It was invented so you could catch the occassional loose low-end peak without having to compress the whole spectrum but these days it's all about getting all the bands maximized at digital fullscale. And the way they typically to use it is very subtle. It's always a compromise.Ī lot of pro's won't touch it unless they have to as well. If they did, they'd just go back and compress the bass more if it needed more compression maybe give it a buss with the bass drum. The MAIN reason mastering engineers use it is because they don't have control over individual tracks in your mix. If you can get it really right in the mix, you should be able to do without multiband processing. It used to be more important when you only had 2 or 3 h/w compressors to use but now you can compress and treat every track as much as you want and you can run busses/groups/subgroups/etc. But, all these years on, it's the unmastererd stuff you ACTUALLY want to listen to.īasically, if you can get it right in the mix, there is no need to use multiband compression/limiting at all. And you compare one vs another at the time, and the multiband compressed stuff sounds wider, louder, flatter, more consistent, more pro really. I used to co-manage a label years back, and I've still got loads of pre-masters, as well as mastered CD's. It's been a life saver on loads of troubled mastering projects as well.Multiband compression and limiting can make a huge difference, but they fuck with your sound in other ways which are less appreciable at first. But, when I need it or want it, I haven't used anything else I like as much or get the same results with. When I don't need to address different freq ranges differently (or as drastically), then I go to the standard L1, 2, or 3. BUT, have your priority settings off, and you're gonna butcher things quick. I can get really crazy with it, push into it harder than any other limiters I have, and yet stay more dynamic. it's such a powerful plug when you know how to use it as intended. if you don't understand how to properly operate that (in combination with the rest of it) then you're better off using something else cause you can quickly do more harm than good. PRIORITY is very very important, and I think that's what a lot of people miss, or misunderstand. It's great to really get meticulously dialed in to your source. Not a hard plugin to learn, and once you understand it (easy), it's amazing.
(I AM NOT POINTING FINGERS AT ANYONE HERE OR ADDRESSING ANYONE POSTING!!!) I think people that have issues with it often don't fully grasp how it's designed.
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