What do your mixes hit before loudness?

[Headof75]

Planning to get Ozone 5 this weekend, although mainly for match eq'ing as mentioned elsewhere.
In terms of mastering I tend to run three Sonnox plugs on the main bus - Inflator, an overall EQ (usually only need to boost above 10k for a little sizzle/air), then Limiter. Working input gains carefully this can get far louder than is actually necessary.
Do particularly love the sound of the Inflator tho - brings everything forward by a few feet spacially and gives a subtle but nice mids boost. Expensive, but worth it imo.

 

[Clark Kent]

My master bus is usually SSL Comp with the Chris Lord-Alge finalizer preset and -3dB GR ---> maybe Gclip if I have a punchy snare ---> Ozone.

But I think I'm changing almost all my compressors to API-2500 since I love the sound. And also it won the plugin comp comparison. It just always works.

 

[Ermz]

SSL Saturation, GSSL, color EQ boosting lows and/or highs (usually GMC or Mammoth), L1 (if the mix is a bit peaky).

Then Ozone 4... or soon to be, 5. The UI on 5 gets me rock hard.

 

[crillemannen]

VCC mixbuss saturation x2.
Prime SSL compressor
Ozone 4 Limiter, stays on while mixing, take it off before bouncing 24bits.

 

[Uros]

You take it off? What is your secret weapon for that magic -4db rms level then?

 

[bryan_kilco]

The UI on 5 gets me rock hard.

I literally LOL'd.