bass control for vinyl mastering with presswerk?

[calimerox]

Hi people,

I have a bass heavy soundtrack / sound design i need to prepare for Vinyl, and i d like to control / tame the bass a bit without losing too much of punch. Do you have any workflow suggestions for that? I own the presswerk and uhbik plugins (on Linux)
And i was wondering if applying a M-S Mastering compressor/Limiter would help me with the problem having a lot of stereo bass (from synths..) on my tracks. i read also about elliptical EQs but think they are non existent on linux... any help is appreciated!! Thanks

[calimerox]

side note: what i just found are these cross platform plugins:

http://www.airwindows.com/tovinyl4/

anybody used this before? looks very promising...

[sascha]

We have a dedicated M/S mode, along with a bunch of presets, I guess you're aware of that.
However, taming overly bass content on the side signal might need eq-ing of that audio channel. Presswerk currently does not do it. It lets you set the sidechain eq to the dominant frequency region, though. You may try getting the side signal tamed that way in M/S mode.
If it's more about filtering out the low-end in the side signal, you can try this:
- put PW in M/S mode
- set the edit->LINK button to its off position
- dial the channel-link knob fully left
- press edit->CH2 to make adjustments on the side-channel only
- set the mix->dry:wet knob fully to dry
- turn output on CH1 fully down for the moment, then return to CH2
- adjust its mix->HP knob and listen to the low end
- bring CH1->output back in to hear the stereo signal again, adjust CH2's mix->HP and CH2 output to taste

Of course this means that you can't use any compression on the side channel. Maybe then it's better to create an M/S setup in the DAW, do the filtering there and feed 2 instances of PW with mono + side, and mix back afterwards.