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Ive purchased har-bal and used it quite a bit.. it is definately not in my opinion a automastering tool... that term is pretty silly really.

I am satisfied with my purchase tho.. Ive found it to be a great analysis tool, and yes is some cases make small adjustemts to a mixdown with it. more often than not, I have a mixdown that I cant get to sound right.. I let har-bal build the profile of it, then visually see the areas that are over-using, or missing energy in the "curve" then have to determine if this is bacause of the mix.. or just the instruments in the mix.. and go back and remix. When its real close, I may use the "empethatic eq" to make very minor adjustments.

The "air" is a decent stereo widner, but can be found in many other plugins, and the limiter doesnt give you enough control or visual feedback for me to us it as my mastering limiter.. I like har-bal, but use it as it was intended or you get the same kind of results you get when using the presets in ozone... or t-racks... pseudo-pre-mastering is not an automated thing... it takes fine...fine tuning. your better off doing nothing than selecting some click here to master BS idea.