Nugen Audio MasterCheck 2 + ISL 2ST (Digital product)

MasterCheck 2

Overview

MasterCheck is a powerful optimization plug-in designed for cross-platform mastering, ensuring your audio maintains consistency across physical, digital, and streaming platforms. Experience how loudness normalization impacts your tracks and anticipate the effects of various codecs, all while adhering to industry-standard loudness and True Peak measurements.

Reference and Compare

How does your music resonate with listeners? While you may already optimize masters for home audio systems, car stereos, and headphones, it’s essential to also tailor your sound for each streaming platform. MasterCheck allows you to audition and prepare for data compression and loudness normalization across popular platforms such as:

• Spotify
• Apple Music
• Tidal
• YouTube
• Soundcloud
• Bandcamp
• Qobuz
• Pandora

Utilize the Codec mode and Offset to match function for optimal results.

Mixing and Mastering

While loudness and cross-platform optimization are typically the domain of mastering engineers, it’s crucial for mixers, artists, and producers to consider these factors as well. A mix that is overly compressed leaves little room for adjustment. MasterCheck provides valuable insights into Integrated loudness, PLR, PSR, and True Peak even during the mixing phase. It also serves as an excellent demonstration tool for clients who may still believe that “louder is better.”

Supporting up to 7.1.4 channels, MasterCheck accommodates Dolby Atmos beds and other immersive audio formats. Its resizable portrait and landscape views ensure it fits seamlessly into any workflow.

ISL 2 ST

Overview

ISL is a transparent look-ahead limiter that allows you to focus on your creative audio production while it manages True Peak compliance effortlessly.

Powerful Processing

Utilizing standardized True Peak algorithms from ITU-R B.S. 1770, ISL is ideal for audio control in post-production, music mastering, and broadcast applications. It ensures that downstream codecs, such as mp3 and AAC, do not introduce distortion into your signal.

Unlike traditional limiters, ISL features a TPlim control that automatically adjusts transfer curve parameters for minimal interference, providing effective brick-wall protection. Its auto-release function monitors incoming audio for low-frequency content, dynamically adapting to prevent distortion and deliver transparent audio even in challenging situations.

Innovative Visualizations

ISL includes unique steering and ducking meters that guide you to optimal settings. Whether you aim to preserve directional integrity or atmospheric ambience, ISL equips you with the necessary information and control to achieve your goals effortlessly. New processing enhancements evaluate incoming audio for frequency content, making automatic adjustments to maintain transparency while ensuring intuitive operation.

For Music Production

Let ISL handle your mastering needs for today’s music delivery services, including Apple Music, Spotify, and Tidal. It eliminates the risk of distortion from downstream codec conversion, ensuring your audio is delivered as intended without inter-sample clip reconstruction errors.

For Post and Broadcast

World-class, broadcast-quality limiting is essential for any production, and ISL meets the latest standards for True Peak compliance. With ITU-R B.S. 1170-4 compliance and a dedicated brick-wall TPlim setting, you can produce with confidence, allowing ISL to manage compliance transparently.

Loudness Toolkit is recognized in Netflix’s Production Technology Alliance, a program that evaluates products for their adherence to technical and workflow standards in production and post-production.

Features

• MasterCheck 2
• ISL 2 ST