Back To The Club Mastering Bundle

Back to the Club Mastering Bundle

So you've spent countless hours perfecting your latest bass music banger and you're looking forward to testing it but when you compare it to other, professionally released tracks, it sounds weak, quiet and lacks that oomph! That's because it needs mastering, that final, essential touch to lift the track and bring it in line with your favourites in the same genre. Worry not because Plugin Boutique has put together the perfect bundle for you.

Kicking off with 3 hours of mastering tutorials from bass music professional Seppa via the Producertech Bass Music Mastering Techniques Course, you'll soon know the ins and outs of the mysterious art of mastering.

Also included in this bundle are all of the plugins used within the course so that you can easily follow along and develop your skills.

These plugins include sonible's Smart:EQ 3, the AI-assisted equaliser that automatically corrects tonal imbalances as well as Sonnox's Oxford Limiter, a true peak limiter that is the choice of pros the world over.

On compression duty, Melda Production's MModernCompressor is included, one of the most advanced and feature-packed compressors on the market today.

United Plugins SubBass Doctor 808 rounds off the bundle, the perfect treatment for your low-end requirements.

The Back to the Club Mastering Bundle is exclusive to our store and available for a limited time only.

Bass Music Mastering Techniques Course

Putting the final touches on a mix, so it’s ready to be played in a DJ set or sent to a record label, can be a difficult process when you’re unsure of the standards you need to achieve. In this set of tutorials, Bass Music producer and Producertech tutor Seppa goes through the entire process of mastering one of his own tracks using the mastering bundle software from Plugin Boutique, so you can join a professional as he explains each of the stages involved and what you should be aiming for at every step.

After introducing the course and plugins, as well as providing some advice for how to prepare for and what to expect from the mastering process, Seppa dives straight into the mastering, with an initial focus on limiting with the Sonnox Limiter plugin. Limiting is done in reference to free metering software, with a guide to the kind of loudness and dynamic range you would be looking to achieve when producing heavy Bass Music. Once the limiting stage is better understood, Seppa moves onto frequency analysis, beginning with a guide to Subbass Doctor 808, explaining when and how to use it on a complete mixdown. This is followed by a lengthy exploration of the many features on Smart EQ3, to help ensure the spectrum is looking and sounding right, with both manual and AI approaches incorporated alongside one another. The next two lessons move onto compression, firstly providing an overview of the highly detailed Melda Modern Compressor and then looking at how to use it to add some more stability to the dynamics, whilst generally making the mix more cohesive. The course then ends with some additional tweaks to the mastering chain plugins and final thoughts and recommendations on how to further develop your mastering skills.

The course provides nearly 3 hours of tutorials, giving you a wealth of expert advice from one of the leading artists in Bass Music, to give you a solid understanding of mastering tracks with your plugins and get you ever closer to your goal of producing professional-sounding music.

Modules

Module 1 - Course Introduction 

Seppa begins the course with some advice for approaching track mastering, including considerations for creating a premaster and managing expectations of the mastered result.

• Lesson 1 - Course Overview - 3.10
• Lesson 2 - Premasters and Working from the Mix - 6.52
• Lesson 3 - Exporting a Good Premaster - 3.10
• Lesson 4 - Reasonable Expectations - 1.30

Module 2 - Software Overview, Metering and Premaster 

A run-through of the various plugins in the mastering bundle, as well as some tips for free metering software, followed by a preview and some analysis of the premaster.

• Lesson 1 - Bundle Overview - 4.20
• Lesson 2 - Metering - 13.50
• Lesson 3 - Listening to the Premaster - 3.58

Module 3 - Limiting, Sub Bass and EQ

Seppa uses the first three plugins to begin mastering the track, focussing initially on limiting with the Sonnox Limiter, before tending to the sub bass with Subbass Doctor 808 and then looking in detail at EQ considerations, with both manual and AI features within Smart EQ3.

