Wavelab Mastering Engineers?

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Putting a CD together in montage isn't hard, but there are more steps than I have time to type. The help files and the manual explain it very well. Like I said, it isn't difficult, just wordy.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
You mean I can't just go to Staples and buy an "Easy button"? :p

G.
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Sure you can! Set up a batch process with Har-Bal (if only it were a VST!) followed by a Finalizer, then a Limiter, then another Limiter just to be sure it's loud enough ;) Once complete, load all the tracks in Basic Audio CD, and burn baby burn!!!
 
Do I load all of my tracks unto audio montage? Basically have all 10 waveforms show up right? Or not?
 
yes. Then you can add processing to each individual song and/or across the entire montage. You can place start and stop markers, CD text, etc...
Really, the help files and the manual do a good job of stepping you through it.
 
He seems to have fallen asleep again.

He originally had the question 2 days ago, I can't see how this is better than opening up the help file.
 
No I'm here. I'm just trying to figure out, how to make my song hit the highest peak, just right under clipping level, so people can really turn the music up loud. The help file didn't help too much. Just taught me how to apply effects and render items, and what not. General things. Not conceptual things.
 
You want 0db?

Follow this procedure...

- Insert Leveller at the first slot, dial up to 12db (this is the maximum you can go) :D.
- Insert EQ, Reverb, Compressor - :rolleyes:
- Insert Peak Master at the end slot. Make sure it's 0db.

*Use at your own risk.... :D

It's really easy to get it loud but to make a great sound.... mmmmm... GIVE it to Mastering Engineer..

Good luck!
 
hayangome said:
No I'm here. I'm just trying to figure out, how to make my song hit the highest peak, just right under clipping level, so people can really turn the music up loud. The help file didn't help too much. Just taught me how to apply effects and render items, and what not. General things. Not conceptual things.
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Oh, so you need to know what processing you need instead of how to apply the processing. That's a different question, and has very little to do with wavelab, soundforge, or what you are using.

You need a good EQ plugin, a good compressor plugin, and a limiter plugin.

there are 4 easy steps

1. Listen to the music
2. Visualize what you want it to sound like
3. Figure out the difference between what you have and what you want
4. Use the plugins to change what you have into what you want

It's really that easy.

Without knowing what you have or what you want, no one can give you any settings.
 
I knew this was an "easy button" question. The title of this thread implies that Wavelab is a "mastering machine" where one can dump their mix in the software's hopper at the top, twirl a couple of dials, click on the "Master" button, and have the song extrude out of the bottom sounding nicely mastered.

Hayangome, listen to your mixdown and hear what it needs. Mastering is a process, not a button setting or a piece of software. Try this basic process for starters:

- If it needs heavy EQ or multi-band compression to fix problems in it's sound, then - if you can - go back and fix what you can in the individual tracks or subgroup stems, you'll get better results that way. if you can't go back to the mix tracks, then try what you can with those tools on the mixdown.

- once you have the mixdown as "correct" as you can EQ-wise, you can optionally try some moderate compression to tighten it up if it is a rock, hip hop or a pop mix. If it is folk, jazz or classical, you might want to go easy on the mixdown compression.

- After compression, you can try a little finishing EQ to smooth any bumps in the sounds that the compression may have exposed.

- Then, when you have the EQ and compression set fairly nicely, use peak normalization to being the overall volume up to the peak level you desire.

The above is the poor man's EZ mastering, of course. A really fine mastering job is not so simple. But this sould get you started.

OTOH, if any of the terms I used in this EZ mastering description leave you lost or falling asleep, then you might want to drink a pot of strong coffee, prop your eyelids open with toothpicks and sit down with a book on introductory audio engineering ;).

G.
 
Yepp... hayangome, a fine mastering job is not easy. G was right.
 
mixaholic said:
what is better wavelab 5 or mastering plugins from waves?
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Is this a joke?
Wavelab is a 2 track editor. You would need something like wavelab to use the plugins with.
 
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