Surfing around I found a thread about mastering with T-Racks. I've never heard of it:confused: I'm thinking, wow, I've got to check this out, maybe I'm missing the magic glue, fairy dust or something.
Love the pictures of all those plugins. They sure look like the real deal.
I'm posting this in the mastering forum rather than DIY Mastering because I thought it would give us something to rant about lol.
How do you fix something that goes through this. And notice they say,
If you want your mixes and mastered files to sound their best, you need the processors in T-RackS 3 Deluxe. Simple as that.
The future pro audio jobs? Web designers that team up with coders making plugins.
T-Racks
The Ultimate Mixing
and Mastering Effects Suite
What is T-RackS 3 Deluxe? In short, T-RackS 3 Deluxe is the glue that holds your recordings together and makes them sound their best. It consists of 9 processors based on vintage and modern mixing and mastering tools - 3 Compressors, 3 forms of EQ (Classic, Linear Phase and Program), two Limiters (Multiband and Brickwall), and a Clipper. It also features an extensive Metering section/ plugin that provides real-time Spectrum, Phase, Peak and Perceived Loudness data.
T-RackS 3 Deluxe - Modular High-End Mastering/Mixing Suite of Dynamics and EQ processors
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I was turned onto IK Multimedia's, T-Racks, when it first came o
I was turned onto IK Multimedia's, T-Racks, when it first came out, what was that, 13 years ago?? No it couldn't be that long? But yeah somewhere around 2000 I think? One must also realize there original release was designed to emulate tube circuitry. So, yeah, quite colored. And the Golden and purple glow of the tubes, would change with your settings and selections, which I thought was cute. And for an old analog crow, like myself, I rather enjoyed the interface. It was difficult to try and utilize it in a multi-tracks session because it was stand-alone software. I then also purchased their VST version when that was released. And that's great to use in your multi-track software.
So while this is touted as mastering software, I found it more useful as something more like a rack channel? It's obviously designed to be rather colorful as opposed to the Ozone product designed to be purer. But still for my clients who have not had the budget for professional Mastering, I've utilize this along with parallel processing and LA-3 & 1176, DBX 165 A's & Orban 418A, through the Neve, API and/or both with very pleasing results. Nobody really gives a damn about colorless sound. So all color is good if it fits.
Their new lineup looks really compelling. And it's Italian software and you know the Italians build in a lot of emotion into their musical arts. So I think they did this software quite well. It's wonderfully versatile yet still fairly simple and quite straightforward to comprehend the GUI. Because it looks like the stuff already in our racks and seems to work quite a bit like the stuff in our racks. I find their presets to be pretty darned awful however. Though they are good as jumping off points to tweak and refine for your needs as opposed to going through the whole process all by yourself. For some that's easy and straightforward, others not so much so.
Let me know how you like it Chris? We already know Tommy isn't a big fan because he has the good stuff.
Mx. Remy Ann David
As some one said earlier, that kind of tools are good for refere
As some one said earlier, that kind of tools are good for reference rough ideas for equing or compressing mixes and stuff, but not for serious tweaking. Just my two cents.
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i've used t racks 3 and ozone 4 at home in my project room. bot
i've used t racks 3 and ozone 4 at home in my project room. both decent, and i found ozone more transparent, t racks w/ a bit of character. that said, i've only used them to quickly boost rough mixes, or for clients who have no budget for professional mastering of projects from the studio. i'm just a rec/mix guy so i'd rather someone else master.
if the $200 plug-inscame w/ a super sweet room, yrs of experience, and some great speakers, well maybe i would bite the bullet.