Many developers try to give their plug‑ins an air of class by making them look like pieces of vintage hardware these, by contrast, are plug‑ins that embody the principles of good software design, and they are all the better for it.Īll three are available as separate plug‑ins, and have to be downloaded separately even if you buy the full Mastering Pack, but a single authorisation covers the entire bundle. There are genuinely helpful tooltips associated with all the controls, a well thought‑out and clear interactive help guide, and each plug‑in maintains an Undo history that allows you to retrace your steps when you go wrong. The Pro‑C compressor and Pro‑L limiter, for instance, feature not only conventional gain‑reduction, input and output meters, but a scrolling histogram that allows you to visualise these parameters over time.
All of them look great, and do a good job of displaying the information you need to see in a meaningful yet compact fashion. This is most immediately apparent in the beautifully slick interface, many features of which are shared across all three plug‑ins. Dig beneath the surface, however, and it becomes clear that much thought has gone into the design of Pro‑C, Pro‑Q and Pro‑L. And at first glance, Fabfilter's take on this triumvurate looks pretty traditional, consisting, as it does, of a stereo compressor, a parametric EQ and a single‑band, brick‑wall limiter. With so many mastering processors already on the market, is there room for another compressor, EQ and limiter? Fabfilter certainly think so.Īlthough there have been some innovations in recent years, mix bus and master processing still has the Holy Trinity of compression, equalisation and peak limiting at its core.
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