I just find that the other tools I use for the roles it fills, namely xFer OTT, Cytomics Glue, Ozone, and Pro-L, lead me to the results I want more efficiently. Definitely a very powerful plugin and you could do all your multiband compression and mastering tasks with it if you needed to. That might just be me though.Īs for Maximus though, it's incredible that it's free with the producer edition of FL. wav and then mastering using that almost always leads to more consistent results, as the various algorithms used in Ozone and Pro-L seem to have an easier time with audio. Usually there's just a relatively soft single band of compression and very basic EQ in that preset.Īnother benefit of doing things this way I find, is that besides CPU constraints, I find that bouncing to 32bit. Sometimes I'll use a basic Neutron 2 preset if the style calls for it (usually with something sparser and more minimal I find myself doing this). Then I realized it's usually a lot easier to get a clean, more dynamic (yet still more than loud enough by today's standards) final sound if you just try and mix how you want your mastered track to sound. Mastering can involve, editing small mixing flaws, adjusting stereo width, adding noise reduction processing, equalization, compression, peak limiting and volume level control, and dithering. It has a unique and simple workflow, a fantastic step sequencer and piano.

I used to have my mastering applied early on. Mastering is an audio post-production process with many technicalities and details to consider. FL Studio is very good for mixing and mastering as well as the others, if not better.

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