1 Top Rated Mix & Master Plugins for Music Production [Updated: October 2024]

We're currently living in the age of digital audio. Mix & Master is an incredibly powerful tool that is essential to any music producer.

But there are so many different Mix & Master plugins in the music production landscape, so we decided to create the ultimate list of the top Mix & Master plugins today that will help you find the perfect fit.

NUGEN Audio Modern Mastering Bundle

Mix & Master by NUGEN Audio


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Confidence and precision

These award-winning plug-ins are designed to allow you to master effortlessly, with confidence and precision. Modern Mastering delivers groundbreaking functionality - streaming service auditioning, pristine limiting and a full suite of audio analysis tools & play-out delivery measures - all built with a level of usability not available anywhere else.

Elite mastering tools

Mix and master for today's playout technologies.

  • Audition for today's play-out services in real-time
  • Check and compare dynamics
  • Essential loudness and codec analysis
  • Produce for iTunes, Spotify etc
  • Full suite of audio analysis tools
  • Precision true-peak limiting

Included in the bundle:

MasterCheck

Mix and Master for the listener - directly to Apple, Spotify, DAB Radio and TV specifications, MasterCheck Pro will immediately reveal how your audio is going to sound to the listener, allowing you to produce with confidence and certainty.

MasterCheck is the complete solution for optimising your mixes for today’s music delivery services. Streaming apps, download stores, websites and podcasts all use data compression, loudness matching or both. These processes can affect your mixes in various undesirable ways: your loud punchy mix could end up quiet and flat, or suffer clipping or distortion. The good news is you don’t just have to mix for CD and hope for the best. MasterCheck reveals problems ahead of time, and enables you to deliver masters perfectly tuned for specific playout systems.



Features

  • Preview for digital music services
  • Balance Loudness & Dynamics
  • Audition encoding in real time
  • Master for Spotify, Apple etc
  • Match referencing mixes
  • Ensure clip-free encoding
  • PLR/PSR Metering

  • Learn more about MasterCheck.

  • World class, broadcast quality limiting is an essential requirement for any audio production, and the latest standards also demand true-peak compliance. ISL 2st delivers both, giving you superb sound with complete confidence about meeting the new standards for online delivery.

  • ISL 2st is an intelligent look-ahead brick-wall limiter that provides highly transparent True Peak limiting for all stereo & mono content.  ISL 2st is designed to allow you to get on with creative audio production while it takes care of true-peak compliance for you.  It delivers content fully compatible with loudness normalization standards used by iTunes Radio, Spotify and many others. The risk of distortion from down-stream codec conversion (mp3, AAC etc.) is eliminated with ISL 2 on the master bus. 

  • No need to second guess your sample-peak limiter time and again, or deliberately increase headroom to avoid a downstream problem. Just dial in your true-peak limit and let ISL take care of the rest.

  • Pristine Quality True-Peak Limiting

  • ISL 2st includes Apple ‘Mastered for iTunes’ true-peak detection, and many other algorithms suitable for the control of audio for Music & Post Production applications.

  • Powerful Processing and Visualisations

  • With unique Steering and Ducking meters, ISL2st guides you to the perfect settings. Whether you are preserving directional integrity or atmospheric ambience, ISL2st gives you the information and control you need to achieve your objective with ease. New processing enhancements assess the incoming audio for frequency content and automatically take care of those minor adjustments required when LF content drives the limiter, delivering increased transparency whilst maintaining our renowned reputation of intuitive operation.

  • Learn more about ISL 2st.

  • Measure, Understand, Correct. Visualizer gives you Indispensable Audio Analysis for Quality Audio Production, with a Standardised Reference Set of Professional Tools that let you Work Faster, Avoid Mistakes, Repeat Past Success and Leverage the Success of Others.

  • Powerful, flexible Audio Analysis, giving you immediate access to precisely the information you need, when you need it, through a unique, intelligent window system.

  • Single Intelligent Window System

  • Visualizer’s unique intelligent window facility lets you select multiple view combinations, automatically resizing and aligning windows to maximise legibility and cross referencing information across screens. No need to switch between plugins to get the combination of views you want. User configurable presets let you switch instantly between setups and interface sizes to build the workflow that suits you.

  • Learn more about Visualizer.

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MasterCheck

Minimum System Specification:

  • Mac OSX 10.7.x, 512 MB RAM
  • Windows XP or above, 512 MB RAM

Supported Standards

Our loudness products are compatible with all recommendations and guidance based upon the international standard ITU-R B.S. 1770, revisions 1, 2, 3 and 4 including:

  • ATSC A/85 (CALM ACT)
  • EBU R128
  • EBU R128 S1
  • ARIB TR-B32
  • OP-59
  • AGCOM 219/9/CSP
  • Portaria 354
  • DPP

Supported Audio Codecs:

  • HE-AACv1 (AAC+)
  • HE-AACv2 (DAB+)
  • Ogg Vorbis
  • AAC-LC

Available Formats:

  • Nugen support AAX, VST, VST3, and AU in both 64-bit and 32-bit versions. RTAS is also available as 32-bit only

ISL 2st

  • Nugen support AAX, VST, VST3, AU and AudioSuite in both 64-bit and 32-bit versions. RTAS is also available as 32-bit only.
  • AAX DSP Version supports sample rates up to 96Khz.
  • Mac OSX 10.6.x, 512 MB RAM
  • Windows XP or above, 512 MB RAM

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