[ddots-l] Re: mastering question

Brian,
The LP64 EQ and compressor are excellent. Anything that is "linear phase" is probably good for the job.
Yes, Waves make a limiter, but I'm seeing less people talk about it in various forums.
Boost11 that comes with Sonar is simple, but I find I can really hear it working. In other words, it creates artifacts or by-products. But, try it anyway.
I really like the Wave Arts Final Plug, whose parameters are accessible through the track inspector. I usually pick a preset and then adjust to taste, usually making the limiting a lot more subtle, raising the threshold etc.
You might also want to check out Cytomic Software, www.cytomic.com. Their compressor plug-in does a great job, and is a faithful recreation of the classic SSL master bus compressor. Just a tiny bit on the whole mix, say 2 or 3 dB of compression, really glues things together nicely.
A couple limiters I haven't tried yet, but that I've heard great things about are: BXXL made by Brainworx. They also make a dynamic equalizer worth checking out, and all their plug-ins do a lot of mid/side processing, if you need that.
I've heard amazing claims about Slate Digital's FGX plug-in as well, some people claiming it's even better than the limiter built into iZotope Ozone. So that's one to investigate as well.
Speaking of Ozone, accessibility developments seem to have ground to a halt there. It's a shame really. Being able to do multiband EQ, compression, harmonic excitation, stereo image manipulation and limiting all in one plug-in seems pretty handy. I really don't know if they are still serious about accessibility though. You can get an idea of what is possible through Ozone by going into Sound Forge and playing with the mastering effects bundle. It's really unfortunate we can't edit parameters in there. Often, I hit on a preset that does something I want, but that I really would need to tweak for it to be usable in a given situation. 

Chris

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