Sixth Sample has recently released a mastering plugin made in collaboration with a professional mastering engineer.
The multiband Utopia utilizes a unique parallel dynamics and saturation process to get your track loud, controlled, and full of character at the same time.
It started in 2022 when Luca reached out with an idea he’d been sitting on for a while — a plugin that would make his own mastering workflow faster and less time-consuming. The concept was simple: take his parallel dynamics and saturation process, the one he used on every master, and package it in a way that didn’t require hours of careful setup every single time.
What followed was years of back and forth, testing, and an almost obsessive amount of measuring and tuning by Luca. Optimal threshold values for every possible crossover point, frequency balance studies across different genres, countless hours making sure the results held up on anything you threw at it. The goal was never to dumb the process down — it was to do all the hard work upfront, once, so nobody else ever has to.
Utopia features
- Parallel dynamics and saturation with blend control per band
- Hand-tuned processing for every band and crossover point combination
- Unique dynamics and saturation modes tailored for each frequency range
- Loudness matching between parallel paths
- Input normalization for consistent results every time
- Personal look with 10 themes + custom
Available for Windows and macOS (VST3, AU and AAX), Utopia is priced €49.95 EUR / $57 USD.
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