college