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swisha31 · 5th July 2007

ok we all know there has to be head room before mastering engineers do the sprucing up, but how much head room. do we have it just topping out at 0db or -1db to -2db so it wont be muddy when you add all of the compression, eq, and maybe limiting. should we already have bus compression on it to keep it just at 0db and then you all go in and add more? oh and another thing, if someone is ATTEMPTING to master from plugs and have no summing bus, how should we sum tracks up for mastering that still have the analog sound? which plugs are better to use in a chain; ozone, vintage warmer, uad-1, L3(which i dont like), mastercomp, some other EQs and comps. educate me, you have all of my attention.

5th July 2007	#1
swisha31 Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2007 Location: Hell's Kitchen AKA Mississippi Posts: 672 Thread Starter 1 Review written	Head Room.........but how much??? ok we all know there has to be head room before mastering engineers do the sprucing up, but how much head room. do we have it just topping out at 0db or -1db to -2db so it wont be muddy when you add all of the compression, eq, and maybe limiting. should we already have bus compression on it to keep it just at 0db and then you all go in and add more? oh and another thing, if someone is ATTEMPTING to master from plugs and have no summing bus, how should we sum tracks up for mastering that still have the analog sound? which plugs are better to use in a chain; ozone, vintage warmer, uad-1, L3(which i dont like), mastercomp, some other EQs and comps. educate me, you have all of my attention.