mixing and mastering

[thug lord]

can anyone tell me what programs r better then protools when it comes to mixing and mastering.

[LfO]

Its really a matter of personal preference - man people think pro tools IS the best. I prefer Cakewalk's Sonar. All you're going to get is a bunch of different opinions, though - whatever you're most comfortable with is what's best for you.

The only thing that MAY help you determine what you'll be most comfortable with is what people making your genre of music prefer. Two reasons for this:

- Using what your peers use gives you access to more people who can help you out.
- Some progarms are slightly better for making certain genres than others. Fruity Loops, for example, isn't much use to classical composers, but a lot of hip-hop producers like it.

[ds21]

Originally Posted by thug lord

can anyone tell me what programs r better then protools when it comes to mixing and mastering.

Sonic Solutions, Sadie, Pryamix, Samplitude and Sequoia.

[Jonny Mumra]

You cant go past Sonar 5 64 bit mix engine at the moment it just sounds so sweet.

[Atterion]

I'm a Steinberg guy. Cubase SX (And every once in awhile I'll use an old copy of Logic, but usually only when I'm digging up an old unfinished song from my archives, and I usually bring it into Cubase for finishing touches). I master in Wavelab.

[Raw-Tracks]

ProTools is not a mastering application. You can't sequence a CD and place track markers within ProTools. That is not what it was designed for.

I use PT-LE to record, edit, and mix. I use Samplitude to master. I think Samplitude is absolutely the shit for mastering.

[Robert D]

Originally Posted by Raw-Tracks

ProTools is not a mastering application. You can't sequence a CD and place track markers within ProTools. That is not what it was designed for.

I think Samplitude is absolutely the shit for mastering.

I couldn't agree more.

-RD

[LRosario]

Spectra Foo is a start

[VesuviusJay]

I too have to go with steinberg. Although my picks are Nuendo and Wavelab.

[masteringhouse]

Originally Posted by Raw-Tracks

ProTools is not a mastering application. You can't sequence a CD and place track markers within ProTools. That is not what it was designed for.

I use PT-LE to record, edit, and mix. I use Samplitude to master. I think Samplitude is absolutely the shit for mastering.

Pro Tools takes care of the processing part of mastering, there are several other vendors that sell products for CD creation that would be used along with PT.

Personally I like being able to mix and match various applications for mastering. Some are better at one thing than the other.

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Originally Posted by masteringhouse

Personally I like being able to mix and match various applications for mastering. Some are better at one thing than the other.

Right on! For me its Vegas or Nuendo for A/V (I love Vegas and am just a newb on Nuendo so far, but catching up.), Cubase/Nuendo or Adobe Audition for multimixing (I like the "feel" of Audition, believe it or not), but my mastering is all Sonic Foundry; Sound Forge, CD Architect and DVD Architect.

Even I think I might be crazy when I say this, but... I'll swear under oath that I can hear a difference between brands of editors. I'm not talking about differences in pan volumes on multitracks or plugin sounds or anything like that. I'm saying that if I import a standard WAV into Sonic Foundry, Cakewalk, Adobe, and Steinberg and play back the identical file with no processing, there is a difference in the quality of the audible reproduction. I'll be dipped if that makes a whole lot of sense to me, and the difference is not always huge, but it's there.

For me the most reliable in that regard are Sonic Foundry (now Sony) and Steinberg, with Adobe in close third behind by a nose and Cakewalk pulling up the rear by a furlong. The differences probably are academic if one stays within the same brand, but if one likes picking the "right tool for the right job", this can get to be difficult. Which is why I am sticking with Sound Forge and Steinberg, am phasing out Adobe (when I'm fully up to speed in Nuendo) and dropped Cakewalk from my chain a while ago.

G.

[masteringhouse]

Originally Posted by SouthSIDE Glen

For me the most reliable in that regard are Sonic Foundry (now Sony) and Steinberg, with Adobe in close third behind by a nose and Cakewalk pulling up the rear by a furlong. The differences probably are academic if one stays within the same brand, but if one likes picking the "right tool for the right job", this can get to be difficult. Which is why I am sticking with Sound Forge and Steinberg, am phasing out Adobe (when I'm fully up to speed in Nuendo) and dropped Cakewalk from my chain a while ago.

G.

Cakewalk best for MIDI editing though of the list above? If that's even an issue.

[VesuviusJay]

I do notice nuendo is a bit weak on the midi side...

[noisewreck]

^ that's because it's not a MIDI sequencer like Cubase. It's a post production tool.

[VesuviusJay]

Nuendo is a killer audio VST though! (y)

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Originally Posted by masteringhouse

Cakewalk best for MIDI editing though of the list above? If that's even an issue.

I know that historically Cakewalk has been the "conventional wisdom" go-to brand for MIDI work.

To be honest, I do so little (approaching zero, actually) MIDI work these days that I'm not really qualified to comment much on that aspect of it beyond that canned response.

G.

[xstatic]

Here is an easier (allbeit much more expensive method).....

Roomic to Distressor on nuke (or 1176 all buttons on)