Using Concrete Limiter on the master bus
I recently picked up Concrete Limiter and using it in Sonar X3 Studio. It's a great module for the ProChannel, and I like to use it on my master bus as the final piece of the chain. I'm one of those producers that, if I'm doing one song at a time, I prefer to do my mastering in the same session as the tracking/mixing. So, my master bus usually looks like: ProChannel in pre-fx mode with EQ, and Bus Compressor. Then in the FX bin, sometimes I add the Sonitus Multiband Compressor and sometimes a stereo widener.
Before I got Concrete Limiter, I put Boost 11 in the FX bin as the last plug-in to set the final volume and limiting.
Now that I'm using Concrete Limiter, because it only works in the PC, it ends up going before the fx-bin, which doesn't make any sense. The chain ends up being PC EQ --> PC Compressor --> Concrete Limiter --> Multiband --> Widener
So now I'm creating a "Sub-Master" bus with all the processing except limiting. Then it goes to a "Master" bus that only has the Concrete Limiter on it.
I wish Concrete Limiter could also be used an FX-bin plug-in. Then I wouldn't have to create an extra bus.
Anyone else encountered this issue and have a better solution?
Thanks!
Neel
Neel
Songwriter/Producer
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