Ableton Mastering Chain Download

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We are pleased to present our “Mixing and Mastering Tools” – free Ableton Live racks that simplify common tasks such as equalization, low-end control, stereo imaging, etc. You may find some of them in our Ableton templates. Actually we were planning to sell them, but decided to offer them for free because we think you’re awesome!

Jan 14, 2020 How to Master a Song/Track in Logic, Ableton, FL Studio or Reaper. The best audio Mastering chain plugins for your Daw. Get free Mastering Tips, to get a better sound for your music productions for streaming, CD or Vinyl. Learn more about Music Mastering and the best Mastering Effect VST Plugins. Organize and setup your Mastering chain for your. Check out our free mastering racks for Ableton Live 9 and use them as a good starting point to make your tracks loud and shiny! Inside this pack you will find 3 racks: Basic Mastering Rack – perfect starting point for the mastering process. EDM Mastering Rack – designed to make your mixes loud and explosive.

Using only Ableton’s built in plugins and effects we’ve designed a set of useful racks for mixing and mastering purposes. Each rack comes with useful macro controls for key parameters, but you can always dig deeper and open them up to customize everything to fit your needs perfectly.

In this pack you will find 8 expertly crafted free Ableton Live racks that will save your time and bring your tracks to the next level!

Maximizer – compressor and limiter designed specifically for EDM mastering.

Bass Body Booster – perfect tool for adding weight and body to bass instruments.

Body Booster – same as Bass Body Booster, but for leads and synths.

High Booster – use High Booster to make your synths, leads and tops sound sharp and crisp.

Imager – a multiband stereo widening and narrowing rack that allows you control stereo width of each band.

Easy EQ – simple but smart mastering EQ tuned to three main frequency regions, and due to specific setting allows you quickly fix problematic frequencies in your mixes.

Low-end Control – perfect tool to control low-end of your mixes or bass instruments (you may need speakers with a good bass response to hear the effect).

Exciter – this rack is a must if you want to enhance low, mid or high frequencies of any individual instrument or an entire mix.

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Installation:

Simply drag and drop each *.adg file into MIDI/Audio track in Ableton or copy them to:

MAC OS X:

{user name}/Library/Application Support/Ableton/Library/Presets/Audio Effects/Audio Effect Rack

WINDOWS:

C:Users{user name}DocumentsAbletonUser LibraryPresetsAudio EffectsAudio Effect Rack

In this article we’re going through the mastering chains of pro producers like Deadmau5 and Laidback Luke. We will also show you our PML Mastering Chain, made with Ableton stock plugins. These racks come in handy when polishing up your tracks - that’s why we have included them as a free download. Enjoy!

Deadmau5's Mastering Chain

1) LinEQ (Waves)

Low Cut: roll-off below 32HZ (depends a bit on input track)

Removing low frequencies we can hardly hear on most playback systems and gaining headroom for our other elements.

2) MStereoExpander

Widening the stereo spectrum of the track, achieving a richer stereo image.

34% Depth (in this case)

3) Xfer Records OTT

Multiband Compressor, Compressing our different frequency bands (low, mids, highs) with different intensities, depending on what the track needs

4) FabFilter Pro MB

Used by Deadmau5 as Dynamic EQ - for one band at 59.462 Hz, +3.42dB,

Usually is used as multiband compressor

5) FabFilter Pro-L

Allround Limiting (increasing general loudness of the track)

+13dB (track dependent), Attack 118 ms, Release 500 ms

6) L2 UltraMaximizer (Stereo Mode)

Additional subtle limiting (-2.1 Threshold)

(depends on the source track)

Laidback Luke's Mastering Chain

1) Ableton EQ8/FabFilter Pro-Q

Multiple instances for surgical and balance control over the frequency range. Settings vary from track to track.

2) Izotope Ozone 6 - Exciter

Slightly overdriving the higher frequencies for a 'crisp hihats' effect

Dual Triode Setting

Low Band: 0% Amount

Mid Band: 194 Hz - 3.97kHz. 0.7% Amount

High Band: 3.97kHz - 11.9kHz. 3.8 Amount

High Band 2: 11.9kHz - 20k. 6.6 Amount

3) Ableton Stock Compressor

Compressor focussed on adding a bit of punch to the track:

Threshold: -2.07dB (depends on track)

Ratio: 9.14:1

Attack: 5.47 ms

Release: 37.4 ms

Dry/Wet 100%
Makeup Gain On

RMS setting

Lookahead: 1ms

4. Ableton Stock Chorus

Stereo enhancing for high frequencies. Therefore its highpassed:

Hipass setting at 1.93kHz

Amount 5.22 ms

Rate 1.67 Hz

Fix Mode

32% Feedback

Dry/Wet 15%

5. T-RackS Spectrum Analyzer

Ableton Mastering Tips

Analyses adjustments made before applying the limiter.

6. FabFilter Pro-L

Brickwall limiting at the end

PML „Ableton Only” Mastering Chain

When “mastering” on this basic level, we are trying to accomplish 3 things:

- balance the mix

- clean up resonance

- add loudness (punch) to the track

EQ8

Lowcut - This EQ is operating in mid side mode. We are cutting out frequencies below 100hz on the side and freqs below 35 hz in the mids. That way we have a clean low cut and our bass is operating in mono

Glue compressor

We are catching some of the peaks over the entire frequency range

EQ8

We are flattening out some unwanted resonances

Multiband Dynamics

We are balancing the low, mid and highs with 3-band multiband compression

Compressor Punch

We are adding punch to the mix, emphasizing the dynamics

Compressor Sustain

We are flattening out the mix a little bit (in order to be able to make the sum louder in the end)

EQ8

Final touches, we are pulling up the bass a bit and adding a little bit of brilliance in the top end

Limiter

We are increasing the loudness of the sum of our track. Note: don’t push it too far, Ableton’s limiter starts distorting the sound quite quickly.

Of course, this chain has its limitations - but we found it a good way to start with a basic master for your Ableton productions. Make sure you adjust the loudness of your mix before entering the chain. If the mix plays at low volumes, add a utility in front of the chain an turn up the level to get the chain compressors working - if its getting too heavy - turn it down a tad.

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