Really whatever the song calls for, but on quite a few songs/projects I find myself mainly automating bands on an itb eq where the outboard eq almost always remains static. ...although I did a project yesterday where I adjusted the outboard eq for different sections as well.Was just wondering if those 2 are friends? do you guys use lots of automation in mastering?
Yikes That'd be a lot of bumps' (well, dips' :>)I think it was Dave Pensado that recently posted a video of how he automates overall volume during mastering to keep the dynamic feel to a song.
Ex: drop the volume by 0.5dB on the 2 and 4 beats to make it seems like 1 and 3 are hitting harder even after limiting. ..
Haha, that's why he uses the "square wave" pencil tool in Pro Tools. Click at the start, drag to the end, and move the tool up or down to decide how many dBs of difference between dips and peaks!
Not sure if any other DAWs have that capability, but it's a treat to have in PT...