Wavelab

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Trumpspade

I'M BLESSED.......
Do anyone here use wavelab? I have version 4 and I never really used it much because I never attempted to Master. Of course, you know I worked on a successful project this week and I had to use wavelab to polish it up a bit. I went into it blind because I can't find the manual, so I used effects like a limiter, EQ, De-esser, Compression, etc......(But sparingly) I got positive results, it soften the songs up alot and gave it a good puch too! Now I want to dig into this program but I need direction. Do any users know of any good resources, sites, or anything else that will be beneficial? And if you do use WaveLab how do you think it match up against other editting/Mastering programs?

(See what One good project can do to a brother? Now I wanna dig inot everything!!!)
 
What's up Trump?

I've played with Wavelab a few times but all the plugins I use are available in Cubase or Audition so it's not really useful to me. To a mastering engineer it might be useful. From what I remember it had some pretty tight spectrum/phase analyzers though.
 
mentalattica said:
What's up Trump?

I've played with Wavelab a few times but all the plugins I use are available in Cubase or Audition so it's not really useful to me. To a mastering engineer it might be useful. From what I remember it had some pretty tight spectrum/phase analyzers though.
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Sup Baby boy?
Where ya been?

Yeah, I've learned about monitoring the RMS levels, which is key. The Imager and phasescopes are cool too! I've learned a great deal of what order your plugins are chained, what is does, and why? I'm digging it!
The main thing that I have learned about mastering is: You should have a predetermined sound that you want to obtain after mixing and prior to mastering. Select the plugins that are relevant to obtaining that sound, and then tweak your butt off! I think once you have everything level and you have enough headroom to EQ, then it turns into the trial and error phase. I think this will be a season of opportunity! :cool:
When I do major projects I will get it mastered professionally, but what I am speaking of is for the sake of demos and other low scale projects.
 
Trumpspade said:
Sup Baby boy?
Where ya been?
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Work been kickin my ass, I haven't been online much the past month. But when it slows down betta believe I'll be around and back to making music. Sound like you taking care of biz though, mastering is some hard sh*t to learn that's why I haven't fooled with it. I just slap a compressor/limiter and maybe a little eq on the mix and it's a wrap.
 
Wavelab is cool. It's not the end-all-be-all mastering tool but it is geared for 2-track processing and editing. I send most of my stuff to a mastering engineer (who uses mainly Sound Forge, strangely enough) but I have played around with mastering in Wavelab. I would say it's probably the best "mastering DAW" (not that there is really such a thing) that I've used. You could get the same functionality out of any other pro DAW but I would say Wavelab seems a bit more geared toward processing your final mix.
 
Mixxit12 said:
Wavelab is cool. It's not the end-all-be-all mastering tool but it is geared for 2-track processing and editing. I send most of my stuff to a mastering engineer (who uses mainly Sound Forge, strangely enough) but I have played around with mastering in Wavelab. I would say it's probably the best "mastering DAW" (not that there is really such a thing) that I've used. You could get the same functionality out of any other pro DAW but I would say Wavelab seems a bit more geared toward processing your final mix.
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Thanks for that!
 
I use wavelab for editing ..mostly use adobe Audition 2.0 for mixing after any editing in Wavelab
 
Wavelab allows you to work on as many tracks as you want at once via the montage feature (the best feature of wavelab imho)
 
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