Upload your pre-master and see what a mastering engineer would send back: low-mid mud, harsh highs, missing headroom, a mix that collapses in mono. Each issue comes with the fix to apply in your DAW.
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Measurements from a signal processing engine, read in the context of your genre by an AI that listens to the track.
Mud and low mids
Low-mid buildup that masks the vocal and blurs the kick and the bass
Frequency balance
Lows, mids and highs compared with how your genre usually sounds
Headroom
Peak level and loudness of the pre-master, so mastering has room to work
Dynamics
Crest factor and dynamic range, to spot a mix already crushed on the mix bus
Stereo and mono
Width, correlation and what disappears when the mix is summed to mono
Ranked fixes
A short list of corrections ordered by impact, written for your DAW
WAV, MP3 or FLAC up to 150 MB, straight from your browser. Tell us it is a mix, not a master.
Signal measurements and AI listening run in parallel. The report is ready in about three minutes.
Apply the fixes, upload the new version and see how the score moves from one version to the next.
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A mix analyzer measures what is hard to judge in an untreated room or on headphones you know too well: how much energy sits in the low mids, whether the highs are harsh, how wide the stereo image is and whether the mix still works in mono. MusicPulse runs these measurements on your file, then an AI that listens to the track reads them in the context of your genre.
The answer is not a single number. You get a mix balance score and a list of issues, each with where it sits in the spectrum and the correction to try first. A dense trap mix and an acoustic ballad are not held to the same thresholds.
Mastering cannot repair a mix. A limiter makes mud louder, and a boost in the highs makes harshness worse. Problems that take two minutes to correct in the mix session become compromises once the track is a stereo file.
Checking first also saves money. Whether you pay a mastering engineer or use an online service, sending a mix with enough headroom and a clean low end gets a better master on the first pass.
Start with the first fix in the list, not all of them. Apply it, export, upload the new version and compare: MusicPulse keeps every version of a track and shows the score from one to the next.
When the mix issues are gone, the same analysis in master mode checks loudness and true peak for streaming, and the online mastering tool can finish the track.
A mix is ready when nothing obvious remains to fix in the session: no low-mid buildup masking the vocal, no clipping on the mix bus, a few decibels of headroom, and a balance that holds in mono. The mix analyzer measures each of these points and tells you which ones still need work.
There is no single required figure. What matters is that the mix bus does not clip and that no limiter is flattening the peaks. Many mastering engineers ask for peaks a few decibels below 0 dBFS. The report shows your peak level and loudness so you can check.
Every new account gets 10 free credits and one analysis costs 10 credits, so your first analysis is free. After that, the 7-day Artist trial ($4) covers one track, a Release Pass ($19 once) covers one track for 60 days, and Artist covers all your tracks from $20 per month.
It is the same analysis engine. This page describes its use on a mix that is not mastered yet: you choose the mix mode at upload, and the report judges headroom and balance instead of streaming loudness. The track analysis page covers the full report.
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