I think that's it: I found it highly ineffective on rock and pop (my main mastering concern), and very effective for dance, DnB, etc. (Don't worry, I won't call it "techno"tahome wrote:Agreed on the size of the Dynasone controls (same goes for Voxciter which I also use often for voiceovers), it's hard to adjust them properly. But I really like the sound of this thing and does a wonderful job on balancing the overall mix if you don't push it too hard. I wouldn't prepare a vinyl master without it - it holds some of the secrets for cutting it REALLY loud.
I do drum&bass and dance music and for that kind of music it is simply the best tool out there. I'm not sure how well it performs with acoustical recordings like guitar and piano but I'm not mastering this kind of music very often (we really don't use that many guitars in Germany and Switzerland, most people are more dance oriented here, ie. what the Americans would call "techno" even if techno is something different in Europe).
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). I actually liked it best as a track insert; you can get really powerful compression (that Subsynth is shit on mixes, but boy, can you do some awesome things with basslines!), and it uses virtually no CPU!
So there you go: it's probably a rock vs dance thing.