Mastering engineer Mac Vaughn walks us through his personal mastering chain in Ableton Live. This chain of effects is applied to all of the music he masters, and is a mixture of his favorite Ableton stock Devices - as well as third-party plugins.
He covers his EQ and compression techniques, as well as multiple tricks to add color and depth to a final mix.
00:00:07 - Glue Compressor
00:03:28 - FabFilter Pro-Q 2
00:13:51 - Multiband Dynamics
00:16:18 - Sonalksis StereoTools
00:18:42 - Kramer Master Tape
00:20:35 - PuigTec MEQ-5 & EQP-1A
00:21:50 - FabFilter Pro-L
00:24:19 - Magic AB
This is a short excerpt from our free event that took place on August 27th 2015 - An Evening with Ableton featuring Mac Vaughn and Ryan Origin. Watch the full video recap here:
http://www.pyramind.com/training/blog/2015/10/12/an-evening-with-ableton-mac-vaughn-video-recap
His company Dark Star Audio has been offering mixing and mastering services for the last 7 years. For more info:
http://darkstaraudio.com/mastering/
For more info on our Electronic Music Producer program:
https://bit.ly/2FiKmO1
