ive recently tried to master my track in a way that i would be happy with the final product. im not sure how i did as i do not have high end monitors, so im a little reluctant however, i think its one the best mixes i have done in combination to it. just using my daw ofcourse, eq, slight compression, limiter. im also reluctant to say master, but the master channel was affected so i guess i did master it. anyways, the sound i feel came out the best ever for my own standards.
evo8
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Originally posted by Raphie
Now my friend: THAT's what they call a marketing endorsement...... :D
Native nowadays is really quick, 32 samples or less, UAD and other DSP based solutions are left to 512 samples or more (depending on the host system) the capacity of the DSP is futile, i.e. one could easily run 20 massive passive instances if it would be released Native.
It's a nice scheme, hardware vendors to cover their plugin needs by signing up with UAD. Exclusivity guaranteed, still feels a bit like hardware because of the dongle/pcie card. Saves them investing in resources themselves to cater for ITB needs (everybody in pro audio land wants a piece of the ITB pie)It's a perfect Plug&play proposition for esotheric vendors, who can now touchbase with new customers who would never been able to afford the original HW boxes
"if it would be released native" - theres my point :D it wont be, now im sure someone is already working hard trying to do a Native version of the Massive Passive, will it be as good? wouldnt have a clue since i didnt buy it
Saying you could run 20 instances is pure speculation, people seem to make out that an i7 can run an infinite number of plugs - i know for a fact i would be seriously struggling without my uad cards to keep Live from choking and spluttering
on the latency thing i dont really know what your on about, as i said i dont experience any noticeable latency at all - are you tracking with your UAD?
Mad for Brad
i know that the powercore plugins took less cpu when they were run natively than on the card. This was easy to test when the Sony Oxford plugins where made natively. I am pretty sure the same goes for UAD.
kitphillips
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Originally posted by MSZ
ive recently tried to master my track in a way that i would be happy with the final product. im not sure how i did as i do not have high end monitors, so im a little reluctant however, i think its one the best mixes i have done in combination to it. just using my daw ofcourse, eq, slight compression, limiter. im also reluctant to say master, but the master channel was affected so i guess i did master it. anyways, the sound i feel came out the best ever for my own standards.
Mastering isn't just throwing a compressor on the 2 bus. Just having something on your master doesn't mean that you've "mastered", lots of mix engineers do this all the time, its pretty common apparently.
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Originally posted by evo8
"if it would be released native" - theres my point :D it wont be, now im sure someone is already working hard trying to do a Native version of the Massive Passive, will it be as good? wouldnt have a clue since i didnt buy it
Saying you could run 20 instances is pure speculation, people seem to make out that an i7 can run an infinite number of plugs - i know for a fact i would be seriously struggling without my uad cards to keep Live from choking and spluttering
on the latency thing i dont really know what your on about, as i said i dont experience any noticeable latency at all - are you tracking with your UAD?
It'l be released natively when someone cracks it so they don't have any choice.
I use a core2duo and live doesn't splutter. I think maybe you have computer problems. UAD cards don't relieve very much CPU load at all, since most of the plugins running on them are EQ and compression. The biggest CPU eater is synthesis adn sampling, neither of which UAD or powercore do. Thats why I'd never bother with them.
evo8
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Originally posted by kitphillips
It'l be released natively when someone cracks it so they don't have any choice.
I use a core2duo and live doesn't splutter. I think maybe you have computer problems. UAD cards don't relieve very much CPU load at all, since most of the plugins running on them are EQ and compression. The biggest CPU eater is synthesis adn sampling, neither of which UAD or powercore do. Thats why I'd never bother with them.
When someone cracks what? the card? are you actually serious about that? are you working on cracking a UAD at the moment :stongue:
And no, ive no problems with my PC at all thank you very much :) I can run some FATSOs, some EMT140s, 4K buss compressors etc etc with 0 cost to my quadcore, ill let ACE and Alchemy do their best to bring it to its knees, hasnt happened yet tho
DJ Robby Rox
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Atlantis-AR
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Originally posted by MSZ
ive recently tried to master my track in a way that i would be happy with the final product. im not sure how i did as i do not have high end monitors, so im a little reluctant however, i think its one the best mixes i have done in combination to it.
I'm sorry but I can't fully justify this comment. High-end monitors are not going to give you a high-end master; your ears are far more important. So unless you're using something really low-end, try again. In saying that, you can always send me the mix and/or master and I'll be happy to give you my feedback. I don't have the most expensive monitors either but I do know a thing or two about engineering. At worst you're just going to get someone's outside opinion, which can be better than the most expensive monitors...
MSZ
im only doing it to gel my own tracks with other professionally mastered tracks when i mix them to dj. do not essentially mean normalization as well.
here ill put up my progress, i still left some headroom, and i have some really good ideas to help maximize the peaks clearly by soloing each channel and monitoring to eliminate stray peaks so i dont get any clipping. doubt youll get a good gist of it since its 192kbps .
there is a reason why high end monitors cost that much, and its also the same reason i want them. im very keen on giving my best with what i have thats not the big problem.
Atlantis-AR
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Originally posted by MSZ
here ill put up my progress, i still left some headroom, and i have some really good ideas to help maximize the peaks clearly by soloing each channel and monitoring to eliminate stray peaks so i dont get any clipping. doubt youll get a good gist of it since its 192kbps .
I'm sorry but I don't need monitors to hear this sounds far too compressed. I could go on and on about what I think sounds bad, but that probably wouldn't help you improve the sound. Try to work more on your image though, particularly widening it... And stop compressing the dynamics so much!
MSZ
like i said, it sounds wide, and fine too me(ive tried to spread this across frequency wise as best i could), ive heard way more compressed stuff on soundcloud, my monitors are , could be my ears or whatever, sounds fine to me except for some masking. i can usually tell if its way too compressed if my ears get tired simply by listening to it. if you would like to direct me to some of your self mastered mixdowns so i can see where youre coming from, would like to hear.
anyways im not too concerned, until i get some proper equipment. right now im happy with my mixing and my label says i can improve in that department, however its not bad im sure, especially given what i work with and the caliber of producers running the label, they wouldn't release something poorly mixed, unlike the countless amount of crap digital labels. ill definitely be disabling my master chain when i send it in(let them do it properly with great equipment), right now its just for fun so i can use the track in my mixes.
Atlantis-AR
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Originally posted by MSZ
if you would like to direct me to some of your self mastered mixdowns so i can see where youre coming from, would like to hear.
Fair point, and I'm sorry to say I don't have any. I'm just someone who goes around giving feedback on mixing and mastering. Yes with credibility, but nothing worth showing.
Raphie
Just listen to my Kyota track in the promotion section, i guess that's the kind of space / room you should look for in a track.
But it all starts in the mix, you should be 100% happy with your mix, before even using the word "mastering"
Think of mastering as in making your track "compatible" and not as a magic polish that makes it "shine" because that is definately the wrong perspective. If anyone is interested i am happy to share some knowledge on how to get there.
