How should I prepare my mix?

Export a wav or flac with no limiter on the master bus and peaks around -6 dBFS. Up to 10 minutes and 150 MB.

AI mastering

Master your track in about a minute.

Upload your mix and pick a sound, or upload a song you want yours to sound like. Listen to a free 30 second before and after. If you like it, €5 gets you the full master as a 24-bit WAV and an MP3 320.

Your mix

wav or flac works best. Up to 10 minutes and 150 MB. Leave the limiter off your master bus and keep peaks around -6 dB.

How should it sound?

Warm about -12 LUFS

Rounder lows, soft top, dynamics kept. For chill, deep and melodic tracks.

Balanced about -10 LUFS

Clear top end, tight low end. The all-rounder for Spotify and SoundCloud.

Loud about -9 LUFS

Dense and forward. For club tracks, afro house and DJ promos.

10 free previews left today

◆ Your master

Queued.

Waiting for the worker.

What happens to your mix.

Every style runs the same chain a mastering engineer would start from, tuned per style:

Clean up the very low end. Rumble under 25 Hz goes, and everything under 120 Hz is folded to mono so the kick and bass hit the same in a club and on a phone.
Tone. A gentle low shelf, a small cut in the boxy 300 Hz area and a lift in the air band. Moves of 1 to 2 dB, never more.
Glue. A slow, stereo-linked compressor takes 2 to 3.5 dB off the loudest passages so the track holds together.
Loudness. A brickwall limiter brings it up to the style's target and keeps true peaks at or under -1 dBTP, so nothing clips after Spotify or Apple Music convert it.

In Match a song mode we use Matchering 2.0 instead: it measures the frequency balance and loudness of your reference and reshapes your mix to match. It works best when the reference is in the same genre and the same tempo range.

Who it is for.

Playlist pitches

A quiet, unmastered demo sounds weak next to finished tracks. Master it before you send it to curators, including us.

DJ promos

Get a club-loud version to test in your sets or send to DJs, without waiting a week for an engineer.

Budget releases

For a single on a small budget, €5 and one minute beats an unmastered upload. For an album, hire an engineer.

Checking your mix

Hearing your mix mastered tells you fast whether the low end or the vocal needs another pass.

Common questions

What do I get for €5?

The full mastered track as a 24-bit 44.1 kHz WAV and an MP3 at 320 kbps. The preview is free, so you only pay once you have heard the result.

How loud will my master be?

Warm lands around -12 LUFS, Balanced around -10 and Loud around -9, all with true peaks at or under -1 dBTP. Spotify plays everything at about -14 LUFS anyway, so louder is not automatically better there. Loud is for clubs and DJ sets.

Is AI mastering as good as a mastering engineer?

No. A good engineer listens, catches problems in the mix and makes decisions a processor cannot. This is for demos, pitches, promos and budget releases, where a clean, balanced, loud master in a minute is what you need.

My mix already has a limiter on it. Is that a problem?

It works, but you get a better result without one. Turn the master bus limiter off and export with peaks around -6 dB, then let the mastering do the loudness.

Can I try different styles?

Yes. Previews are free, up to 10 a day. Run the same mix through Warm, Balanced, Loud or a reference and buy the one you like.

Do you keep my audio?

Your upload and any reference are deleted as soon as the master is made. The preview stays online for 3 days and the full master for 7 days, then both are deleted. We never use your music for anything else.

Something is wrong with my file.

Email info@rapture-records.com with the link from your receipt. We fix it or refund you.

Mastered? Pitch it.

If it is afro house or deep house, send it to Ben. Listened to in full, written feedback within 72 hours.

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