There is any difference between mastering with IO and other plugins? I never used before and reading about it I think is just another ¨fancy software¨
It is really awesome? Really worth it?
 
I don´t know all about IO, just read some conclusions and opinions about it and maybe it has a better precision with EQ or something like that.

I would like to know your experiences with it

Go listen to all the different mastering plug ins and consider the transparency.

I bought melda products because i liked what i heard.

There are differences otherwise we'd all just use the stock plugins of the daw we use.
Waves would never be able to sell their plugins for thousands if it all sounded the same! 

sounded the same or production costs.

Quote from: Marrow Machines on May 18, 2016, 07:38:06 pm

Quote from: James Sweeney on May 18, 2016, 06:39:04 pm

There are differences otherwise we'd all just use the stock plugins of the daw we use.
Waves would never be able to sell their plugins for thousands if it all sounded the same! 

sounded the same or production costs.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=production%20costs

wut?
What?

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Quote from: James Sweeney on May 18, 2016, 08:01:28 pm

Quote from: Marrow Machines on May 18, 2016, 07:38:06 pm

Quote from: James Sweeney on May 18, 2016, 06:39:04 pm

There are differences otherwise we'd all just use the stock plugins of the daw we use.
Waves would never be able to sell their plugins for thousands if it all sounded the same! 

sounded the same or production costs.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=production%20costs

wut?
What?

quote ception

i'm still not really sure what your getting at, lol

Quote from: James Sweeney on May 19, 2016, 09:42:13 am

Quote from: Marrow Machines on May 18, 2016, 08:20:01 pm

Quote from: James Sweeney on May 18, 2016, 08:01:28 pm

Quote from: Marrow Machines on May 18, 2016, 07:38:06 pm

Quote from: James Sweeney on May 18, 2016, 06:39:04 pm

There are differences otherwise we'd all just use the stock plugins of the daw we use.
Waves would never be able to sell their plugins for thousands if it all sounded the same! 

sounded the same or production costs.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=production%20costs

wut?
What?

quote ception

i'm still not really sure what your getting at, lol

you're talking about price and quality, when the price could just be a factor of production costs. IE, the cost that goes into making the product.

You'd want to think that the higher cost means quality, but that could just be a factor of the production side.

ohhhhh, what i'm saying is that nobody would actually pay thousands for them if they were the same...
i'm not suggesting that price equals quality, just that there are obviously differences if people are paying a shit tonne of money for them

Quote from: James Sweeney on May 19, 2016, 04:28:37 pm

ohhhhh, what i'm saying is that nobody would actually pay thousands for them if they were the same...
i'm not suggesting that price equals quality, just that there are obviously differences if people are paying a shit tonne of money for them

quote clean up...

glad we're on the same page.

yes but what would make the price point be considered that much money and why would people consider aiming to have those plug ins?

it varies from plug-in to plug-in, some colour the sound is as far as i can confidently go... someone else is better off explaining how they're different

I've used Izotope and it's cool. Easy enough to use when you understand it and it's kinda what everyone uses.

But is it really necessary ? no, absolutely not. It obviously is a fancy software. It does the job well, i agree, but there's freeware doing the same thing.

I use Flux STTools for Stereo imaging, ModernExciter for Lows and High, Fruity Limiter for compression, Parametric EQ 2 for EQing (of course) and Maximus.
Flux STTools is Free, ModernExciter is Free. Fruity stocks are includes in FL Producer Edition. They do the job on the same level than Izotope.