NuGen Audio Mastercheck Upgrade

Ensure your music translates perfectly across all digital delivery platforms with the NuGen Audio MasterCheck upgrade. This essential mastering plug-in provides vital tools for optimizing your audio's loudness and encoding for flawless playback on streaming services, download stores and podcasts. With MasterCheck, you'll avoid messy distortion, clipping or other undesirable artifacts caused by lossy compression codecs.

Audition Your Masters Before Delivering

As you put the final polish on your latest tracks, you can preview exactly how they'll sound encoded for specific streaming and download platforms. MasterCheck lets you audition a range of codecs like MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis and more—complete with presets for major services like Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube. You'll hear any codec distortion, frequency masking or stereo definition issues ahead of time, allowing you to tweak the master for optimal translation.

Nail the Loudness Sweet Spot

MasterCheck reveals the effects of loudness normalization so you can strike the perfect balance between perceived loudness and dynamic range. You'll be able to pinpoint the level where compression begins negatively impacting the music, giving you more control over punch and transients. With handy reference tools, you can A/B your master against commercial tracks to match their loudness and dynamic content.

Detect True Peak Clipping

Hot masters run the risk of true peak clipping during encoding, resulting in audible distortion on playback. MasterCheck's metering identifies overs that could cause downstream issues, allowing you to adjust the limiting and avoid nastiness. You can even set the interface to display safe zones for inter-sample peaks, giving you complete confidence in a clean, artifact-free master.

Flexible, Pro-Grade Workflow

MasterCheck integrates seamlessly into your mastering environment with a resizable interface, user-configurable options and your choice of VST, AU or AAX plug-in format for Mac or Windows. Customize the metering's color ranges to highlight target levels. Audition different signal chains at matched loudness to better evaluate their impact. However you work, MasterCheck provides a fully-tailored solution for delivering primed, delivery-ready masters.