Quick Audio Mastering: Waves L3 Multimaximizer / Waves Q10 plugins tutorial

WATCH IN HD FOR BEST AUDIO... Very quick example of the power of Waves Plugins L3 Mulitmaximizer and Q10 run on Sony SoundForge 8.

Finished track at http://soundcloud.com/jamesmulvale/oh-the-places-youll-go

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[EricBBarker]

I know that James was doing some things for the sake of the video, but I do feel the need to point out something for posters here: he is demonstrating two different processes (limiting and EQing out frequencies), but one should NEVER EQ after final limitting. The L3 manual (a very good read!) explains it better than I can, but Limitting should always be last. I think James knows this, he's just showing that limitting can't solve everything, and EQing should be done... just not in that order.

[JamesMulvale]

@EricBBarker You're totally right Eric, I should have EQ'd those renegade frequencies out first which would have allowed me more headroom to limit to a nicer level. I tend to EQ early on nowadays - this video is a couple years old now! Thanks for pointing it out :)

[BestAudioPlugins]

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[JamesMulvale]

@BestAudioPlugins I love slate digital mastering, I sometimes combine it with waves L3-LL adding just a couple of dB on each.

[JamesMulvale]

Watch my new video on mixing and mastering with waves!

[JamesMulvale]

@JamesMulvale ....in the Video Response section, 'Mixing music with Cubase 5 and Waves Plugins"

[JamesMulvale]

1) if you bothered to read the narrative I explain that I bring the threshold down 'too much' to show the effect of too much limiting, for demonstration purposes. 2) It was soundforge, the other compressors and limiters were already added. Don't tell me my job please, if my work is good enough for TV then it's good enough for a quick demo. I don't normally master tracks in 5 minutes, normally an hour at least. It was a flavour of what Waves can do, now off with you, troll.

[kj3phh]

I really enjoyed the song :o

[MrStevieb75]

@JamesMulvale you tell e'm, this guy is trying to give you guys a bit of knowledge, so please don't try and be smart, if somethings wrong or not quite in the right order, well, just keep it to yourself, that way you don't look lie a To44er on here !!

[EricBBarker]

@JamesMulvale I figured you knew, I was just making sure others didn't get the wrong idea. For what it's worth, it might not be a bad idea to work out the limiting first, then go back up the chain and apply the EQ, as the limiter tends to emphasize renegade frequencies. Just as long as the Limiter remains the last thing in the chain.

One thing is for sure, Limiter is ALWAYS last. The L3 manual even suggests doing sample-rate conversion before limiting, which I didn't even realize

[kokhen]

Thanks for this tutorial!