• Lesson 1 - Limiting - 31.46
• Lesson 2 - Subbass Doctor 808 - 6.17
• Lesson 3 - Smart EQ3 - 41.33

Module 4 - Compression

A detailed look at compression during the mastering process, with an overview of the many controls available in MModern Compressor, before an example of how to use the plugin to improve the dynamics of the featured track.

• Lesson 1 - MModernCompressor Overview - 22.10
• Lesson 2 - Compressor Application - 22.16

Module 5 - Final Stages 

Seppa wraps up the course with a last look at the track and some tweaks of the different plugins in the mastering chain, before concluding with some final thoughts.

• Lesson 1 - Final Tweaks - 5.58
• Lesson 2 - Final Thoughts - 6.10

Features

• Nearly 3 hours of Streamed Tutorials
• Professional Mastering Tips
• Access 24/7/365

Learn more about Producertech Bass Music Mastering Techniques.

The intelligent equalizer

Your Key to Spectral Balance

smart:EQ 3 enhances detail, clarity and transparency in single tracks and in arrangements of up to six channels. Establish spectral balance in your sound within a few seconds.

• Intelligent cross-channel processing
• AI filter to automatically correct tonal imbalances
• NEW: dynamic adaption, minimum phase mode, filter widgets

Features

High-resolution Precision at the Push of a Button

Achieve spectral balance with smart:EQ 3 within seconds – whether you are working on a single track or a mix. The AI-powered equalizer will clean up unpleasant resonances and unwanted notches, leaving you with a well-balanced sound – and therefore an ideal basis to take further creative steps.

Spectral Mixing via Drag & Drop

Intelligent cross-channel processing will aid you in your quest to create a transparent arrangement of up to six channels in which each track plays exactly the role you want it to. By analyzing the spectral information of all the channels you've added to your group, the algorithms make sure that each track gets its assigned space within your mix. You just have to determine the sonic hierarchy according to your vision. It's as simple as that.

Newly Designed Profiles and a Splittable smart:filter

Adapt the impact of the A.I. powered processing of smart:EQ 3 to your liking: In EQ view, you can select the frequency ranges which should be affected, change the shape of the green weighting curve of the computed smart:filter and define the duration of the learning process. In group view, you can control the level of impact the intelligent cross-channel processing has on your tracks.

You can have it all: Enjoy the incredible abilities of the smart algorithms and stay in control.

Filter Widgets, Spectral Mixing via Drag & Drop, Multi-Channel Analyzer

Sonible have designed smart:EQ 3's intuitive, sleek interface and user-centred features to make every move count: Tweak your audio material efficiently by utilizing the filter widgets, create a sonic hierarchy by dragging and dropping your tracks in group view, and choose which tracks of your mix you want to monitor simultaneously with the comprehensive analyzer. And there is so much more – explore all that smart:EQ 3 has to offer.

Learn more about sonible Smart:EQ 3

Sonnox Oxford Limiter

Having crafted and refined your mix, join the growing number of professionals who’ve chosen the new Oxford Limiter V3 to deliver maximum loudness, density and presence - whilst retaining the kind of clarity and transient detail that conventional brick-wall limiting can’t.

The Plug-In is a true peak limiter that offers recently enhanced levels of processing and metering accuracy. The result is that you get to see and automatically correct otherwise invisible reconstruction overloads - and conform to the accepted industry ITU-R BS.1770-4 standard.

Whether you’re after the Oxford Limiter's hallmark transparency or heavier creative effects, its advanced look-ahead processing and unique Enhance function provide the sample-value limiting and musical boost needed to reliably avoid clipping and confidently increase apparent loudness.

