NUGEN Audio - Monofilter

Monofilter is NUGEN Audio's bass management plugin: it controls stereo width and phase in the low end so your bass and kick sit dead centre with real weight. It's for electronic producers with wide synth basses, mix engineers fighting phasey recordings, and anyone mastering for vinyl or big systems.

Why the low end needs it

Stereo effects, detuned synth patches and mic bleed all smear bass across the stereo field. It sounds fine in headphones, but on a club rig or summed to mono it loses focus and can partly cancel. Monofilter narrows the low frequencies towards mono below a point you choose, with a shaped transition so the stereo image above stays untouched. You grab the stereo envelope on the display and move it directly rather than guessing with abstract knobs.

Phase and quality options

Phase correlation control and a correlation-by-frequency meter let you see and fix phase problems in the bass, and automatic phase alignment helps where two sources fight. There's a zero-latency mode for tracking and live use, a linear phase mode for mastering, and an HQ mode, plus independent trim of the mono and stereo parts and a high-pass filter.

Where it fits

On bass buses, wide synth basses and the master. The result is a tighter, louder-feeling low end that translates to every system, which is exactly what you want in house, techno and drum and bass. One of those plugins that quietly makes everything sound more expensive.

Features

• Low-frequency stereo width control with adjustable transition
• Independent mono and stereo trim
• Stereo spectrum analysis
• Phase correlation control and correlation-by-frequency meter
• Automatic phase alignment
• Zero latency, linear phase and HQ modes
• Width control for user-defined high and low ranges, plus high-pass filter

System requirements

• Mac: macOS 10.9 or later (64-bit)
• Windows: Windows 7 or later (64-bit)
• AAX, VST3 and AU (Mac only), plus AudioSuite

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