Maintaining Quality On YouTube with a Test Tone

[Mr_Jr]

What's up slutz, <---This is always my favourite part of any of my posts.

Every time I upload a song to YouTube the quality turns to shit. It sounds like there is a terrible limiter that squashes all the audio. I've done some research and some people are saying they maintain quality but creating an inaudible tone and mix it back into their song. The trick is to make the test tone a few DB louder then the entire song so that the compressor clamps down on the inaudible frequency leaving your mix relatively unprocessed.

Has anyone tried this? Does it work?

I'm also having trouble creating a tone that high. I'm not sure if it's my sound card or what but it gets glitchy...

Most oscillators or test tone generators only go up to 20000 max and I can still hear it. I need to go higher.

Can anyone send me a really really long test tone that's inaudible?
Does anyone know how to create one?
Does this even work or am I waisting my time.

As always your comments, criticisms and humour are always well appreciated.

[magnet]

Record the 20k tone and have your daw shift the pitch up by maybe 50% that would bring you to 30k. Loop the section, make it as long as you need it.

Good luck.

Magnet

[Mr_Jr]

Thanks for the comment Magnum.
I've tried that. I used a few plugins on a test tone to pitch it up in logic and the bounced it to merge it together with the song in audition.

When I pulled up the file in audition it DID NOT LOOK OR SOUND like a test tone.

[theblue1]

Originally Posted by Mr_Jr

Thanks for the comment Magnum.
I've tried that. I used a few plugins on a test tone to pitch it up in logic and the bounced it to merge it together with the song in audition.

When I pulled up the file in audition it DID NOT LOOK OR SOUND like a test tone.

I know this sounds obvious, but what sample rate was your mix file?