#Mastering with waveburner pro
#Mastering with waveburner mac

I´ve found Wavelab enomously frustrating, chrashing all the time and an user combating design that just makes life very very hard.

#Mastering with waveburner mac

I am on MAC and have tried to use Steinbergs Wavelab for some years, after using Apples Waveburner that was OK but has been phased out by apple and is no longer available if you don´t have an old copy on your machine. a CD and master my music, I run into problems. When a want to make a conventional album of songs, i.e. But otherwise, I want to hear all the songs in context and apply mastering as part of the organic whole that will become a CD.I´ve had this problem for eternities and would really like to get some wise advise. But even for the basic tasks that I use WB for, I'll save often to get around WB's crash-happy behavior.Īt this point you might be asking, 'why not master right in the original song?' I'll do that sometimes if the song is not part of a compilation. WB doesn't seem to like Pluggo plugs but those are disappearing soon anyway and there's a few others which seem to bother it. I also don't like using Waveburner for mastering because it tends to crash sometimes. Other people prefer to create one long mixdown, in Logic, of all the mastered songs, including gaps, which they then import to Waveburner to put the markers on the songs. That's my basic method which I've evolved over time.

#Mastering with waveburner pro

And to be honest, I do it this way because I'm NOT a mastering engineer so I need that flexibility! It's always better to get a pro ME to do the job when the budget allows for it. This may sound complicated but it's pretty easy in practice and gives you a lot of flexibility. Again, in this environment, I might think that one song could be better mastered and I can now go back to the Mastering session, change the mastering settings and bounce this one song to one of the same name so that when I open the Waveburner session the file updates itself. Later on, I'll use Waveburner to order the songs, put gaps between them and trim anything that needs trimming. That way, when I reopen the mastering session, the wave form updates itself automatically. If I need to go back and adjust the mix of the song, I'll re-open the multitrack session and make my changes to the mix and then choose the same name for this mixdown as the mix I'm replacing. In the mastering session I'm bouncing to 16 bit versions. That way, if you want to move between plugs of the same type you can link the plug so that, for instance, a compressor will always be up but changing it's settings according to which track you choose. Unlike some, I don't put the mastering plugs on the output, instead I'll make a stack of mastering plugs on each track, always in the same order (with a couple of spaces left if I want to insert something extra later). You can easily get rid of the extra bit later in WaveBurner.

If you bounce a song with its start crowded right up to the first sound you run the risk later of some clicks appearing at the top of your file when you do further processing to it. And I make sure to leave extra space at the end AND the beginning. In that context it's easy to click on each song to find out how the relative levels are sounding. Then I import all of those mixdowns into a new Logic session where I apply mastering. I bounce 24 bit files in Logic with about 5 db of headroom and no plugs on the output.