As someone who does mastering, I am dead set against using presets in
that manner. There is far too much of that homogeneity now. It
reminds me of the equalizer presets on my mp3 player. One is called
rock, another is called classical, another is called jazz. Wow, you
mean if I pick one, it will make everything sound poppy or rocky or
jazzy? That's so cool! (sarcasm)
That said, just about any limiter, compressor, equalizer etc. will
have presets for various tasks, and of course you can use said
presets as a starting point. Learn from them, but all source material
is unique.
Read the Bob Katz book (2nd Edition), and do lots and lots of
listening to world-class recordings. Mastering is much more subtle
than mixing, and requires a holistic mindset. As long as you have a
nice transparent compressor, a linear-phaze equalizer, and some
mid/side tools, you can do a heck of a lot. The tools aren't as
important as your ears, your listening space, and your experience.
The idea of taking a full mastering suite like Ozone or Fab Filter
Pro and picking the rock preset for your rock mix, thinking it will
somehow be "better", is anathema to what I do. Talk about kill a
butterfly with a sledge hammer! I apologize if that is not your
intent at all. I'm seeing a lot of that cookie cutter homogeneity
these days, along with four steps to mastering at home type articles.
Ok, rant over. LOL I really need to have that first coffee of the day!
I'm a Windows guy, but check out Slate Digital FG-X for an extremely
transparent compressor and a really nice limiter. Also check out
their Virtual Bus Compressors for really colored analog-sounding
options. Their tape simulator VTM is wonderful, in case you want
things to sound like they've gone through a 1/2" deck at 15 IPS.
There are lots of m/s and phase adjustment plugs out there, many of
them free. When I don't like the limiter section of FGX, I usually
reach for Voxengo's Elephant. It has several algorithms to chose
from, and you will want to try them all to find out what gets you the
results you are after for the mix you are working with.
I haven't used it, but the mastering guys rave about Algorithmix Red
and Orange as a pair of excelent linear-phaze equalizers, but just
about any linear-phaze EQ will do the job, as long as your ears can
home in like a lazer on the part of the spectrum that needs
tweaking. Waves make one, Ozone comes with one, Fab Filter make one, etc.
Chris
P.S. For those of you wanting extremely transparent EQ with seemingly
no ringing, keep an eye out for Eiosis Air EQ. It is almost out of
beta testing and it's magic! We're so used to the effects of typical
EQ that for a minute, you think the plug-in must not be doing it's
job, because it isn't as obvious.
At 06:55 AM 1/31/2014, you wrote:
Hi there.
I don't know if this even exists in the world of recording to a
computer, but on the digital porta studios i've seen, there were
mastering tools you could use with various presets for different
genres, are there such mastering plugins out there that don't cost
an arm, a leg and half the body to get?
/Krister
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