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Re: Master channelI generally don't have anything on the master channel, but when I do I use my very own Expresso plug-in. On the master channel it acts as a limiter, but also has various distortion algorithms inc saturation plus high and low pass filters.
Re: Master channelMaster here usually contains T Rack's White 2A, Brickwall Limiter and sometimes Nomad's Cosmos.
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The following clip demonstrates the master chain shown in the screenshot I attached to my first post. First half of the clip is rendered with an empty master bus, second half of the clip is rendered with all the plugins activated: https://soundcloud.com/mopp-b/lobeholddemo/s-IigM5
Re: Master channelMy Master strip always has PSP MixSaturator on it and, at least while I'm working, Tug-of-War Compressor (ToW) to give me a rough idea how it might sound after mastering. But when I render the mix, ToW is switched off. I master separately.
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Cool, thanks for going through the trouble However the link isn't working. Did you take it down already?
Re: Master channelI tell you how my master channel looks - ABSOLOTELY EMPTY!
not efx nor anything else. Maybe a bit of equing. There should never be stuff on the master in case you want you stuff to get mastered by a professional studio/engineer.
Re: Master channelI'm sorry you don't have the skill to master your own material.
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Still working fine here :/.
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I bet my ass that there are hardly more than 5 people here on the forum who can master propperly. It s about focusing on the important thing. And I would also not use Orion for mastering. I sometimes master my suff with wavelab. But just to get an idea. I rather let a mastering engineer do it.
Re: Master channelProbably doesn't matter so much for those of us who are not creating work intended for commercial release.
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Define "properly"................. How many times have you actually sent any material to a professional mastering house ? Last edited by Teksonik on Mon Oct 27, 2014 11:36 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Master channelThat was one of the reasons I dropped using a Limiter on my final wave, because I was getting a few tracks mastered professionally, and they always told me to remove the limiter so they had some space to make my music sound nice.
After playing around with frequencies and compressors I can pretty much get the same volume out of my tracks now that I did with Elephant, although, it's more guesswork and just fiddling with settings til it sounds good.
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Or you can use plugins to remove the guesswork and fiddling........... What dd the professional mastering house do for your tracks that you couldn't do for yourself ?
Re: Master channelThe last time I paid for the mastering service, here is what they guys did (first snippet is my original)
https://soundcloud.com/steven_blair/sets/egyptian-style-mastered I think my tracks sound a lot louder / clearer than back in 2013, but I don't think it's anywhere good as a pro. I find it difficult getting the tracks sounding really loud and punchy, as well as having less muddy basslines (although you could argue final mastering might not cure that).
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Just a note: Of course the picture above shows my master channel when I do not plan to send the track to a mastering engineer . Otherwise I would not do any limiting and less compression.
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