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Hi all Zs! During last Christmas sales @ CW, I bought the BX mastering thingie. I'm just starting to work with it, but I'm having a bit of trouble using it for mastering my tracks. I doon't have any previous experience in M-S mastering, so I'd like to ask you z people something: when I solo either the Mono or the Stereo signal, the music sounds horrible! It's like another song altogether. Is this normal, or is it that my mixes aren't very well balanced? Like I said, this is my first venture into M/S mastering, and I have no idea what I'm doing... [edit: I might not have explained myself well: when I listen to the Mono AND Stereo signals, the music sounds OK, it's just very weird to listen to them separately]

Does anybody know where I can read a bit about this, learn a bit more?

And another thing: Wavelab 6 has an option to use external gear in the mastering section, merely defining which ports are outs and which are ins (doesn't have to be Stereo either, could be a 7.1 surround or whatever your sound card allows). It's really easy to include SFP plugs into the mastering chain, and it will render the file, although in real-time (no surprises there). I think this is really good, only problem is you can have only one instance of this "external Gear" plug in the mastering chain, but since we can route all processors inside SFP, it's not that big of a problem!

Many thanks and much peace,

Tau

have you read the manual? the bx manual covers most of your questions and is a really good starting point. have a look at

http://www.brainworx-music.de/bxdigi.php?page=manual

cheers
Roman

Hello Roman!

Thanx for answering me...

I thought I had posted a reply here a few days ago, but maybe it was in the wrong thread?? Or I forgot to click "submit"? Don't know, but I just noticed it wasn't on... Sorry about that...

I am getting a little bit better at working with the BX, just found it really strange at first (but they do warn against that in the manual). I wanted to make clear that I actually find this plug-in very interesting and extremely powerful, and also show my appreciation to you and brainworx...

But immediate it isn't... you just have to earn your stripes in it, don't you?

All the best,

T

Hey Tau,

I couldn't remember how i worked before i bought the bx_digital, it's a
must have mastering tool, and not only on scope plattform. it works great
and can really clean up and brighten, yes even tighten, your mix.

Of course you need to know what's m/s and how to use an eq. but once
you got that, it's not that complicated. the best way for me to get good
results is as described in the manual, soloing the m channel, do the eq
correction, then soloing the s section, do the equing, increase/decrease
the s level for a wider image, then do some deessing if needed and last but
not least, try to load the spl attacker in the m and s section inserts and
increase attack on m section only to get a great punch of the bassdrum
and snare (you need to load it in each section because of phase delay)...

enjoy
Roman

Thank you katano for this indications.
- got the bx too since christmas - and try to understand by using it , step by step