Mastering Chains 2023 – Effects Forum

Just wondering what people are using for ITB mastering Chains in 2023.

I’ve had to master some tracks just after packing up my studio to be shipped, and temporarily lost access to most of my UAD plugins.

I’ve found I’ve had great success with mainly plugin alliance plug ins and some bits of Ozone that I was able to pick up on sale.

UAD Oxide, just to trim some peaky transients
Bx_digital3, pre compressor EQ
Two compression stages
SPL Iron/UAD Fairchild
Elysia Alpha
Amek 250, sontec emu for general shaping, this to me is lovely…
Bx_digital 3, more and m/s eq
Ozone, maybe some dynamic EQ, imaging, don’t love some bits
Ozone limiter, quite nice with some preclipping
Or
Brainworx true peak limiter

And I’ve also found Crave EQ V2 to be excellent.

What are other people using in 2023, and why?