Interesting Article about ITB mastering -ACID Product Family

Subject:Interesting Article about ITB mastering Posted by: billybk Date:8/5/2006 4:25:04 AM I've been reading this month's August issue, of the UAWebzine and there is an interesting article about ITB mastering with UAD-1 plugins. What is interesting, is not so much the use of the UAD-1 plugins (which as an avid UAD-1 user I am always interested in ;) ), but the actual approach to the mastering process. The article is about the rather unorthodox technique that Marcus Wuest (recording, mixing and mastering engineer from Mannheim, Germany) uses to master a stereo track, by copying the stereo track to (3) separate tracks and applying different processing to two of them and mixing them in, underneath the main unprocessed track. All three tracks are then routed to the master bus. Sorta like, parallel stem mastering. He ends up exclusively using (7) UAD-1 plugins, in total. Interesting that he uses the often overlooked 1176SE (in "All-Button mode", no doubt), on one of the two processed tracks and a Cambridge EQ/Fairchild 670 combo, on the other. He then mixes all three tracks thrugh a Pultec EQ, Precision Mastering Multi-Band, Mastering EQ, & Mastering Limiter plugin chain, on the master bus.He works in Logic 7, but it is something that could easily be replicated, in any multi-tracking DAW, like ACID Pro 6, as well. Pretty interesting stuff and the final audio mix does sound fantastic, at least good enough to debut @ number 2, on one of Germany's most popular radio stations. I like that earthy, organic unplugged vibe with the vocals upfront. I am certainly gonna give it a try. Make sure to read through the article first, as it clues you in to what is going on in the video, as it pans from plugin to plugin. You can find the article and the tutorial video here, just press the Plug-In Power button, to the left of the webpage: http://www.uaudio.com/webzine/2006/august/index3.html http://www.uaudio.com/webzine/2006/august/graphics/07_pluginpower/Logic-small.jpg Anyway, I thought this DAW inspired mastering process would be of interest to ACID users, as well, Billy Buck Message last edited on8/5/2006 8:40:28 AM bybillybk.
Subject:RE: Interesting Article about ITB mastering Reply by: J Psycle Date:8/10/2006 9:23:21 AM Wow, that was actually extremely interesting! That's a trick I'm going to definitlely experiment with.

I've been reading this month's August issue, of the UAWebzine and there is an interesting article about ITB mastering with UAD-1 plugins. What is interesting, is not so much the use of the UAD-1 plugins (which as an avid UAD-1 user I am always interested in ;) ), but the actual approach to the mastering process.

The article is about the rather unorthodox technique that Marcus Wuest (recording, mixing and mastering engineer from Mannheim, Germany) uses to master a stereo track, by copying the stereo track to (3) separate tracks and applying different processing to two of them and mixing them in, underneath the main unprocessed track. All three tracks are then routed to the master bus. Sorta like, parallel stem mastering. He ends up exclusively using (7) UAD-1 plugins, in total. Interesting that he uses the often overlooked 1176SE (in "All-Button mode", no doubt), on one of the two processed tracks and a Cambridge EQ/Fairchild 670 combo, on the other. He then mixes all three tracks thrugh a Pultec EQ, Precision Mastering Multi-Band, Mastering EQ, & Mastering Limiter plugin chain, on the master bus.He works in Logic 7, but it is something that could easily be replicated, in any multi-tracking DAW, like ACID Pro 6, as well.

Pretty interesting stuff and the final audio mix does sound fantastic, at least good enough to debut @ number 2, on one of Germany's most popular radio stations. I like that earthy, organic unplugged vibe with the vocals upfront. I am certainly gonna give it a try. Make sure to read through the article first, as it clues you in to what is going on in the video, as it pans from plugin to plugin. You can find the article and the tutorial video here, just press the Plug-In Power button, to the left of the webpage:

http://www.uaudio.com/webzine/2006/august/index3.html

http://www.uaudio.com/webzine/2006/august/graphics/07_pluginpower/Logic-small.jpg

Anyway, I thought this DAW inspired mastering process would be of interest to ACID users, as well,

Billy Buck