[brandondrury]

Do you find all those fancy tools like multi-band compression, exciters, stereo imaging, etc really improve things?

I went to Nahville about a week and a half ago to attend a mastering session on my last producing gig. Eric Conn (Garth Brooks, Sebastian Bach, George Straight, and the Dixie Chicks) did his EQing with what appeared to be a fairly standard API parametric EQ and a Manley compressor.

I just wonder if some fancy plugin with quasi time alignment or whatever the hell it is, is really necessary for most mastering, especially when it is on the home recording side of things.

It just seams like these batch plugins would easily suck a person in to overusing them.

Maybe not.

Brandon