NUGEN Audio's Post Bundle: Where Sound Meets Sophistication

  • August 29, 2024
  • by Milan Radonjic
  • Product Intelligence Report

Imagine the feeling of driving your Rolls Royce off the lot—effortless power, unmatched elegance, and the quiet confidence of having the best. That’s the experience you get with NUGEN Audio’s Post Bundle. It’s not just a collection of plugins; it’s a meticulously crafted suite designed for those who demand perfection in every detail of their audio production.

With the Post Bundle, transforming a simple stereo recording into a breathtaking 7.1 masterpiece is as smooth as gliding down an open road in luxury. Match EQ profiles with the precision of a finely tuned engine, ensuring every sound is rich, clear, and completely free of artifacts. Whether you’re enhancing bass to make it pop like never before or ensuring your mix hits the perfect standards-compliant brickwall limiting, this bundle gives you the power to craft your audio with the elegance and finesse of a Rolls Royce.

Your studio is your domain, and with NUGEN’s arsenal of metering tools, you have the control to ensure every mix stays perfectly balanced and dynamic. It’s like having a bespoke audio consultant, guiding you with precision and style, so you always stay on course.

Here is what is in the NUGEN Post Bundle that'll make your music studio love you:

1. Paragon - Cutting-Edge Convolution Reverb

Paragon offers realistic convolution reverb paired with flexible algorithmic reverb. It utilizes IR resynthesis for customizable parameters, including decay, room size, and brightness for an artifact-free experience. Spectral analysis aids parameter adjustments, and it supports 7.1.4 surround with per-channel options and an LFE channel, ideal for film and TV work. Engineers seeking versatile reverbs will appreciate Paragon.

2. VisLM - Industry-Standard Loudness Metering

Looking for industry-standard loudness metering? NUGEN VisLM provides precision metering for peace of mind. It's a common reference for all production stages, ensuring audio quality control and meeting broadcast standards. VisLM is easy to use, intuitive, and doesn't disrupt workflow. Ideal for delving deeply into your material.

3. LM-Correct - Real-Time Loudness Correction

Two clicks and all your loudness problems are solved — that's the idea behind NUGEN's groundbreaking LM-Correct plug-in. Used as a plug-in in your NLE or DAW, LM-Correct offers real-time loudness correction for individual tracks or up to 5.1 mixes for instant peace of mind. You can also run LM-Correct in standalone mode or as an AudioSuite process for a faster-than-real-time approach to loudness correction. Like many of the other NUGEN loudness plug-ins, LM-Correct features their unique look-ahead true-peak limiting algorithm. And it wouldn't be a NUGEN product if it didn't comply with a complete set of loudness standards.

4. ISL - True Peak Compliance

If you're looking for an affordable way to get truly transparent, standards-compliant brickwall limiting for DIY mastering or broadcast, then you need to check out the NUGEN Audio ISL plug-in. Based on the true-peak specifications laid out in the ITU-R B.S. 1770 and related standards, ISL is ideal for taking your content up to the perfect level and protecting it from downstream distortion introduced by lossy MP3 and AAC codecs. With its adjustable look ahead and clear metering, ISL makes dialing in your limiting extremely easy and precise. And if you plan to release your record straight to iTunes or some other internet music distribution service, then you'll really appreciate that NUGEN Audio included Apple's "Mastered for iTunes" true-peak limiting capability in ISL.

5. Halo Upmix - Expand Stereo Mixes to any Format

Have you got a stereo mix that needs to be expanded for 7.1 theatrical release? Load up NUGEN Audio Halo Upmix. Whether you're merely extracting and expanding, or even if you need a full cinematic surround soundscape, Halo Upmix does it all, intuitively, while giving you the control you need to fine-tune your surround mixes to perfection. Halo's center-channel management includes switchable dialogue extraction, making it ideal for all types of audio production, from 2-channel TV sound archiving and restoration to all feature film surround formats. NUGEN Audio's proprietary real-time analysis of your original stereo material pinpoints and extracts locational cues to naturally extend the panorama without introducing artificial reverberation, chorusing, or delay into the downmix, so the native character of your original source remains intact.

