Gearslutz.com - View Single Post - Mastering - does use of signal crush maximizers make mastering compression

max cooper · 29th August 2005, 06:43 PM

So, for you mastering guys, does it make it harder if I 'print' my effects to a stereo track wholesale? Would you prefer that the 'verbs were printed separately, or would you prefer that there were a reverb bus that can be adjusted according to the mastering process?

In my mind, it's sometimes hard to draw a real identifiable line between mixing and mastering where things like reverbs and delays are concerned.

I noticed that before I discovered the 'tweakhead' setting in PT, my reverb tails weren't surviving the conversion from 24 to 16 bits.

29th August 2005, 06:43 PM	#7
max cooper Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: tx Posts: 8,819	So, for you mastering guys, does it make it harder if I 'print' my effects to a stereo track wholesale? Would you prefer that the 'verbs were printed separately, or would you prefer that there were a reverb bus that can be adjusted according to the mastering process? In my mind, it's sometimes hard to draw a real identifiable line between mixing and mastering where things like reverbs and delays are concerned. I noticed that before I discovered the 'tweakhead' setting in PT, my reverb tails weren't surviving the conversion from 24 to 16 bits.