Bassomatic
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Been working at mastering things for various friends for a few years now, primarily out of short budgets and necessity. This is NOT a mastering room, of course, so we slog along as best we can.
Since money's tight, I've decided to take a pass at mastering my long-overdue Random Access Orkestra disc. Things sound better than i'd hoped for, so far, but i *will* find the bux for the real thing if i'm not 100% psyched.
Chain i've been using thus far (all in Wavelab):
Waves S1+ Stereo Imager (if nec) ->
UAD LA2A comp (if nec) ->
UAD Pultec Pro -> (this is the model with the extra mid bands - WOW!
UAD Cambridge (for bass final highpass and a surg tweak or three if nec)->
Magneto ->
UAD Precision Limiter
Everything stays at 32 bit floating point until i'm ready to print, at which point i dither to 16 bits with the Apogee UV22HR.
I've tried LOTS of variants on the above over the years, and this is what's working best for this particular set of pieces (particularly the old ones from my Darwin HDR daze).
Kul stuff...
(p.s. - if i had the bank, i'd probably pick up the Sonalskis Comp plug - i was very impressed with the demo. Their EQ rocks, too)
Since money's tight, I've decided to take a pass at mastering my long-overdue Random Access Orkestra disc. Things sound better than i'd hoped for, so far, but i *will* find the bux for the real thing if i'm not 100% psyched.
Chain i've been using thus far (all in Wavelab):
Waves S1+ Stereo Imager (if nec) ->
UAD LA2A comp (if nec) ->
UAD Pultec Pro -> (this is the model with the extra mid bands - WOW!
UAD Cambridge (for bass final highpass and a surg tweak or three if nec)->
Magneto ->
UAD Precision Limiter
Everything stays at 32 bit floating point until i'm ready to print, at which point i dither to 16 bits with the Apogee UV22HR.
I've tried LOTS of variants on the above over the years, and this is what's working best for this particular set of pieces (particularly the old ones from my Darwin HDR daze).
Kul stuff...
(p.s. - if i had the bank, i'd probably pick up the Sonalskis Comp plug - i was very impressed with the demo. Their EQ rocks, too)