soldierone
the future is amazing...
I've heard a lot of different thoughts on using a normalizer in the mastering process... some people really like using it to get even levels on their tracks and a lot of people warn that you should stay away from it like the plague. So I'm looking for your thoughts on this particular process.
Recently I had the chance to check out Wavelab over at a friends house. He showed me some of the features of the program including the meta normalizer, which he used to make the average rms the same across the board on a handful of tracks. I liked the overall result, but was wondering where in the mastering chain you might use such a process.
In the past I've done some basic matering of my own on some of my releases, and I pretty much stuck to doing things in this order: basic editing, (including removing excess silence from the beginnings and ends of tracks,) EQing, adding reverb as needed (I would use this on certain tracks that I wanted to change the character on, but overall this would be something I usually don't mess with,) adding compression and limiting and then I would use a dither to convert my 24bit files down to 16bit.
If I were to use a normalizer in the manner that I described above, where would I use it in my existing process to get the best results from it?
Recently I had the chance to check out Wavelab over at a friends house. He showed me some of the features of the program including the meta normalizer, which he used to make the average rms the same across the board on a handful of tracks. I liked the overall result, but was wondering where in the mastering chain you might use such a process.
In the past I've done some basic matering of my own on some of my releases, and I pretty much stuck to doing things in this order: basic editing, (including removing excess silence from the beginnings and ends of tracks,) EQing, adding reverb as needed (I would use this on certain tracks that I wanted to change the character on, but overall this would be something I usually don't mess with,) adding compression and limiting and then I would use a dither to convert my 24bit files down to 16bit.
If I were to use a normalizer in the manner that I described above, where would I use it in my existing process to get the best results from it?