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Old 03-14-2014, 11:04 AM   #20
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you say you are mastering at the moment. is the initial peak already in the mixes and you are trying to remove it, or is it only a side effect of your plugins?

many mastering engineers reverse the order of the comp/limiters. instead of the common low ratio to high ratio, it can be set up with a brickwall limiter first to catch and deal with peaks to stop them affecting the following dynamics tools which step down to lower ratios to smooth out long term dynamics. (you could put another brickwall limiter at the end for safety) lots of dynamics processors doing a little bit, often sounds better than 1 or 2 doing a lot of work

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