drumnbass.be forum » Production » Production questions & answers » Mastering » mastering plugin or after exporting? mastering plugin or after exporting? Author Post charleskoncept Wicked Producer Registration Date: 29-09-2004 Posts: 318 Helpfulness rating:  just a wandering thought if i wanted to master a track i was working on would i do that with a plugin or after exporting? i need a point in the right direction here.... thanks __ charleskoncept 08-10-2004 01:08 marisol Steppa Registration Date: 23-09-2004 Posts: 279 Helpfulness rating:  ussally you would master after rendering. do a mix down with about 4 db of headroom then master with multiband compression. most mastering plugins are cpu hogs anyways. and remember to save you mixdown copy just in case you get the track signed. some labels want that copy not the master when the press. 08-10-2004 01:37 charleskoncept Wicked Producer Registration Date: 29-09-2004 Posts: 318 Helpfulness rating:  Thats what i figured.. the plugins for mastering that i have seen so far havent been very user friendly.. and a mixdown copy? what in the hell is that? is that what you get after you do all your effects and what-not? thanks for the help im kinda doing this step by step __ charleskoncept 08-10-2004 02:31 B-complex Wicked Producer Registration Date: 07-04-2004 Posts: 374 Helpfulness rating:  I recommend you Waves plugins and Izotope Ozone .. great for mastering.. but most important thing of all is, that you have to make proper mixdown before using anything, you can just fix minor mistakes in the mix using mastering process, the most important part of the "good sound" is equalising compressing and mixing of instruments right in your project.. __ 08-10-2004 02:35 charleskoncept Wicked Producer Registration Date: 29-09-2004 Posts: 318 Helpfulness rating:  [quote]Originally posted by B-complex I recommend you Waves plugins and Izotope Ozone .. great for mastering.. thanks for the idea any way i can get a website or purchase place for those? id appreciate it a lot.. __ charleskoncept 08-10-2004 02:56 Surya The Robot Registration Date: 04-11-2002 Posts: 11,238 Helpfulness rating:  I like the hard limiter that comes with Adobe Audition for pumping up the volume... Other things that aren't hard but very usefull: good EQs!!! __ "In dnb you should make people jump not swim" - Pieter Frenssen 2004 08-10-2004 08:21 thechronic admin Registration Date: 01-11-2002 Posts: 5,293 Helpfulness rating:  quote: Originally posted by charleskoncept [quote]Originally posted by B-complex I recommend you Waves plugins and Izotope Ozone .. great for mastering.. thanks for the idea any way i can get a website or purchase place for those? id appreciate it a lot.. www.waves.com - it's quite expensive though, but if you want to do computer based mastering it's a very good choice. never heard of the izotope __ If you find spam on the site, please hit the button and select my name. I'll personally kick it to the murky depths of hell where it belongs! 08-10-2004 11:26 marisol Steppa Registration Date: 23-09-2004 Posts: 279 Helpfulness rating:  izotope is real nice but a huge cpu hog. it ussally runs fine by itself in a host program. 12-10-2004 07:35 Soi Super Moderator Registration Date: 29-01-2003 Posts: 1,417 Helpfulness rating:  Waves (superb tools) is about....wait.....sit down first...... ok?....... 3600¤ __ a myspace my tunes "I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get." 06-11-2004 18:09 amperror Producer Registration Date: 13-10-2004 Posts: 64 Helpfulness rating:  I usually use a simple compressor (non multiband) for drumnbaas. It gives a much more pumpin' fx. I use 'squeez', the one that comes with 'bias peak' or 'prosoniq dynasone' (multiband) <<not so good, bad gui 12-11-2004 14:28 drumnbass.be forum » Production » Production questions & answers » Mastering » mastering plugin or after exporting?