Effects on Master Track?
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gongbass
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Effects on Master Track?
If I apply effects to a "master track", are they in fact being applied to the whole mix? I'm just not sure I'm clear on that. Does the Master Track act as a "summing device" in which anything applied to that track would be similar to a stereo effect applied to a final stereo track?
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Re: Effects on Master Track?
Indeed you're correct.
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FMiguelez
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Re: Effects on Master Track?
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You got it totally right.
And precisely because of the facts you just stated, it's VERY easy to ruin an otherwise perfect mix by unnecessarily messing with Fx in the master bus
That's where you'd put your mastering plug-ins if you want to do it yourself.
Also, that's where you would leave things alone (empty) if you want to have it professionally mastered. Generally.
You got it totally right.
And precisely because of the facts you just stated, it's VERY easy to ruin an otherwise perfect mix by unnecessarily messing with Fx in the master bus
That's where you'd put your mastering plug-ins if you want to do it yourself.
Also, that's where you would leave things alone (empty) if you want to have it professionally mastered. Generally.
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"In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth." ― Richard Feynman