mastering plugins

[demento]

if you want it cheap and loud then t-wrax does the trick, you can push it and providing you give it a little bit of tweak it can sound ok. imo mastering is for pros theough.

[lucky_strike]

waves SSL!

[dj $hy]

ill use isotope ozone a lot for mastering

100%

[soi]

Akai Quadcomp eats Waves for breakfast

[d-program]

ok guys ... I know how to do my mixdown ... gaining levels till you go up to 0 db ,cut away the frequencies that are not needed ... etc ...

but it's you know ... when you play a 320 versus a record that you notice the difference ... mainly the loudness of the track ... or some frquencies that are not present enough ...

gonna try some shizze out and let y'all know

don't know if I'm doing it by the book exactly but after reading a bunch of stuff in future music mag and music tech I found if you put a limiter/compressor/chain on the master outs of your digital mixer then it will give you way more ceiling room with your master levels without distorting. I guess this is done idealy with expensive outboard gear befor going in to your board.(???) but not having a board or proper monitors I cheat just to preview my tunes at the club or in a mix w. records.
for Cubase SX.

4Front XLimiter- -2.1, -2.0, -2.7

VSTDynamics- full dynamics preset

MultibandCompressor- FM preset,
set eq: (low)1.5, (med)0, (medhi)1.5, (hi)1.8 GAIN-1db

after doing this you overall vol will be much lower and you should be able to push the master volume of the entire tune instead of each individual track. (still do all the above metioned stuff (pspwarmer - drums, compress bass, cut highs from kicks n bass etc.) before slapping on the master chanel plugins.
hope this helps...if there is a better way please correct me.

[d-program]

dup post..oops