Getting Started (AKA What is the best...?) • Re: I suck at mastering what is the best Multiband Compressor ==> Ozone vs Fabfilter vs Bitwig Compressor+

@Synthman2000

How would you go about Ambient - Mastering, which EQ or Compressor, add some analog Mojo or just keeping it clean ITB?

Honest Question, as I indeed once came here to learn something new, learn from the Greats. Actually my first Years on KVR were spent in read - only Mode.

So if you have some nifty Tip & Tricks, you are more than Welcome.

I would listen to everything that I had to work with for a single EP or LP and consider carefully what tools to use on a per piece and possibly global basis. There is no specific approach to any job as every piece of music and combination of pieces of music are different.

No ambient artists music is likely to sound like the next ambient artists music. In fact one artists track versus the next track on an album might not sound similar at all.

Mastering is not cookie cutting work. It is reactive work to what is heard in accuracy guided by experienced ears that know specifically what to listen for in all manner of genres and instrumentation types versus goals of person producing.

There are just no easy replies, and that is not a dodge.

I could say.. I would use X for this and Y for that but it would be unlikely in reality.

Not to mention tools change, improve and get upgraded or deprecated, twice a year I test most of what exists digitally, not all gets changed, but it is important to find out what is doing a job best. There are no qualms about this. If something sounds or is better it is purchased without a second thought irrelevant of it not being $29.00. If it's a $450 package and sounds best you buy it. Nothing compared to dumping many multiple $$$$ on hardware which I have done.

Ambient music as one example of a genre comes in a vast number of different styles, and with differing abilities to produce and mix it.

The tool might be... advice in an email to rectify something that will make a big difference that has been missed. Maybe one of the best tools of all, I used responsive emails all over mastering that track

Anything could be used on ambient music, whatever makes it sound as good as possible
for the end listener on as many system as it may be reproduced on.

Pretty general and non - technical Advise here, could have also come straight from the FAQ of some professional Mastering - Service, though.

So many thanks for that.

Statistics: Posted by Synthman2000 — Fri Jul 12, 2024 9:18 am