Features:

• Peak limiting with attack, release & variable soft-knee
• Enhance section to increase perceived loudness 
• Recon meter shows actual rather than sampled signal 
• Auto Comp fixes recon errors without losing overall loudness: conforming to the industry's true peak measurement standard (ITU-R BS.1770-4)
• Audition and apply TPDF dither for 24-bit and 16-bit output word lengths with four types of variable noise shaping
• Four variable-strength noise shaping modes for use with highly dynamic program material
• Full backwards compatibility with previous Plug-In versions
• Great library of factory presets to get you started

Learn more about Sonnox Oxford Limiter

MModernCompressor

MModernCompressor is a powerful compressor plugin based on our MDynamics engine. It is designed simply for ease of use and optimized to get pristine quality results as quickly as possible without having to master the more advanced features in MDynamics. It also contains a powerful metering system providing everything from gain reduction to a level distribution analyzer.

Features

• Powerful metering system - MModernCompressor displays output peak level, gain reduction, ITU-R BS.1770-1 and EBU 3341 compliant loudness, and also a loudness distribution graph, which you can use to analyze dynamic properties of your audio and even let the compressor set the basic compressor parameters automatically.
• Up to 8 channels surround processing - our plugins can handle not only mono and stereo signals but also up to 8 channels of surround audio, making them ideal for audio production for movies, games etc.
• Adjustable up-sampling 1x-16x to minimize aliasing and get an even clearer sound.
• Extremely advanced and easy-to-use user interface - our products are always designed to enhance the workflow. You can easily change all values, fine-tune each control in multiple ways. Easy orientation in a standardized GUI, textual editing and smooth visualization with almost unlimited zooming are standard in all of our plugins. Moreover, our plugins are the world first (and still the only ones), which support resizable and stylable GUI's.
• MIDI controllers with MIDI learn - you can map any parameter to any MIDI controller or MIDI keyboard and control it real time or record and automate it.
• Very fast, optimized for SSE and SSE2 processors.
• Global preset management and online preset exchange - using a title button you can save your settings (which are shared on the computer) so you can easily access these in other songs. Moreover, all plugins can automatically share your presets and download presets of other users from our servers (if this feature is enabled). We are building a community and you can be a part of it!
• Fully Automatable

Learn more about Melda Production MModernCompressor

Treating the lowest frequencies is not an easy task. And in some listening environments, it is almost impossible. If you mix while travelling or your mixing room or your system is not 110% perfect, you should see the doctor. Namely SubBass Doctor 808.

Your Subs Can Be Harmful

Of course, you want the pumping subs that shake the body. But without the right treatment, they can get out of control. Although they are inaudible in some environments, wrongly mixed low frequencies can even destroy big PA systems.

Who Needs the Doctor 808

You may want to mix while travelling, you may be producing in a home studio. Your monitors do not deliver the lowest frequencies right or your room is perhaps not 100% acoustically treated. In all these cases you should search for the Doctor.

Get Your Cure

SubBass Doctor 808 is a safety net for all mentioned above. It filters the harmful frequencies and guards the lowest basses not to exceed the healthy limit.

Extra Sub

As SubBass Doctor 808 steals something from the low end, it compensates for the loss in healthy sub frequencies ensuring you don't lose even a little bit of the sub-bass power.

Saturate

To accentuate the low frequencies and to add extra warmth SubBass Doctor 808 adds pleasant parallel saturation. This helps the sub-bass to set off and astonish the audience.

808, 5-String and Double Bass

As the name suggests SubBass Doctor 808 is mainly designed for synth bass and drums. But it is essential when mixing other instruments that reach really low - such as low-B five-string bass or double bass.

Hassle-Free Software Protection

No iLok, no dongle nor internet access is required for activation. This software uses licence files to activate your software. You can freely use the purchased software on all your computers as long as you are the user.

Realistic 3D Yet Flexible GUI

The photorealistic graphic user interface of the plugin gives you the feeling you are touching the real hardware. But it easily adapts to your needs. You can always drag the arrow in the bottom right corner to change its size - make it smaller to save valuable screen space, or enlarge it to make it easier to use.

64-bit Audio Quality at ANY Sampling Rate

The plugin provides the maximum audio quality you can get. It uses internal 64-bit audio processing and can handle any sampling rate. 192 kHz or even higher.

Smart Bypass

The intelligent way this plugin manage bypassing ensures that you don't get any click or harmful noises when automating the parameter.

