This Plug-in Will Revitalize Your Mix Bus
Tailor-made for mastering and 2-bus applications, the PSP Audioware MasterComp will simultaneously control and revitalize the dynamics of your mix. This compressor plug-in employs double-precision, 64-bit floating point processing and is double sampled using PSP's proprietary FAT algorithm. This ensures the utmost in transparency, even with extreme compression settings. The MasterComp boasts over-threshold compression and expansion, and it's a breeze to deploy, thanks to optional automatic attack and release times. Its wide range of mastering-centric features includes a mix knob, an optional brickwall output limiter, and advanced sidechaining capabilities. You also get a streamlined, CPU-efficient version of the plug-in that's great for processing individual tracks. Selectable M-S or stereo processing and adjustable PPM/VU meters round out the MasterComp's impressive features.
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Contains tons of powerful mastering-centric features
The MasterComp comes loaded with features dedicated to giving you the best-sounding master possible. PSP's optional Smooth Level Detector algorithm — with time-saving automatic attack and release times — ensures a clean, distortion-free result. This plug-in delivers both over-threshold compression and expansion, with advanced sidechain filtering that cuts or boosts frequencies between 25–400Hz on the low end and between 1–16kHz on the high end. You also get a Link knob that adjusts the compression dependency between sidechain channels, and a Tilt knob that tweaks the sidechain balance. A Mix knob blends between your processed and unprocessed signal for New York-style parallel compression. An optional brickwall output limiter with an automatic release time injects your master with a final bit of punch. Finally, selectable Mid, Side, Left, Right, and Stereo channel processing gives you ultra-precise control over your final result.
Includes a separate, streamlined plug-in for mixing applications
While it sounds amazing, here at Sweetwater we've found the PSP MasterComp to be a system-intensive compressor plug-in. This is fine for mastering. After all, you're only instantiating one plug-in. But what if you want to use several instances in a mix? No problem. The MasterComp comes with MicroComp — a separate, CPU-efficient version of the plug-in with a simple, effective control layout that's optimized for mixing. This streamlined processor includes many of the MasterComp's features, including over-threshold compression and expansion, an optional automatic release time, basic sidechain filtering and channel linking, and adjustable PPM/VU meters.
PSP Audioware MasterComp Features:
- Mastering-style compressor with 64-bit floating point processing
- FAT (Frequency Authentication Technique) algorithm ensures transparency with extreme settings
- Delivers over-threshold compression and expansion
- Smooth Level Detector algorithm with time-saving automatic attack and release times
- Advanced sidechain filtering with Link and Tilt knobs for tailoring the compressor's behavior
- Mix knob blends between your processed and unprocessed signal for effortless parallel compression
- Optional brickwall output limiter with an automatic release time
- Separate, CPU-friendly MicroComp is tailor-made for mixing applications
- Selectable Mid, Side, Left, Right, and Stereo channel processing
- Adjustable PPM/VU meters make keeping an eye on your levels a piece of cake