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barryjohns · 19th December 2006

It’s always so tempting to put compressors and limiters on the master fader, to get a glimpse of what it will sound like. However, this can be a crutch and affect the way in which you mix. Get the mix as good as you can without anything on the main fader. Mix that down to a stereo 2 track. Pull that back into logic (or another wave editor) and attempt to master that as a feel, knowing that a true professional will get it to sound so much better. I find the UAD Precision EQ, Fairlight Compressor, and Precision Limiter to produce some excellent results for jamming in the car. They will get you very good results, but NEVER as good as a true mastering pro. If you really really like what you got, you can send that as a sample along with the un-mastered audio file for the mastering engineer to get a template for him/her to work start with.

Just my 2 cents.

19th December 2006	#18
barryjohns Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 3,054	It’s always so tempting to put compressors and limiters on the master fader, to get a glimpse of what it will sound like. However, this can be a crutch and affect the way in which you mix. Get the mix as good as you can without anything on the main fader. Mix that down to a stereo 2 track. Pull that back into logic (or another wave editor) and attempt to master that as a feel, knowing that a true professional will get it to sound so much better. I find the UAD Precision EQ, Fairlight Compressor, and Precision Limiter to produce some excellent results for jamming in the car. They will get you very good results, but NEVER as good as a true mastering pro. If you really really like what you got, you can send that as a sample along with the un-mastered audio file for the mastering engineer to get a template for him/her to work start with. Just my 2 cents.