Dominion tutorial? :)

[Dioxaz]

You're welcome.
Well, it may like it may not. If after isolating bass, medium and treble, transients begin to become more obvious in each instance then it's all good.
But sometimes, if the mix is really dense to begin with, there can be chances of having that no apparent transients, and expanding will give jumpy artifacts again. Sometimes, transients are there but not really in evidence (I mostly encountered that on medium parts), so moderate or more elaborated settings are needed.

[jNive]

try chaining two instances of dominion - one with the input raised +2db and attack length of 10ms and attack of +10 and a second one with attack +4, lenght 50ms. Use saturation control with the first one also. See how that goes

[soulburner]

Could you post screenshots from Ozone showing the settings you've mentioned a few posts back? I'm having a hard time understanding how to control this thing

[jNive]

Ozone 4 Preset file attached

[soulburner]

Thank you for all your help, jNive. I've made quite a few remasters now and I am very proud of most of them. Some do not seem to be affected with Dominion at all, though, even the waveform doesn't visibly change too much:P I understand not all audio can be "dominated" like, say, Disturbed, but sometimes it's just almost daunting.

You said you'll post different configurations based on different source material - I would really appreciate this, as I found myself using a single preset most of the time (two chained Dominions with the settings you posted). Does the magic pretty well, but I'm an idiot until somebody shows me at least a few examples

Also, take a look at the "Request Thread for 'Enhanced' Samples" thread, as I posted something that might be fascinating to anyone interested in improving extremely damaged audio.

[thoughtspart3]

Is anyone using Audacity? I don't have Ozone so I'm not quite sure what the equivalent settings would be for the final steps after dominion.

I am trying to fix Panic Attack by Dream Theater. It sounds much better after declipping and Dominion, but I am getting some volume spikes and some distortion on the sections with more intense orchestration. It is actually pretty amazing. I can already here some intricate drum work that I could not hear before.

[jNive]

if you are getting some distortion, it is probably advisable to reduce the input gain on dominion (-2db for example) and perhaps boost the output gain of it by 1db (or perhaps the input of the next stage, depending on what that is). The spectral density is possibly to great for the plugin at higher attack gain settings - which would be made worse quite likely by having the HF control enabled or the saturation turned towards dynamic instead of completely static - just be careful