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Following up to my Logic vs Live thread. I'm interested in finding out what software everyone is using to master their music. genre of music that i play is electro/acousitc. the easier the software is to use the better.
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Don't forget to use your ears...........
Mastering is not easy.
You can use WAVES plugins.

in theory you can do it all in live. psp vintage warmer is an affordable quality solution in any host. others swear by izotope ozone and then there's waves at the priciest end. but all these are worthless if you don't have good monitors, good ears and a good room.

slicedbread wrote:in theory you can do it all in live. psp vintage warmer is an affordable quality solution in any host. others swear by izotope ozone and then there's waves at the priciest end. but all these are worthless if you don't have good monitors, good ears and a good room.

that and good, clean material to mix n master!

ikke wrote: that and good, clean material to mix n master!

true. get it close in the mix. you can't polish a terd, but you can edit the sh#t out of it.

The industry (soft-)standard for this would be Waves L2. I used to use it a lot before I got my UAD-1. You don't wanna squash the signal too much but we put out quite a few tracks using just this and no outboard gear.

Now I pretty much just use the Neve 1081 EQ to polish and add character before using either the 1176N or L2A2 emulation compressor/limiters and then running out to a desk for analog gain summing.

don't use t-racks.

stick with the waves plugs, voxengo makes some nice stuff too.

if you don't really know what you're doing don't try anything too ambitious. just get your mixdowns as nice as possible, and be sure to a:b your track against something that you know is well mixed and mastered. if you can get your mixdown to sound as good as a mastered track before you master it you will have a much much better sounding finished product.

psp vintagewarmer's 'mastering first aid' setting is great if you just want to make a mixdown playable live.

I've been using Bias Peak for a lot of years now and have had great success. Great editor, and a really nice resampling algorithm.

http://www.bias-inc.com/products/peakPro5/resampling/

sonalksis is good stuff.