like Richard said.. use the MultiFX holder in parallel mode, with nesting if you have to, to get your mix of wet/dry compressed signals.
and yeah, the car analogy lost me too.. I think he's trying to say that the type and style of mastering should match the genre of the song.
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question about masteringThe best way to think of mastering, is that it is the final polish to a work of art.
If the art is all rough and unfinished, no amount of polish will make it look good. If you don`t sand down your floor correctly and then try to varnish it, it will be uncomfortable and look messy. Finish the wood properly before varnishing. And T Racks is aweful for mastering. What it promises it can`t deliver
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I guess lucky for me then, that I'm not considering it a mastering suite. I got it for the effects, and the ability to look at frequency analysis, levels, phase, etc., all at the same time. I mostly use it as an insert, and use Soundforge for mastering. However, the way it was laid out, was what lead to the questions in this thread. Honestly, if it didn't come with more software as part of the promotion deal (CSR came free as a second download, and I'm very happy with it), or whatever it was, then I wouldn't have picked it up. Still, it's already proven to be usefull for what it does. If I had picked it up thinking it was suppose to be the end-all-be-all of mastering, before I bought it, I would be pretty pissed.
question about masteringOkay Icaro - how about 'cake icing' then? Sometimes a well baked cake doesn't need a lot of fancy icing, Sometimes an occasion calls for a lot of well decorated icing, regardless of the cake. And sometimes the icing looks good - but is stale and trying to cover up a dry cake inside.... So don't be a cheap baker! - Is that a better analogy?
Yet, I'm the type of guy that would put a Lada ornament on a Cadillac just to see what the reaction would be. Or just simply put a bithday candle on a dog turd and say 'Ta-Da!' Art is what you can get away with. But as long as you know a Ferrari Testarosa and a good polish 7 layer bunt cake - no one can think you're THAT insane.
question about masteringcan you give me an example? For instance, how would you a Rolls Royce ornament on.... say, a Dodge Dart?
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I have an old hardware version rusting away in the garage. It was the cheap, basic version so it was never a lot of use. I use PSP MixSaturator to get some of the same goodness happening these days. I really like what it does to a mix, the only issue I have is trying to stop myself from using too much of it.
I dunno about that. A lot of my favourite albums aren't particularly well produced. The songs matter more than anything and as the wise man once said, you can't polish a turd. Of course, you will want to present your songs in the best possible way but I'd suggest that it would be wise to trade up from a VW to something a little nicer before you started looking for a hood ornament.
I've been mastering our album over the past couple of weeks and I am really digging some of SoundForge's features, particularly the way it's spectrum view comes up in a separate window so it's there all the time. I did most of the mastering of the last album in Orion, as a separate process from mixing. i.e. rendered out a mix, put that into a new song file [in an Audio Track] and then did my mastering. But the new version of SF has worked much better for me, especially with it's Izotope mastering effects bundle [although I could use those in Orion if I wanted]. Dell G7 (Hexa-Core i7)|Cubase Pro 10||Analog Keys|Ultranova|MicroMonsta|Uno|Skulpt|Craft Synth 2.0|
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See, now it's that kinda thinking that's going to scare people off from going for a ride with you! Now to put that kinda flash on a Mini or a Smart Car - you'd be hip, modern, and just so damn cute! :superlol: And too, just to get at what Bones was saying - production vs. packaging can fool a listener sometimes. IE; the infamous Throbbing Gristle. They had some of the worst mastered stuff around, but some of the slickest packaging. I often wondered if they had come out with something like 'Never Mind The Bollocks' type of album design, if they'd be anywhere as infamous now? It's argueable that 'Second Annual Report' was just that. And I remember opening it up, and a news letter and a questionaire or something came out with the record. I put on the album, but was so intrigued by all this paraphenilia - I thought it was all just brilliant! Now The Fall on the other hand - Totales Turn I think it was called? Just a plain white cover with a rubber stamp on it. Shite production, no intrigue - the worst punk/new wave band I ever heard! It wasn't until I caught wind of The Frenz Experiment with a much slicker sound and packaging that I did a total about face and fell in love with them from there on in. Yet the WORST album I've heard in my life, and fairly recently is The Fall's 'Light User Syndrome'. It's like a gun was held to the engineers head and ordered to punch and limit it to 100% Just so loud - it's ugly!... But the cover looks nice at least.
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