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What are some of your favourite plugins to put on the Master Bus? Share below

[yovotheband]

Yes, totally agree. All the same, thank the heavens for good mastering engineers!! Me, I refuse to put anything on my master bus other than a spectrum analyzer.

[ANSWERTHECALLOFJESUSCHRIST]

Good stuff! After years of learning so much from this channel (and other sources), I always use the master bus for the final sweetening of things.

It's reserved for a 30 Hz low cut EQ, a gluing compressor like a Pulsar Smasher or elysia alpha, followed by a spicy plugin like Slate Revival or Fresh Air.

Sometimes I switch the order of things if they give me what I want, because being rigid hindered me for years. I now break old-school audio rules that formed me in my newbie years and am happier that way.

After that, I'll maybe use an instance of Steinberg Magneto, which I LOVE. I bought an unopened Cubase 4 on eBay just for it. If not, I'll use Black Box Analog Design HG-2 or Softube Saturation Knob to chunk things up a bit.

It's just seasoning plugins that button up and give that nice sparkle to the final result.

[jkf]

In my amateur home studio, I'll use an Analog Obsession BUSTERse (SSL master bus compressor clone) or stock Reaper compressor, and often a Waves Kramer Tape. That's about it.

I'll occasionally cheat and use a stock Reaper parametric EQ to bump the kick drum fundamental just a hair. When I'm mixing, the relationship between the bass and kick can be really dynamic and I don't want to mess with it after a while if it's sounding good, so I don't think it's a horrible idea to go in at the mix bus level and see if I can get away with an extra 1/2 db or something at the kick fundamental.

And when I'm mixing stuff that's supposed to be retro or garage rock, I'll occasionally set a high pass filter as low as it'll go without making a bump.

[ansmfella]

💯 This should be common sense, sadly seen too many projects using drastic master bus EQ-ing and unnecessary compression.

[DThompson]

A little comp'er 1-2db reduction. Some EQ on the side/diff, .A Pultec clone (Kiive). A stock limiter. If I get any fancier I often make a mess of it.

[paulmix]

I can't even imagine who would solve recording or mixing problems in master bus.

[christianschroer]

if the bass is too low then I am trying to fix that in the mix. Then I can boost a little bit the fundamentals on the master bus plugin right ?

[totallykoolyeah]

...Just put reverb on everything haha.

[tom_k_d]

Logic Studio VCA (Focusrite RED compressor emulation) or Logic Vintage VCA (SSL bus compressor emulation), nothing much on top...