LEVELS by Mastering the Mix

Unleash the full potential of your music with LEVELS, the revolutionary metering plugin from Mastering The Mix. Designed for every producer and engineer, LEVELS transforms the complex world of audio metering into an intuitive, time-saving, and creativity-boosting experience, helping you get a technically excellent mix and master.

Solve Common Mixing & Mastering Mistakes Instantly Tired of confusing metering visuals and endless tweaks? So many technical details in mixing and mastering lead to common mistakes. LEVELS cuts through the confusion by monitoring the essential elements of your mix and alerting you only to aspects that need fixing. This innovative approach means you spend less time wondering why your mix isn't working and more time being creative. Its simple visual feedback system—where problematic sections glow red and all green indicates no issues—keeps you firmly in your creative flow.

Key Features for Professional Sound & Confidence:

• Comprehensive Monitoring with Actionable Advice: LEVELS not only identifies technical issues in your mix but also provides actionable advice on how to fix them and get your mix sounding great.
• Platform-Optimized Presets: Ensure your music sounds its best wherever it's heard with built-in presets for CD, Club, Streaming, YouTube, and more.
• Six Intuitive Sections for Deep Insight & Precision:
  • True Peak Meter: The central display features a true peak meter, giving you a precise reading of how close your track is to 0dBTP [decibels true peak]. Each bar represents 1dB, and the goal is to keep your audio below the preset threshold to avoid breaching the limits recommended for various playback methods like Spotify. If audio breaches the threshold, the meter moves into the upper red half, and the PEAK icon turns red.
  • LUFS Meters (Short-Term & Integrated): The LUFS measurement scale accurately displays the perceived loudness of audio material, offering useful insights during both mixing and mastering. There's a short-term LUFS meter on the left and an integrated LUFS meter on the right, with each bar representing 1 unit. Mastering presets provide loudness targets ranging from a maximum of -6 to -12 LUFS, serving as thresholds that, if breached, could negatively affect your music.
  • Stereo Field Analysis: The vectorscope displays your audio's placement in the stereo field, showing if your master is wide (image spread out) or mono (thin line down the middle). The L-R [Left Right] meter indicates how even the left and right outputs are; an unbalanced output will glow red and turn the STEREO FIELD icon red. The correlation meter on the left side of the circle shows the similarity between left and right channels; a reading near +1 indicates a well-balanced mix, while hovering towards -1 indicates phase issues that can cause the mix to fall apart when played back in mono.
  • Stereo Filter for Frequencies: The FILTER in the Stereo Field section allows you to isolate specific frequencies to view their stereo placement, useful for seeing which frequencies are central or wider. Importantly, having low frequencies placed too wide in your master can lead to negative effects like phase cancellation in mono, making your master sound weak. By keeping bass frequencies mostly mono, you utilize the rest of the stereo spectrum for other elements. When the filter is engaged with a high-cut at 250Hz or less, wide low frequencies will glow yellow and red in the vectorscope; the goal is to keep them in the central green area for a more powerful and balanced master.
  • Dynamic Range Visuals: The oscilloscope in the central display reacts to audio, immediately showing your music's dynamism. If your dynamic range is above the threshold, it glows green; it turns orange as it approaches the threshold and red if breached. LEVELS calculates a DR [Dynamic Range] reading based on the ratio of ‘short-term LUFS’ to ‘peak level’. A small dynamic range often results from over compression and limiting, which can "suck the life" out of your music, reducing clarity and punch of transients. Ensuring your dynamic range is "on point" is crucial for a great final mix.
  • Loudness Range (LU): This long-term reading measures the statistical variation of loudness across your entire track. It provides insight into volume differences between sections like verse and chorus. If your track has a loudness range of less than 3LU for over 30 seconds, the section icon turns red. A range between 6 LU to 12 LU indicates a considerable difference in loudness between various sections.
  • Bass Space (Stem Masters Only): BASS SPACE identifies unwanted low frequencies within individual channels of a stem master (not a stereo master). For powerful and clear kick and bass elements, they need maximum space. By muting kick and bass elements in your DAW, the frequency bars at 40Hz, 80Hz, 120Hz, and 160Hz will jump into the upper red if there's too much low-end energy. This helps you pinpoint the culprit channel and use a high-pass filter to clean up excess low-end rumble, maximizing clarity and power.

Trusted by Industry Leaders and Praised by Users: LEVELS is a vital tool for every Producer/Engineer. It's endorsed by industry titans like Dr. Dre, John Legend, Eminem, J Lo, and Grammy Winner Dj Swivel, who trust it to ensure their mixes translate perfectly wherever they're heard. Users consistently praise LEVELS for being "incredibly intuitive," making mastering "more simple and practical," and helping them "visualize and place sounds in the mix". It helps users "understand how to balance each instrument in the mix to create a dynamic sound with a quality stereo image" and is also easy on the CPU.

System Requirements:

• Mac: OS X 10.15 or higher. 64-bit AU, VST 2/3 or AAX host. Apple Silicon Native.
• Windows: Windows 10 or higher. 64-bit VST 2/3 or 64-bit AAX host.