Can Software Replace a Professional Mastering Engineer?

Newfangled Audio and seasoned hardware and software company Eventide seem to think so! Their tagline is “Mastering with a Brain…”

Apparently, ‘Elevate’ is the ultimate in mastering plugins, combining years of audio tech experience with that of seasoned mastering engineers, along with “adaptive technology that responds in real time to your music.”

At $99, it’s obviously far cheaper than a session with a high-level mastering engineer, and we’ll be interested to hear how good it sounds!

According to Eventide’s blurb, Elevate “utilizes 26 critical filter bands modeled from the human ear. Each of the bands are spaced to give maximum control over how the sound hits your eardrum…” perhaps a guard against those super harsh frequencies often found in masters created on certain well-known *uhhh-humm* mastering suite software suites.

A demo version is available for users with an iLok account (free), and we’ll be downloading it for sure to put it through its paces – watch this space!

Read more about Elevate here.

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