DIY mastering made easy

[gingertimmins]

Hi guys,
I'm reading the article in this months mag and I'm interested in giving it a bash. I'm not in a position to buy any software at the moment and I'm wondering if ReaFir included with reaper would do the trick. It can build noise profiles and be used as a surgical eq (according to the site).
Is this a suitable tool for the job?

Cheers

[Zukan]

Hi Ginger

I have never used ReaFir so couldn't tell you buddy. Maybe one of the boys here could help out?

What is your main DAW?

[gingertimmins]

Thanks for the reply zukan!
So I had a dabble with it comparing the article as best as I could with reafir. I'm not sure if what I did was exactly what the article intended but I did end up with some very satisfactory results which improved the tonal balance of the track so happy days there!
My main daw is cubase elements 9 (having downgraded from cubase 5 as it wasn't running well since moving to windows 10 and nowadays I don't need anything more than a basic toolset) and I'm using a couple of reaplugs in cubase.

I found a free tilt eq which is something that Reafir lacked and I'm getting decent results so I think I have everything I need.

Great article by the way, makes me want to revisit the mixing to pink noise article which I believe you wrote?

Anyways, nice one!

[Zukan]

Great, glad it helped.

Doesn't Cubase Elements 9 have Curve EQ?

[Mixedup]

Great, glad it helped.

Doesn't Cubase Elements 9 have Curve EQ?

Not 100% sure but I doubt it — Elements has only 40 FX plug-ins compared with Pro's 90, and Steinberg obv pay a licensing fee to Voxengo for Curve EQ, so would make sense to make that one of the 'added value' features for the full fat version.

[Zukan]

Apparently there is a lot of confusion about whether Curve EQ is supplied with any of the Elements versions. However, there is this:

https://www.steinberg.net/fileadmin/fil ... ase_9.pdfI

[Wonks]

Something wrong with the link Zuke as I get a 404 error.

This should work. https://www.steinberg.net/fileadmin/fil ... base_9.pdf

[Rich Hanson]

According to the plugins manual for Cubase Pro 9, only Cubase Pro and Nuendo have CurveEQ

[Mixedup]

Apparently there is a lot of confusion about whether Curve EQ is supplied with any of the Elements versions. However, there is this:

https://www.steinberg.net/fileadmin/fil ... base_9.pdf

Fixed the link for you

That PDF confirms that Curve EQ is, as I suspected, bundled with the full-fat version of Cubase only. (It's $79.95 direct from Voxengo if you wish to add it to other versions.)