But yeah, although with MUCH care, you can get a halfway decent sound out of T-Racks, there isn't a preset I could think of that would "get you close" on really anything. Getting your settings down and saving your preset is another thing. But the tweaking that program takes... There just isn't really a good starting point - Each track needs its own unique approach.
But yeah, although with MUCH care, you can get a halfway decent sound out of T-Racks, there isn't a preset I could think of that would "get you close" on really anything.
Gentlemaster preset 1. Its mild and actually works on most material with distorted guitars. But thats the only preset. If you purchased T-Racks then you can download other user presets from the T-Racks homepage. Its a nice learning tool for those curious at heart. But, presets by their very nature were made for something specific and will not work for 99.98% of what you really want to accomplish. Most modern day recording software have all the plugs you could possible need for "processing" the 2 bus mixdowns. T-racks is a dynamics processor, it won't do PQ edits or assembly for that matter. Mix each song right. Im curious to what program you use for burning cd's?
The tone of tubeness can also be obtained with plugs that are better than T-Racks, namely PSP and Sonalksis.
T-Racks is just an EQ, a Compressor, and a Limiter. If you know how these things work and how to use them, you can use T-Racks effectively in a mix and on a stereo mixdown. But if you know how to use these things properly, you'd be better off using a better EQ, a better Compressor, and a better Limiter to do the exact same thing with better results. You can try plugs from PSP and Sonalksis, or get the UAD-1 card.
The T-Racks plugins sound pretty good. I like the compressor.
I def. use PSP Mixpressor,saturator, and vintage warmer more but I like diferent types of comp and eqs in my mix. I also like t-racks plugins because they use very little CPU!