wow, automatic mastering EQ? possible?

[ObsoleteAcc99]

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[chagzuki]

Pro fools.

I think spectral matching is a good guide for people who decide to master in accoustically less than perfect spaces. It can be used intelligently and appropriately.

Sounds like this plugin has it's own spectral images as reference for your material. Could work. Just means you don't have to capture your own.

[snooky]

looks like that spcetralizer thingy a while back..

[dharmawan]

spectral matching with a huge database to compare to. i think if you dont know what you are doing mastering wise this will be better than guessing

speaking of auto EQs i think there could be an improved version of elavayta space boy - eq insert on different channels which would automatically find masking frequencies

[kylen]

This looks interesting enough - I'm guessing (what else can I do I'm not on a Mac) but it looks like it is split into [16] 2/3 octave filters each of which must be type IIR (because of zero latency?). Then you get sub, bass, mid, high, treble type controls that make for smoother/courser adjustment - along with 4 other color knobs. And it can learn what you're listening to as well as what you like! Hmmm

Could be interesting - you've also got commercial mastering engineers plugging it - they don't say they've used it on anything though but it's implied that I should!

[Frippertronix]

One of the most expensive plugs I've ever seen.

[mandolarian]

Do they have a catchy slogan like:
"Automatic Mastering EQ: when you just can't be bothered to listen"

[robenestobenz]

Not a plugin, but a broadly similar thing for less money.

[Lunch Money]

speaking of auto EQs i think there could be an improved version of elavayta space boy - eq insert on different channels which would automatically find masking frequencies

Only problem with this is that it wouldn't take composition into account. You can already do Spectral Matching with another Elevayta product, FreEQ Boy, which is an awesome plug-in besides the spectral matching. Same price (~$15 or $20 last time I checked) as the rest of his awesome stuff, too.

Back to my point, though-- you wouldn't want this as a track-to-track comparison plug-in because it would be done in realtime or at least more or less (huge latency likely, but still essentially in 'realtime'). What happens when the source file is at a chorus or bridge and the content shifts from the rest of the song? But on YOUR destination track it's still one bar into the second verse! Or if the source track is completely silent while the destination is at a rocked-out part?

No, it has to be capturing of a spectral image, which you can already do with FreEQ Boy instead of Space Boy.

Greg

[SleepyP]

One of the most expensive plugs I've ever seen.

oh come on, man, it's PT, there's gotta be more expensive stuff than that around...

[bduffy]

This seems like rather a pro-sumer product for such a pro market and price...like, if you have PT and can afford this, you probably don't need it!

Another cheaper, similar solution: AAMS

[greendoor]

It morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

[egbert]

It morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

This is a step beyond W.C. Fields -- "Never give a sucker and even break or it will be on your neck."

You are mapping out a whole new moral philosophy. And here was me thinking Roger Douglas went too far ...

[grotman]

HarBal does this too.. bit cheaper and you don't need monkey tools

[dlt123]

Hard to believe, and we've dissected and torn apart thse types of things before (e.g. harbal etc)

http://www.duystore.com/com/magiceq.html

But this is from Duy, and i respect Duy, they make good, no, GREAT stuff.

TDM only...for now.

any pro tools users here care to comment on the demo?

Hi ttoz, do you have the link that refers to Harbal? I am interested in this plug and if there are threads that debunk this, I would really like to read them.

Does Harbal really work, or is it just another smoke and mirror thing?

Thanks,
DennisT