Softube Weiss MM-1 Mastering Maximizer Plugin  From Softube

Discover the future of professional mix maximizing with MM-1 Mastering Maximizer. Based on the esteemed and indispensable DS1-MK3, MM-1 lets you effortlessly achieve an authentic, polished Weiss mastering sound with the highest level of loudness you desire.

Featuring the same algorithms as DS1-MK3—plus an easy-to-use style selector, an intelligent amount knob, and a side menu to ensure that your project is ready for any platform—MM-1 gives you the optimal amount of authority over the feel of your masters while keeping the process delightfully simple. Get the levels up without sacrificing your sound with MM-1 Mastering Maximizer.

Designed by Experts, Built on Legacy

Softube has a lengthy history of emulating professional audio gear. After close to two decades working in collaboration with premium brands like Weiss Engineering, Tube-Tech, Solid State Logic, Chandler Limited®, and Trident, we have a reliable track record of recreating classics in software form that sound exactly like their hardware counterparts.

Weiss MM-1 Mastering Maximizer is built on this legacy. We took the same meticulous approach we always do, and then we took it further. The DS1-MK3 algorithms that grace MM-1 are not merely stunning recreations. They are the algorithms themselves. We undertook the daunting, yet rewarding, task of code porting each line of the original DS1-MK3 code used in MM-1. The result is the stunningly transparent sound quality of Weiss Engineering. Nothing less.

Styles to spare

Reach max mastering sound with minimal tweaking. Select any one of MM-1’s five limiting styles from Transparent to Deess and then use the amount knob to dial in the proportion of processing defined by that style. With Transparent, you can retain as much of the original transients and dynamics as possible while focusing on adding subtle compression that leaves room to bring up RMS. The Loud setting lets you focus on maintaining headroom for the limiter to reach for a higher RMS. Punch adds weight and brings out transient material for an energetic-feeling mix. Wide allows you to create a three-dimensional sound by widening the drums, backing instruments, or the entire mix. And, to smooth out frequencies that could otherwise be harsh, simply deploy Deess.

The Weiss amount

The name Weiss resounds in the pro audio mastering sphere. And, since its launch in the 1990s, Weiss DS1-MK3 has become the exemplary mastering unit. Despite its premium price tag, it is indispensable to professional mastering studios around the world. Its unrivaled transparency, unparalleled versatility, and exceptional sound quality have gained it a place on almost every major album of the last twenty-five years. Softube + Weiss MM-1 Mastering Maximizer features the exact compression, limiting, and deessing algorithms of DS1-MK3. With the Parallel Mix knob, you can apply the perfect amount of the coveted Weiss sound to your original mix. And our line-by-line code porting process means that what you hear is always authentically Weiss.

Side effects

Secure your mix's spot on any and every stage with MM-1 Mastering Maximizer. With MM-1's side menu you can instantly and effortlessly select common dBFS standards ensuring that your mix is presented with the proper headroom for a variety of formats. Use the side menu to make rapid adjustments to the output dBFS from zero to -1.0 and guarantee that your limiting delivers a finished product that's compatible with YouTube, Spotify, physical spaces, and every platform in between.

This product supports Extended Features

We love VU meters, Bakelite knobs, and analog quirks. But we want modern precision and workflow. The answer? Softube Extended Features. Easy-access panels with the innovations you need close at hand.

Clear-cut quality

Since its release in 1996, Weiss DS1-MK3 has garnered the affection of professional mastering engineers the world over. The TEC Award-winning mastering processor is the white box seen in every top studio and the coveted crystal-clear sound heard on every major album of the past twenty-five years. With stunning transparency, unmatched flexibility, and outstanding sound quality, DS1-MK3 is the mastering unit that all others are measured against. Softube's DS1-MK3 and MM-1 Mastering Maximizer are the only plug-ins created in collaboration with and officially endorsed by Grammy-winner Daniel Weiss and Weiss Engineering. It’s a difference you can hear with Weiss-clarity.

Sonic odyssey

Weiss Engineering has been a pioneer in digital audio equipment design since 1979. It was then that founder Daniel Weiss joined Willi Studer AG in Switzerland. In 1985, when Weiss struck out on his own and founded Weiss Engineering, he focused on developing digital audio equipment for mastering studios. The result of that endeavor is now legend.

The tale of Softube and Weiss Engineering dates to 2008 but, if the subsequent suite of products is any indication, it’s already an epic. Despite having so many guiding principles in common with Weiss, we didn’t get serious about working together until 2015. After three years—and a whole lot of blood, sweat, and tears—the Softube + Weiss DS1-MK3 plug-in was released to great acclaim. Now, the saga continues with Weiss MM-1 Mastering Maximizer.

In short

• A 1:1 code port of the famous DS1-MK3 for the exact sound of the original
• Fully licensed and endorsed by Grammy-winner Daniel Weiss
• Go as loud as you want without sacrificing desirable tone and dynamics
• Five styles to instantly add Weiss sonics to your mix or master
• A side menu to ensure your final product is ready for any platform
• Updated processing resolution and the addition of Waveform view
• Parallel mixing added transparency
• Great for maximizing your mix-bus quickly and effectively
• Impossible to get wrong—be the master of your own masters!