IK Multimedia Lurssen Mastering Console v1.1.1 [WiN, MacOSX]

Lurssen Mastering Console is a mastering tool for either iPad/iPhone (universal app) or Mac/PC that puts a lifetime's worth of professional mastering experience at your fingertips. Created in collaboration with Mastering Engineers Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen of Multi Grammy Award winning facility Lurssen Mastering in Los Angeles, it puts you at the controls in the studio with all of the secret tools, settings and techniques that have made the Lurssen sound so sought after by the world's top-tier recording artists and producers.

It faithfully recreates Lurssen's "whole is greater than the sum of its parts" philosophy of mastering. With it, you get a top of the line mastering processor chain that has been created and tweaked by Gavin and his team to reflect the settings they use in the studio while mastering hip-hop, rock, pop and more. With Lurssen Mastering Console, you finally have a way to make professional sounding masters no matter whether you're in the studio or on the go

IK Multimedia has announced that Lurssen Mastering Console has been updated, adding a Digital Delivery Mastering option - Lurssen Mastering Console now enables you to create audio masters that conform to "Mastered for iTunes" specifications.

A sound philosophy

Lurssen Mastering Console is a totally new approach to digital audio mastering. It provides a complete emulation of the entire mastering processing chain used by world-renowned mastering engineers Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen and their team. This chain includes tube equalizers, solid state equalizers, limiters, de-essers and solid state compressors. The simulation of this chain reflects their “whole chain philosophy”.

Lurssen Mastering Console, which you can download free on audiolove.me, models and recreates the interactions between the individual processors in its chain down to the actual gear hookup schematics themselves. This approach effectively gives you access to decades worth of knowledge in the form of workflow secrets, special techniques, signal chains and technical know-how.

Hear the Lurssen Mastering Console difference

Here are just a few examples of mixes before and after being mastered with Lurssen Mastering Console. Using the "styles" presets as a starting point, the mixes were tweaked in real time using push, automation, and eq controls to capture the magic in the music. (Settings for each mastered file can be found in the audio file descriptions.)

► Master your audio everywhere.

No matter whether you use iPhone, iPad or a Mac or PC, there's a Lurssen Mastering Console for you. It is available in two different versions depending on your needs.

Features

• Created in collaboration with mastering engineers Gavin Lurssen, Reuben Cohen and the team at multi-Grammy award-winning Lurssen Mastering, Inc.
• Accurately reproduces Lurssen Mastering's unique philosophy, studio workflow and signal chain
• Mac/PC version works as a standalone application or as a plug-in for your DAW
• Separate versions available for iPhone/iPad and Mac/PC
• 40 pre-made "Styles" created by Gavin Lurssen and team that reproduce the settings and gear used to master pop, hip-hop, rock and more
• 3 easy-to-navigate displays: A Studio view with controls, a Wave waveform view and a Chain view for individual processors
• 5 band EQ with fixed frequency
• Input Drive knob
• "PUSH" Knob to subtly enhance selected song passages via uniform EQ adjustment
• Full automation of audio content adjustment
• Linkable Input Drive control for stereo balance tweaks
• Input/Process assignable VU metering
• Stereo/Mono monitoring capability
• 88.2/96kHz DSP processing
• Audio import from iPhone/iPad music library
• Resizable GUI (Mac/PC version)
• Full-featured modes available via in-app purchase: Play/Process and HD Engine (iPhone/iPad version)
• Digital Delivery Mastering (DDM) feature ensures your masters conform to Apple's "Mastered for iTunes" specifications and other digital distribution systems
• Project file compatibility between Mac/PC and iPhone/iPad

What's new in version 1.1:

- Multi-mono support (plug-in version only).
- Classical and Jazz Styles added.
- Extended De-esser threshold range.
- Improved dynamic range and signal to noise ratio.

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