I use my fruity plugin's in Cubase, so mine goes (inorder):

Fruity Multiband Compresser (livens up low-ends without distortion)
Fruity Parametric EQ (My favourite because it shows a live graphic repersentation of the waves)
Fruity Limiter

 

I just use:


Arturia Chuck Norris One knob 1.0

 

psp vintage warmer h82 harmonic maximiser and equality.

 

i'm just a beginner in all this, so i usually just place a limiter on the master bus, one that doesn't boost the sound too much because i find it can ruin the dynamics of loud/quiet spots in the song..
i appreciate all the good info in this thread! i will have to investigate some of the suggestions people offered..

i agree with "if you mix it right you don;t need much on the master bus"

 

SSL Duende Bus Compressor + Sonnox Oxford Limiter.

No EQ yet.

 

Izotope ozone 5 - all in one <3

 

FabFilter Pro-C (Compressor)
FabFilter Pro-Q (EQ)
FabFilter Pro-L (Limiter)

For individual tracks, I over-abuse Waves OneKnob Pressure and OneKnob Wetter. Heh.

 

Depends on your style of music. I'm more of a Pop/Rock (guitar based) guy.

Magnetic II > Compressor (subtle) > EQ (subtle) > Limiter (Everything Native Studio One based, except for Magnetic ii)

Also, as someone mentioned earlier in the thread, I render my mix first then master separately...Studio One gets a +1 for simplifying that process for me.

 

I sometimes use iZotope Ozone 4, for the dynamics processing and exciter. Sometimes aphex aural exicter + Ableton native compressor and a limiter of some kind.

 

I second the Waves L3, esp if you'll be printing down from 24 to 16-bit. I also like the Wavearts Final Plug for the same purpose.

 

I,m still using SSL bus comp and now the waves NLS.

 

Ah... "The Master Buss Fix..." I know it too well...

It usually starts to go wrong at the arrangement stage, when I pile on too many sounds.

Then, I'll try to make each of those sounds bigger and louder than all the others.

Finally, what I call mixing is... keep turning up each channel in turn until the master buss is clipping horribly.

..And then I apply a multiband limiter over the master buss to try to compensate.




The following day... when I listen back to the lifeless dirge that I have created... I remove the buss limiter and all the processing from the channels, drop all the faders, turn the monitors up quite loud and try to listen to the arrangement for channels I can live without. And try again.



I might go through this process 6 to 10 times. If I need to put anything over the master buss then perhaps I haven't arranged/mixed it properly.



I may well use additional processing on the final mix, but this should be to tweak and enhance, not to fix my poor mixing skills.

I must confess however that I rarely reach the level of perfection that I seek. Too many badgertoons feature "the master buss fix."

tB.

 

In the mixing biz, they say the perfect Rock mix is "Everything louder than everything else". LOL

 

Changes all the time, but currently in this project im working with a 24bit premaster(1 Channel) i'm using;

Waves Linear phase EQ > Klanghelm DC8C > SPL Passeq > Ozone5(using Stereo imaging & Harmonics) > Brainworx XL