Home mastering setup..

[Jbassist]

greatings!!

first post here, yet i have been browsing this forum for along time now!!! thumbsup
turned out realy usefull!!

but anyway, i have a nice computer/monitors and an EMU 1212m (and some load of outboard stuff obviously..) right know and i record my drums in another studio and do the rest of the work at my "studio" at home..

and lately i've been thinking of turning my mastering a little more Analog, since i do it with plug ins right know and i'm not tottaly satisfied with the results right know ( i know this also do to myself but i also want a more hands on aproach).

so i was thinking of setting a bit of a low budget mastering chain, i was thinking of the following:

Behringer (i said the B word.. shame on me!!) Tube composer (not that i will be using the tube much ofcourse hahaha..)

Sonic maximizer (i got a stereo version the 362)

EQ - Haven't decided on anything yet.. suggestions?

Behringer Edison ( i'll probly use it as much as the sonic M. but its handy having around..)

That's it!! any suggestions? (apart from get your mixes mastered at a prof facility?)

THANKS!! jb.

[MASSIVE Master]

any suggestions?

Stick with plugs?



Really - If you're going to go with an analog chain (which, IMO, is an admirable thing) get gear that's worth using. Composers and Sonic Maximizers?!?

Sonic Maximizers?!?

I'd invest in a UAD setup and tweak with that for a while.

IMHO, YMMV, yada, yada, etc., etc.

[DrDeltaM]

Leave mastering to someone else on that budget...
Skip the low end analog gear anyway. Some plugs can do the trick for a quick job if you really want to.

[Darius van H]

Behringer may not be the obvious choice for mastering...on the other hand, one of the world's best (Herb Powers) is known to have some B in his rack.......what I'm more worried about is your monitoring / room - (beacuse you didn't mention it! )

[RoundBadge]

Sonic maximizer (i got a stereo version the 362)

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[Jbassist]

i thought this would happen ee..

but check these results:

a whole master through a composer&Edison: http://members.home.nl/katafalk/Katafalk%20-%20Death's%20Contradiction.mp3

nother one: http://www.grinroth.nl/mp3/Grinroth-forsaken.mp3

and this a sonic maximizer on guitartracks:

http://tesseractband.co.uk/sounds.php

and i know that mentioning words like "sonic maximizer" and "behringer" in a place were its normal for one too have a distressor and Neve EQ's kinda makes it hard for some of you guys too take this seriously but i'm just on a budget and i just wanna see how i can get good results out of cheap gear (which i'm kinda bound to at the moment).

and now: whatabout the DBX quantum? is that anygood? i heard some pretty good results with that aswell.

[DrDeltaM]

Originally Posted by Jbassist

and now: whatabout the DBX quantum? is that anygood? i heard some pretty good results with that aswell.

The DBX Quantum is pretty cool yes

[Jbassist]

see, i'm allready on a better track