PRO TOOLS DDP MASTER PRO
These include suitable metering tools and a limiter that has a ‘true peak’ option to contain inter-sample peaks: examples include the Avid Pro Limiter, Nugen Audio’s ISL (shown above) and the new Sonnox Oxford Limiter v2.
However, now that delivery formats have moved away from CD and towards loudness-normalised streaming services such as Spotify and Tidal, it is definitely worth having specialist tools available to help you manage levels appropriately. You can start off with the stock plug-ins in Pro Tools, like the EQ3 and the Maxim limiter specialist mastering plug-ins are also available, but there’s no reason not to use any plug-in if you like what it does.
The exact make-up of the plug-ins you will need for mastering is dependent on the material you are mastering and what work needs to be done to it. This month, I’m going to go into more detail about the processes involved in mastering and the tools that can help you implement them. In last month’s column ( SOS February 2018), we looked at how you can set up a Pro Tools Session so as to carry out mastering duties, and we briefly discussed the sorts of processors that are needed to master in today’s environment. We continue our exploration of the mastering possibilities in Pro Tools. A meter or limiter that can display inter-sample peaks is highly desirable, as these will not show up on a conventional peak meter but can trigger distortion in lossy codecs such as those used by streaming services.
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