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Post by rickcarson on Jul 22, 2015 13:50:23 GMT -6
They seem to be the end all be all for mastering studios. Sterling sound, Dave M, Bernie Grundman, Gateway, Bob Katz all of these studios are using cubetec stuff. Seems like there EQ and Multicomp are what I see most in photos. I have purchased the old spectral design plugs that were made as stein bergs mastering edition and use those now but I would really like to try the cubetec versions which are the later more up to date versions. They also make a loudness maximizer and that was used for the chronic 2001 and also on ultimate metal forums slate said he was using it while he was designing fg-x. interestingly enough the spectral design stuff as well and cubetec has soft limit, which is a big thing about fg-x. I have fg-x I use pro l and the spectral multi comp if I want to get loud right now but I would still really like to get my hands on the cubetec stuff.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jul 22, 2015 17:51:16 GMT -6
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Post by rickcarson on Jul 22, 2015 19:06:33 GMT -6
Nah you dont need audio cube anymore. They make VPI's for sequoia and wavelab. The plugs are $750-$1500 a pop though and $300 to demo.
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Post by rickcarson on Jul 23, 2015 6:40:07 GMT -6
yeah none of the cool plugs are for protools just the restoration stuff. Which I guess they are do really well. Also if anyone has used they. All the white stock plugs that come in Adobe premiere are Cubetec plugs and they rule.
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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 6, 2020 15:42:33 GMT -6
What are people using these days? I've been using Ozone 9 Limiter...but I still like what Stealth does with the Harmonic thing. Didn't know if there was something newfangled out there I hadn't heard of...speaking of which...anyone use Elevate?
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Post by guitfiddler on Oct 6, 2020 16:20:28 GMT -6
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Post by tkaitkai on Oct 6, 2020 18:12:07 GMT -6
This is probably heresy, but I still love the L1/L2. For transparent level, Pro L is my go to, but when I pull up a limiter, it’s usually because I want to hear it squeezing things. L2 is fantastic for this.
Elephant is another good one. Kind of a hidden gem. Love that one on the stereo bus.
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Post by notneeson on Oct 6, 2020 20:56:06 GMT -6
This is not an area of focus for me, per se. I’ll master your stuff as best I can but if you take my actual advice you’ll hire someone I recommend.
But, I have been liking Massey’s newish clipper before L2007 for reference mixes.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 22:34:46 GMT -6
1176 FET feedback limiter replacement: Goodhertz Faraday Limiter Lookahead mastering limiter: Tokyo Dawn Limiter 6 GE Something cool to chop peaks off? MJUC mk I or mk II on the fastest attack and release set to not pump. HQ and Insane mode on all.
Every other thing I had had worse workflow (Limitless and Elephant), couldn't limit (CLA-76 and Black Rooster 1176), worse metering (VladG Limit6), or had dongles (UAD where the 1176 and 176 are awesome). The Fuse dynamics plugs are cool as hell but of much more limited utility. Those are also the only two compressors I use most of the time unless I drastically need to envelope or sample shape with Presswerk or Molot. I can't find a non UAD leveling amplifier I like. I've mostly ditched feed forward compressors on real recordings of real instruments.
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Post by theshea on Oct 7, 2020 4:23:45 GMT -6
still using vlad limiter n 9 ... still happy with it.
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Post by nomatic on Oct 7, 2020 5:23:57 GMT -6
Aom Invisible G2 beats everything for my taste for mastering
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Post by the other mark williams on Oct 7, 2020 7:45:04 GMT -6
Still loving Limitless here. Many flavors in one plugin. Can be super transparent.
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Post by Guitar on Oct 7, 2020 7:50:13 GMT -6
I use the Newfangled Elevate, it's probably my most used plugin since it goes on every single mix.
Used to be happy with Pro L but since I got Elevate there's no going back.
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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 7, 2020 9:17:41 GMT -6
I’d much rather have a software limiter that sounds 95% as good.
