Mastering in Vegas

cosmo wrote on 3/27/2003, 9:38 AM

Does anyone have any advice on master in Vegas? Particularly, mastering 5.1. When I mix 2-track stuff i get the master level up high but not too high, export it, and then us Steinberg's Wavelab to master it. A little eq sometimes, and always a Peak Master module to pump the level up good and strong with soft limiting at 0db. I'm wondering how people master 5.1?? My 5.1 levels could be hotter....

For example, I tried adding a master bus effect - track compressor, to the master bus but that didn't seem to do it. Then I tried routing tracks through different busses with the appropriate track compressor plug in applied and that didn't really work either.

Any advice?

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Geoff_Wood wrote on 3/27/2003, 10:54 PM

There is no such thing as "soft limiting at 0dB" . If you get to 0dB the limiting is as hard as it gets. I guess you meant "soft limiting approaching 0dB" ;-!

Umm, how to master 5.1 ? How about bussing the 5.1 (6 mon, or more likely 2 stereo/2 mono, depending on the nature of the piece) tracks and applying the same plugin with the same (exact) settings to each. Or is there (I guess there really *should* be) a dedicated 5.1 dynamics prcessor.

If each preset is not the same, it could all get pretty weird, but I find the whole oncept of 5.1 pretty weird anyway (being a stereo luddite) ....

geoff

cosmo wrote on 3/28/2003, 12:10 AM

yeah, *should* be. i'm new to 5.1 mixing, but not to stereo mixing. I'm really digging the 5.1 mixing, being able to position things in the room in three dimensions is a whole other world. i'll have to screw around with the compression i guess. thanks man...

Geoff_Wood wrote on 3/28/2003, 3:36 AM

"....being able to position things in the room in three dimensions...." .

The good guys can pretty much do that in stereo !!! ( I can't, well, no repeatably on purpose)

geoff

cosmo wrote on 3/28/2003, 9:35 AM

no kidding, me either! it's much easier with 5.1 control...