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harlon · Location: USA

Well - I went and did it. I FINALLY took the advice that's been offered here over and over and I downloaded and read the mastering guide from Ozone. A lot of things make sense now that I never quite got before - particularly with multiband dynamics. Just thought I'd take a minute and advise anyone even remotely new to mastering (even if you don't own Ozone) to take the time and read it. A bunch of stuff will start making sense! (although I still don't really get the expander concept just yet, but I'm working on it!)
Just my 2 cents worth!

VoodooRadio · Location: USA

Good advise Harlon! ;)

BTW, I downloaded it "moons" ago and still give it a good read from time to time. Approve

kylen · Posted - Fri Jun 06, 2003 11:11 am

I agree, it is a very good manual that I continue to read month after month. I own Ozone so I am able to try out stuff, read some more, you know continually improve my home project level mastering skills by actually working on a project.

I had a little trouble understanding about compression/expansion and upward vs downward using Cool Edit native effects. Limiting seemed pretty straight forward but there's still a lot to learn there also .

I'm currently learning more about reaching down into a mix (db wise like around -30db depending) to bring out nuances with compression and expansion (using very light ratios like 1.15:1). Also I have to clobber some mixes into submission where the peaks may wonder from rms by up to 9db, that's almost audio restoration since the place to fix that is in the recording or mix.

Bottom Line for me on mastering tools: Mainly Voxengo (Sonic Finalizer comp/exp, Elephant mastering limiter) and Ozone (kitchen sink), depends on needs of the mix.

twright · Location: USA

VoodooRadio · Location: USA

Thanks Twright, that surely is........... icing on the cake!!! Big Grin