The Quilcom Mistress: A mastering tool

[Spogg]

Hi to all you wonderful Flowstoners out there!

Following several weeks of reading up, listening and experimentation I’ve made the Quilcom Mistress – a tool for mastering (and more).

Once completed, I used it to master my old stuff from the 80’s and some other un-mastered stuff I got from Sound Cloud. It was a truly fascinating learning experience, putting into practice the ideas and principles I had read about.

The brief I set myself was to create a tool which carried all the essential stuff but was hopefully easy to understand and use and still produce a good sound at the end.

I’m biased of course but I found the range of results I could get were quite appealing to these old ears. I was both surprised and pleased at the improvements to the overall sound I could achieve. Plus, it was pretty easy to make it much worse!

Now here’s the thing. I’m new to all this so I would really be so grateful if someone could try the Mistress out for mastering, properly, and report back anything that’s in need of attention. Maybe I left something useful out, something doesn’t sound right or I could improve it in some way generally.

If I hear nothing back (which I do understand is most likely) I shall assume that it’s at least ok and then I plan to create single tools, based on the modules in the Mistress, and other stuff I’m thinking about such as mid/side processors and so on.

Rather than provide all the info here, this time I’ve made a small user guide, included in the zip.

Note that this should only be properly assessed as a VST plugin since the graphics and control responses are not very smooth in the Flowstone edit environment, although the audio side is fine. The VST is on http://www.flowstoners.com under Quilcom.

See also viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4246
This project follows on from that topic about mastering tools etc.

I do hope to get some feedback so I can learn a bit more…

Cheers

Spogg

[DigiTonix]

Wow! I like mastering tools... Spogg, must i create GUI for this plugin?

[Spogg]

Wow! I like mastering tools... Spogg, must i create GUI for this plugin?

That would be very nice! But only if you think it's worth the effort of course.

I'm thinking of making more mixing/audio processing stuff so if you do create a GUI I could maybe re-use some of the elements (?)

Many thanks for this offer

Cheers

Spogg

[DigiTonix]

Great!, I think it's worth, I just recently made the reduction of the track on guitar, and the plugin showed their good side!, and it turned out to be very simple and easy... I won't from you've nothing to hide, you will be able to place buttons and things, and to finish it later... now come up with the concept of interface and how to do it, will send it to you!

[Spogg]

Great!, I think it's worth, I just recently made the reduction of the track on guitar, and the plugin showed their good side!, and it turned out to be very simple and easy... I won't from you've nothing to hide, you will be able to place buttons and things, and to finish it later... now come up with the concept of interface and how to do it, will send it to you!

Looking forward to seeing the result!

Cheers

Spogg

[DigiTonix]

Mistress Background... ( For demo)

[Spogg]

Nice!!
Love the logo too.

Cheers

Spogg

[DigiTonix]

I now make buttons with faders... as finish it I'll send too

[DigiTonix]

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[Spogg]

I like it!

Cheers

Spogg