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Hi

Just a quick question?

What are your thoughts on the idea of adding stereoimage widening and a master bus compression to a final mix before sending it to mastering?

i find that these 2 area drastically change my mix therefore feel i should add them.

any thoughts?

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anonymous Mon, 03/24/2008 - 13:28

Not sure about the stereo image widening, but I would say that's a definite no on the master bus compression. They will do that in mastering, and if you send it to a good place, they'll do it with better equipment in a way that works best with the final mastering steps they take.

So why do something possibly wrong when you know they will do it right?

therecordingart Tue, 03/25/2008 - 07:12

rdetoledo wrote: Hi

Just a quick question?

What are your thoughts on the idea of adding stereoimage widening and a master bus compression to a final mix before sending it to mastering?

i find that these 2 area drastically change my mix therefore feel i should add them.

any thoughts?

Master bus compression is ok as long as you aren't smashing it to hell. Knocking off a couple db isn't a big deal. The stereo image widener I would do without. If you feel the stereo image is too narrow just communicate that to the ME and they should be able to handle it for you.

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