Call me old fashioned, but I still use Fruity Mute 2 for this because IMO it's waaaaaaay cleaner than using Fruity Balance.
If you're using 12, Fruity Mute 2 probably disappeared for you which is a total shame IMO. You can still use it, you just have to find an older project file that has it in it and then flag it as a favorte AFAIK =/

How is it better than Fruity Balance? I've never used it.

Short answer:
At 10 yo we started playing flute in school. Now I play a fuckton of instruments on Kontakt.

Long answer:
After some years I was trying to learn by myself how to play a small old electric piano we had at home. I didn't learn that much, only how to play notes and melodies. At 15 yo I learned by myself how to play acoustic guitar, but I played mainly chords with it and the most important thing I learned was the importance of rhythm and assonance of sounds. In the same period I learned how to tune my guitar by ear by using only an E note reference (this helped me develop a sort of Interval Ear). Then I wanted to learn how to play piano better, but I failed miserably and instead of learning how to play piano in general I learned to play by memory only some Linkin Park songs. And I have an electric guitar too.

Quote from: Zenkrey on January 07, 2016, 07:42:13 pm

I don't know you guys, but I have huge delay problems on FL Studio 12 using Fabfilter Pro MB or Waves Multiband Compressor for sound design purposes. I really need to know if there is an elegant solution to this, because automatic delay compensation doesn't solve it, correcting the delay manually does it but doing it is frustrating and stem rendering, while being the best solution I found still seems, unelegant. Also, do all of you use MBCs only while mastering or for sound shaping too?

I usually turn Lookahead off as FL (lets face it) just sucks at compensating it. I havent noticed any real quality drops.

Thanks man! When using it I was searching for Linear Phase on/off but I've never seen that lookahead button. I'm gonna try it and see if it solves it.
Edit: it definitely solves the delay problem.

Hey so mastered my new track today and found some pretty nice thing !

So !

Utility to have -5 Db to get more headroom
J37 from Waves (Tape Recorder) Wich give a little bit of warmth in my mix
Ableton Eq M/S to cut Side 150hz so everything beside that point is Mono
Fabfilter Eq tu cut Everything 28Hz let me get more Headroom
Native Instrument Passive Eq to get some boost and cut where I needed
SSL Compressor to glue the overall thing (Not that much don't hit 4 GR)
Pro Q for little bit of surgical Eqing

And here's comes the limiter so
I've tried all the limiter I got , finally I Used Voxengo elephant then Pro L because Waves limiter in my opinion is really shitty , it cut the transient really fast and make the song crash instantly , with Elephant and Pro L I achieved a proper loud (mix -6.5 Rms loudest part) and still got the transient of my kick and the rest

Hope I Helped !

I don't know what genre do you usually produce, but if it's EDM, then -6.5 Dbs of RMS isn't that loud. My suggestion is to use Izotope Ozone Maximizer, which can bring your track to around -3 Dbs of RMS without distortion.

I've noticed it too that there are quite a few people who tend to break a lot of the traditional 'rules' about throwing plugins on the master chain. I'm guilty of it as well. I like being able to master while I mix if I'm doing it myself rather than treating it as two separate processes.

Even if you don't master your track yourself, in some cases the mastering engineer, when checking the already mixed track for mastering, will tell you to fix something in the mix and re-send it to him. So, my reasoning is that, because I'm mastering my songs by myself, instead of wasting time closing my mixing project and opening my mastering project, I just put what I need on the master (Stereo Imager -> MB Compressor -> Linear EQ -> Maximizer -> Stereo Image Analyzer -> Spectrum Analyzer) and from time to time I use it to check how it feels like mastered (roughly) and compare it to references, then I turn it off and keep working on the track, jumping to the next sections I need to develop.

ok without going into much detail it's actually something like:

Waves Center → SSL (Duende Native Bus Comp) → Maag EQ4 → Izotope Ozone 6 (Multiband Dynamics + Maximizer)

I heard from Virtual Riot he sometimes uses Waves Maserati GRP for adding extra loudness without distortion on top of an Ozone chain with Maximizer, do you have experience about that plugin or that use of it as a mastering plugin?

more bass by adding various sub bass?

Yes, definetely, you need to add a sub bass.

If you want suggestions about creativity, then I can tell you to listen to a lot of music and, if you want, study it, from structure to sounds to vibe. If you want ispiration, listen to a lot of music, really. I can guarantee the ideas will come with time after listening to a lot of music you enjoy. Hope this helps!