09-21-2019, 05:20 AM
(09-17-2019, 05:23 PM)Matt Wrote: I have izotope ozone and will usually put it on the master buss and let it do it’s auto thing to get an idea of what might can be a bit better. I don’t always leave it on there. I also have softube’s drawmer s73 I sometimes pop on for a quick and dirty “master”. I can usually get a rough mix pretty polished quickly with it.
I want to clarify, especially for this familiar with ozone, I don’t let it do it’s “learning” thing and just go with that. I’m mainly checking to see what it does. That way I can go back and fix whatever element it’s fixing before it hits the master buss. I’m mostly interested in how it’s treating the low end, as imo that’s the hardest part to get right in a small (but somewhat treated) room. Once it’s just doing some mild eq/comp/limiting I’ll either tweak it a bit to taste. Or even bypass it, and try some other more “analog” plugs.
)...but, there's a functional reason to use a compressor on the mix bus...>NOT>.....a limiter....a compressor. It WILL need to be full control, and if you're not up for that, you're better off without. If you think there's a such a thing as presets for such a function as example--you want "none". While you can certainly save presets that become a kind of starting point....they'll need to be adjusted often significantly for every song. I tend to use the "medium knee" on the 2500 more than soft or hard--as example...."loud" on the detector....individual channels or 60% linked rather than 100....but, where the threshold goes....where the attack and release go...is completely different every time.