I agree Chris. Developing skill and experience is crucial. Also having a proper
setup with good monitors setup and calibrated (if need be) correctly and room
acoustics is a must.
I personally use a particular plugin if it gives a particular sound or has some
unique characteristic that I’m looking for. Or if it does something
particularly well, especially when it comes to progressive aggressive filtering
like we do in EDM.
Vut yes. Don’t get caught up in gear lust or the vicious cycle of if I get this
plugin I’ll sound bettdr or it will just work better.
Regards, DJX
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Chris Smart <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2018 10:08 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Favorite mastering plug-ins
Waves Center is handy for adjusting center to
sides balance in a stereo image. I mean, you can
do that yourself with mid/side routing, but it's
handy to just adjust a couple controls in a plugin.
Before getting Ozone Advanced, my favorite
limiter was Elephant by Voxengo. It has several
algorithms you can flip through quickly while
playing your material, so you kind of get a quick
gut reaction to each. Ok, too smooth, too punchy,
that one makes me feel a bit anxious etc.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that
having the ears and mindset are more important
than having whatever tool everyone is raving about at any particular moment.
I used to buy tons of plugins, or acquire them
through other means, whatever was supposedly the
latest and greatest. Now I probably use stock
plugins in my DAW 75% of the time, and try not to
read the various online forums such as Gearsluts,
where people debate endlessly about different plugins.
At 01:02 AM 10/14/2018, you wrote:
+1 for ozone and fabfilter. I also use a few
from voxengo, waves and plugin alliance.
Regards, DJX
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
Chris Smart <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2018 2:11 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Favorite mastering plug-ins
Agreed. You could probably master entirely with
the stock plugins in Samplitude.
If I were to pick one other company whose
products get mentioned a lot, it would be Fab
Filter. I have no idea how accessible their stuff
is, so I'll just asume it exposes parameters in
sonar's inspector the way other effects do.
At 01:33 PM 10/13/2018, you wrote:
With Chris on this although Samplitude also hasthat come with Sonar Producer?
some fantastic mastering plug-ins that I really must play with ;-)
On 13 October 2018 18:28:50 BST, Chris Smart <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
izotope.com
Ozone Advanced contains just about everything you'd want.
What problems are you having with the plugins
At 01:25 PM 10/13/2018, you wrote:
Hey there everyone. I was wondering what
everyones favorite mastering plug-ins are since
I am having difficulties with the stuff in
sonar. If you guys know of any that will work in
both Sonar and reaper that would be awesome as
well, but if it’s just inside of sonar that
will do for now. Also if you guys know the
prices or can direct me to where I can see the
prices of them that would be fantastic as
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