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Hello Abletonians.
I have a quick question.
What methods do you employ, in a live situation, to master on the fly?
What I mean is, running your tracks through a compression, gate, eq bus.

I have one that I use but I was just wondering what others do.

Thanks in advance.

We each use an eq3 (just as a fattenator, all gains set to zero), a sonalksis TBK (midi mapped to BCF for filter sweeps), a sonalksis sv517 and sv 315 (eq and compression, the 315's limiter is not engaged) and a voxengo elephant.

But without these plugins specifically, using live's built-in stuff, I'd go 2 EQ3s )one each for fatness and filter), a compressor and a limiter. Put an eq8 in before the compressor if you need.

depends on what music you play,
and what the pa is like.
but i would also go for an EQ, Compressor and Limiter at the end.
if you have some nice ones, use them,
if not, the buildt-in EQ/comp/limiter in live are very good, i think.

i really like the PSP vintage warmer, to fatten up, compress a little bit, and also "shape" the whole thing to my liking.
it also helps to "glue" the different sounds together some more, make them sound as one source.

Thanks for the replies. I use Vintage Warmer quite a bit too. I was just wondering what others are using out there.

Would iZotope Ozone 4 work for this?

Good question, nice thread.

Nothing usually. At most Live's Limiter on the master, but only set to keep anything from going over in the event something crashes. Ceiling at -0.3, gain at 0.0dB.

socialjusticeman wrote:We each use an eq3 (just as a fattenator, all gains set to zero),

Come on, really?

I'd also like to know if ozone would work for this.

one thing i have noticed with having ozone on the master is that it creates latency for any midi going in (atleast in my experience), so if keyboard controllers etc were being used that would be an issue.

Other than that I don't see why not but i'd like to hear others if they have experience with it.

I second that,, Ozone 4 creates lag. It's processor intensive. Same thing (maybe worse) in Logic. I would not use it for a live performance.

I have tried the wave arts final plug and its a great limiter... competes with waves stuff...

very cpu friendly too