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Anyone have an idea what benefit Fab Dupont has by using the Dangerous Master in his mix rig on his 2-bus?

I heard it in this Sweetwater video on Dangerous Music products.

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Boswell Mon, 06/07/2010 - 08:26

The principal feature of the box is sum and difference (MS) processing for your 2-bus mix. This allows you to add a process such as EQ, compression or de-essing to the side channels without affecting the mid channel, or vice versa. The box then re-codes the returned M and S channels into L and R. Quite boring really, except that the Dangerous web site talks about an S&M matrix, which sounds a bit more interesting.

audiokid Mon, 06/07/2010 - 09:52

I wonder if Fab is using the D Master for inserts ( which would be redundant in my case because I have the MixDream which has inserts built in). What do you think Bos? I'm going to contact Bob at Dangerous I think.

I see using the D Master for mastering via my second mastering rig but it seems redundant for anything else if you already have an analog summing amp, yes?

Boswell Mon, 06/07/2010 - 10:10

No, not necessarily, unless your summing amp already has M-S processing. Some mix engineers like to play with the stereo image width at the 2-bus stage (e.g. bring low frequencies into the centre), and a box that has a pair of encoder-decoders gives an easy way of doing that. The Dangerous Master has a number of other frills (sorry, features) that are more relevant to a mastering process.

PS thanks for fixing the ampersand problem.

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