The Quilcom Mistress: A mastering tool
Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 5:16 pm
Hi to all you wonderful Flowstoners out there!
Following several weeks of reading up, listening and experimentation I’ve made the Quilcom Mistress – a tool for mastering (and more).
Once completed, I used it to master my old stuff from the 80’s and some other un-mastered stuff I got from Sound Cloud. It was a truly fascinating learning experience, putting into practice the ideas and principles I had read about.
The brief I set myself was to create a tool which carried all the essential stuff but was hopefully easy to understand and use and still produce a good sound at the end.
I’m biased of course but I found the range of results I could get were quite appealing to these old ears. I was both surprised and pleased at the improvements to the overall sound I could achieve. Plus, it was pretty easy to make it much worse!
Now here’s the thing. I’m new to all this so I would really be so grateful if someone could try the Mistress out for mastering, properly, and report back anything that’s in need of attention. Maybe I left something useful out, something doesn’t sound right or I could improve it in some way generally.
If I hear nothing back (which I do understand is most likely) I shall assume that it’s at least ok and then I plan to create single tools, based on the modules in the Mistress, and other stuff I’m thinking about such as mid/side processors and so on.
Rather than provide all the info here, this time I’ve made a small user guide, included in the zip.
Note that this should only be properly assessed as a VST plugin since the graphics and control responses are not very smooth in the Flowstone edit environment, although the audio side is fine. The VST is on http://www.flowstoners.com under Quilcom.
See also viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4246
This project follows on from that topic about mastering tools etc.
I do hope to get some feedback so I can learn a bit more…
Cheers
Spogg
Following several weeks of reading up, listening and experimentation I’ve made the Quilcom Mistress – a tool for mastering (and more).
Once completed, I used it to master my old stuff from the 80’s and some other un-mastered stuff I got from Sound Cloud. It was a truly fascinating learning experience, putting into practice the ideas and principles I had read about.
The brief I set myself was to create a tool which carried all the essential stuff but was hopefully easy to understand and use and still produce a good sound at the end.
I’m biased of course but I found the range of results I could get were quite appealing to these old ears. I was both surprised and pleased at the improvements to the overall sound I could achieve. Plus, it was pretty easy to make it much worse!
Now here’s the thing. I’m new to all this so I would really be so grateful if someone could try the Mistress out for mastering, properly, and report back anything that’s in need of attention. Maybe I left something useful out, something doesn’t sound right or I could improve it in some way generally.
If I hear nothing back (which I do understand is most likely) I shall assume that it’s at least ok and then I plan to create single tools, based on the modules in the Mistress, and other stuff I’m thinking about such as mid/side processors and so on.
Rather than provide all the info here, this time I’ve made a small user guide, included in the zip.
Note that this should only be properly assessed as a VST plugin since the graphics and control responses are not very smooth in the Flowstone edit environment, although the audio side is fine. The VST is on http://www.flowstoners.com under Quilcom.
See also viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4246
This project follows on from that topic about mastering tools etc.
I do hope to get some feedback so I can learn a bit more…
Cheers
Spogg