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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 7, 2020 9:18:42 GMT -6
This is not an area of focus for me, per se. I’ll master your stuff as best I can but if you take my actual advice you’ll hire someone I recommend. But, I have been liking Massey’s newish clipper before L2007 for reference mixes. Most everything I get doesn’t have a budget for mastering.
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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 7, 2020 9:20:21 GMT -6
Aom Invisible G2 beats everything for my taste for mastering I need to upgrade to V2. Have you tried Stealth? I know it looks corny, but I’d be interested in hearing what you think.
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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 7, 2020 9:20:54 GMT -6
Still loving Limitless here. Many flavors in one plugin. Can be super transparent. It’s so tweakable that it paralyzes me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2020 11:09:20 GMT -6
That’s my problem with everything DMG: Option paralysis, the plugs are easy to make sound awful, and the sliders and knobs aren’t weighted to the good stuff except for holding alt to get hardware settings in Trackcomp but even then, those hardware settings often don’t behave as expected or particularly well, especially the VCA models. There are easier to use alternatives that sound just as good or better for less money.
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Post by Martin John Butler on Oct 7, 2020 12:55:35 GMT -6
I almost never use Limiting, but. even though I had tons of Waves plugs, a bunch of others including Slate and UAD's, Logic's DBX 160 works as well or better than all of them. I had the AOM, but let it go after a year because Logic's worked better. Logics first compressor in their choice of six is their own design, the others emulate the classics. That one was a dead ringer fr the A.O.M., and sounded a little better every time I A-B'd.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2020 12:59:05 GMT -6
Massey L2007 here. I've been using it for over a decade at this point. I typically only use a limiter if I'm trying to approximate the level of a mastered track for client reference. I think this does a nice job and stays out of the way. I'm never heavy handed with the GR.
The different modes are nice. They vary enough that it gives you some tonal options.
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Post by notneeson on Oct 7, 2020 14:14:20 GMT -6
This is not an area of focus for me, per se. I’ll master your stuff as best I can but if you take my actual advice you’ll hire someone I recommend. But, I have been liking Massey’s newish clipper before L2007 for reference mixes. Most everything I get doesn’t have a budget for mastering. Same, but I’m just not willing to spend much time in the mastering rabbit hole regardless. Maybe I’m just stubborn.
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Post by the other mark williams on Oct 7, 2020 17:13:18 GMT -6
Still loving Limitless here. Many flavors in one plugin. Can be super transparent. It’s so tweakable that it paralyzes me. I stick to the “smooth” algorithm most of the time, because it suits the kind of music I work on. Sometimes I’ll drag around a couple of the multiband points, but not most of the time. DMG TrackLimit is good, too. Sometimes I’ll just use that instead.
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Post by bartacusad on Oct 7, 2020 20:50:27 GMT -6
Stealth for me too. You turned me on to it a couple years ago and it’s been my go to ever since. Every now and the Limitless will beat it on a pop track but it works every time for country tracks. What are people using these days? I've been using Ozone 9 Limiter...but I still like what Stealth does with the Harmonic thing. Didn't know if there was something newfangled out there I hadn't heard of...speaking of which...anyone use Elevate?
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Post by Johnkenn on Oct 7, 2020 22:57:00 GMT -6
Stealth for me too. You turned me on to it a couple years ago and it’s been my go to ever since. Every now and the Limitless will beat it on a pop track but it works every time for country tracks. What are people using these days? I've been using Ozone 9 Limiter...but I still like what Stealth does with the Harmonic thing. Didn't know if there was something newfangled out there I hadn't heard of...speaking of which...anyone use Elevate? Yeah - it’s got a weight to it that I don’t find other places.
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Post by viciousbliss on Oct 7, 2020 23:35:12 GMT -6
I like the new L1 on tracks and busses during mixing. During mastering I put the Oxford on an aux by itself and feed stuff into it.
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