Ported in entirety from the System 6000 platform, TC Electronic reckons to ‘open a new chapter in bringing professional mastering tools closer to the creators of music everywhere’ with the 2019-incarnation of the dual-sided Finalizer concept – a desktop mastering app that cherry-picks from multiband compression, limiter and EQ algorithms from TC’s catalogue.
This is bundled in a package along with new features, such as presets based on complex analytical findings and an entirely new way of presenting the audio visually, showing how individual mastering decisions affect the song from start to end in real time as the processing is being applied.
The second half of the reincarnated Finalizer mastering concept is a free online analysis service that introduces a new way of visualising music with regard to loudness, dynamics and frequency spectrum. Users can upload their own tracks and compare them directly to hundreds of songs that TC Electronic has already pre-analysed and added to the continuously growing online library, spanning different musical genres and periods of time.
A key concept is that every song that has appeared on Billboard’s Top 20 within a quarter are pooled together as a bulk of songs that are representative for how hits sound today – and the company will continue to maintain this ‘sound of today’ by updating this library on a quarterly basis.
Uploading original tracks, as well as browsing the pre-analysed songs, gaining an understanding of how music was/is mixed and mastered, is a free service. By comparing their own songs, users will have indication of whether they match the sound that is desired. In case, there is a significant mismatch, the analysis result offers an insight into what might be adjusted for a subsequent revision.
More: https://finalizer.com
