{"product_id":"nugen-mastercheck-upgrade-electronic-delivery","title":"Nugen Mastercheck Upgrade - Electronic Delivery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNugen MasterCheck\u003c\/strong\u003e is the complete optimization solution for today’s delivery services, a plug-in providing the tools to make sure your music reaches the listener as intended. Streaming apps, download stores and podcasts all use data compression, loudness normalization or both. These processes can affect your track in undesirable ways: your loud, punchy mix could end up quiet and flat, or suffer clipping and distortion.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMasterCheck reveals these problems ahead of time, and enables you to deliver masters perfectly tuned for specific playout systems.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMasterCheck demonstrates the effects of loudness normalization so you can find the sweet spot between perceived loudness and dynamics, and allows you to hear artifacts introduced by the encoding process ahead of time. You can quickly find the point where these processes will start to negatively impact the music, putting you back in control.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ch3 id=\"toc_0\"\u003eAUDITION CODECS\u003c\/h3\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHow do people listen to your output? You work hard to deliver masters that sound great at home, in the car or on earbuds, but that’s only half the story. How does your music sound on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, SoundCloud or YouTube?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAll major online services encode your music, using different specs and formats depending on the playback device, the connection speed, or even whether the user is a “basic” or “premium” customer. Hot mixes can introduce True Peak overs that will clip on playback. MasterCheck detects these errors, and you’ll be able to hear obvious frequency masking and other artifacts. You can monitor the following codecs, with presets for specific streaming services:\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOgg Vorbis\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFLAC\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOpus\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAAC-LC\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHE-AACv1 (AAC+)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHE-AACv2 (DAB+)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMP3\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003ch3 id=\"toc_1\"\u003eREFERENCE \u0026amp; COMPARISON\u003c\/h3\u003e  \u003cp\u003eVia the 'External ref' function, MasterCheck allows you to A\/B with reference material in order to check differences in loudness, PLR and True Peak measurements. If you wish, you can use 'Offset to match' to match the loudness for a direct comparison.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e'Offset to match' can also be used to remove loudness from an FX chain. This can be useful for evaluating the impact of signal processing, without being influenced by the 'feel good factor' of increased loudness.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ch3 id=\"toc_2\"\u003eFLEXIBLE WORKFLOW\u003c\/h3\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWith a resizable interface and many user configurable options, MasterCheck can easily be adjusted to suit any situation. Dynamic color splits for PLR can be set to indicate desirable ranges, and meter splits can be easily set to show 'safe zones' which indicate inter-sample peaks and so on.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ch3 id=\"toc_3\"\u003eFOR MASTERING\u003c\/h3\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePlayout services essentially have a ‘letter box’ through which they deliver your audio; if it doesn’t slide through then the service will force it to fit. A super-loud master might win the loudness war on CD, but will simply be turned down on any major streaming service. This leaves valuable headroom which you could have used for transient detail and punch.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIt is important to be aware of how True Peak clipping can cause downstream distortion in encoded audio. Heavy compression will result in audible 'fizzing' and loss of stereo definition, especially with lower quality codecs.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ch3 id=\"toc_4\"\u003eFOR MIXING\u003c\/h3\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe most popular streaming platforms now only differ by 3 LU between the loudest and quietest target for normalization. Clearly there is no benefit in mixing louder than the loudest platform, at which point all platforms will be turning down your audio.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMuch of this is primarily a concern for the mastering engineer, but if you over-compress a mix then the mastering engineer has nowhere to go. If you compress above a platform's target level, transients lost cannot be regained at a later stage. Try using MasterCheck to audition at the service playout level to hear your mix in context.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ch3 id=\"toc_5\"\u003eTYPICAL APPLICATIONS:\u003c\/h3\u003e  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eMeasuring integrated loudness\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMonitoring PLR and PSR to avoid over-compression\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIdentifying codec distortion, and tweaking to compensate\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA\/B referencing at matched loudness\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePreparing mix dynamics for mastering\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMastering for digital music services\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMeasuring dynamic content\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAvoiding downstream clipping\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAuditioning loudness matched FX chains\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMastering for podcasts and digital radio\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003ch3 id=\"toc_6\"\u003eSYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:\u003c\/h3\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMac\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOSX 10.9 or later\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMinimum 512 MB RAM\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWindows\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWindows 7 or later\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMinimum 512 MB RAM\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlug-in Formats\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAAX, VST3, AU and AudioSuite in 64-bit\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Nugen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44451015655527,"sku":"211655","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/8848\/5479\/files\/nugen-mastercheck-upgrade-23_211655_1_f95a044d-bb27-4afc-8b85-39887c1601c7.jpg?v=1787095503","url":"https:\/\/vintageking.com\/products\/nugen-mastercheck-upgrade-electronic-delivery","provider":"Vintage King","version":"1.0","type":"link"}