By pspsounds
Mon Sep 26, 2022 11:00 am
I use the Mother Ducker to control mainly kick and bass. Would be cool if there was multi-band compression for mastering in standalone. Anybody got ideas for a workaround?
pspsounds wrote:I use the Mother Ducker to control mainly kick and bass. Would be cool if there was multi-band compression for mastering in standalone. Anybody got ideas for a workaround?
Telefunky wrote:It definitely will NOT work as a multiband mastering compressor
Such devices are designed to keep all bands in sync and to avoid side effects at the crossover frequencies.
While a multiband compressor will (in most cases) be able to squeeze a few dB more loudness out of any mix, it will also alter the (track) tonal balance of the pre master.
(or rather it will remove that balance because it performs across track boundary)
Imho that trade off isn‘t a good one... but of course your workflow (or taste) may be different.
I never use these things (I have several) and get along with something like FabFilter Pro L2.
Telefunky wrote:FabFilter Pro-L2 isn‘t a maximizer, but a „levelizer“.
It (only) smoothes out peaks (beyond a chosen threshold) with extremely low THD figures even when pushed really hard.
The mix is kept as before, but the perceived impact increases... according to the degree dialed in. It‘s much simpler than a compressor. Works great on track level, too, with moderate settings.
btw I wrote Pro-L2 because it‘s the most known plugin for that kind of processing. Afaik the 1st one was SAW Studio‘s Levelizer (that‘s what I use), then Anwida L1V and Pro-L1 (significant distortion), Pro-L2 is flawless now, but it took them a couple of years.
Today there are probably more, usually attributed as „smart limiters“.
Straker wrote:... The point anyway is that they are not a replace of a standard multiband compressor, they work in a different way.
It would be better to use a Multiband comp to tame peaks smoothly and also give a nice movement to the sound and then apply a limiter/leveller/maximizer to finalize the levels.