What Audio Mastering Software Should I Choose? Options

[WhoForTheJoy]

Hi, just so you know, I'm definitely a newbee. I've been making some demos using Garageband 3.0, and have gotten to a good place on a couple of the songs, and I want to add warmth, fullness, sparkle and volume. I'm running OSX on an iMac. It would be ideal to get one that's user-friendly, but still with good quality.

Any reccomendations?

Thanks in advance!

[mancalledclay]

it's ridiculous to say t-racks is a bad crunching machine. sure in some bad crunchy hands..it CAN crunch...it can smoosh...it can muffle...it can do anything ...and yes> it's easy to overdo.
but it is also a great mastering unit for the money....easy to use and efficient.
you can store your own presets etc.

bias peak is good too but costly.
izotope's ozone a really good deal especially if you can get izotope's 3-piece bundle.

just for fun (and some actually good results at that ) i've used ik-samplitube2 at the back-end for mastering and well.....to be sure it will give you a bigger, warm sound.
again though...easy to overdo but really any good unit will be.
that's like saying don't get a fast car because it goes too fast.
it's all in your foot baby.
you have to really listen to your mixes and try different things.....usually a day or two after you've done your mastering and listened to some other stuff in between so as to remove yourself from it a bit.

plus...with samplitube you also get all those great effects. that would probably be my advice.
or the izotope bundle.


bad crunch...that's funny. try the level controls!

mcc>