I think Ozone is pretty cool but don't fail too like i did, you can get an extra loud sound without red lights popping but the limiter will make the sounds to crush and in the end is worst.

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Originally posted by derail That's what I thought - it's like an advertisement disguised as a question. My mate...let's call him...whatever...."Steve" has this issue....enter MegaMaster Pro 5000! Solved all his problems, every song is a hit, now he's getting more sex than he can handle!

I was thinking more along the lines of his mate Steve keeps asking Richard what mastering software to buy, and Steve won't believe Richard when he say's it takes the right equipment and a certain skill level.

I swear people think there really is a Tiesto button in Ableton Live

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Originally posted by tehlord I was thinking more along the lines of his mate Steve keeps asking Richard what mastering software to buy, and Steve won't believe Richard when he say's it takes the right equipment and a certain skill level. I swear people think there really is a Tiesto button in Ableton Live

Steve is a very thoughtful cautious guy who today said he's thinking of selling his old hardware sampler and perhaps spending the proceeds on a mastering product.

He asked if I could send him some links to any products (he's always helping me out with things so it's the least I could do), and I replied I could go one better than a few links, how about a thread on this forum I frequent.

He's the last guy who would ever big himself up prodction wise and he learned over many years to mix, old school, cause thats what he had - old school stuff.

I hope he wont mind my saying he's recently purchased and overhauled a 24 track analog desk (soundtracs, I think he said), so getting it right in the mix is close to his heart.

Just wanted to giev the thread a better context

Cheers for input all.

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Just wanted to giev the thread a better context Cheers for input all.

Would be useful to have the context up front next time

I still say a pro at £25/track is a better solution.

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i think having a good mixdown and knowing how to use a good software is the best quality/price , specially because if the mixdown sucks you are paying to get a slightly less poor result.

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Originally posted by tehlord I swear people think there really is a Tiesto button in Ableton Live

is that not that red thing at the top

Wavelab 7 FTW

Although as previously mentioned if you dont have a properly treated room and high end monitoring system forget it
Also you need a good inital mix and the experience top know what mastering ACTUALLY entails and obviously you need to know how to use your "mastering" specific tools intimately.

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Just a good limiter, linear phase EQ with M/S option, nice character compressor, maybe a multiband compressor.

No special tools really, just what you'd use for mixing.

I like the waves L3 personally, I'd also check out the flux stuff, especially alchemist, I haven't used it but it looks the goods and gets good reviews.

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I own UAD and a lot of their plug ins, so naturally I'm going to be bias'd towards UAD.

Obviously this is going to be a professional gig so he'll be doing stem mixing. I don't do that personally because as a producer I just mix along the way. In a way, and in the end, it's really the same though.

But I can give a huge thumbs up and vouch for UAD. Expensive? It appears so when looking at it from the outside, but if you're patient you can get some REALLY good deals. In September they were selling a Preamp/LA2A for $1600 that included a free UAD Duo card and $399 voucher. The preamp/LA2A sells for $1600 alone. Duo runs about 800, plus 399, that's a $1200 promo.

Also, if he has the money, he can just buy the Quad Omni and get every plug in up front for 50% off. They are $3,000 last I checked.

Going back to promos though, look at what they're running now. 20-60% off all plug-ins. Check it

http://www.uaudio.com/products/stor...x.html#SOFTWARE

They frequently email out coupons too for % discounts or $25 towards a plug in too.

So like I said in the beginning, it looks expensive at first, but when you pay attention and carefully buy your plugs it's not bad at all. You can also find AMAZING deals on UAD on eBay. I saw a DUO card go with the SSL plugs and about 4 other plugs go for $460 a few weeks ago. A DUO card alone is $800.

My mastering chain is as follows (I mix into it and edit it a bit here and there) Everything below is UAD

Pultec MEQ5 -> Manley Massive Passive -> The Glue (by Cytomic) -> Cambridge (Surgical EQ) -> Elephant (with 8x oversampling)

It's an amazing chain that won't even run you $500 (if you have a UAD card already)

I think the fact that avid just conceded defeat with pro tools is a good reason to reject any DSP hardware at the moment.

I think if you bought a UAD today, you'll find in a year that they're releasing a native version cheaper.

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hard to tell. I think they enjoy the dongle aspect. But ya there is no reason why you would need those outdated video card chips from like 10 years ago. I mean lexicon released their reverb natively. Lets be honest, UAD is one of the few things EDM producers actually pay for.

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