Reason 3 as mastering tool?

[David]

I've got a very small budget for my next purchase/upgrade and I'm trying to balance function and fun. The function I'm most lacking is a mastering maximizer something like waves L2/Isotope, but I don't need this often. I have Reason 2.5 and am wondering if it makes any sense to occasionally dump a stereo track into one of its samplers for the purpose of running it thru the new mastering FX in version 3, as opposed to just biting the bullet and buying a dedicated/boring maximizer? Back in Reason 2, I once tried to mix in a guitar-recording track with a Reason drum track in this way, and it was ridiculous how much better the guitar sounded when I simply rendered the Reason drums as an audio file and mixed it with the guitar track in Cubase... Still true?
Thanks! (on a Mac, btw...)

[neverwhere2012]

you'd probably be better off spending your money on something like izotope's ozone for mastering.

[billpayer]

I started to use Reason about 18 months ago and have done some good stuff with it, but recently a mate of mine has been moaning about the Audio engine, he uses Reason 2.5 on its own whereas I have always rewired the channels. But for the last few remixes ive done i have listened to the A-B of a sample in the Rex player and in Cubase itself and i must admit it sounds s**t in reason and i have now been using it less and less.
So in short i think i'd be tempted in buying a seperate mastering solution rather than getting the new Reason 3.
Ozone maybe?

[David]

Thought so, too bad...thanks, guys!