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But at that point you’re just doing more of the same that was already done on the master buss. And it logically follows that your “master” could be remastered to sound even better, and then remastered again, ad infinitum.
Just get it right the first time. No need to play dress-up as a “mastering engineer” (even though it may be fun to pretend.)
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Who said as infinitum? Only you...
Do your best mix, do your best separate mastering stage (by you or someone else).
The better the mix the less difference a master will make.
But say you do mix into a master buss, how do you know it was set optimally for your track if you set it up front? I can agree it's a useful thing to do as you'll mix with an idea of what the end result will be.
But - I don't believe it's that simple to mix and fine tune a master bus at the same time. There's just too much to keep track of.
I would recommend you try this exercise. Do a mix, he happy with it and bounce it down with the master buss FX and also with all the master fx off.
The next day come back to it and using some A/Bing, recreate your master bus chain one fx at time but being really specific for your track.
I'd be quite surprised if you couldn't get a better overall outcome.
But also there are many things that you can do on a 2 bus that you can't do in a mix.
But at that point you’re just doing more of the same that was already done on the master buss. And it logically follows that your “master” could be remastered to sound even better, and then remastered again, ad infinitum.
Just get it right the first time. No need to play dress-up as a “mastering engineer” (even though it may be fun to pretend.)
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Who said as infinitum? Only you...
Do your best mix, do your best separate mastering stage (by you or someone else).
The better the mix the less difference a master will make.
But say you do mix into a master buss, how do you know it was set optimally for your track if you set it up front? I can agree it's a useful thing to do as you'll mix with an idea of what the end result will be.
But - I don't believe it's that simple to mix and fine tune a master bus at the same time. There's just too much to keep track of.
I would recommend you try this exercise. Do a mix, he happy with it and bounce it down with the master buss FX and also with all the master fx off.
The next day come back to it and using some A/Bing, recreate your master bus chain one fx at time but being really specific for your track.
I'd be quite surprised if you couldn't get a better overall outcome.
But also there are many things that you can do on a 2 bus that you can't do in a mix.
Statistics: Posted by _leras — Tue Jul 09, 2024 12:43 pm