Mastering Plugins I Like

FYI, you may want to check out my recent post titled Top 10 Audio Plugins for Podcast Production where I discuss my favorite plugins for various types of processing.

For my mastering step I like using:

Aquamarine 4 dual-stage compressor from Acustica — every episode. Unbelievably good quality.

Ozone 9 from iZotope — a suite of mastering plugins that includes MANY different processors. See the full list here.

Sometimes I use:

Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain from Waves — includes compressor/limiter, EQ, Tome module, Filter module, Stereo/Duo/MS processing modes, and more.

Various Fabfilter plugins — usually Saturn 2 for saturation and/or the Pro-MB multiband compressor to control the overall dynamics a bit more.

*Don’t forget, you can use ANY plugin in your mastering step, as long as it sounds good!

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