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 !

Great topic !

Do : Add some real element like piano when it comes to Layer Chords it add something unique and warm
Don't : over layer your sound it will destroy your spectrum

Btw what you guys think about reverb in mastering , lots of engineer use it to glue thing together as well , what's your opinion on that ?

Quote from: chezek on January 06, 2016, 03:34:43 am

Quote from: Blakelight on January 06, 2016, 03:27:08 am

Yap ! You can also do the total oppossite as puting slow attack and fast release to keep the transient and compress after it , you can also achieve distortion by over pushing the ration and the treshold making it crash a bit and creating a new sound !

That's super useful & simple, thanks man

It's not true that if the release/attack time is fast that you compress the beginning of the sound! If the attack/release time is fast this just means that the compressor will activate very quickly when the input is over the threshold (fast attack), and that the volume will come back up very quickly when the input is no longer above the threshold (fast release).

If you only want to compress the beginning of a sound (say a snare which has a strong transient) then you would set the threshold to be less than the peak volume of the initial few ms of the snare but louder than the body of the snare, so it only activates for the initial few ms/the beginning of the snare. This is assuming the only time you want to compress only the beginning is because the sound has a very strong attack that you want to tame, like some plucks or in particular drums.

EDIT: Quoted the wrong thing and can't fix edit it out because I'm on mobile and it would be too much to do, but I meant to quote the 3rd post in this thread about compressing the beginning of a sound

May have explained to quickly made some mistake there thanks for correcting me ! And it also depend on the compressor you use too

They are tones of Tom sample nowadays you can find pretty much what you want , but the funny thing is to take a tom and really process it to get some weird sound that can be fun to use , such as heavy distortion or bitcrushing , as well with some reverb you can do some weird thing !

Simple way , put an eq on your kick (An eq wich show the notes wich frequency are or search some frequency note chart on the net) The Higher (Volume) Lower (Frequency) Point will be the key of the kick !

How does this "everything under 150Hz has to be mono" works, I mean, how do you turn something that has a very wide stereo image into mono?, the kick and the bass for example; how do you know those low frequencies are in mono? and how do you make them mono if they are not?, and what are the benefits for having them that way.

Maybe I'm asking a lot of things but this particular issue is having me troubled and intrigued.

I'll try answer everything , first of all everything under 150hz has to be mono cause the bass as to be focused in the middle as you want to hear the low kick and the sub hitting you in the middle , also it can cause phase issue but that's a bit difficult.

You know it's in mono by putting for example a MID/SID eq , Mid is for mono information and Side is for stereo information on your master if you cut the side information until 150 hz , everything beside that point will be in mono , aswell you can you the Izotope imager and puting the left fader all the way down it also do the trick

Hope i helped