Jan 02, 2006 11:48 am HarBal
Mastering/Volume Levels
Posted on Jan 02, 2006 11:32 am
jimmyboy
Member Since: Sep 08, 2005
Could someone reccomend me a programme for mastering or just raising the overall volume level of the finished tracks?
Thanks..
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Jan 02, 2006 12:13 pm I haven't purchased harbal yet, but am looking forward to it. In terms of raising the volume of the audio, I use steinberg wavelab to apply mostly Mastering Edition Steinberg plugins. My favorite mastering plugins so far are the mastering edition loudness maxizer and a spatial enhancer. The loudness maximizer increases the rms volumes through different processes and will have a visual meter of how much you can increase the volume before you clip the audio. The spacial enhancer spreads the stereo image farther apart. For example, if you have guitars panned hard left and right, these guitars will seem to spread out even farther. This process adds a little apparent volume and gives space to a recording when not used too drastically. I'll usually put the wavelab peakstop limiter on there at 0db as well to avoid clipping. Through this process I once increased the volume of a recording so much that with a comfortable medium monitoring volume on my speakers toggling the audio plugins on and off to see the difference made the original audio so quiet that it was barely in the speakers. This process for me gets the level to within 1 or 2 db of any most commercial recordings. Hope that helps. I'm sure it's not the best but it's the best i've got :)
Jan 02, 2006 12:21 pm An old plugin called "Magneto" is one of my favs for saturating and raising volume. Waves Maximizers are good too, but now, the newest version of HarBal has a pretty damn good limiter in it, as well as some other features that making mastering a breeze...just don't tell my clients that...
Jan 02, 2006 01:38 pm I also use Wavelab and HarBal ... winning combination for sure.
Generally output from Cubase at a level low enough for enough headroom to master.
Then into Wavelab to clean up, any fades in/out etc and into HarBal, finishing the whole thing off in Wavelab...
Great stuff indeed...ye canny beat HarBal!
Coco.
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