Audified has announced availability of MixChecker Ultra — an evolution their MixChecker Pro plug-in designed for quickly checking reference mixes without having to export them for listening on different speaker setups.
MixChecker Ultra now also includes over 90 simulated pro audio and commonplace consumer devices and additional features for measuring the mix parameters from within a single plug-in.
Supporting standard WAV IR (Impulse Response) files, MixChecker Ultra allows users to import an IR of any environment — be that a colleague's studio or a popular acoustic space, to hear how a mix translates to that imported environment.
Moreover, MixChecker Ultra benefits from a new GUI and improved UX to allow users to choose between simulated pro audio and commonplace consumer devices and change their settings. Audified's audio engine also takes into account the non-linear behaviour of the devices concerned and, as such, simulates their distortion and clipping characteristics; users can quickly turn on 'DIST' to see if their mix would Dist (distort) or Clip the selected device.
Analysing any mix is essential to improving its quality. MixChecker Ultra benefits from some serious yet easy-to-use analytical metering tools available in a series of dedicated modules:
- Gonio (analyses the stereo image of a track to show how balanced a mix is).
- Loudness (checks how loud a track is to show whether it is exceeding an adjustable threshold, and includes presets for the most popular streaming services that set thresholds to their levels to show whether a mix would fit their criteria).
- Dynamics (checks the dynamic range of a mix to show the difference between the loudest and quietest parts).
- Stereo (shows how occupied the frequencies of a mix are in the stereo field to identify whether some crucial frequencies are only present on one side of the spectrum).
- Spectrum (provides a quick overview of which frequencies need to be focused on to improve a mix when compared to a reference track).
This enables users to quickly analyse their mix and make changes accordingly.
MixChecker Ultra users can quickly import a reference track using its WAV- and MP3 format-supporting Player module that allows them to switch between sources in each module to compare their master track with a reference track, analyse the differences, and make further changes accordingly.
MixChecker Ultra is available to purchase for $149.00 from Audified. Owners of MixChecker Pro can upgrade to MixChecker Ultra for $39.00.
