Lurssen Mastering

Lurssen Mastering Console

Lurssen Mastering Control Software

Master Your Music with secret techniques, workflow and world-renowned know-how from Lurssen Mastering

Lurssen Mastering Console is an amazing new mastering tool for both iPhone, iPad or Mac/PC that puts experience into professional mastering of a lifetime at your fingertips.

Created in collaboration with Mastering Engineers Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen of multiple Grammy-winning studio Lurssen Mastering , Inc. of Los Angeles, he puts you at the controls of the studio with all the secret tools, settings and techniques that have made the Lurssen sound so sought after by top producers and record artists.

He faithfully recreates Lurssen's “whole is greater than the sum of its parts” mastering philosophy. With it, you get a world-class mastering processing chain created and tuned by Gavin and his team to replicate the settings used in the studio when mastering hip-hop, rock, pop and more. With Lurssen Mastering Console, you can finally master with professional sound whether you're in the studio or on the go.

A sound philosophy

Lurssen Mastering Console is an entirely new approach to digital audio mastering. It offers a complete emulation of the entire mastering processing chain used by world-renowned mastering engineers Gavin Lurssen, 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 your “full chain philosophy.”

Lurssen Mastering Console models and recreates the interactions between the individual processors in your chain right down to the binding schemes between the equipment itself. This approach gives you effective access to over 25 years of knowledge in the form of workflow secrets, special techniques, signal chains and technical know-how.

Hear the Lurssen Mastering Console Difference

Here are some sample 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 description.)

Master your audio everywhere

It doesn't matter if If you use iPhone, iPad, Mac or PC, we have a Lurssen Mastering Console for you. It is available in two different versions depending on your needs.

It is available as a universal app for iPhone/iPad - just what you need when mastering your material in transit on a wide variety of sound sources. This app is available for free download running in demo mode, and features two modes that release full functionality: Play/Process and HD Engine.

It is also available as software for your Mac or PC. This version can be used either as standalone or as an Audio Units, VST 2, VST 3 or AAX plug-in in your DAW of choice for amazing audio mastering in your studio or on your laptop.

When you master, you want your audio productions to sound great when played on a wide variety of different speakers and devices, from car radios to home stereos, iPods, club stereos and more.

Lurssen Mastering Console helps you consistently achieve great sonic results because it allows you to test your projects on a wide variety of sound systems thanks to its version for iPhone/iPad. Now you can take your projects with you anywhere so you can hear exactly how they behave anywhere.

A lifetime of mastering experience at your fingertips fingers

It's easy to get great results with the Lurssen Mastering Console. It comes with 40 unique mastering templates called “Styles” that customize your mastering processing chain for hip-hop, hard rock, heavy metal, country, Americana and more. These templates eliminate all the hard work of the mastering process; Gavin and his team have already set everything up for you from signal flow to individual processor settings. All you have to do is load a song, choose a template and you're ready to start mastering. Or in other words, Lurssen Mastering Console can help you achieve incredibly professional results especially when a trip to Lurssen Mastering in Los Angeles isn't on your budget.

Controls easy

Once you've selected a template, Lurssen Mastering Console presents you with three easy-to-use controls that let you adjust the master to your liking. Just like in Gavin's studio, you can adjust the Linked Input Drive, adjust 5-band EQ and also use the special “PUSH” knob. The “PUSH” button is particularly important because it allows you to subtly and evenly adjust the EQs so you can “pilot” the song's flow and highlight certain parts, adding Lurssen's special magic to your masters. you also have two VU meters, a master bypass switch (very useful to hear your work compared to the original file) and a STEREO/MONO monitoring switch. You can record your real-time settings for both buttons via the automation feature so you can really get into the bowels of your master and save your work for later.

View Waveform

Lurssen Mastering Console allows you to view audio thanks to its handy waveform display. You can tag audio loops, view and edit automations, and move freely through the chosen song.

Styles and Control

Lurssen Mastering Console was developed to sound great with no tweaking on your part. That said, you can see and change some of Gavin's processing chain settings thanks to the Chain view screen. Here you can view individual components of each Style template and make adjustments like gain reduction on specific gear. You can save your Style template changes as a preset, which can also save different EQ settings.

Mono, Stereo and Surround

The Lurssen Mastering Console plugin can be inserted into mono, stereo, multichannel tracks and buses on any compatible DAW, for maximum flexibility and usability as both a mastering and mixing tool. The mono operation not only allows you to plug in single mono tracks (such as vocals, bass, guitar, etc) in common mixing sessions, on a stereo bus for stem mixing or mastering tasks, but it can also be used in 5.1 surround projects. or even larger projects, depending on the selected DAW. Parameters, presets and Styles will remain consistent across all instances on multi-channel buses when the settings are turned on (link). This will allow for greater precision and coherence in surround operation.

Powerful processing and effortless export

As with mixing, mastering is about ensuring make your audio sound its best on as many playback devices as possible. Lurssen Mastering Console allows for an extreme degree of sonic detail thanks to its 88.2/96kHz DSP processing. Rendering final audio with Lurssen Mastering Console sounds great in any format. It allows you to export in all popular file formats, from AAC to WAV, FLAC and more.

Projects in Lurssen Mastering Console for Mac and PC are compatible with Lurssen Mastering Console for iPhone/iPad. This means that if you have both applications, you can transfer your projects and use the iPhone/iPad version to hear how your work sounds on a variety of different playback devices (you can also use the iPhone/iPad version to finish up projects and vice versa).

