Was outboard mastering gear used within Nuendo?
Nuendo 3’s hardware inserts are a feature I can imagine being fantastic especially for mastering purposes. No outboard was used. We’ve gone through just about every outboard 6-channel signal processor, including most of the most expensive and highly thought-of units. Oasis’s chief engineer, Eddy Schreyer (who has an incredible collection of well-deserved gold and platinum records for his work with Kenye West, Christina Aguilera, Offspring, Korn, Queen, Jane’s Addiction, Akon, and many more), loves the sound of the Nuendo EQ and built-in dynamics, and that’s what he’s used on 5.1 projects for the last year or so, which really says a lot about Nuendo’s DSP. In stereo mastering, he uses Nuendo as a playback device only, playing back either analog or digitally into a vast array of hardware and software. But the delivery expectations for stereo are far different than for 5.1, so the approach has to be different. Links • Surround Associates: a team of experts specializing in all aspects of s
