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Guided mastering

Gild

Press Master It. Then hear why.

  • One-click master
  • Reference matching
  • Live coach
  • Listening modes
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Gild masters your song with you. Press Listen and play the track, or load the file, then press Master It. Gild sets the tone, width, compression and loudness for the style you choose, lands on your loudness target, and tells you what it did and why. Every tool it used stays there for you to change.

18
styles, or no style at all
10
tone bands, matched and checked twice
17
places to hear your master
8x
true-peak detection

The whole window

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Gild straight after Master It on a synthwave mix: mastered to -12.0 LUFS against a -12.0 target, with the report explaining each move.

What it does

Master It

One button trims the level, matches the tone in ten octave bands, sets bass mono and width, sets the multiband and glue compressors, picks warmth, then pushes into the limiter until it lands exactly on your loudness target.

Live or from a file

Press Listen and play the song in your DAW, or switch to Song mode, load a WAV, master it and export a finished file without leaving the plugin.

Your target, your ceiling

Gentle, Balanced or Loud for your style, Streaming -14, Apple -16, Broadcast -23 LUFS, a reference track's level, or your own number. Peaks stay under the ceiling you set.

Match a reference

Drop a commercial track on the reference box and Gild matches its tone, width and loudness instead. Hear flips between them; A/B flips to your original at the same loudness, so louder can't fool you.

A coach that explains

The report says why each move was made and warns about clipping, phase trouble or a mix that's already too loud. Coach tips come with one-click fixes, and Undo takes back the last Master It.

Hear it anywhere

Seventeen listening modes play your master on a car stereo, a phone speaker, cheap earbuds, through the neighbour's wall, on AM radio, worn vinyl or VHS, all level-matched. The same places are in our free plugin, Earshot.

Signal chain

  1. Trim
  2. Tone match
  3. EQ
  4. Stereo
  5. Multiband
  6. Glue
  7. Warmth
  8. Clip
  9. Limiter
  10. Space
  11. Dither

The warmth, push and clipper run at 2x. The limiter looks 2.5 ms ahead.

Styles and listening modes

STYLES

  • No style
  • Pop
  • Rock
  • Metal
  • Punk / Post-Punk
  • Synthwave / 80s
  • Darkwave / Goth
  • Hip-Hop
  • Trap
  • EDM / House
  • Techno
  • Drum & Bass
  • Lo-fi
  • Ambient / Cinematic
  • Acoustic / Folk
  • Jazz
  • Country
  • R&B / Soul
  • Instrumental / Post-Rock

ON LOCATION

  • Boombox
  • Outside the Club

EVERYDAY SPEAKERS

  • Car Stereo
  • Phone Speaker
  • Laptop
  • Cheap Earbuds

THROUGH A WALL

  • Neighbour's Party
  • Upstairs Apartment
  • Underwater

OLD BROADCAST

  • AM Radio
  • Transistor Radio
  • Megaphone
  • Old TV

OLD FORMATS

  • Worn Vinyl
  • Pocket Cassette
  • VHS Tape
  • 78 RPM

Specs

TypeAudio effect, stereo
Put it onYour master bus, last in the chain
Latency194 samples at 48 kHz (about 4 ms)
MetersIntegrated, short-term, momentary, true peak, LRA and PLR
WindowResizable, 60% to 160%, four looks
SystemWindows 10 or 11, 64-bit. VST3 plugin and standalone app. Mac version planned.
LicenceOne key for everything on your order, checked offline. No iLok, no account.

Gild

$20

Yours to keep, on every computer you own. Try the free demo first: everything works, with a short gap every 45 seconds until you add a key.

Free demo

Or get all nine for $79. Need help? Read the Gild manual or support.