Lurssen Mastering Console

The mastering software for Mac and PC that's greater than the sum of its parts

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Master your music with the secret techniques, workflow and world-renowned know-how of Lurssen Mastering

Lurssen Mastering Console is a groundbreaking new mastering tool for Mac and PC that puts two 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.

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. Lurssen Mastering Console 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 over 25 years worth of knowledge in the form of workflow secrets, special techniques, signal chains and technical know-how.

Stand Alone or Plug In

It can be used either standalone or as an Audio Units, VST 2, VST 3 or AAX plug-in in your DAW of choice for amazing audio mastering in the studio or on your laptop.

Test your Masters anywhere

When you master, you want your audio productions to sound good when played on a wide variety of different speakers and setups from car radios to home hi-fis, iPods to club sound systems and more. Lurssen Mastering Console helps you achieve consistently great sounding results because it lets you demo your projects on a wide variety of soundsystems thanks to its iPad version available at the App Store with a free trial.

Now you can take your projects with you anywhere so you can hear exactly how they perform in the wild.

A lifetime’s worth of mastering experience at your fingertips

It’s easy to get great results with Lurssen Mastering Console. It comes with 25 unique mastering templates, called “Styles,” that custom tailor its mastering processing chain for hip-hop, country, rock, Americana and more. These templates eliminate all the hard work of the mastering process; Gavin and his team have set everything up for you from the signal flow to the individual settings of each processor. All you have to do is load a track, choose a template and you’ll be ready to start mastering. Or, in other words, Lurssen Mastering Console can help you achieve amazingly professional results even when a trip to Lurssen Mastering in Los Angeles just isn’t in the budget.

Streamlined control

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 taste. Just like in Gavin’s studio, you can adjust a linked Input Drive, adjust a five band EQ and also use a special “PUSH” knob. The PUSH knob is particularly important because it lets you subtly and uniformly nudge the EQs so you can “ride” the flow of the song and highlight parts, adding that special Lurssen magic to your masters. You also get two VU meters, a master bypass switch (quite handy for hearing your work versus the original file) and a STEREO/MONO monitoring switch. You can record the real-time adjustments to the two master knobs via the automation feature so you can really dig into the nitty gritty of your master and record your work for later.

Waveform Display

Lurssen Mastering Console lets you see your audio thanks to this handy waveform display. You can loop audio here, view and edit automation data and move freely through your chosen song.

Styles and control

Lurssen Mastering Console has been designed to sound great without any tweaking required on your part. That being said, you can view and alter some of the settings of Gavin’s processing chain thanks to the Chain view screen. Here you can view the individual components that comprise each Style template and make adjustments to things like gain reduction on specific pieces of gear. You can save your changes to the Style templates as presets, which can also store different EQ settings.

Powerful processing and effortless export

As with mixing, mastering is about ensuring that your audio sounds as good as possible 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. Finished audio rendered with Lurssen Mastering Console sounds great in any format. It allows for export to all popular file formats from AAC to WAV, FLAC and beyond.

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

With Lurssen Mastering Console, musicians finally have a way to achieve professional-quality audio mastering results any time and everywhere they go.

Take it for a test drive

Lurssen Mastering Console for iPad is free to try. That means you can experience its amazing ease of use and phenomenal sound today for no cost whatsoever. A random noise will interrupt playback in the demo version. Want to try it for a while without the noise? A number of in-app purchase options allow you to demo the full version: You can try it for two days, one week, one month or you can purchase unlimited functionality.

Lurssen Mastering Console for Mac/PC is free to try for 10 days. A random noise will interrupt playback after the trial period expires.

Specs

Lurssen Mastering Console

• Separate versions available for iPad and Mac/PC
• Mac/PC version works as a standalone application or as a plug-in for your DAW
• 25 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
• Input Drive knob
• 5 band EQ with fixed frequency
• "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 iPad music library
• Drag & Drop file import mode (Mac/PC version)
• Resizable GUI (Mac/PC version)
• Full-featured demo modes available via in-app purchase (iPad version)
• Project file compatibility between Mac/PC and iPad

Requirements

iOS Devices

Compatible with iPad Pro, iPad mini 4, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPad 4th generation, iPad mini, iPad 3rd generation, iPad 2. iOS 8.0 or later is required.

Computers

Lurssen Mastering Console is a 64-bit Plug-in and requires a 64 bit CPU and Operating System.

Mac^® (64-bit)

• Minimal: Intel^® Core^™ 2 Duo, 4 GB of RAM (8 GB suggested), Mac OS X 10.7 or later.
• Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): Audio Units, VST 2, VST 3, AAX.

Windows^® (64-bit)

• Minimal: Intel^® Core^™ 2 Duo or AMD Athlon^™ 64 X2, 4 GB of RAM (8 GB suggested), Windows^® 7, Windows^® 8 or Windows^® 10. Requires an ASIO compatible sound card.
• Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): VST 2, VST 3, AAX.