Introducing master_me, a mastering plugin for live broadcasting
master_me is a new free/libre plugin and standalone application to automatically adjust the loudness of the audio in your live streams.
It has been designed to be stupid easy when you need one button to do it right. If you use something like Ardour as a mixing desk, all you have to do is set up input levels and routing (e.g. from Ardour to OBS), then drop the master_me plugin into the processor box of the master bus, click a preset — and you are pretty much ready to go.
The plugin/program comes with presets for YouTube, Apple Podcasts, EBU R128, and general speech and music. If you need more, you can switch to the expert mode and get full access to all the tools that build up the “one click” experience under the hood: a leveler, two types of a compressor, a limiter, an EQ, and more.