Wavosaur

silvercn · Joined: 16 Dec 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Midland, Texas

Hi- do any of you who do your own mastering for personal CDs - do you use Wavosaur for this purpose - i.e: import a stereo wav file that was created on your DAW, and then "polish" it up with Wavosaur ? If so, what work-flow, effects chain are you tending to use. Any info on this topic would be appreciated, realizing that there are probably many personalized ways of doing this.

Thanks!
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Charles S.

R.A.W. · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 72 Location: hamburg | de

i use my daw (ableton live Cool

for mastering.. for the simple reason that i do mid-side mastering where i route the stereo source in two tracks, one with the mid, the other with the side signal. after using almost the same effects with different settings on both signals, i route them to another stereo track where i do the finalisation.

my chain is eq (cutting lows on side signal), multi-band compressor, if necessary de-esser, tube (for warmth, only on mid).
on the final stereo track i got a mastering limiter.
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