6. Halo Downmix - Advanced Stereo Fold Down

If you work in surround, you’ve undoubtedly faced the challenge of producing high-quality downmixes. NUGEN Audio Halo Downmix is your solution. It completes your surround toolkit, giving you precise surround balancing, mix monitoring, and sophisticated stereo fold-down capabilities. It’s the glue that brings your workflow together, allowing you to deliver in surround and stereo with ease and without compromise.

7. SEQ-S - Robust Sonic Sculpting with EQ Match

NUGEN Audio's SEQ-S is a linear-phase spline-match EQ plug-in that delivers robust sonic sculpting and EQ matching in up to 7.1 surround, plus stereo mid-side operation and automated spectrum analysis. Shape and correct your audio with ultra-high resolution not possible with traditional parametric methods. With its direct-draw interface and detailed spectrum analysis, SEQ-S makes it quick and easy to identify problems and fine-tune any audio signal. Add in sonic-fingerprinting EQ matching, and NUGEN Audio SEQ-S gives you a world of unique sound-sculpting possibilities.

8. Monofilter - Clarifies your Bass and Stereo Imaging

When solid or natural sounding bass is a requirement in your recording projects, Monofilter provides the foundation for real power and definition. Bring transparent solidity to your bass; sharpen, define and align for the tightest mix. Monofilter aids low frequency clarity on any playback system. With presets for every situation and intuitive controls for fine tuning to perfection, Monofilter anchors your bass with ease, while retaining the perceived spatial characteristics of the original sound..

9. Stereoizer - The Missing Link between Mono and Stereo

NUGEN Audio's Stereoizer plug-in is the perfect tool for seating mono tracks in a stereo soundfield, simply. This incredibly sophisticated stereo-field manipulation plug-in uses advanced psychoacoustic processing to spread out mono sounds into the stereo mix, without adding reverb or creating phase problems. It's also a great tool for widening your stereo tracks, defining your center mix, and all sorts of other spatial manipulation. Best of all, NUGEN Audio's Stereoizer is so easy to use that you'll be up and running in no time.

10. Visualizer - Your Mix at a Glance

Sometimes, when you really need to climb inside of a mix, listening alone is not enough. That's when you need a graphical analysis plug-in like NUGEN's Visualizer. The thing that sets Visualizer apart from other sound analysis plug-ins is its ability to put multiple graphical representations of your audio all in a single window while still providing you with the controls you need to dial each individual display. And even when you layer multiple displays together, Visualizer remains totally legible, making it easy to see exactly what's happening in every facet of your audio.

11. Stereoplacer - Total Stereo Control

Take total control of your stereo field with NUGEN Audio's Stereoplacer plug-in. This unique utility plug-in offers a solution many of us experienced mix engineers and sound designers have been looking for for years. Essentially, the Stereoplacer operates like a parametric EQ, except that instead of controlling gain, you control where each band sits in the stereo field. This allows you to make dramatic changes in the balance of your material, without affecting all frequencies at once. What's more, it allows you to take mono tracks or ambient sound beds and position-specific frequency ranges in a stereo field. And if you're concerned about phase issues and mono compatibility, don't be. As long as you don't go completely insane with the panning, you'll never know Stereoplacer was involved.

12. Sigmod - 12 Essential Processing Modules in a Single Plugin

NUGEN Audio's SigMod expands the capabilities of your existing plug-ins and supplies easy access to functions that are either missing from your DAW or cumbersome to access. Give your favorite compressor or EQ mid-side or parallel processing functionality. Mute or solo either side of a stereo signal independently, or flip its stereo image. Listen to your mix in mono or check the phase relationship between channels. The possibilities are almost endless! Beyond that, you get a crossover, trim and DC offset tools, and an automated safety module. The Insert module allows you to host VST, VST3, and AU, and even add a wet/dry mix and more. SigMod's 12 single-process modules include comprehensive routing, allowing you to combine them in any order.

Experience the NUGEN Post Bundle: The Gold Standard in Audio Post-Production.

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Author

Milan Radonjic

Milan Radonjic is a musician, audio engineer, and a member of the MM Team. In August 2022, he became a Product Manager at Music Marketing Inc, a company that distributes music software and hardware in North America. Since then, Milan has been showcasing their products at trade shows, studios, and clinics across North America.