Learn more about United Plugins SubBass Doctor 808

System Requirements

SubBass Doctor 808

Mac

• macOS 10.10 and later (M1 Silicon Mac and macOS 11 Big Sur supported)
• 64bit only
• Intel/AMD processor with SSE2 support
• VST2, VST3, AAX or AU compatible host

Windows

• Windows 8 - 10
• 32bit or 64bit
• Intel/AMD processor with SSE2 support
• VST2, VST3 or AAX compatible host

MModernCompressor

Windows

• Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• VST / VST3 / AAX compatible host (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Intel/AMD processor with SSE2 support

Always use 32-bit plugins in 32-bit hosts or 64-bit plugins in 64-bit hosts!
 
64-bit plugins can't work in 32-bit hosts even if the operating system is 64-bit. Do NOT use 32-bit plugins in 64-bit hosts. They would have to be bridged and can become slow and unstable.
 
Mac OS X

• Mac OS X 10.9 and newer (64-bit only)
• VST / VST3 / AU / AAX compatible host (64-bit only)
• Intel/AMD processor with SSE2 support or Apple Silicon processor

Sonnox Oxford Limiter

Pro Tools

• Pro Tools 10.3.8, 11.3.2, 12, 2021 – AAX Native
• Approved Pro Tools CPU, OS and hardware configuration
• Legacy support for OS X 10.4.11 – 10.6.8 & Windows XP: TDM/RTAS
• iLok USB device with latest drivers OR active internet connection required
• iLok2 / iLok3 OR active internet connection required for AAX plug-ins

Audio Units

• Audio Units-compatible application (Logic, Digital Performer etc.)
• Mac OS X 10.7 – 10.12
• (El Capitan supported where confirmed by host DAW manufacturer)
• Legacy 32-bit support for OS X 10.4.11 – 10.6.8
• iLok USB device with latest drivers OR active internet connection required
• iLok2 / iLok3 OR active internet connection required for 64-bit plug-ins

VST2 / VST3

• VST2 or VST3 compatible application (Cubase, Nuendo, Sequoia etc.)
• Mac OS X 10.7 – 10.12
• (El Capitan supported where confirmed by host DAW manufacturer)
• Windows 7 or later
• Legacy 32-bit support for OS X 10.4.11 – 10.6.8 & Windows XP
• iLok USB device with latest drivers OR active internet connection required
• iLok2 / iLok3 OR active internet connection required for 64-bit plug-ins

Supported Hosts:

Mac:

• Pro Tools 10.3.8 / 12 – 2021 (AAX Native)
• Logic Pro X 10.2
• Logic 8 & 9
• Digital Performer
• Nuendo
• Cubase
• Ableton
• Studio 1

PC:

• Pro Tools 10.3.8 / 12 – 2021 (AAX Native)
• Nuendo
• Cubase
• Ableton
• Samplitude
• Sequoia
• Pyramix
• Studio 1

sonible Smart:EQ

Mac

• macOS 10.12 or higher
• 4GB RAM or higher
• CPU - Intel Dual-Core i5 or higher
• Plugin Formats - AU, VST2, VST3, AAX (64-bit only)
• Supported Sample Rates - 44.1 kHz to 192 kHz
• iLok License Manager is required to install sonible software (activation is optional)

PC

• Windows 10 or higher
• 4GB RAM or higher
• CPU - Intel Dual-Core i5 or higher
• Plugin Formats - VST2, VST3, AAX (64-bit only)
• Supported Sample Rates - 44.1 kHz to 192 kHz
• iLok License Manager is required to install sonible software (activation is optional)

Compatible DAW's:

• Logic Pro
• Ableton Live
• Pro Tools 11+
• Reaper
• Cubase
• Nuendo
• FL Studio
• StudioOne

Important Notes: 

• In order to install this sonible product, you must have the iLok License Manager installed on your computer. You DO NOT need an iLok account or a physical iLok USB Dongle.