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Originally Posted by meymia  Hi.
some one told me not to put ANY dynamic processors on the master bus...does that in your opinion uncluse asimple sonnox compressor to glue things up a bit? |
I'm not so crazy about the sonnox on the master bus, perhaps you might try the "cytomic glue" if it has to be a plugin on stereo bus.
To me stereo bus compressing belongs to mixing not to mastering, as it will affect the balance of your mix and resulting decisions on individual tracks.
If you are new to stereo compressing I wouldn't mix into the compressor either. It can be very tricky! Everything is affecting everything and too easy you can overdo things. The more instruments you bring into the mix the more of your previous balance might change. And if you start with automation it might change again. So e.g. your punchy drums from the beginning might end up very poor and the mean thing is, since you get used to how the mix build up it, you might not notice occurring problems easily.
So for starters.. if you want just a little glue I would try to get the best balanced mix without stereo bus compressing. Then slap your compressor at the end on the stereo bus, just a few dB of GR for the desired effect. You might readjust some tracks, again a thing a mastering engineer can't do. Always do level matched a/b or do longer listening runs with breaks, to see if you compressor really helps glueing your mix.
Good luck!