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What u use for mixing/mastering in Mulab?
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megalodonnl
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:20 am reply with quote
What do you (experienced users) use for mixing/mastering in Mulab?

The demos on the Mulab page are, supposedly, 100% created in Mulab. Does this mean no 3rd party mixing/mastering plugins where used either?

What do ppl use and in what order exactly to come up with that final product?

Is there also some good (free) spectrum analyzer/graphic equalizer with which you can see whether all frequencies are properly balanced so you can see what needs to be adjusted in order to have rich, evenly, spread frequencies?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:14 pm reply with quote
If you don't care about 64bit here is a great deal:
http://www.store.cakewalk.com/b2cus/ProductInfo.aspx?product id=36-CWSF3.31-10E

$19.99 from $279.01 Shocked

Super quality.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:27 pm reply with quote
I really like this. I just bought it and I'm amazed at what it does on the master bus...

6144 eq

http://www.ddmf.eu/product.php?id=2&gclid=CIyh4IzH-bECFQs5nA odelcAag
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 2:09 pm reply with quote
DHR53 wrote:
I really like this. I just bought it and I'm amazed at what it does on the master bus...

6144 eq

http://www.ddmf.eu/product.php?id=2&gclid=CIyh4IzH-bECFQs5nA odelcAag
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If I may add for MuLab(which I think it has everything you need AND of high quality out of he box), the following little gems:
http://www.toneboosters.com/trackessentials/
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Trancit
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 3:26 pm reply with quote
megalodonnl wrote:
What do you (experienced users) use for mixing/mastering in Mulab?

The demos on the Mulab page are, supposedly, 100% created in Mulab. Does this mean no 3rd party mixing/mastering plugins where used either?

What do ppl use and in what order exactly to come up with that final product?

Is there also some good (free) spectrum analyzer/graphic equalizer with which you can see whether all frequencies are properly balanced so you can see what needs to be adjusted in order to have rich, evenly, spread frequencies?


First of all:

Please do yourself a favour and say goodbye to the wish of "seeing frequencies balanced"...
Sound is really nothing to see...
You can use a spectrum analyzer to identify problematic frequencies more easily, but you'll never see a balanced or not balanced result...

A very good free spectrum analyzer is SPAN: http://www.voxengo.com/product/span/
With SPAN you can even compare 2 different signals in one instance

A very very good free effect suite are the free ones from Cockos : http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/reaplugs20-install.exe

Great, flexible and free... really no need to buy any additional stuff

A very very good and free brickwall limiter is W1 from George Yohng... this is easily on pair with the famous L1 from Waves (which it emulates...):
http://www.yohng.com/software/w1limit.html

It doesn't come with it's own GUI, but don't get fooled by that...

With these plugins, your are really good to go, but...if you haven't already...like with all tools (and all expensive plugins)... you have to learn how to use them correctly, otherwise you'll get not the wanted result...

Hope this helps a bit...
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:01 pm reply with quote
OK, thanks for the replies. With balanced I didn't mean totally balanced, but I did notice that pro music often has quite a rich, widespread, spectrum.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:11 pm reply with quote
Did not know about these... Look great. DLd now.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 1:05 am reply with quote
megalodonnl wrote:
OK, thanks for the replies. With balanced I didn't mean totally balanced, but I did notice that pro music often has quite a rich, widespread, spectrum.


Yes of course, but this is not the result of certain tools... it is in first place:

1. The most important part: Choosing the right sounds!!!! It's easy to get fooled by overblown presets in nowadays... they sound very good if they are playing on their own, but for using them in a dense mix, they are too "big" on their own...
Choosing sounds, which fit well together, is 90% of the whole mixing story!!!
Choosing the right sounds, setting the volume and panning correctly is minimum 95% of the whole mixing/mastering story...
No pro tool of the world will remove errors you made with the basics before!!!

2. Knowing the tools inside out...
Most of available EQ's, Dynamics etc. are 99% equal in sound quality, no matter, what advertising and fanboys of xyz tell you...
If you know how to use your EQ, you will be able to achieve 99,9% of all available EQ's on the market...
Those "modeled famous gear" ones do nothing else but cheating a little bit by using a little bit of saturation here and there... nothing you cannot reach by using seperate saturation plugins like Mulab's internal one...

Trust me... I have tried nearly every available product... none of them do magic... it's all about knowing!!!!
Wasn't there a famous and very true sentence in the first Matrix (dunno, if it was the same in english Wink ): "Knowing... not believing!!!

The only "Pro" thingie I found sometimes on more expensive plugins:

The GUI ... some are just a little bit easier to use... but that was all and in favour for only a better GUI I don't pay a few hundred bucks...
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 1:21 am reply with quote
Excellent advice Trancit thanks Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:46 pm reply with quote
Yes thanks and you seem to be correct.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 11:25 pm reply with quote
you can download those projects and inspect the internals i believe
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 1:30 am reply with quote
> DiGiT < wrote:
you can download those projects and inspect the internals i believe


This I don't understand... can you explain this a little bit further???
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:31 pm reply with quote
you can download the projects and open them up in mulab and inspect the methods used to mix etc
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:01 pm reply with quote
for freeware spectrum analyzer and graphic equalizer look at:

http://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Bundle_FreewarePack/

all plugins available for OSX, Win32 and Win64
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:51 pm reply with quote
> DiGiT < wrote:
you can download the projects and open them up in mulab and inspect the methods used to mix etc


Of course you can with songs made in MuLab...

megalodonnl spoke about pro music... I guess he didn't mean songs, downloadable for MuLab...
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