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Main Check: The Plain-English Mix Assistant (Max for Live)

Instead of showing you the math, Main Check listens to the math and tells you exactly what is wrong with your mix in plain English.

Main Check: The Plain-English Mix Assistant (Max for Live) Interface

The Story

If you look at the master bus of a professional mix engineer, you will see a mess of scientific tools: phase correlation meters, fast-fourier transform graphs, and lissajous figures. They are incredibly powerful, but they require you to translate complex visual squiggles into actionable mixing decisions.

Main Check is different. Acting as an intelligent safety net on your Master track, it continuously analyzes your audio across four critical domains.

Key Features

  • Stereo & Phase: Context-aware width detection that warns you about phase cancellation, weak centers, and muddy bass.
  • Tonal Balance: Compares your frequency distribution against predefined genre profiles.
  • Custom 'Learn' Mode: Feed the device your favorite reference track, and it will memorize its frequency footprint so you can match it perfectly.
  • Dynamics: True Stereo RMS calculation that spots dangerously high transients or heavily over-compressed 'sausage' waveforms.
  • Technical Health: Surgical brickwall filters catch invisible sub-rumble, DC Offset, and Hidden Clipping (Intersample Peaks) before you export.

Watch it in Action

$5+ (Pay what you want)
Purchase via Gumroad

Requirements

Ableton Live 11+ (Suite, or Standard with Max for Live addon). macOS 10.15+ or Windows 10+.

Current Version

v1.01 (Updated 28 May 2026)