Metric Halo (MHMBS) CGII v4.0.71.235 WiN

Impossibly Loud. Impossibly Good.

Chris Gehringer, Senior Mastering Engineer & Partner of Sterling Sound, was so taken with our Sontec MES-432D9D that when Rick Carson approached him about doing a signature plug-in, he was was ready to go! The result of our collaboration is CGII - a mastering dynamics finishing toolkit.

CGII is comprised of two uniquely complementary dynamics enhancement sections, a new True Peak Limiting stage, DC blocking and dither with LUFS/true peak metering via spiffy tube filament displays, all operating at up to 16x over-sampling (or none at all - depending on your tastes).

The design prioritizes musical integrity and ease of use, with the ability to add effective loudness, weight and definition without diminishing spatial depth and visceral impact the way traditional dynamics processors often do.

Use CGII to make your masters loud without losing the clarity, density and heft of the original mix. Even if you are working with a mix that is already loud, you can give it a little extra, without adding unpleasant distortion and without flattening out the material and sucking the life out of the low end. At the same time you can control the true-peak level of the program to ensure that there are no inter-sample overs.

We've also included dither, a DC-block filter and complete LUFS/True Peak metering so that you can place CGII at the end of your master chain as a one-stop shop for final processing.

While CGII's original spec was to make things good & loud simultaneously, you will find that it is wonderful in a variety places in your mixing and processing chain.

Use the Loudness processor to excite harmonics. Use the Density processor to bring up the bloom and raise low-level clarity without affecting transients. Or simply put the incredibly transparent true-peak lookahead limit any place you need it.



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