- Publisher: Newfangled Audio
- Product: Elevate Mastering Bundle
- Release: GUISEPPE
- Version: 1.13.9 ARM Only
- Format: AAX, AU, VST, VST3
- Requirements: macOS 10.9 or higher
The quest for impactful, professional masters often feels like a battle against limitations – push too hard, and distortion creeps in; play it too safe, and your track lacks competitive edge. The Newfangled Audio Elevate Mastering Bundle offers a revolutionary approach, moving beyond traditional analog emulation to harness the science of human hearing itself. This suite of four precision tools empowers you to achieve masters that are not only louder and punchier but also remarkably smooth and free from unwanted artifacts.
Instead of merely replicating the behavior of vintage circuits, the Elevate Bundle leverages sophisticated psychoacoustic models. By understanding how our ears perceive loudness, transients, and tonal balance, these plugins work with the listener’s perception, allowing you to push levels and shape dynamics in ways previously unattainable. The result? Masters that sound inherently bigger, brighter, clearer, and more engaging.
Why Model the Ear, Not Just the Gear?
Traditional mastering tools often rely on emulating the characteristics of analog hardware. While valuable, this approach can inherit the physical limitations of those circuits, leading to audible distortion or pumping when pushed for modern loudness levels.
Newfangled Audio’s philosophy is different:
- Perceptual Loudness: By modeling how the human ear perceives sound energy across different frequencies, Elevate allows for significant increases in loudness without introducing harshness or artifacts typical of conventional limiters.
- Targeted Control: Tools like Punctuate and Saturate operate intelligently on the frequency spectrum, enhancing transients or adding density precisely where the ear is most sensitive, resulting in more impact and perceived clarity.
- Natural Tonality: EQuivocate’s auditory filter shapes provide an incredibly intuitive way to sculpt the tonal balance, aligning your EQ decisions more closely with how we actually hear music.
This focus on psychoacoustics means you can achieve competitive loudness and dynamic impact while preserving the musicality and integrity of your mix.
Inside the Elevate Mastering Bundle: Your Psychoacoustic Toolkit
This comprehensive bundle provides four essential mastering plugins, each designed with this ear-centric approach:
- ELEVATE – Mastering Limiter with a Brain: The centerpiece of the bundle. Elevate employs a multi-band limiting algorithm informed by human hearing models. It intelligently boosts loudness across 26 critical frequency bands while minimizing perceived distortion and pumping, delivering transparent, powerful results.
- SATURATE – Spectral Clipper & Psychoacoustic Overdrive: Go beyond simple clipping. Saturate allows you to overdrive or clip signals based on spectral content, adding density, warmth, and harmonic richness without destroying transients or causing muddy buildup. It’s perfect for adding perceived loudness and character.
- PUNCTUATE – Intelligent Transient Shaper: Enhance or tame transients with surgical precision. Punctuate analyzes the signal across 26 frequency bands, allowing you to shape the attack of instruments – make kicks punch harder, snares crack sharper, or tame overly aggressive elements, all based on perceptual models for natural-sounding results.
- EQUIVOCATE – Human Ear EQ: Forget traditional parametric bands. EQuivocate utilizes filters spaced according to the Mel scale, mirroring the critical bands of human hearing. This makes for incredibly intuitive and musically relevant equalization, allowing you to quickly identify and adjust frequencies for optimal clarity and balance.
Achieve Your Best Masters Yet
The Elevate Mastering Bundle empowers you to:
- Reach Competitive Loudness: Confidently increase the level of your masters without introducing unwanted distortion or artifacts.
- Enhance Punch and Impact: Use Punctuate and Saturate to precisely shape transients and add density for tracks that hit harder.
- Improve Clarity and Separation: Leverage EQuivocate’s auditory filters and Elevate’s intelligent limiting to achieve cleaner, more defined masters.
- Attain Smoothness and Warmth: Add character and polish using Saturate’s psychoacoustic overdrive without harshness.
- Work Faster and More Intuitively: The unique interfaces and ear-focused algorithms streamline the mastering process.
Compatibility
Ensure seamless integration into your workflow:
- macOS: 10.9 and later (64-bit AAX, AU, VST, VST3) – Fully Apple Silicon Compatible
- Windows: 10 and later (64-bit AAX, VST, VST3)
Hear the Difference Yourself
Reading about psychoacoustic processing is one thing; hearing it shape your own music is another. Stop wrestling with conventional tools and discover how mastering based on human perception can transform your results.
Free download Newfangled Audio’s Elevate Mastering Bundle today and experience the future of loudness and clarity.
GUISEPPE
“We don’t have anything to do with the recent iLok Intel releases.”
GUISEPPE
We didn’t plan to release these at all, but since someone dropped them anonymously, there’s no reason to hold onto them. Enjoy this late Christmas gift. ARM only. Shoutout to pknr and FLARE for making it happen on Mac — much appreciated.