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Originally posted by Diki:
Well, here at the studio, we run our mastering chain Apogee PSX100>Manley Massive Passive ME>Manley Slam!ME>Waves L2 hardware.

If mastering in software, I am am a big fan of most of the UAD-1 Mastering Plug-ins, and a variety of other stuff, Waves, Sony, etc..



Nice Mastering setup Diki. EveAnna Manley is a friend, she's a great person, and she makes some phenomenal tube gear. I really love the Massive Passive and Slam. I'm more a fan of great hardware rather than software mastering but the UAD and Waves are nice.

I always try to final mix as close as possible to what I envisioned so as to not need much tweaking when I master. When people bring me projects to master that's an entirely different story and I've heard some horribly mixed songs that I suggest the client remix before mastering. When a song is too far gone I'd rather send the client elsewhere as I don't want to put my name on a project I know can't sound good no matter how much you tweak it. You'd be amazed how many poorly tracked projects I've heard from supposed top notch engineers. I think most people also believe that if they do a poor mix they can fix it in mastering and that just isn't the case.