In the Pro Tools Expert 2017 Christmas Competition, we offered the chance of winning a copy of Nugen Audio Producer Pack Bundle, worth $549, as one of 31 great prizes on offer worth over $16,000 in total. We can announce that Ariane Witte is the lucky winner. You can learn more about Ariane further down the article.

What Is In The Nugen Audio Producer Pack?

There are 7 great Nuen Audio plug-ins in their Producer Pack...

1. MasterCheck Pro - Music Industry Loudness, Dynamics & Codec tools
2. ISL 2st - Transparent True-Peak look ahead limiter
3. Stereoizer - Exceptional stereo enhancement.
4. Monofilter - Essential low frequency management.
5. Stereoplacer - Frequency specific placement.
6. SEQ-ST - Linear-phase spline & match EQ.
7. Visualizer - Intuitive, comprehensive audio analysis.

Nugen Audio MasterCheck Pro

MasterCheck Pro is designed to be the complete solution for optimising your mixes for today’s music delivery services. Streaming apps, download stores, websites and podcasts all use data compression, loudness matching or both. These processes can affect your mixes in various undesirable ways: your loud punchy mix could end up quiet and flat, or suffer clipping or distortion. The good news is you don’t just have to mix for CD and hope for the best. MasterCheck Pro reveals problems ahead of time, and enables you to deliver masters perfectly tuned for specific playout systems.

In this free detailed overview video, Production Expert team member Marcus Huyskens gives an in-depth overview of how to use Nugen Audio's MasterCheck Pro for delivering to specific loudness delivery specs on multiple platforms.

He starts off by covering the basics of MasterCheck Pro, and demonstrates the benefits of working with the included presets to meter, as well as monitoring through various different codecs. In closing, he demonstrates the process of mixing a cue using stems, to meet the Spotify loudness delivery spec.

Nugen Audio MasterCheck Pro Tutorials

In this free video tutorial, with the support of our friends at Nugen Audio, Production Expert team member Marcus Huyskens demonstrates how to quickly and effectively use Nugen Audio’s MasterCheck Pro to aid in the process of creating a Spotify master from a previously rendered broadcast mix.

In this free video tutorial, Peter Barter demonstrates how to use the MasterCheck Pro plug-in to quickly A/B loudness and dynamics levels between your own tracks and trusted reference sources.

Nugen Audio ISL 2st Limiter

ISL 2st is designed to be an intelligent look-ahead brick-wall limiter that provides highly transparent True Peak limiting for all stereo & mono content.  It is designed to help you deliver content fully compatible with loudness normalization standards used by iTunes Radio, Spotify and many others.

Because the risk of distortion from down-stream codec conversion (mp3, AAC etc.) is eliminated with ISL 2 on the master bus, there is no need to second guess your sample-peak limiter time and again, or deliberately increase headroom to avoid a downstream problem. 

Nugen Audio ISL 2 Tutorials

In this free video tutorial Marcus Huyskens demonstrates how to use the Ducking & Steering meters within the ISL2 True Peal limiter to ensure there are no negative artifacts affecting your mix.

In this free video tutorial with the support of Nugen Audio, Production Expert team member Marcus Huyskens demonstrates how the ISL2 true peak limiter can be used to quickly and efficiently re-purpose a Master to accommodate a change in deliverable specs.

Nugen Audio StereoPack With Stereoizer, Stereoplacer and Monofilter

In this review, Mike takes a look at the three plug-ins Stereoizer, StereoPlacer and MonoFilter, that make up the Nugen Audio StereoPack bundle that are also in the Nugen Audio Producer Pack. 

Nugen Audio Stereoizer Tutorials

In this free video tutorial, brought to you with the support of Nugen Audio, you will learn an alternative to panning that also places percussion tracks in the stereo image of mixes using Stereoizer by Nugen Audio. Percussion is often recorded in mono, but Stereoizer can transform these tracks into natural sounding stereo percussion tracks in seconds.

In this free video tutorial, brought to you with the support of Nugen Audio, you will learn how to make space for lead vocals in your mixes using the Nugen Audio Stereoizer Plug-in.

Stereoizer enables users to transform mono audio tracks into wide stereo audio and further into extreme wide audio resulting in very natural sounding wide stereo tracks that are also mono compatible.

Stereoizer features two clever width algorithms:

1. Inter-aural Intensity Difference (IID) control zone
2. Inter-aural Time Difference (ITD) control zone

Nugen Audio MonoFilter Tutorials

Watch the tutorial to see and hear how MonoFilter focuses wide stereo sub bass in a mix in preparation for mastering. We strongly recommend you wear a set of studio headphones to be able to fully appreciate the demonstration.

