Good for mastering?

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Is Cool Edit Pro (Adobe Audition) good for mastering. I do all my mixing and recording in Cakewalk Home Studio 2002 and am looking for a program that will help me remove background noise; and also make other changes to the music, like increasing sound, and making my guitars sound brighter.

Do you reccomend it?
 
why don't you do that to your tracks before you mix them down?

You can track in CEP/Audition pretty much the same way as Cakewalk....
The post tracking editing capabilities of CEP are outstanding....
I don't know about audition but, the only drawback is that you can't edir in MIDI....but you can mix MIDI tracks with your audio tracks....
if you don't use MIDI...you can use CEP/Audition exclusively....

As far as Mastering goes...well...you can get the levels of final mixes to match in CEP relatively easily....
all of the other subtlties of Mastering are beyond my knowledge at the moment.....someday maybe....
 
What Joro said...

CEP is a full featured MULTIRACK recording program with its own built-in 2 track editor.

I think (although I havent owned Cakewalk HS since v5.0) that CEP has many more features than Cakewalk as an audio only multitrack....although it does not have any MIDI sequencing.

I personally like to mix down to Sound Forge 5.

The noise reduction is easier in CEP (and included) but I think SF's is better and I think it just sounds better.

Lately, I also have been sending my mixes out of the box through my old M30 mixer and my outboard gear and then back in to the box into SF.

Not the "cleanest" path but its helping me learn my mixer and gear and also I like moving faders and knobs in real time while mixing.

That said...if you wanted to mix to CEP and "master" in it, you certainly could.
The editor is very good in it and I do use it for editing individual tracks.....which as Joro said, is where you might want to look at taking care of things like background noise and brightening up guitar tracks.

I might suggest manually silencing parts of individual tracks where (IF) there is a break in the instrumentation but you still have background noise from mics and such ....AND/OR applying GATE effects to those tracks to keep the noise PER TRACK down.

And also tackle things like brightening up the guitar from the individual track EQ.

You will have a lot more control and be more effective handling those types of issues as close to the original source as possible.

The sooner in the recording chain that you can get the noise down and the EQ "right" (as in what it needs to be to fit the mix)..the better.

-mike
 
Re: What Joro said...

formerlyfzfile said:
And also tackle things like brightening up the guitar from the individual track EQ.
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So, using the track's EQ, it would make the guitar sound "full"? if you know what i mean.
 
Re: Re: What Joro said...

techedout said:
So, using the track's EQ, it would make the guitar sound "full"? if you know what i mean.
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no...you're not going to be able to make a guitar sound that much more "full" only using EQ.
 
What else would you have to do to give it that sound?
 
every step is important...

the guitar settings, amp quality & settings, Microphone, preamp, effects, etc...

Some people like to double the guitar track and pan them opposite for a stereophonic effect.

It's not a simple question you ask...People spend a lot of time, money, and effort to get a nice fat guitar sound recorded.
 
joro said:
why don't you do that to your tracks before you mix them down?

You can track in CEP/Audition pretty much the same way as Cakewalk....
The post tracking editing capabilities of CEP are outstanding....
I don't know about audition but, the only drawback is that you can't edir in MIDI....but you can mix MIDI tracks with your audio tracks....
if you don't use MIDI...you can use CEP/Audition exclusively....

As far as Mastering goes...well...you can get the levels of final mixes to match in CEP relatively easily....
all of the other subtlties of Mastering are beyond my knowledge at the moment.....someday maybe....
Click to expand...

joro
go to effects - refresh effects list

it puts all of soundforges effects in the direct X folder.
 
CEP Very good mastering tool

I use it to remaster all the CDs I get to my archive library.
I can give powerfull, bright and clean sound to bad recorded masters.
For my use (without midifiles) it is simply the best.

www.zzlive.com
 
I have done a lot of mixing in CEP. I love it. You can do just about what ever you need to do in that program alone. The only trick is that with CEP, you need to get it right the first time. I like using the panning effect, it really brings it out. Then mixing the drums and bass (almost) mono. Then pan the vocals like the guitar. Gives it that edge. IMO
 
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