Vantage
Mastering that listens first.
Your mix is done, and it still doesn't sound like a record. Vantage listens to it, makes the calls a mastering engineer would make, and lands it at the loudness your release needs.
Press one button.
Then judge it honestly.
Play the loudest part.
Press LISTEN and play a chorus. Vantage hears up to 30 seconds (press again to finish early).
It sets every module.
It finds the frequencies that flare up, sets the glue, the color and the width, and tells you what it did in plain English.
Right on target.
It works out the push that lands your target through its true-peak limiter, and checks it.
Same loudness. Your call.
COMPARE plays your original at the master's loudness, so you hear what changed, not just louder.
Six modules, in the order your audio hits them.
Clean
A low cut, plus three resonance bands that only cut when a frequency flares up, and leave it alone when it doesn't.
Tone
A five-band EQ that doesn't smear timing (linear phase), plus MATCH: your reference track's tonal balance, as much or as little as you want.
Glue
A gentle bus compressor that pulls the mix together. Switch to three bands when the low end needs its own control.
Color
Warm saturation for weight and density, processed at 4x so the top end stays clean.
Width
Keeps the low end in mono where it belongs, and widens what's above it.
Loudness
A true-peak limiter with targets for streaming (-14 LUFS), Apple Music (-16) and loud (-9), plus full loudness metering.
What we measured.
Every number here came from the test suite that runs on every build, on Mac and Windows.
| Test | Result |
|---|---|
| LISTEN on a real heavy mix, aimed at -14 / -16 / -9 LUFS | -13.9 / -15.9 / -9.1 |
| Peaks on that mix at every target (ceiling -1 dBTP) | -1.05 dBTP or lower |
| Full-band white noise slammed 12 dB into the limiter | -1.03 dBTP |
| COMPARE: the original vs the master's loudness | within 0.06 LU |
| Reference match on a known EQ change, worst third-octave band | 0.37 dB |
| Everything switched off: output vs input (largest difference) | -137 dBFS |
What it can't do: fix a bad recording. If the mix has problems, Vantage makes a better master of it. It doesn't remix it. The better your mix, the better your master.
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