Jan 07, 2008 10:54 pm By final, do you mean Mastering?
best final plugins?
Posted on Jan 07, 2008 10:53 pm
capellino
Member Since: Dec 06, 2007
i want some suggestions and tips about some final plugins..which are the best..and hot to use the corectly
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Jan 07, 2008 10:54 pm By final, do you mean Mastering?
Jan 08, 2008 09:30 pm yeah..i use cubase for mixing and then i export the track and inport it on wavelab and i want to know which is the best plugins to put at the final mixdown of the song
Jan 08, 2008 11:03 pm Mastering is dark and mysterious art =).
But really, it's probably difficult to get any hard fast rules about mastering.
Ozone has a mastering PDF that people have liked:
www.izotope.com/products/...teringGuide.PDF
dB (and others) have liked Har-Bal for a mastering EQ.
www.har-bal.com/
They also have a mastering tutorial on the right side of their page, under customer support.
I think waves has been regarded as one of the best sources for plugins. I'm pretty sure some of their's are mastering plugins.
I just was thinking too, that if you want some general info on mixing, recording, etc (no mastering yet), then the Bruce A Miller course is free, and has a ton of info already:
bamaudioschool.com/crsindex.html
You may already know some of the stuff, but some may help out.
Jan 24, 2008 05:14 pm guys im new here, but i wana add what i know!
i use yamaha's final master, i find it a great final mastering plug-in.
hope this is of some use to you all?!
Jan 24, 2008 05:35 pm I have tried
Ozone
T-Racks
PSP Vintage Warmer
I'm a fan of presets and ease of use (for my simple home recordings) so I tend to use PSP as it is the easiest to use and it's harder to screw things up. I prefer the more subtle effects that it has also.
Ozone is great also but seems more suited to glossy pop style masters but it has a lot of other features that PSP does not have.
T-Racks I did not spend much time on.
Jan 24, 2008 08:05 pm For a freebie try the Modern Series from Antress.
ModernDeepPurple has some great pre-sets for mastering (which you can tweak to taste).
Jan 24, 2008 11:47 pm Mastering is a trick subject and i belive it to be a big matter of taste vs tracking and mixing where you do have a few guide lines. as far as plug-ins go , there are a few good ones low cost to not so low cost. I like the PSP vintage warmer, Boost 11 peak limiter (in sonar 7) BBE sonic Maximizer, a handful of waves plugins.
Jan 31, 2008 10:21 pm Ozone's primer is really a good place to start. I think HarBal has one too that uses Waves plugs for examples. Both are good reads. It helps me to segrate mastering into two seperate entities. Mastering a song and mastering an album, ep, lp, cd, or any group of songs. The catch 22 with understanding mastering a song is understanding the full process of capturing to printing and knowing what processes to perform on each song in the mastering stage, which varies from song to song and tech to tech. MHO, Ozone is a great starting point as it has the most common mastering tools all in one suite. You can toy with your music and that will become a process of understanding where and when you want to use mastering tools on a song.
Mastering the group of songs falls partially into the mastering of each song as this is the art of making songs work well together. Sequence, timing between songs, relitive volume of songs, possibly accoustics matching all come into play.
Harbal is also a great tool in the mastering process as it is an intuitive helpfull eq system for a completed mix. It is a little different from mastering plugs as it is a seperate App i.e. you can't adjust other mastering plugs real time along with Harbal.
Mastering is an art no doubt. There really is no cookie cutter approach that excells for the mastering process. It's the same as learning to play an instrument. Jump in and start making noise. Pretty soon the noise will become enjoyable and after that you will develop your own techniques that will make your pieces unique.
Feb 02, 2008 02:42 pm is there out there a better software than wavelab and har bal to use?
what is the best mastering software?
or with wavelab and the waves masters bundle i am set to go?
Feb 03, 2008 06:21 pm I think it has been said before but I'll say it again.
Wavelab is the most used, which I will assume makes it what you would consider the best app out there for mastering.
It is what many of us have used for years for doing mastering and pre mastering.
Feb 05, 2008 08:36 am Wavelab and Waves mastering bundle are going to put you right up there with the best of studios. Now that is not to say you won't find things that work better for you, or little tricks etc.
What's the best car? The one I like.
Feb 05, 2008 08:39 am The best software is the software that works best for you. WaveLab is far and away the best I have worked with for editing, mastering, audio restoration and similar tasks.
Never ask what's "the best", it's a silly, subjective, unanswerable question, my best is Walt's worst...it's all opinion.
Feb 05, 2008 12:28 pm [quote]
The best software is the software that works best for you. [/quote]
Yep.
I even use the cheapo Magix Audio Cleaning suite. The maximizer and stereo effects on there are really luscious. Plus it has some de-hiss, de-click, de-noise things that really do work. Night and day sometimes.
Feb 17, 2008 11:09 am I think one way to demonstrate the differences may be a recent eq issue I had. To date I could effectively notch for bass with the provided parametric in Cubase. Then came this one distorted guitar sound. A simple notch yeilded this hollow phasing effect that was extreamly annoying and detremental. Waves linier eq did the trick. No phasing effects.
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