No Need to Master?
After months of working hard, I can now put together a pretty solid mix. I use Sonnox plugins - which I am happy with.
I put a few plug in over the mix bus. My levels were nice and hot and the mix sounded strong. I decided to master and things went bad..
Here is what I did...
* Removed all plugs off the mix bus and bounced everything to a stereo wav file.
* Imported the wav into a new 'master' session. But, no matter what processing I added (and I racked my brains!) I couldn't match the level of the final mix without it distoring and sounding 'mushy'.
* I downloaded a trial version of Izotope 4 and things started sounding better - but still not as good as the final mix I did previously....
I am questioning myself now, did I really need to master ? Things sounded better before..Maybe I was so careful with my mix and pushed all the signals so hard that mastering was unecessary?
Some suggestions from all you folks would be graciously appreciated.
KNM.
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