FL imo make some great stuff with good sounding quick results,love or hate FL,you gotta admit its bloody good sounding stuff
couple the above with a good Mid Side plug will give separation like this track,plugs with good "air" will add polish (maag)
Don't listen to a thing that guy says in his video. And for goodness sake, don't let any of the ACTUAL mastering engineers here see you're endorsing a video that is utilizing MBCs to get it louder. xD
Multi-band compression shouldn't really be used in a mastering situation unless the mix is really poor and there's a REASON to use it. It shouldn't be a go-to thing every time you're mastering. He also clearly knows nothing about signal flow, as he's telling you to raise the gain using an Equalizer AFTER your limiter, which kind of defeats the purpose of the limiter (if you're trying to raise the volume, the purple gain pot on the limiter should've been what he was using.)
Not to mention the guy is using Maximus AND Soundgoodizer, and stating that Soundgoodizer was just raising the volume. Back when I was younger and using FL Studio, I used to get really into the whole thing... The documentation for Soundgoodizer TELLS you that the presets in Maximus (which at the beginning, the individual in the video so evangelically tells you to avoid) are basically all the Soundgoodizer is using.
Soundgoodizer - Effect Plugin
If you're looking to get great Post-
hardcore tone, your answer isn't a different DAW like FL Studio or anything. The best way to get tone like that would be to find out at LEAST what amp they used (probably something like a dual/triple rec, as previously mentioned) and purchase that as well as a decent cab.
As you've stated, you can't afford that, and honestly, it's going to be hard to get tone like that with any sort of amp sim that doesn't cost a decent amount of money, such as hardware units like the POD HD ($700 new) or
an Axe-FX (upwards of $2,000 new). The best way to find the best tone you can get is stick with a good amp sim plug-in (Guitar Rig 5 is pretty good, the free Poulin ones aren't bad either) and just start tweaking. One of my buddies got a pretty decent tone out of
Guitar Rig 5. Took him around 5 hours to get there. Does it sound commercially ready like the track you mentioned? No, but it's pretty good for software like that.
Tweak tweak tweak, and then when you think you've got the best tone you can get, start over and try something different and tweak again.
and ask for more questions if needed..
it will help you get part of the way there to that bright maxed out sound
