IMO, dump the T-Racks. With Cubase and the UAD plugs, you should be able to get fairly good results.

Technique, on the other hand... You may have several years of practical experience and experimentation ahead before you start getting satisfied with your own work. Get started.

And I know it's overdone, but Katz's "Mastering Audio" book should be on your list. It doesn't really get into mastering technique, but it certainly covers the science behind the art. Valuable information to ANY audio engineer.

Yep

thanks again massive

that book is on my list for sure.

TRACKS came out of my overzealous pursuit of music forums, it was recommended byt a bunch of people as "beginner" mastering software

Ok when you say "Years" is there anyway youd could have meant months??

HAHAHA

JK I know I am swamped right now

thanks for taking a stab at this post

By the way is PEAK 4 something iw ould use for mastering? it also came out of a "YOU NEED THIS" MAC music forum

thanks and thanks

I'm not a Peak user, but I understand it's quite decent.

Don't feel bad about the T-Racks - You might actually still use it as a warm-up. You can try a few things with it as a "quickie" and then try to do it more "for real" in Cubase. You never know.

Ok

Will try it in some mixes to get underway

thanks again for the help on all these posts

Actually Peak 4.1 is quite nice. Besides being able to use almost ANY plug-ins (our Waves Diamond TDM bundles also install VST and AU) it can now BURN your CD master directly, and track placement/editing feels VERY MUCH like what we were used to with Sonic Solutions Classic.

Eric,
Can you print PQ info or edit PQ code with Peak?

yeah peak is decent, stick a few very good plugs into it, learn how to use the whole lot (as john always says... practise, practise, practise...
yupp he is sooooooo... right!!) and you get a decent mastering going
a.

always remember... driving a ferrari doesn't turn you automatically into a michael schumacher. learn to drive first.

axel wrote:
always remember... driving a ferrari doesn't turn you automatically into a michael schumacher. learn to drive first.

No no, the phrase is: "Driving a ferrari doesn't turn you automatically into a Michael Fossenkemper"

he he... :lol:

I don't have a ferrari. I have a jeep. And I have a bike. Actually I learned how to ride a bike first, then I worked my way up over the years. first a tricycle, then a bike with training wheels, then one without, then a 10 speed, etc... It never occured to me to jump straight from tricycle to ferrari.

Whoo Hoo! I'm a Grand Cherokee man myself...

that's how to get to drive propperly, i still walk! :P

Michael Fossenkemper wrote: I don't have a ferrari. I have a jeep.

Yeah!! but I'll bet you drive it like a ferrari :lol:

:P that's the point!

Michael Fossenkemper wrote: I don't have a ferrari. I have a jeep. .

Me too. A red 1989 jeep wrangler. With a 150,000 miles and it runs great. It'd better,as I have no money to get another one. of course, all my cash goes into gear... 8)

Oh yeah, and I also have Peak 4.0. Like everything else in this world, you have to put in your time to get it to do what you need to do with it... Wish there was a magic bullet out there- tell me if you find it! :D

Well I don't drive it like a ferrari, I drive it like a jeep. If I drove it like a ferrari, i'd be dead. which is partly my point. Formula one drivers don't start out in formula one's. they start out in go carts. If you don't know how to corner a fast moving car, a ferrari is a death trap. concentrate on cornering a go cart first.

has been all mentioned, several times :wink:
yes and once again yes.