Mastering Chains opinions

[ArroldW]

So I have been working with Ozone and/or TRacks for a while now, and I just want to start fresh and just use plugins [eq, comp, limiter, ect.] but I have no idea what order [let alone what to put] in the fx chain to make any work sound awesome. I know not one fx chain will make ALL of my projects sound good, but I was just seeing what others are using. Thanks for any help.

 

[Scott Horner]

I usually begin by putting a comp first with a 2:1 ratio, fast attack and a release set to the BPM of the song with only around 3-4db of reduction and start to mix into that. I find it helps glue the mix together and gives me a better sense of how it will sound. Once I think the mix is done I will do some light equalization. Any dramatic changes here and you should revisit the initial mix. The last thing in the chain is my limiter. If you want to use any sort of stereo enhancement, I would put that after the EQ and before the limiter. This is a basic chain but I find it works for me.

 

[RandomOne]

Whatever EQ I find
Waves C4 (Starting with basic multi and tweaking)
Whatever comp I find
Whatever limiter I find...

 

[koalamo]

My mastering is definitely my weakest aspect but I'd say it's generally best to keep it simple and do most of your fine tuning in the mix itself generally I'd probably go for a transparent eq possibly to boost the highend or cut some lows maybe a mulitband compressor to tame some problem frequencies but if your mastering your own mixes you should probably have fixed that in the mix itself
Then 2 instances of gclip or whatever soft clipper you use and then a good brickwall limiter to get your volume also might want to use a meter that checks for intersample peaks I know ozone will prevent this automatically but they could be potentially problematic otherwise like I said take this with a grain of salt cuz I'm not the best at mastering but I believe this is generally what people do.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

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[koalamo]

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[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

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[Charles J]

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[ArroldW]

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[DanLights]

defiantly

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[ArroldW]

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The only thing you're defying are the laws of language. It's "definitely"

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