HOFA-Plugins

Do you use this compressor because he does the right job or because its beautiful retro-design? Or simply because it is your latest purchase and you're eager to use it?
Is the mastering tool really making your song better?
Let's find out in a randomized blind study. Just try different mastering approaches on several tracks, leave one track unmastered, throw the 4U+Blindtest on every track, adapt loudness differences and than just listen and skip tracks without knowing what you are really listening to. Cycle your tracks a few times, rate every track and get your favorite blind-tested master. Don't be dissapointed if the clean unmastered track turns out to be the best. It happens.
Really useful and surprisingly underrated tool for self-teaching producers. It is a very good lection to train your ears without the distraction of design and expactations.
Additionally you might wanna throw in a track with a good reference song for your genre. So you have sort of an anker in your blind-cycles.

Does the trick for monitoring EBU r128 loudness levels. No problems and easy to see whats going on.

This thing is neat. Drop it on your master buss and it tracks how much time you spend on a project. If you need to take a break you can put it on pause.