mastering software????

Sleep Tyght · Post by **Sleep Tyght** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:56 pm

Damn they must be smokin' the "OOOH WEE" in France.

Some questionable replies in this thread. That's for sure.

I really don't believe in mastering your own work, but....

At home I use a TC Electronics Finalizer. I'll send a stereo track from my G5...through the Finalizer...while recording the mastered track into Sound Forge on a PC.

If I HAD to use software and I often do....

Waves L2 or L3 with OZONE. The TC Powercore also comes with a Finalizer plug, but I rarely use it.

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:06 pm

Well one vote for PSP over here take it or leave it I think there compressors and NeonHR eq are the shizzle.

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:08 pm

afone1977 wrote:
Johnisfaster wrote:I'm not being upset about this I'm just trying to say, psp neon is just about as transparent as eq gets.
it's your opinion, and you have to defend it

i try PSP Néon and find it very insipid,

just another linear phase eq with none specific caracter,

it's what i think about it,

but if you have no other phase linear eq in your tool, use it, it work (but try flux bundle also, because those plugin are certainly good ones, they come from pyramix plateform, a very good solution for mastering)

personaly, i dont buy / use it during mastering because i have better tools (tools i personaly prefer)

see your description that time sounds better to me. insipid, no charactor. those things I think you can say about it. but saying it's muddy just boggles my mind you know?
I agree with you that vintage warmer can be considered muddy maybe but I just had to defend neon from being called that.

rasputin · Post by **rasputin** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:35 pm

I did spring to pay for a local mastering guy for my last project. Now there are a lot of variables here: my style of tracks, the fact they're mostly built out of loops and samples that were recorded in a thousand different places, how good this guy was, his understanding of what I was trying to accomplish and his equipment, and the fact my ears are probably crap. But when I listened to the tracks he mastered and what I came up with using Ozone 3, Sound Forge and some misc plugins I have, I was as happy with my own stuff as with his.

But when I compare those tracks with some of my reference tracks (e.g. from Rockenfield/Speer "Hell's Canyon" and Paul Haslinger "World without rules" albums) my tracks are very flat, lifeless and sort of harsh. To be fair, they come out of Live sounding pretty much that way too so maybe it is all simply due to my ears.

Ozone to me seems to be able to add sparkle, punch, and depth pretty transparently. I think for its price of $200 you can't beat it, and it's a good way to learn about multiband dynamics, imaging and various types of EQ.

r.

mastering software????

Disclaimer: my ears are crap and my tracks are worse