In this demonstration, we show you how to centre a kick drum that is more pronounced in the right side of the stereo image as this was the result of the Glyn Johns drum overhead configuration being used to record the drums.

Monofilter by Nugen Audio is a very powerful yet simple to use tool that enables users to control the stereo width and phase correlation of low frequencies.

Nugen Audio Stereoplacer Tutorial

In this free video tutorial, Marcus Huyskens demonstrates how to use Stereoplacer on a mono bongos track to widen the stereo image, as well as pull out some harmonic detail and add it to the stereo field.

When dealing with Audio loops or previously recorded material, we really don’t have too much control over the stereo spectrum or sonic qualities of the mix. This is especially true when it comes to mono audio files. There are some tricks we can pull out of our magic bags, like the Haas effect, and stereo width plugin, but these are still for the most part dependent on the program material.

However, Stereoplacer by Nugen Audio offers a unique perspective on dealing with this issue. Essentially, it allows you to place nodes on the EQ spectrum, and adjust their stereo width in the stereo field. In addition, it can also allow the user to further adjust the harmonics of a given signal and pull their harmonic detail out as well.

Nugen Audio SEQ-ST

SEQ-S is a spline based EQ, rather than offering a fixed number of bands with different filter types with which to construct an EQ curve, SEQ-S uses a system of "splines" - control points which can be directly manipulated and an overall EQ curve constructed. This linear phase EQ offers comprehensive control, one of its most useful capabilities being "Match EQ".

Match EQ allows the user to measure the spectrum of a reference signal and impose it on another piece of audio. This can be used to impose the sonic fingerprint of a mix and match the spectral balance of another track to that reference material or, as in this example, match the sound of one microphone to another.

Nugen Audio SEQ-S Tutorials

Match EQ allows the user to measure the spectrum of a reference signal and impose it on another piece of audio. This can be used to impose the sonic fingerprint of a mix and match the spectral balance of another track to that reference material or, as in this example, match the sound of one microphone to another.Watch the tutorial to see and hear how using Match EQ it is possible to match the sound of a voiceover recorded with a ribbon mic with one made with a condenser mic.

By capturing a snapshot of an instrument and using that as the source Snapshot but instead of selecting a destination snapshot to match to, you select and empty snapshot, an EQ curve is created which is the carves out an EQ cut which is based on the source snapshot. Watch the tutorial to see how this technique can be used to create space in a mix for a solo trumpet so that the trumpet remains clearly audible without its level needing to be raised as far.

Nugen Audio Visualizer

Visualizer’s intelligent window facility lets you select multiple view combinations, automatically resizing and aligning windows to maximise visibility. No need to switch between plug-ins to get the combination of views you want. There are user configurable presets let you switch between setups and interface sizes to build the workflow that suits you best.

New Features In Visualiser 2

• You have complete freedom to resize the window to suit your workflow
• You can use Visualizer as a standalone application or as a plug-in in your favourite DAW.
• Visualizer works with the Nugen Audio Send plug-in so that you can compare multiple sources from within one instance of the plug-in. Eg. before and after mastering chain, or for notching out etc.
• There is a new Correlation by Frequency view which helps to see how FX processing can affect the phase at different frequencies.
• For Pro Tools HD users there is also an HDX Hybrid version of Visualizer.
• Visual solo controls have been added so that you can fill the window with a particular view. 

Ariane Witte Wins Nugen Audio Producer Pack Bundle

In the Pro Tools Expert 2017 Christmas Competition, we offered the chance of winning a copy of Nugen Audio Producer Pack Bundle, worth $549, as one of 31 great prizes on offer worth over $16,000 in total. We can announce that Ariane Witte is the lucky winner. You can learn more about Ariane further down the article.

In the Pro Tools Expert 2017 Christmas Competition, we offered the chance to win one of 31 great prizes worth over $16,000 in total. Ariane Witte is the winner of the Nugen Audio Producer Pack Bundle. 

I am a programmer and live with my family in Germany. I deal with music and audio engineering an all my friends are musicians. Because computer and technology have always been my "thing" I am the technician in my circle of friends. For some years now I record and mix my friend's  music. 6 months ago, I moved with my hardware from the rehearsal room in a room at home. At the moment I have set up my studio and mix and produce the current record of my friends.

The Nugen Audio Producer Pack Bundle comes at just the right time. I think it will enable me to finalise my current mixes and increase their quality, especially with the Mastercheck Pro, ISL 2st and the Visualizer all of which have been on my wish list for some time.

If you would like to win a prize like the Nugen Audio Producer Pack Bundle then go over to our Win Page and see what prizes we have on offer.