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The Mastering Essentials Black Friday deal covers Mastering The Mix's three-plugin mastering bundle for $94, which is 21% off, until Nov 9, 2026.
Mastering Essentials Bundle packs LEVELS, EXPOSE 2 and LIMITER into one purchase. The maker pitches it as an all-in-one mastering toolkit built from its most trusted mastering plugins.
The bundle contains:
LEVELS flags technical problems in your final mixdown before it goes to mastering. It has presets for CD, club, streaming and YouTube, so you can check a mix against the destination it is headed for.
The true peak meter runs at 16x oversampling, and the LUFS section gives EBU R128 compliant integrated and short-term readings. The maker suggests keeping the standard peak meter below -6dB.
The stereo field section has a vectorscope for width, a correlation meter for phase and a left/right balance meter. A low pass button solos everything below 300Hz so you can see how wide your low end is.
Bass Space shows level meters at 40Hz, 80Hz, 120Hz and 160Hz, and the dynamic range display tells you if a track is overcompressed. The maker says it uses very little CPU and packs 7 mixing and metering tools into one plugin.
EXPOSE 2 is a standalone app, so it runs without a DAW. Drag your track in, pick a preset for your release route (streaming, club, CD and so on), and it highlights problems such as poor EQ balance, true peak clipping, over-compression and phase issues.
Compare EQ sets your track's average tonal balance against a reference you import, or against a genre preset built from sonic profiles of commercially successful tracks. Loudness Match normalises playback with a LUFS algorithm, so a louder track doesn't win just by sounding fuller.
It ships with 27 presets and 5 user preset slots. Readouts and the waveform light up where an issue sits, and the analysis feedback tells you how to fix it back in your DAW.
LIMITER sits on your master channel. Choose a preset such as Loud, Spotify or Apple Music, play the loudest section of your track and click analyze.
A target range appears on the input gain slider, with target arrows on the other controls. The NRG slider adds harmonic distortion, and the PCH slider enhances transients, which the maker says adds perceived loudness and punch to offset the effect of limiting.
On Mac, you need OS X 10.15 or higher and a 64-bit AU, VST3 or AAX host. Apple Silicon is supported natively. On Windows, you need Windows 10 or higher and a 64-bit VST3 or AAX host. AAX works with Pro Tools.
Yes. The Mastering Essentials Black Friday deal takes 21% off Mastering The Mix's bundle of LEVELS, EXPOSE 2 and LIMITER, bringing it to $94. The offer ends Nov 9, 2026.
Three Mastering The Mix products: LEVELS, a metering plugin for checking your mixdown; EXPOSE 2, a standalone audio quality control app; and LIMITER, a smart limiting plugin that analyses your audio and suggests settings.
On Mac it needs OS X 10.15 or higher and a 64-bit AU, VST3 or AAX host, with native Apple Silicon support. On Windows it needs Windows 10 or higher and a 64-bit VST3 or AAX host. AAX works with Pro Tools.
No. EXPOSE 2 is a standalone app. Open it, drag your music in and choose a preset for your release route, such as streaming, club or CD. The analysis feedback then shows how to fix issues in your DAW.
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