Mastering Software

[Freak Of Metal]

So I'm thinking about buying some mastering software and have come across T-RackS 3 http://www.ikmultimedia.com/t-racks/features/ and Ozone 4 http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/ as possible software solutions. And yeah I know it would be better to have a lot of hardware for this but I'm looking for a decent software solution. Any advice or suggestions would be really appreciated. Cheers!

 

[AudioPhile777]

If you're limited on funds, you should wait until Slate releases his mastering suite... otherwise, one of your choices should be fine...

 

[paladin shredder]

t-racks

 

[thefyn]

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/equipment/573778-yet-another-auidomidi-20-no-brainer.html

 

[FloridaRolf]

Why don't you just try them out? Both products are available in demo versions.

 

[Norris-wf]

I tried the demo of T-racks and I went with that. I love it so far

 

[greyskull]

for "mastering" as far as a i do it, i use Ozone. seems to make the mix big without wrecking it too much.

 

[Kazrog]

The best mastering limiter I've used is Voxengo Elephant. I can't recommend it enough.

 

[Metaltastic]

I've loved Elephant so far, though I'm curious to try Ozone after all the praise it's been getting around here - for value though, fuck, Elephant absolutely can't be beat! (and I still WAY prefer it to L2 )

 

[Freak Of Metal]

Cool stuff. Yeah I'll definitely be checking out Elephant.

 

[abt]

Ozone is amazing.

 

[Harry Hughes]

If you're limited on funds, you should wait until Slate releases his mastering suite... otherwise, one of your choices should be fine...

Agreed, wait for the Slate suite

 

[Lustrum]

T-Racks comes with the single plugins when you buy it now, so awesome compressors and stuff for use generally with you're DAW too!

Ive used T-Racks for 2 years, i dig it

 

[gabriel g.]

Cant wait for the SSD mastering plugin. Realy looking forward to it

 

[Freak Of Metal]

I ended up going with Ozone and it sounds fucking amazing! Got much better results with it than t-rack.

 

[abt]

I ended up going with Ozone and it sounds fucking amazing! Got much better results with it than t-rack.

I love it. One warning though, it's tempting to stick it on the master bus early but then you have to turn it off if you haven't finished tracking to avoid latency. Once you turn it off everything sounds like shit!

 

[Let it burn...]

real geeks use Har-bal . I use the sonalksis buss compressor on the master buss and correct small errors in Har-Bal. Mastering is barely noticeable on my mixes (except for the loudness) because I go back into the mix to solve EQ and frequency problems