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Originally Posted by DesertDawg  Do any of you mastering guys have or use any kind of reference processing for what a song might sound like on the radio? In other words, let's say you're mastering a rock song or album - do you ever insert some additional compression after that stage & lop off some highs & lo's to emulate what a typical rock radio station's FM signal chain might do to the song in question?
If so, what do you use & how do you normally set it up, in terms of typical dynamics & EQ, etc.? |
You might want to check out Steinberg's Multiband Compressor plug-in as it has a fairly generic yet convincing 'FM Radio' preset. Regardless, a tonally well-balanced and appropriately dynamic master should translate well, even through the roughest of radio processing.
SK