I take all my tracks to SONAR.

Once there, I use OZONE on the master and on the vocal buss.

Ozone is quite amazing. I don't like to use much compression and on occasion I will use a tape saturation (from SONAR) plug in if it works for that track (sonically speaking).

Often Ozone with my customized preset and some dark plate reverb is all I use on vocals.

Ozone is a 6 module mastering suite plug in. And depending on what I'm going for, I often have several of the modules off and use only what I think it needs.

I can't tell you that I do "this" or "that" every time, because every track in every project is unique. I rarely have the same exact settings in every song. I might start with my customized preset, but it ALWAYS gets tweeked..... ALWAYS!!!!

It's more about learning what the song or the track needs by listening to it, and then knowing what to adjust to get it there. The difference in being given a fish and learning to fish.....

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