Mastering Software.

[Michael]

Thanks All!

The folks who responded who’s work I am familiar with and I have to say, have a great deal of admiration for and have often wondered how you get such great sounds, I now have some idea which direction I should be headed but I know there’s much more to it than just having the right gear.
The folks I don’t know,thank you for sharing,it’s all very helpful.

Michael.

[danphillipson]

@JunL

You’re welcome, glad I could help 🙂

[mscottweber]

Does anyone here besides me use T-Racks?

[Ulla]

I tried Ozone yesterday and thought it was horrible. I will have to spend more time to experiment with it, but I’m getting the feeling that I might as well experiment with any other tool and get the same results…

[Greg]

I also just tried ozone and didn’t care for it.  I have had good luck with Maximus.  It’s built into FL Studio, but also available as a vst.

 

http://www.image-line.com/documents/maximus.html

[MichaelL]

Ozone is definitely not an “out-of-the box” plug. I don’t think you’ll get good results if you don’t have the opportunity to work with it for a while.  There are a number of good tutorials  on how to make the most of each component.

So far, I’ve been happy with what Ozone does.  But this thread has my curious about alternatives. I’ll probably end up using a combination of tools. Always tweaking the toolkit.

_MichaelL

[Art Munson]

Ozone has a very steep learning curve to use effectively, at least for me. I’ve followed the tutorial and much of it eludes me. Some of the changes are to subtle to my old ears.

Still looking for the “Magic” button mastering plug in. LOL!

[woodsdenis]

Ozone is definitely not an “out-of-the box” plug. I don’t think you’ll get good results if you don’t have the opportunity to work with it for a while.  There are a number of good tutorials  on how to make the most of each component.

which is Ozones problem from the outset, it sells itself on a “pick a preset and voila”. Most of the time it will destroy your mix. Each mix is different and the notion of a preset is crazy.

However it constituent parts offer great value, and as a package its unbeatable. You do have to know what you are doing though, gain staging, compression, limiting,stereo widening, oversampling , dither  etc can overwhelm the novice and pro alike.

I still prefer using different elements from different manufacturers as I think its the most flexible and upgradeable.

Nobody would claim that the individual parts of Ozone are the best in class, but together they offer a great affordable product.

[woodsdenis]

Still looking for the “Magic” button mastering plug in. LOL!

 

http://www.thehouseofkush.com/clariphonicdsp.html

 

This the hardware version

http://www.thehouseofkush.com/videos.html

[Wildman]

Hi,

I keep things simple. I master in WaveLab. I use an 10 band eq, the BBE D82, it`s my secret weapon, a T-Racks Brickwall Limiter (great), and the L2. I very much trust my ears and the WaveLab metering 🙂

[Mark Petrie]

I use Ozone on my master fader for almost everything (unless someone else is mixing it). I started with a preset and then kept tweaking the settings until the mixes sounded good on a couple different sets of speakers. These days I barely touch it, other than the input levels and maximizer settings.  One mistake I made early on was to use the stereo spreading – I started running into phase issues (when the music played in mono, instruments would completely disappear).

[woodsdenis]

One mistake I made early on was to use the stereo spreading – I started running into phase issues (when the music played in mono, instruments would completely disappear).

We have all done that one at some point !!!

These are free and really good phase and analysis tools

http://www.fluxhome.com/products/freewares/stereotool

http://www.voxengo.com/product/span/

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