I AM guilty of not completely understanding your original post since over time I've found myself typing line after line in response to a one or two sentence question only to discover I over estimated the complexity of the posters point. Rednroll is MUCH more insightful and intuitive than I am. Not trying to knock the first reponses post, but if you're just using a volume maximizer for mastering and increasing levels, you're not even in the same league as multiband compression. I don't know what the price is, since I own one already.īTW, I understood you're original post. TC works has made a software plugin version of the finalizer, but you have to buy an additional hardware card. I haven't used the SF multiband dynamics though to give good advice on this, my finalizer still kicks it's ass. You could probably use the new plugin chainer in SF 6.0 and get some pretty good results using that and an EQ. I heard you can use the SF dynamics compressor as you mentioned.

I was thinking of digging into my finalizer crossover points and copying these to the DB multiband compressor to see if I can get similar results. The Db multiband compressor works pretty well, you can adjust the crossover frequencies, but my finalizer still sounds a lot better and is my multi-band compressor of choice. My computer monitors are Alesis Point Sevins with an Alesis RA 150.Īctually I have both a TC Finalizer and the DB-audioware multiband compressor. probably will stick with Audio 2 because I have no need for the video stuff.

I take the wave files to the pc from a zip 250, and use Vegas Audio 2 and Sound Forge 5. If it helps, I am recording on a Fostex D160v2 out of an Alesis Studio 32. Overall, it gives a hearty boost across the wave without lots of the unwanted stuff from a single band compressor. The compressors are set to 12 db with gain compensation.

The bass and midrange are set with a 20ms release and the highs have a 300ms release. The tri-band can change the sound in a major way, so it takes a while to tweak the settings.įrom the db-audioware compressor, the crossover is set at 200 and 4K I can shelf the top and bottom, but don't know how to set the midrange to cover the entire area between 200 and 4k. With the tri-band (the technique has been in use decades in the Orban Opti-Mod FM) you can get much more loudness without the unwanted death of all dynamics. The problem with using Wave Hammer is that any aggressive settings cause very audible pumping and quickly zaps any life out of the music. I have tried to purchase the db-audioware plugin, but their website is in Germany and my credit card apparently isn't working there. It's the same effect used in TC's Finalizer and the Behringer Ultramizer. Thus, you don't get the bass pumping effect from a hot high-hat. It compresses bass, midrange, and highs separately. What I am trying to do is something similar to db-audioware's multiband compressor, or a finalizer.

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