With Lurssen Mastering Console, musicians finally have a way to achieve professional quality audio mastering results anytime, anywhere wherever they go.

Digital Delivery Mastering

“Mastered for iTunes”

If you are mastering yours music for digital distribution and streaming services such as iTunes®, Pandora® and Spotify®, Lurssen Mastering Console can ensure your music is heard. Lurssen Mastering Console has a new Digital Delivery Mastering feature that gives you mastered audio files that comply with Apple's “Mastered for iTunes” specifications at sample rate, bit depth and peak levels, ensuring your audio plays flawlessly at any time. compressed formats such as AAC.

Digital distribution and streaming services have indeed become the recurrent standard for delivering music to consumers, and engineers have begun to take more care with the production of the final master to ensure that the audio quality, when compressed to AAC or other formats, is as close as possible to the original files. For this reason Apple has developed a set of best practices and tools that should be used to ensure compatibility that have been called “Mastered for iTunes®.”

Technically, files must meet high resolution sampling rate and bit depth requirements, but the most important aspect is the peak level. As the trend in contemporary digital music production is moving towards super high masters, distortion is created as a by-product of the extreme use of digital peak limiters pushing the level up. Even though the maximum peak file volume is not exceeding 0.0 dBFS, digital clips will still occur when the file is decompressed back to PCM format for playback. Apple's Mastered for iTunes criteria states that no clips above 0.0 dBFS can be present in the digital master for submission. When verified by Apple tools made specifically for this purpose, masters with digital clips may be rejected.

This is where Lurssen Mastering's new Digital Delivery Mastering option comes in. Console. It offers an additional layer of protection against peak clips that can be generated by the AAC compression and decompression process. This process can cause clips that may go unnoticed when mixing and mastering with common sample peak meters. This is possible through the peak limiter at the end of the mastering chain working in a specific way. This ensures that the compressed file is free from distortion when played by digital delivery services such as Apple's iTunes®, Spotify and Pandora.

The Digital Delivery Mastering Option is part of the HD Engine in-app purchase, and can be enabled independently of HD Engine in the settings menu. It is also included in the free upgrade for Mac/PC users.

Try before you buy

Lurssen Mastering Console for iPhone and iPad is free to try. That means you can experience its tremendous ease of use and phenomenal sound today at no cost. Random noise will interrupt playback in demo version. Lurssen Mastering Console for iPhone/iPad features two in-app purchases that unlock full functionality: Play/Process and HD Engine. Play/Process enables unrestricted playback, monitoring and processing, maximum 48kHz sampling rate of DSP processing and export compressed formats such as AAC and OGG. HD Engine allows unrestricted playback, processing and monitoring at 88.2/96kHz sampling rate for DSP and export, selectable dithering and export uncompressed formats such as WAV and FLAC.

Lurssen Mastering Console for Mac/PC is free to try for 10 days. Random noise will interrupt playback when the test period ends.

Features

Created in collaboration with mastering engineers Gavin Lurssen, Reuben Cohen and his multi-Grammy winning studio team, Lurssen Mastering, Inc.

Accurately reproduce Lurssen Mastering, Inc.'s unique philosophy, the studio's workflow and signal chain

Separate versions available for iPhone/iPad and Mac/PC

40 pre-designed “Styles” created by Gavin Lurssen and his team reproduce the settings and equipment used to master pop, hip- hop, rock and more

3 easy-to-navigate displays: “Studio” view with controls, “Wave” waveform view and “View” view for individual processors

Input button Drive

Fixed frequency 5-band EQ

“PUSH” knob to subtly adjust specific song passages through uniform EQ adjustments

Full tuning automation in c Audio Content

Switchable Input Drive Control for Stereo Balance Adjustments

Signal VU Meter for Input/Process

Stereo/Mono Monitoring Capability

88.2/96kHz DSP Processing

Import from iPhone/iPad Music Library

Resizable GUI (Mac/PC version)

Modes of full features available via in-app purchase: Play/Process and HD Engine (iPhone/iPad version)

Digital Delivery Mastering (DDM) feature ensures your mastering complies with “Mastered for iTunes” specifications ” from Apple and other digital distribution systems

Compatible project file between Mac/PC and iPhone/iPad versions

Specifications

Lurssen Mastering Console

Separate versions available for iPhone / iPad and Mac / PC

The Mac / PC version works as a standalone application or as a plug-in for your DAW

40 pre-made "Styles" created by Gavin Lurssen and team that reproduces the settings and equipment used to dominate pop, hip-hop, rock and more

3 easy-to-navigate monitors: A Studio view with controls, a Wave waveform view and a chain view for individual processors

Input knob

Fixed frequency 5-band EQ

"PUSH" knob to subtly enhance music passages selected by uniform equalizer adjustment

Full automation of audio content adjustment

Linkable input unit control for stereo balance adjustments

VU metering assignable input / process

Stereo / mono monitoring capability

Multi-mono support (Mac / PC plug-in version) allows the plug-in to be inserted into tracks or mono or multichannel buses on any compatible DAW

DSP processing 88.2 / 96kHz

The Digital Delivery Mastering (DDM) feature ensures your masters are compliant age with "Mastered for iTunes" specifications from Apple and other digital distribution systems

Import audio from iPhone / iPad music library

Drag and Drop file import mode (Mac / PC version)

Resizable GUI (Mac / PC version)

The iPhone / iPad version is a free download from the App Store with additional features enabled by in-app purchases / Process and HD Engine

Compatibility of project files between Mac / PC and iPhone / iPad