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Hi
I'm thinking about buying a new mastering set of plug-ins
called Nomad essential studio suite, has anyone heard of it ?
and if so, is it any good ?
Thanks
John
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Hi John ,i'm Nomad Factory happy customer,i use on all my productions a Nomad saturation plug in called Magnetic.
But for mastering i believe that in bundle with Sonar there are LP64 EQ and LP64 Multiband that are more specific to work in mastering session.Essential bundle is for tracking and mixing session.
You need a very good limiter and i advise you Voxengo Elephant.
It's very transparent limiter and is racomended by mastering guru Bob Kats in his book "Mastering Audio".
Good luck for the choice.
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I don´t think it´s that essential, quite average.
Have you tried iZotope Ozone for mastering?
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I have the Nomad British Bundle and like the EQ a lot. For mastering I don't think Essential is what you need though but really recommend IK Multimedia's T-Racks 3 Deluxe, it sounds really amazing, also IK have a great group buy going on at the moment celebrating their 15 yrs in the bussiness.
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The Nomad stuff is quite good. I have thier older stuff, which was hit and miss as far as "the word" on the street goes, but I like it for certain things. Their newer plugs - the Brit stuff, magnetic and mastering plugs have solid reviews and should work well.
I haven't used the SONAR LP mastering plugs. I got Voxengo's stuff before then and use it. Alexsey wrties good code and has a deal where the more plugs you buy the more you save. And they are inexpensive for the quality to begin with. Elephant Limiter and the Curve EQ are great for mastering. I use my TC hardware and external comp/limiters now, but almost always add a touch from those two, also, somewhere in the process.
As far as the others mentioned - I haven't used them but I'm sure they, too, are solid tools, tho I've heard some godawful results on people's songs when they are misused. Not a fair comparision - since it ain't the tools fault.
So most "mastering" packages are going to be useable, if not downright good. Like interfaces, there isn't going to be a lot of difference between stuff in the same price range. I'd go w/ Voxengo, but just because I've used it for years.
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I agree the voxengo stuff is amazing. I also use ozone sometimes with good results
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I have both the T-Racks 3 Deluxe and Ozone 4. They are very different from one another but work superb at mastering.
The recent addition of the White and Black singles for T-Racks 3 are superb emulations of their hardware counterparts.
T-Racks is probably a little easier to use as it uses the software looks like the hardware type interface whereas Ozone's interface is unique and can be a little difficult to navigate. Especially when you're trying to learn how to Master as well as how to use the software. The 2 are connected but if you already have familiarity with hardware tools then go for T-Racks.
iZotope have written a tremendous mastering guide which I recommend. It's free to anyone and is one of the best mastering guides around. And its not Ozone specific.
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I'm thinking about buying a new mastering set of plug-ins
I'd highly recommend checking out the T-Racks 3 Deluxe package. Very high quality... Lots of excellent EQ and Dynamics processing options (including one of the best Peak-Limiters available, a nice Pultec EQ, etc). My personal favorite "Mastering" type plugins... (very useful for mixing too)
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Hi I'm thinking about buying a new mastering set of plug-ins called Nomad essential studio suite, has anyone heard of it ? and if so, is it any good ? Thanks John
Because you are asking this question, I'm assuming you haven't gotten too deep into the topic of mastering yet. If that's the case, then iZoptope Ozone would be a good choice for you. There are plenty of excellent products out there, some even arguably better than Ozone - but Ozone is the only one I know of that will consistently yield good results even if you don't quite know what you're doing. And a big +1 to the Ozone Mastering Guide, which, BTW, has great value whether you are an Ozone user or not. (I just wish they'd update it for Ozone 4, something they promised well over a year ago but never followed up on.)
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There are plenty of excellent products out there, some even arguably better than Ozone - but Ozone is the only one I know of that will consistently yield good results even if you don't quite know what you're doing.
Another Ozone user here! You do have to take a bit of care with it, the widening module can produce some odd effects if you just plough in there - I remember reviewing a track on another forum and questioned the track's uncomfortable bias to the left speaker, it turned out that the guy had just started using Ozone and had got a bit slider happy! Once corrected it sounded as good as you would expect from Ozone  . Grum.
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Hi I'm thinking about buying a new mastering set of plug-ins called Nomad essential studio suite, has anyone heard of it ? and if so, is it any good ? Thanks John
Because you are asking this question, I'm assuming you haven't gotten too deep into the topic of mastering yet.
If that's the case, then iZoptope Ozone would be a good choice for you. There are plenty of excellent products out there, some even arguably better than Ozone - but Ozone is the only one I know of that will consistently yield good results even if you don't quite know what you're doing.
And a big +1 to the Ozone Mastering Guide, which, BTW, has great value whether you are an Ozone user or not. (I just wish they'd update it for Ozone 4, something they promised well over a year ago but never followed up on.)
And a big +1 to the Ozone Mastering Guide, which, BTW, has great value whether you are an Ozone user or not. (I just wish they'd update it for Ozone 4, something they promised well over a year ago but never followed up on.) Do they have a guide for alloy?
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Apparently not. I have a feeling that the person who wrote those great guides has moved on to another company or another job, because none of them have been updated since 2004.
I spoke to an iZotope rep in January 2009 and asked if the guides would be updated. He said that yes, they were in the process of being updated (Ozone 4 had just been announced). But it never happened. All the images are still of Ozone 3. Nor have there been similar documents for subsequent products such as Alloy and Nectar.
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Just for the sake of balance, I'll have to vote for the T-Racks singles.
I love the sound of these plugs and you can of course use them on individual tracks/busses should the need arise.
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Just started using Ozone 4 on a project about a month ago. It is amazing. It has a small learning curve only because it looks different but all of the parameters are there for the user to take as much control as you want. For the beginner there are many presets. There's a help file in the program that is very useful. The program has improved my final product hugely. The songs on my site below were not mastered in Ozone and it shows. Actually they have more problems than lack of Ozone! new project promises to be better with addition of Ozone and Alloy.
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+1 on Ozone. www.groove3.com has an EXCELLANT tutorial video on version 4.0. Just recently upgraded to version 4. Still getting used to the idea of separate mid/side settings. It sounds great though!
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Yup, the M/S EQ feature is pretty cool. Try doing a gentle rise on the high end to the Side component with a complementary rolloff on the Mid. With the right combination of instruments, this has the effect of pushing the sparkle out toward the edges and making the mix sound wider. This is because we tend to get our spatial cues from high frequencies.
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