Mastering The Mix Mixroom £49

Intelligent plugins make mixing a quicker and more reliable process. Let’s see how this latest EQ can help with your mixing and mastering.

Mastering The Mix first got our attention with their easy-to-use Levels metering plugin. Since then the team have delivered some excellent plugins aimed at making your mixing and mastering tasks quicker and the outcomes better. Last year’s Bass room EQ is a perfect example, delivering bass-focused EQ via their innovative 3D style vertical layout. Their latest plugin, Mix room (VST, VST3, AU, AAX) employs the same layout, but this time the EQ handles frequencies from 320Hz to 20kHz. The plugin combines manual and intelligent operation, incorporating both presets and the option to analyse your own audio files. Let’s take a look at what’s on offer.

Layout

Mixroom is an 8-band configurable EQ that uses a vertical layout with high frequencies at the top of the window and low frequencies at the bottom. Each band is represented by a colored box that you can move and adjust. The height of the box is the bandwidth and the vertical position defines its frequency. The graphic sits in a 3D space and gain adjustments change the box size to give the impression it’s nearer for gain boost and further away for cut.

“Mixroom’s true power lies in its intelligent EQing capability, done by target and analysis”

Each band includes solo, bypass, and the option to rebalance the mid and side components. You can also process just the mid or just the sides component alone, though not both independently using the same band. Bands can overlap completely, so you could use two bands to achieve this outcome or simply as a way to achieve more gain at a specific frequency. Bands up to 1.6kHz are peak shape and above this can be set to either peak or shelving. However, there’s no low shelf option or high and low pass filters.