ACQUA - HWMC - Howie Weinberg Mastering Console

The Diamond - HWMC – the Howie Weinberg Mastering Console has been created by Acustica Audio and Studio DMI, in collaboration with Howie Weinberg, the multi-Grammy®winning Mastering Engineer with 200+ platinum and gold records, 15 Grammys, 31 nominations, 19k credits and 25 billion streams to his name.

For the first time, Howie Weinberg opens the doors of his studio and brings you his 30 years of elite mastering experience in an exciting new product that embodies the incredible history, workflow and closely guarded mastering chain of one of Pro Audio’s Gurus.

Golden ears make gold records

The HWMC - Howie Weinberg Mastering Console brings together Howie's authentic collection of mastering equipment, carefully selected over the years to provide the highest possible quality in mastering. This plugin happily reproduces the hardware chain that countersigns Howie's signature sound and packs it into a powerful all in one interface with a sensational and distinctive sound, to enhance and elevate your music.
 

Only the best vibes for your master.

Thanks to its intelligent layout, the HWMC - Howie Weinberg Mastering Console plugin is designed to be your primary pro digital mastering tool to finalize and polish your tracks according to today's standards. The HWMC brings nothing less than magic — the same magic heard on albums like Nirvana’s “Nevermind”, Pantera’s “Cowboys from Hell”, and more. Prince, U2, Metallica, Deftones, Soundgarden, Van Halen are just a few of the popular names in his gigantic discography.

Thanks to this amazing collaboration, the HWMC is available outside of Howie’s Studio and you can now bring the same magic to your own productions.

What you get

HWMC - the Howie Weinberg Mastering Console features six different sections:

• C: A ‘Coral-style’ [pun intended considering the AA world] Mastering Tube Compressor with four different switchable Compressor Operating Modes depending on the rectifier circuit emulations selected (GERM - GERM2 - SILIC - LED).
• E: A ‘Scarlet-style’ [pun intended considering the AA world] Parametric Stereo Mastering EQ with LF/ MF, HF/MF bands offering ±9dB dB gain.
• F: High and Low shelving filters plus continuously variable High-pass (from 20Hz to20kHz) and Low-Pass (from 20Hz to 30kHz) mastering cutting filters with a 12 dB per octave slope implemented to Howie’s specifications.
• L: An ultra-transparent algorithmic Brickwall Limiter with oversampling-rate buttons (1x - 4x - 8x).
• ADC: A Clipping stage that includes three different models (C1 - C2 - C3) from least to most aggressive, controllable via the Clipper knob and the oversampling-rate buttons (1x - 4x - 8x) from the sampling of different Howie's analog-to-digital converters.
• DAC: A Preamp stage which include three Modes from the sampling of different digital-to-analog converters, Howie's signature sound (Dcs - Mytek - Mytek+Tape).

Moreover the plugin includes a series of additional controls. For details, please refer to the User's manual.
 

HWMC – the Howie Weinberg Mastering Console plugin GUI

HOW TO TRY A PLUGIN:  TRIAL MODE

• Create a user account (if you do not have one yet) on our website
• Download and Install Aquarius, our products manager, for either macOS or Windows.
• Log in to Aquarius using your user email and password.
• Type the product name in the search field inside Aquarius to find the '(trial)' versions of the product, then click on the thumbnail or the 'Install' button. This will take you to the product pages (the trial versions of a product are also visible in the 'related products' section on the right)
• Select the right plugin format according to the DAW you are using and click 'Install.'
• Aquarius will download, install, and authorize the trial product automatically.
• Run your DAW. You're set!

For more details about the installation/authorization process please refer to this page

Technical Specs

• Core 17
• Available sample rates: 44.1kHz | 48kHz | 88.2kHz | 96kHz
• M1 macOS Monterey Compatible

* The introductory period implies the product may receive improvements, changes, or fixes available through Aquarius Desktop updates during the first four weeks of its release.

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Our products may recall some GUI elements of other companies but in this specific case we are not affiliated with them. For example, this product does not contain any algorithms or parts of directly related to SPL Electronics GmbH and therefore as a direct consequence, the GUI (Graphical User Interface) design may recall some graphical elements of the manufacturer, but the manufacturer, SPL Electronics GmbH does not approve or has not approved our product, because it is completely unrelated to it.