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Originally Posted by stevep I have never heard of any effects being added when mastering...........   |
All experienced mastering engineers have used reverb occasionally.
Sometimes it's to smooth an ending that had to be cut b/c of excess noise or sometimes b/c it was inadvertently cut by the mixer.
Once in a while, one track in an album doesn't fit ambiance-wise and none of my stereoizing techniques do the trick and so the last resort is a little reverb. I recently mastered a jazz album (trio and vocal) where just a hint of reverb made it sound just perfect. It was an unattended session for a producer in another part of the country. I made the decision on my own and both producer and client loved the results. I didn't even tell them what I had done b/c it was so subtle.
I used to use Altiverb but now mostly use the exceptional reverbs found in my TC 6000.
Please remember that adding reverb on a whole program is only done rarely, and as a last resort, but once in a while, it can really help.
As for other effects, sometime someone wants an intro or interlude spiced up so I'll get out the phaser, doppler, auto-panner, or whatever, and again, occasionally, it will just be the perfect treatment. Adding these sort of effects to a master, however, is even more rare (at least in my work) than adding reverb! BTW, this is a technique I have never done in an unattended session!!