The result is more natural as no single process is working too hard trying to bring the level up. Long story short, I had a touch of hardware limiting, followed by some clipping and two stages of limiting, each shaving a little off a time. I was quite shocked when I first heard it. I wanted it to be comparable in loudness to the original so it didn’t stick out in the release, and I had to go harder than I normally would as the reference track was LOUD. Post by RROY » Mon 11:13 pm I have ran the jbridge scan and it sees FGX vst and passes it, but it will not come up in the plug-in list. There are some activities, like unblocking toilets or telling the children the cat has died, that everyone has to do, even though noone much likes doing them. It was being re-released with additional remixes of the song. The idea that loud digital masters can retain real dynamics seems like a contradiction in terms, but it's exactly what Slate Digital are claiming for their new mastering plugin. For example, one of my mastering sessions last week was to master a remix for a client that was featuring on an already released EP. FG-X is appearing in my plugins when I check the enclosing folder, but won’t appear in Logic, even when rescanning. I got the Slate All-Access pass a few days ago, and haven’t had any trouble activating licenses or installing anything until now. Personally, I’m not a fan of ridiculously loud masters, but sometimes you have to do it. Slate Digital FG-X not appearing in plugin list. It’s also not uncommon to add clipping into the chain in conjunction with multiple limiters to get it really loud.
We sometimes need to do this in order to reach what I would refer to as ‘silly loud masters’. Like others have mentioned, it’s quite common.