DAW's with simple mastering tools/presets

[rimisrandma]

What DAW's offer some simple mastering plug-ins for your mixed and bounced stereo tracks?

I know Logic has some presets to do some simple mastering to your final mix??

Does Reaper have something like this?? Others???

 

[rfahey86]

Almost any DAW comes with the plug-ins for simple mastering, if by simple mastering, you mean crushing the living crap out of the track and making it as loud as humanly possible. There really is no simple mastering. Either its mastered or its not. Mastering is very precise art and is its own profession set aside from mixing.

 

[rimisrandma]

Almost any DAW comes with the plug-ins for simple mastering, if by simple mastering, you mean crushing the living crap out of the track and making it as loud as humanly possible. There really is no simple mastering. Either its mastered or its not. Mastering is very precise art and is its own profession set aside from mixing.

Like Pro Tools, Ableton, and Record do not have simple mastering plug-ins to use on your final mixed track so it's not like a completely raw track you burn to CD. You don't have to use them at all, but it makes a decent "baby" mastered CD that you can listen to in your car without taking it to a mastering studio and spending a pile of money for a home studio guy.

So, Reaper has some simple mastering like Logic??

From what I saw on SONAR's site, it seems to have a fairly decent package of mastering tools.

 

[Massive Master]

I'd do whatever I can to stay away from presets. Especially presets that say "Mastering" on them. Using them to learn what the plug does is one thing (same as simple experimentation). Actually using them is another story...

 

[73mgb]

I'd do whatever I can to stay away from presets. Especially presets that say "Mastering" on them. Using them to learn what the plug does is one thing (same as simple experimentation). Actually using them is another story...

So auto tuning is out right?

 

[In Tune Audio]

Massive's comment above is bang on. Mastering is a huge beast to learn properly.

To answer your above question Sonar does have some very good plugins built in for you to learn with. There are 2 multi band compressors that will help you do what you're after. The Linear compressor and the Sonitus. The linear EQ is also designed for mastering.

However, if memory serves me the Linear plugins only come with the Producer version.

 

[rimisrandma]

I'd do whatever I can to stay away from presets. Especially presets that say "Mastering" on them. Using them to learn what the plug does is one thing (same as simple experimentation). Actually using them is another story...

Izotope Ozone seems to be a mastering program that people seem to like. I am guessing it has presets that people are applying to their final mix with some degree of success. I am also guessing that the presets are important because few know what they are doing and would spend all day screwing up what they were doing and would just say the program is basically garbage because they don't have time to sit around and figure out how to do it. That's why if a DAW includes them, I would probably have the most success starting somewhere, with some simple mastering functions in various presets, and learning to tweak from there.