Who here uses Live from start to finish?

dbolt · Post by **dbolt** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:37 am

I was having a hard time getting my final mixes to sound like I wanted them too until I demo'd Ozone 3 Mastering suite $200 .. Amazing I got my hardbox today cant wait to go and fix those final mixes with the audio dropouts every 10 sec I mean I have like 3 tracks that I made with the demo and still love it even with the dropouts.

Its Amazing in the difference those presets can make and then for some learning you can go in and tweak yourself. Huge Difference!

Later
Dustin

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:52 am

I use Live increasingly for finishing whole tracks. They only get Multiband Compressed in Logic afterwards. But arranging and mixing ----> Live Five

wavejumper · Post by **wavejumper** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:43 am

from start to recording. If the finished track is to be released commercially I wouldn't dream of mastering it, there's professional engineers doing that work if the material is worth pressing.

minimal · Post by **minimal** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:55 am

djadonis206 wrote:I'm waiting on my copy of Wavelab in the mail but yeah - everythings gone, Cubase, Pro-Tools etc etc

All I have is Ableton and Reason

When I get Wavelab for mastering I should be good to go -

the biggest problem with just using Ableton I find is not all of my tracks have the same levels

At least with Wavelab I'll be able to Master and finalize everything so the levels are even and hot

Ok, It's the Mad Season, put your dogs back in their temples before Alice breaks her chains at the soundgarden.

adonis, I had the same problem when collecting the various clips from different tracks in one set to get my live act toghether, volume was a mess up.
So i put inspector (for free, elemental audio.com) in every track and tweaked the clips volume until everything was more or less the same.
A good thing imho is finding an average level of all the tracks

netchaiev · Post by **netchaiev** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:36 am

Live 100% from start to finish. If in doubt I use Peak.

stinky · Post by **stinky** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:27 pm

The most obvious reason I use PT for Mix/Mastering is because live's submixing bus sounds like shit. I can tell, definitely. The finished mix sounds warmer, and fuller in PT. No mastering for productions sent to a prod house, of course, but not for demos I make for others to hear, or potential A&R contacts... Mixing, because it's alot easier with the 002 mixing console.

elemental · Post by **elemental** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:44 pm

Live all the way at the moment. Have thought about mixing in Cubase SX mainly for CPU and to see if it helps my mixes.

spiderprod · Post by **spiderprod** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:48 pm

wavelab for mastering , melodyne for time stretch & pich correction .

marky · Post by **marky** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:51 pm

timothyallan wrote:Plugin delay compensation!! Learn to Love it!

PDC's for pussies!! Live 4 all the way !!

(Actually I use Logic Pro 6 for trickier MIDI editing and often mixdown if my plugin count / track count just gets too much for my um.... lowly 2x2.3GHz G5 with Live 4... )