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Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:32 am
by outbound
http://www.what-is-mastering.net/tools- ... e-pt-3-eq/

Today goes a little more into depth of EQ choices

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:09 pm
by fragments
outbound, if I can trouble you again, of all the limiters out there, why Voxengo Elephant and do you use any of their other plug ins? I use Voxengo Elephant and wonder if there are some features on it I don't know about. I'm slowly getting into doing very basic self-masters of my own tunes and perhaps some very, very basic mastering for another project I'm working on.

Also, since you just posted about EQs...do you rate any of Voxengo's EQs? I love their GlissEQ

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:07 am
by outbound
fragments wrote:outbound, if I can trouble you again, of all the limiters out there, why Voxengo Elephant and do you use any of their other plug ins? I use Voxengo Elephant and wonder if there are some features on it I don't know about. I'm slowly getting into doing very basic self-masters of my own tunes and perhaps some very, very basic mastering for another project I'm working on.

Also, since you just posted about EQs...do you rate any of Voxengo's EQs? I love their GlissEQ
Funnily enough my next post is actually about limiters so keep an eye out for that! :D

The reason I went with Elephant is for the price it is one of the most versatile Limiters out there. It has several modes you can switch between to get different sounds (some are nicer on dynamics, others aren't as dirty) As well as that you have release control, DC filter and dither (if you need 'em)

Other one's I've tried and liked are Fab-L (quite a common one), A.O.M Invisible Limiter, The flux stuff is pretty cool as well.

I'm afraid I haven't actually tried the Voxengo EQ's so couldn't comment :) Will have to check them out at some point though!

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 9:52 am
by didi
^^ what do you think of vladg's limiter no.6?

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 10:35 am
by outbound
dididub wrote:^^ what do you think of vladg's limiter no.6?
Honestly not tried it out, from what I've read though it looks like a pretty versatile tool. M/S and multiband processing, and 4x oversampling. For a freebie it's worth checking out :D

http://www.what-is-mastering.net/tools- ... -limiters/

I've now finished up this post as well! :4:

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 1:47 pm
by fragments
Thanks for being a sport about my questions! Checking out the limiters post now.

Yea, I'll be going back to manual on Elephant and checking out the limiting modes for sure : ) Loving these blog posts.

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:20 pm
by outbound
fragments wrote:Thanks for being a sport about my questions! Checking out the limiters post now.

Yea, I'll be going back to manual on Elephant and checking out the limiting modes for sure : ) Loving these blog posts.
Cheers man, yeah limiters are funny because it's so easy to just pull down the threshold till it gets to that sweet spot between ('this sounds loud' & 'this doesn't sound like garbage!') and leave it at that.

Taking the time to try out different modes, release times etc will let you be able to get away with a lot more GR before it starts to sound bad. What I usually do is hit the threshold so it's taking about 10db off (really obvious limiting) then get my controls right here and fine-tune, then ease off to a level I'm happy with, gets me results I'm after every time :)

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:25 am
by outbound
Happy Monday! (if such a thing exists!)

http://www.what-is-mastering.net/digita ... mastering/

Here is the latest update, exploring difference between analogue and digital :)

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 9:05 am
by outbound
http://www.what-is-mastering.net/compre ... -overview/

This one goes into compression. Useful if you haven't cracked it yet! :)

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 11:07 am
by Icetickle
Nobody uses Izotope Ozone "Loudness Maximizer" for limiting?

Tip: http://www.izotope.com/support/help/ozo ... imizer.htm

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 11:44 am
by outbound
Icetickle wrote:Nobody uses Izotope Ozone "Loudness Maximizer" for limiting?

Tip: http://www.izotope.com/support/help/ozo ... imizer.htm
Sorry I'm confused :?

A processor that offers several limiting modes, controls and displays that are suited for limiting as well as additional dithering controls & DC filter options which are found the majority of the time in limiters (as they are commonly the last piece in the chain)

You would consider this not a limiter? It may not spell it out in the name but this most certainly is one.

Or were you saying that it is a limiter but nobody uses it?

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 10:40 am
by outbound

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:11 pm
by Samuel_L_Damnson
great thread bro. MY reading for tomorrow sorted! :)

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:15 pm
by Icetickle
outbound wrote:
Icetickle wrote:Nobody uses Izotope Ozone "Loudness Maximizer" for limiting?

Tip: http://www.izotope.com/support/help/ozo ... imizer.htm
Sorry I'm confused :?

A processor that offers several limiting modes, controls and displays that are suited for limiting as well as additional dithering controls & DC filter options which are found the majority of the time in limiters (as they are commonly the last piece in the chain)

You would consider this not a limiter? It may not spell it out in the name but this most certainly is one.

Or were you saying that it is a limiter but nobody uses it?
It is a limiter ofc. I'm just saying that it's underrated.

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:17 pm
by didi
Sinestepper wrote:great thread bro. MY reading for tomorrow sorted! :)
A* thread. have a big up outbound

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 7:14 am
by outbound
Sinestepper wrote:great thread bro. MY reading for tomorrow sorted! :)
Nice one man! :D

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 9:57 am
by outbound
Icetickle wrote:
outbound wrote:
Icetickle wrote:Nobody uses Izotope Ozone "Loudness Maximizer" for limiting?

Tip: http://www.izotope.com/support/help/ozo ... imizer.htm
Sorry I'm confused :?

A processor that offers several limiting modes, controls and displays that are suited for limiting as well as additional dithering controls & DC filter options which are found the majority of the time in limiters (as they are commonly the last piece in the chain)

You would consider this not a limiter? It may not spell it out in the name but this most certainly is one.

Or were you saying that it is a limiter but nobody uses it?
It is a limiter ofc. I'm just saying that it's underrated.
Ah gotcha! :D

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 10:04 am
by Tom SQNC
Some great info in here,
thanks for taking the time to put it together

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 1:59 pm
by outbound
dididub wrote:
Sinestepper wrote:great thread bro. MY reading for tomorrow sorted! :)
A* thread. have a big up outbound
Why thankyou good sir :D

Re: What Is Mastering? Blog

Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:37 am
by outbound
Tom SQNC wrote:Some great info in here,
thanks for taking the time to put it together
No worries, more to come soon! :D