Mastering with Wavelab.

[Aka Nameless]

Hi, I have a few questions about mastering with wavelab. Hopefully someone will give their insight on the subject.

Well, when I master an album i've been loading the songs seperately "not in audio montage" and adjusting eq, compression or whatever they need (mostly because my computer cant handle 15 tracks all with 2/3 effects at the same time), then convert all sample rates to 44.1 but keeping in 24 bit, then I bounce them each to another wave file "processed". Then I load up an audio montage put the songs in their correct order, do any loudness maxing "L2" to each song to match the levels "depending on the intensity of the songs". I then do fade in's / fade out's, place track markers, throw POW-R dither on master section, then burn the cd.

Now my question is.. (sorry for my longwindedness).. I feel that i'm adding a few extra steps to the process of mastering an album.. Is it necessary to edit each track seperately to conserve comp resources, or is there a better way of doing it? (My computer isn't "slow" its pent 4 2.54 ghz, 1gig ram)

Also, when using the audio montage, do you place all the tracks from the album on one stereo track and insert effects via clip effects instead of track effects (so the effects effect only that song instead of all songs on that track)? Or do you create a new stereo track for each song?

Well, that is the majority of the questions that I have. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.

Colin.

[illynoise]

Originally Posted by Aka Nameless

Now my question is.. (sorry for my longwindedness).. I feel that i'm adding a few extra steps to the process of mastering an album.. Is it necessary to edit each track seperately to conserve comp resources, or is there a better way of doing it? (My computer isn't "slow" its pent 4 2.54 ghz, 1gig ram)

Also, when using the audio montage, do you place all the tracks from the album on one stereo track and insert effects via clip effects instead of track effects (so the effects effect only that song instead of all songs on that track)? Or do you create a new stereo track for each song?
Colin.

You doing it the same way that I do it. But I work on Copies instead of finals songs, and then I save to a folder called "Masters".

With the Montage, it gives you more options.

BaseJase

[FaTT Dust]

I then do fade in's / fade out's, place track markers, throw POW-R dither on master section, then burn the cd.

POW-R in wavelab? A quick question, where and which plug do you use to get that in there. I thought the only available options were the (UV dithers)... or additional plugin dithers, eg: Waves IDR/ UAD PL/ Sony dither etc...

The reason I ask is, I would love to have a POW-R dither available in Wavelab. I have it Sequoia v7, but not in Wavelab v5...

Any clues? Thanks

[Aka Nameless]

i'm used to pro tools, which is why I said POW-R, but after checking, seems IDR is only one available to me also..

[T.RayBullard]

POW-R is in PT, Bias Peak, and Sequoia, but not in WL.When I had WL I preferred
Waves IDR

The real question for FATT is Why use WL when you have Sequoia?? I have sequoia 8 and samp 8 and they both kill!!

[FaTT Dust]

Originally Posted by T.RayBullard

POW-R is in PT, Bias Peak, and Sequoia, but not in WL.When I had WL I preferred
Waves IDR

The real question for FATT is Why use WL when you have Sequoia?? I have sequoia 8 and samp 8 and they both kill!!

Glad to hear that. I thought I was missing out!
Personally, IDR is the defacto 16bit dither to CD, either in Wavelab or via CD Architect. IMO, the Sony dither for me, loses or is missing the glam!

And yes, Sequoia is a great alrounder. Although, at times, Wavelab and even Sound Forge suffice.

The edit window in Sound Forge helpful at times, with critical edits like spikes/glitches/digi tear etc.. etc...
Just me ..I know

Cheers.