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Steinberg recently came out with the VST3 standard (and SDK I believe). It is absolutely worth taking a look at. Right now, my mastering process is: 1. Export mix from Live. 2. Open wav in Sound Forge, use Izotope and Wave plugin for processing. 3. Open wav in Har-bal, add Air and EQ 4. Open wav in ...

If all or some of Har-bal's functions could be used like a VST, that would be a Godsend. I could use low-shelving to fatten/tighten up the bass, high-shelving for the high end. It would definitely be awesome.

I like IntuitQ. I take a mix, pop it into Har-bal and apply IntuitQ to one of 3 areas ( low end, midrange or highend) that I think the track might need some work on. I'll look at what IntuitQ did and then play around with sections of it (lower/raise/remove) to see what can be done to make the track ...

I second this request. I envision a Har-Bal mastering suite where we can load main tracks like suggested above and then compare/tweak them against each other. Sometimes I find I want to modify just one instrument within a freq range without having to go back to the original mix, fixing it, and re-ex...