Muscle
Description
Loud and proud, without compression.
MIA Muscle adds presence and perceived loudness without squashing your dynamics. One knob, PROTEIN, brings quiet material, vocals and buses forward. One of your best weapons for low-loudness files such as MP3s. Add to taste. You can’t go wrong.
Why Muscle
- Loudness without squashing: presence and perceived loudness, dynamics intact
- Forward, not flat: brings parts to the front of the mix
- One knob: PROTEIN goes from dry to full. Set it by ear.
- Free forever: no iLok, no account
Use it on
- Quiet recordings
- Vocals
- Drum and mix buses
- Low-loudness files such as MP3s
What’s new in 2.2
- New interface with A/B compare and value readouts
- Native on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs
- VST3, AU and AAX
- Same sound as the original Muscle: your old sessions load and sound identical
Controls
- PROTEIN: blends the Muscle colour into your signal, from dry to full
- OUTPUT: level trim, -24 to 0 dB
- A/B: compare two settings
- Clip LED: lights when the output clips, click to clear
Listen
Additional information
| iLok | No iLok required |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.2.1 |
| Supported Platforms | macOS 10.13 or later, Universal (Apple Silicon and Intel) |
| Supported plug-in hosts | Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase, Ableton Live, Studio One, REAPER, FL Studio and other VST3, AU and AAX hosts |
| Supported plug-in formats | VST3 |




