Krenzathal:
Hi folks,
I’m mastering a song for a friend but he’s insisting I do it on his laptop which has Cubase 5.
On my mastering chain I have some compression, EQ and limiting. Now the limiter is in slot 8, which I know is post fader, and that’s set to have a ceiling of -0.1, which works fine as there’s no fade outs or anything.
Now, I’ve been using the stock master bus EQ to shape a little, but is that particular EQ set AFTER slot 8 in the chain? I only ask because if so, then when I set a ceiling of -0.1 with the limiter on slot 8, then maybe do a 1dB boost on the EQ, that WILL in fact push the mix over 0dB as there’s nothing to stop it?
That is the most simple way to find out yourself, followed by just looking it up in the signal flow chart of the manual.