Lurssen Mastering Console vs EQ560
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lurssen Mastering Console
Achieve professional, Grammy-winning audio mastering on your mobile device. This app replicates the secret tools and techniques of a renowned mastering studio, offering pre-made styles and intuitive controls for a polished sound.
- Studio workflow replication
- 40 pre-made 'Styles' templates
- Input Drive and 5-band EQ
- Waveform display with automation
- Save custom EQ presets
- Export to various formats
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Lurssen Mastering Console puts you at the controls in the studio with all of the secret tools, settings and techniques of world renowned multi-GRAMMY Award winning mastering engineer Gavin Lurssen and his team. Now you can master your music on the go on your iPhone/iPad and get the professional, Grammy award-winning sound that the studio is known for. Pop, rock, hip-hop and more, Lurssen Mastering Console can help you achieve amazing mastering results when a trip to Los Angeles just isn’t in the budget. Lurssen Mastering Console is a totally unique and new approach to digital audio mastering. It's designed to help you capture the magic of the Lurssen Mastering studio’s entire mastering audio processing philosophy. Instead of giving you just a collection of individual processors and presets, Lurssen Mastering Console provides you with models of the complete mastering gear processor chain as a whole. The interactions between the individual processors have been digitally recreated which recreates the synergistic "whole is greater than the sum of its parts" sound that has earned Gavin and Lurssen Mastering multiple Grammys. With Lurssen Mastering Console, you have automatic access to a lifetime's worth of professional audio mastering experience. It helps you quickly get great sounding results thanks to its 40 pre-made "Styles" templates, which have been created and optimized by Gavin Lurssen, mastering engineer Reuben Cohen and the rest of the team. These templates reflect decades of combined mastering experience and fit a broad range of musical genres. Using Lurssen Mastering couldn't be easier: Just create a project, load a song, then select an appropriate "Style" from the drop-down menu. Take control via an Input Drive knob and a five band EQ as well as a "PUSH" knob, which lets you subtly and uniformly nudge the EQs so you can "ride" the flow of the song and add that special Lurssen "magic" to your music. You can view and automate changes to the two knobs by using the waveform display with three different automation modes. You can make adjustments to EQ settings and save those as presets for easy recall — a preset consists of a style plus your adjustments. You can also view the physical gear chain and make subtle adjustments via the Chain view. When you've finished your mastering work, you can export your song to File Sharing, SoundCloud and more in a variety of popular file formats for final distribution and delivery. With the Lurssen Mastering Console you can easily master audio with your iPhone/iPad while on the go. Features: • Created with Grammy Award winning Mastering Engineer Gavin Lurssen and his team • Digitally reproduces Lurssen Mastering's unique studio workflow, techniques and signal chain philosophy • Synergistic “whole is greater than the sum of its parts” mastering app for iPhone/iPad • 40 pre-made "Styles" created by Lursssen Mastering that reproduce the settings and gear used to master different genres • 3 easy-to-navigate displays: A Studio view with controls, a Wave waveform view and a Chain view for the individual processors • Controllable Input Drive knob • Adjustable 5 band EQ with fixed frequency • "PUSH" Knob to subtly enhance selected song passages via uniform EQ adjustment • Full automation available to adjust controls to audio content • Gangable Input Drive control for stereo balance tweaks • Input/Process assignable VU metering • Stereo/Mono monitoring capability • 88.2/96kHz output processing • Audio import from device library • FREE app that allows demo of settings and features (with intermittent noise injected plus no export options) • Play/Process In-app purchase unlocks application • HD Engine In-app purchase unlocks high res processing and export • Digital Delivery Mastering (DDM) option added to the HD Engine In-app purchase
EQ560
This audio effect offers a 10-band graphic equalizer based on a classic American design. It provides precise filtering, high headroom, and unique "Proportional Q" for intuitive curve shaping. Use it standalone or as an AUv3 plugin in compatible music apps.
