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Production Experts Gold Award

NAMM TEC Awards 2025 FinalistIntroducing MDWDRC3 Multichannel Dynamics Plugin

The Ultimate Transparent & Smooth Loudness Dynamics™ Processing Multichannel Plugin for Pro Tools Native AAX, VST3 & AU. Designed by George Massenburg. 

MDWDRC3-Native Multichannel Dynamic Range Controller Plugin

New Discrete and Loudness Modes for MDWDRC2 Dynamics Range Controller Plugin

Check out the latest version of MDWDRC2 Dynamic Range Controller audio plugin with new modes for Discrete (individual dynamics) and Loudness (overall dynamics). Free upgrade for existing customers.

MDWDRC2 New Features

GEORGE TALKS DYNAMICS

In this series of videos, George Massenburg talks about the philosophy, development, and design of the MDWDRC2-Native Dynamics Range Controller plugin for Pro Tools AAX, VST3 and AU DAW formats, and how to control dynamics, with the DRC2 plugin, in your recordings and mixes.

Massenburg DesignWorks MDWDRC2 Native - Expert Review

MDWDRC2-Native Pro Tools Production Expert Review

Production Experts Gold Award “Responding primarily to loudness as opposed to signal levels alone, MDWDRC2 sets out to surpass the traditional combination of fader rides and compression. This promises automatic transparent level control of even the greatest of dynamic extremes”

The review includes two example videos showing how the DRC2 can control levels without the artefacts associated with other dynamics control plugins.

Massenburg DesignWorks MDWDRC2 Native - Expert Review

What the Reviewers and our Customers say about MDWDRC…

DRC2 has become an invaluable tool in mixing operas for broadcast.  It's ability to musically and transparently control the wide dynamic range of an operatic voice is truly incredible.  On a recent project, I inserted it on all 16 wireless body microphones, where I would have previously used a traditional compressor.  Not only were the results far better, but it saved an enormous amount of time.

Rick Jacobsohn

Jacobsohn Audio LLC

MDWDRC2‑Native is a genuinely different dynamics plug‑in that has a unique ability to iron out level variations without sounding like it’s doing anything at all. If you demo it, you might find it hard to live without it.

Sam Inglis

Sound on Sound

MDWDRC2-Native - Incredible transparency: 15 dB of gain reduction on a solo piano - I couldn’t achieve this using any other dynamics tools I currently have.

Mike Thorne

Production Expert

The MDWDRC2-Native is by far the most transparent dynamics plugin in my folder. My main selling points are how different this plugin is from all my other compressor/limiters, along with how great it sounds – or doesn't sound

Bill Stunt

Recording Magazine

MDWDRC2 is revolutionary and I'm incorporating it in every mix for every use from natural sounding and gentle control to typical Pop music treatments and then for radical sound design and wacky effects. I'm hooked on it.

Barry Rudolph

Mix Magazine Mar23 Pages 41-42

MDWDRC2-Native is unbelievably transparent like no other dynamics processor & arguably the most capable plug-in for leveling vocals, speech and dialog. Flexible enough to take on music or post-production with ease.

Diogo C. Borges

Gearspace

MDWEQ6 Plug-in
for Pro Tools, VST & AU

The Professional EQ Tool – State of the Art Sound Quality in Digital Equalization

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