BBP or Live for Mastering and Pre MP3 Mastering Applications

Hi Leif,

I apologize if this has been covered but I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for.

I’m a music producer and very much interested in Breakaway’s use in mastering and pre MP3 mastering applications.

I understand the concept you explained behind 15us pre-emphasis for an MP3 streaming application, but I’m interested in using that same idea to treat a WAV file prior to 192 MP3 conversion. If I’m thinking correctly, since the app does not have an offline processing feature, I would need to capture the pre/de-emphasized audio as it plays through the pipeline in real time. Once that WAV is captured then I could encode/compress the WAV and reap the added benefit of lessening HF distortion.

However, I don’t see a way to by-pass the pre/de-emphasis piece in BBP which I believe I’d want to do for creating a non-MP3 master (i.e. WAV). Does Live include the pre/de-emphasis while allowing you to bypass it also?

As a side note I’m also interested in your products as a mastering processor to use on final mixes. Your advanced clipping algo and multiple stages of multiband compression seem like they would be a natural fit for this application. Just for experimentation I ran an unfinished song mix through BBP on various presets and was very excited with the immediate results without too much tweaking.