- 10-band graphic equalizer
- Proportional Q design
- AUv3 plugin support
- Standalone mode
- Stereo, Mid, Side EQ modes
- Undo/Redo and A/B comparison
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EQ560 AUv3 plug-in — comes as time-limited Demo-version for you to try. It gives you 5 minutes of Free play time. (You can reload the EQ560 AUv3 plug-in as many times as you want, thereby you get the Demo period again and again.) Unlimited version of EQ560 AUv3 plug-in comes as In-App Purchase. The EQ560 based on Classic American EQ from the late '60s, the 10-band graphic equalizer features precision filtering and high headroom, ideal for signal enhancement. Features: • Standalone and AUv3 plug-in; • Precise port of Rack Extensions plug-in; • Modeled vintage EQ; • 10 bands of proprietary equalization; • Familiar graphics operation on one octave centers; • 12 dB of boost/cut per band; • «Proportional Q» narrows filter Q at extremes; • IN/OUT switch allows the user to bypass the Graphic EQ for before/after comparisons; • Stereo (Mono), Mid or Side EQ modes; • Undo/Redo; • A/B comparison; • 2x/4x/8x Upsampling; • Macro controllers; • Built-in Gain Match; • Scalable GUI. The curve shaping potential is unmatched, while unique Proportional Q design intuitively widens the filter bandwidth at lower boost/cut levels and narrows it at higher settings. The EQ560 extends the features of the original hardware and joins the flexibility of the digital world to the character of the analog processing. Allows you to choose between equalizer modes (Stereo, Mid, Side) and remove analogue saturation from the processing circuit to deliver pure digital sound. The EQ560 is handy when you need to make EQ adjustments on larger parts of the spectrum instead of a restricted area. Boosting or cutting several bands at once will radically alter the sound of a track, be it a thin, weak snare that needs low end or a dull vocal that needs to be opened up. To use EQ560 as a plug-in, you need an AUv3-compatible host app like GarageBand, Auria, AUM, Cubasis and more — EQ560 will appear in the list of Audio Unit extensions for effect plug-ins in the host app. The EQ560 is a great complement to the parametric EQ550 and EQ550b.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: EQ560 at 3.7 against Lurssen Mastering Console's 3.0. EQ560 also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (60% vs 34%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Lurssen Mastering Console sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and EQ560 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
EQ560 holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 87 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Lurssen Mastering Console's written reviews are positive against 60% of EQ560's.
Lurssen Mastering Console ships an update every 3 months, EQ560 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lurssen Mastering Console | EQ560 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (87 ratings) | 3.7 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.0% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 87 — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 | 10.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IK Multimedia US, LLC | RRS, OOO |
Customer experience
Lurssen Mastering Console
EQ560
Bugs and requests
Lurssen Mastering Console
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes when importing songs
- Crashes on launch or opening
- Registration/login failures requiring repeated re-authentication
- Audio playback glitches and skipping
- Waveform display out of sync with audio
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- Horizontal mode lock slipping back to locked position
- Unable to add songs or access music library
- Demo mode only allows 5-second playback
- Incompatibility with iOS 14 and newer versions
- Files stored in inaccessible iTunes shared folder
- Cannot delete mastered files without reinstalling app
- In-app purchase authorization issues
Requested features
12 requests- LUFS integrated loudness meter
- Audio Unit (AU) plugin support
- Audiobus and IAA compatibility
- Dropbox and iCloud import support
- Goniometer and multimeter visualization
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- Better export options beyond iTunes
- More customizable parameters
- Improved file browser and management
- Regular app updates and maintenance
- Free trial period (10+ days) with full functionality
- Lower pricing structure
- Support for multiple file formats on import
EQ560
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lurssen Mastering Console
- Two Day Full Functionality$4.99
- One Week Full Functionality$9.99
- One Month Full Functionality$29.99
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- Play / Process$64.99
- Unlimited Functionality$99.99
- HD Engine$99.99
EQ560
- RRS EQ560 Unlimited$4.99
Questions
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