Anyone use soundforge for mastering?

[coolsoundman]

I'm using Sonar to do my recording's and mixes, but I've heard people use Soundforge for their mastering. On the mixes, how do you raise the volume for master mixes without clipping? I have a similiar post in another topic area with the same question.

[warble2]

Compression.
Limiting.


Try Wave Hammer in Sound Forge - not too bad, but I don't know that I'd use it on serious projects.

[coolsoundman]

Anyone know what the equivalant of the stereo imaging that is in the Ozone 3 plugin? I've been trying to look for that in the soundforge, but I couldn't find it.

[dafduc]

Channel conversion.

Acoustic Mirror also has a stereo imaging control.

[TaylorEGO]

I've used sound forge for mastering, using wave hammer lightly to get the levels up a bit, then playing with the timeworks mastering EQ / Compressor to fatten it up. works pretty well. I reccomend saving all your settings on wave hammer or any plugins, and doing 4 or 5 different "masters" then listen to them to see what "worked" and what didn't.

[mrface2112]

yeah, i use soundforge for that. i've used version 4.5 for so long that going to version 8 was a big change for me (and the plugin chainer especially).

but it's nice being able to use things like the Waves L2 and whatnot in SF8 (it wouldn't work in SF4.5).


cheers,
wade