Play 24 seconds of your mix.Get a master to start from.
Magic Mastering listens to the song, recognises the style and sets the EQ, tape, compressor, stereo image and limiter. All on your computer, nothing is uploaded. Then five sliders decide how much of each.
one-time payment · no subscription · lifetime license
macOS and Windows · VST3, AU and AAX · Apple Silicon and Intel
- of listening and the proposal is ready
- 24 s
- stages in a mastering engineer's order
- 5
- styles, from sertanejo to EDM
- 23
- files uploaded anywhere
- 0
The same song, at the same loudness.
A blues mixed in a home studio. The assistant listened, proposed, and the sliders did the rest. Press play and switch sides while the song runs.
Both sides play at −16 LUFS. Louder always sounds better, so here loudness is out of the equation and only the sound is left. The actual master came out at −10.7 LUFS.
It listens, proposes and shows what it did.
Then the fine tuning is yours, on five sliders.
Press LISTEN on the chorus
Put the plugin on the master, play the fullest part of the song and let it listen for about 24 seconds. The analysis runs right there on your computer.
It shows what it found
The style the song sounds like, the curve of your mix over the typical band for that style, and the list of what it will move, in plain words with the number next to each.
You decide how much
Tone, tape, compression, width and final loudness, one slider under each stage. Move a slider and the plugin opens that stage so you can watch it happen. Undo takes it all back.
- Top end a bit dull: +0.8 dB above 7.0 kHz
- Cut around 201 Hz: −4.1 dB
- Uneven bass around 50 Hz evened out (dynamic band)
- Tape: 15 ips, drive +2.7 dB (rounds the peaks before the compressor)
- Stereo image a little wider, bass untouched
The proposal the plugin wrote for the blues in the player above. Every song gets its own.
Five plugins open on the master. Or one.
It is the sequence a mastering engineer builds. Here it comes in order, with one meter and one bypass. Click a stage to see its page.
Dynamic EQ
Bands that only act when the song calls for it. The assistant works in linear phase and treats centre and sides apart, to clean the low end in the middle without touching the shine on the edges.
- Linear phase and 4x oversampling
- Mid/side per band
- The whole Magic DynEQ, every control
You say where the song is going. It aims at the number.
Every platform plays at its own loudness. When a master goes past the target, the platform turns it down. Pick where the song is going in the destination menu and the meter checks four things against that target.
- Apple Music−16 LUFS
- Spotify · YouTube · Tidal · Amazon−14 LUFS
- Balanced−12 LUFS
- Modern pop / rock−10 LUFS
- Loud−9 LUFS
- Club / EDM−7 LUFS
- Loudness
The distance to the target, in LU.
- True peak
The inter-sample peak, so the conversion does not clip.
- Punch
How far the peaks still stand above the average. It is what an over-squeezed limiter eats.
- Stereo
The correlation between the channels, so the master does not vanish in mono.
Louder always sounds better. The LEVEL MATCH button evens out before and after, so you compare the sound with loudness out of the equation.
23 styles, Brazil included.
The curve of each style was measured on more than 2.5 million released recordings. There is pop, rock and EDM, and there is sertanejo, MPB, samba and pagode, forró, Brazilian funk, gospel and bossa nova. The plugin suggests the style and you change it in the list when it gets it wrong.
- Pop
- Rock
- Metal
- Hip-Hop
- Electronic
- R&B / Soul
- Folk / Acoustic
- Country
- Jazz
- Blues
- Reggae
- Latin
- MPB
- Bossa Nova
- Samba / Pagode
- Sertanejo
- Forró
- Pop Rock BR
- Funk BR
- Gospel
- Classical
- Instrumental
- World
What it does and what stays with you.
- Propose a starting point in seconds
- Show every move with the number next to it
- Keep the chain open: every control of every stage is yours
- Run on your computer, with no per-track credits
- The mix. A vocal buried in the mix stays buried in the master
- The final call. Your ears approve the master
- A record that needs a mastering engineer still needs one
Magic Mastering
Buy it once. Every new version lands in your account.
14-day refund, no questions asked.
Version 1.0.0 · macOS 10.13 or newer · Windows 10 or newer
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- The whole chain: dynamic EQ, tape, bus compressor, stereo imager and true-peak limiter
- The local assistant, with 23 styles and six loudness destinations
- 24 factory presets to start without the assistant
- Loudness, true-peak, punch and correlation metering
- VST3, AU and AAX on macOS, VST3 and AAX on Windows
- Interface in English or Portuguese
You can hear the engines before you buy.
The EQ and the compressor inside Magic Mastering are Magic DynEQ and Magic BusComp, which are free. Download both, use them on your mix and come back when you want the rest of the chain and the assistant.
Built by Chrys Gringo.The last stage, opened up the same way as the others.
Music producer, educator, plugin developer and Full Sail University ambassador, trusted by 290k+ creators learning to make better music in home studios.
The Magic line is born like this: a stage of production that scares people, opened up into a few controls with plain names. Magic Mastering brings together the EQ and the compressor that already existed, free, with tape, a stereo imager, a limiter and an assistant that explains what it did.
Before you buy
Do I need to understand mastering to use it?
No. You press LISTEN, read the proposal and move five sliders. When you want to go deeper, every stage opens with all its controls.
Does my music leave my computer?
No. The analysis and the processing run on your computer. The plugin only talks to the internet to check the license.
Does the assistant always get the style right?
No. It suggests what the song sounds like and you change it in the list when it is not. The proposal is redone on the spot with the new style.
Which DAWs does it work in?
Any DAW that loads VST3, AU or AAX on macOS, or VST3 or AAX on Windows.
Can I use it while tracking?
It was made for the master. The linear-phase stages add latency, which the DAW compensates on playback and which gets in the way while recording.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Once activated, the plugin checks the license from time to time and keeps working for up to 14 days without a connection.
I already use Magic DynEQ and Magic BusComp. What changes?
Both stay free and keep working on their own. Magic Mastering carries both inside, in order, and adds tape, a stereo imager, a limiter, a loudness meter and the assistant that sets everything together.
Is it a subscription?
No. You pay once and the license is yours.
How do I get it?
The serial arrives at the e-mail of the purchase and stays in your account, next to the installer. In the plugin you type the same e-mail and the serial.
What if I do not like it?
You have 14 days to ask for a refund, no questions asked.
Requirements
- macOS 10.13 or newer, Apple Silicon or Intel
- A DAW that supports VST3, AU or AAX
- Internet to activate the license
- Windows 10 or newer, 64-bit