Ive be reading a little about eq and mastering, but most of the articles talk about plug ins, which arnt supproted in reason.

I wont to be able to use a spectral analyser to analyze my tracks, then cut or boost them and then master.

I know nothing about this stage of production could someone shed some light please?

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For spectral analysis and EQ, you can bounce your tracks to audio and load them in an audio program like Audacity and use its analyzer.

I recommend that you leave mastering to someone who has been doing it for years, not do it yourself, unless you plan on becoming a mastering engineer in addition to being a producer.

Last edited by MrJiveBoJingles on Dec-29-2006 at 08:54

ok forget mastering then, but with audacity will i be able to eq each individual track if it is imported as one complete track from reason?

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No: you need to export the tracks separately so that you can do frequency analysis on each one.

thanks. one more q.

So that means once analyzed I have to use a sampler for every track cause it will be wav.?

or can i just use the exported wav in audicity as a guide as what to do to the rns. file in reason?

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Originally posted by Kid_presentable thanks. one more q. So that means once analyzed I have to use a sampler for every track cause it will be wav.? or can i just use the exported wav in audicity as a guide as what to do to the rns. file in reason?

after you are happy with the rns project you export every instrument as separate wav files. then you can master them in whatever software you use. after that you just render all those instrument (most wav editing applications can render multi-track in one track) in one wav file wich will be the entire track you did. so there is no need to go back to reason after mastering is done.

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Originally posted by Kid_presentable thanks. one more q. So that means once analyzed I have to use a sampler for every track cause it will be wav.?

No. Analysis itself does not change the audio. The goal of analysis is to identify "problem" frequencies that are causing clipping and to find out what parts of the frequency spectrum you need to increase to make a track sound "fuller." Once you have found that stuff out, you can go back to your original Reason arrangement and make whatever changes you have determined that your song needs.

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Originally posted by djsphere (most wav editing applications can render multi-track in one track)

Any idea if T racks can do this? thats the only mastering program I have other than audicity.

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Mastering is rarely done with separate tracks. That's more like mixing, imo.
If you're going to master outside of Reason, remember to render it in 24-bit and do the dithering after the mastering. Actually this goes for any sequencer.

I don't really do any mastering to my tracks. I only put a maximizer on the master to squeeze out a couple of more dB and maybe some very light EQ. You don't need mastering for your tracks to sound okay.
Don't worry about mastering that much. Just try to make your track sound as good as possible during mixing.

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Originally posted by Eldritch Mastering is rarely done with separate tracks. That's more like mixing, imo.

This man speaks the truth.

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Originally posted by Eldritch I don't really do any mastering to my tracks. I only put a maximizer on the master to squeeze out a couple of more dB and maybe some very light EQ. You don't need mastering for your tracks to sound okay. Don't worry about mastering that much. Just try to make your track sound as good as possible during mixing.

True as hell,

But don't expect mastering to save a poor mix. But expect poor mastering/mixing to wreck a great peice of work.