Author: christian@masterchannel.ai

Oslo, Norway – The Norwegian music technology startup Masterchannel have now reached a major milestone: 1 million songs have been optimized through the company’s proprietary AI model since its launch.

From Professional to Hobbyist

A The music industry is currently seeing a massive increase in people wanting to create music. A recent survey reveals that over 50% of Gen Z say they want to become “Creators,” and it has never been easier to release music than now, through independent distributors. And that wave of new producers are one of the reasons why Masterchannel has experienced significant growth over the past year, with the company now optimizing over 60,000 songs per month.

The Preferred Technology Partner

Another key ingredient in Masterchannel’s growth is their unique partnership strategy. By licensing its technology to independent distributors who want to offer AI mastering to their customers, the company has become by far the most preferred technology provider of AI mastering in the world. Over 30 companies worldwide currently use Masterchannel’s AI models, including industry-leading players like TuneCore, Symphonic, Ditto, Amuse, and Groover.

Gearing Up to Become Market Leader

“Over the past three years, we have built a strong reputation through our partnership strategy, world-leading self-developed technology, and a scalable business model. For us, now is the right time to accelerate to become the most preferred solution for AI mastering in the world,” says CEO and co-founder Christian Ringstad Schultz.

In addition to partnerships and technology licensing, the company has built its own platform with 50,000 users. This is where the company now sees a great opportunity for further scaling by offering innovative services to the growing group of musicians around the world.

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Recently, the YouTuber Trifreeze posted a video about how you can use Masterchannel to reference your own mix – in order to get it to sound as good as possible. This is a great use case for artists wanting to speed up the process and showcases the true strength of the Masterchannel service.

In short, the way Trifreeze uses Masterchannel is as follows:

1. Mixes in DAW (Digital Audio Workstation): He starts off by polishing his track in FL Studio and mixes it as best as he can.
   
   
2. Upload to Masterchannel: He then exports the song and uploads it to Masterchannel. After the song has been mastered with Masterchannel, he downloads it and drags & drops into back to FL Studio.
   
   
3. Compare files: In FL Studio, he now has two files:
   • The first one is his original mix that he made.
   • The second is the mastered file from Masterchannel.
     
     
4. Reference your track: He then examines how Masterchannel mastered his track, and uses that as a reference when optimizing his own mix.
   

For many artists it can be hard or time consuming to always reference, and especially if they prefer the outcome from Masterchannel. In those cases, a mastered song from Masterchannel is always optimized for release, meaning it is technically ready to be distributed via your favorite distributor.

This is a great way of using Masterchannel when mixing, and we encourage you to try it out yourself by clicking the button down below 👇

Love creating music on your phone with Bandlab, Suno, or other apps? Learn how to take your mobile creations and give them a professional, studio-quality master.

Your Mobile Music Deserves a Professional Sound

Mobile music apps like Bandlab and AI generators like Suno have made it much easier to create a song from scratch. You can now write a full song, or just generate vocals, stems or whatever you like. It’s an interesting time to be a creator!

But there’s often one missing piece: the final polish. Tracks made in these apps can sometimes sound a bit like a “demo”, lacking the loudness, punch, and clarity of a studio release.

The Challenge: From Great Idea to Great-Sounding Track

Creation tools are fantastic for getting your ideas down, but they aren’t dedicated mastering suites who truly polishes your sound. The final polish of a song is what turns a good song into a great one by:

• Balancing the overall tone so it’s not too harsh or muddy.
• Making the track loud enough to compete on streaming services.
• Adding a final layer of polish that makes it sound professional and cohesive.

The Simple Workflow to Elevate Your Mobile Music

You don’t need a complex studio or expensive software to get a professional master. Here’s all it takes:

1. Export Your Song: Once you’re happy with your creation in Bandlab, Suno, or other tools you may use – export it as the highest-quality audio file available (usually a WAV).
2. Upload to Masterchannel: Open Masterchannel on your phone or computer and upload your file.
3. Master and Download: Our AI will instantly analyze your song and apply a professional master. You’ll get back a track that’s louder, clearer, and ready for the world to hear.

The Perfect Partner for Your Favorite App

Think of Masterchannel as the final, essential step in your creative process. It bridges the gap between your brilliant idea and a radio-ready final product. You handle the creativity; we’ll handle the science of sound.

Your music is worth it. Turn your mobile creation into a professional release with Masterchannel.ai.

AI is transforming music creation, but can you trust it with your master? Here are 5 reasons why AI mastering isn’t just a gimmick, but an essential tool for indie artists.

5 Reasons It’s the Future for Indie Artists

The debate is on the world of music: Are human engineers the only way to get professional sound? For independent artists, bedroom producers, and fast-moving creators, the answer is increasingly no.

AI mastering isn’t about replacing human creativity; it’s about making professional sound accessible to everyone. Here are five reasons why tools like Masterchannel are becoming indispensable.

1. Unbeatable Speed: A professional engineer can take days or weeks. AI mastering delivers a release-ready file in minutes. This speed allows you to test different mixes, release music faster, and keep up with the demands of social media.
2. Affordable Quality: Hiring a great mastering engineer can cost $100+ per track. AI mastering provides a comparable level of quality for a fraction of the cost, making it possible to release a full album without breaking the bank. With Masterchannel it’s $25 for unlimited mastering.
3. Data-Driven Objectivity: An AI doesn’t have a “bad day” or an opinion. It analyzes your audio against a massive dataset of successfully released tracks, making objective decisions to balance frequencies and optimize loudness based on what is proven to work for your genre.
4. Incredible Consistency: Working on an album or EP? AI mastering ensures every track has a consistent sonic character and loudness, creating a more cohesive listening experience—a difficult task to achieve manually in a home studio. And Masterchannel can master your albums or catalogues.
5. Democratizing the Tools: For too long, mastering was a mysterious “dark art” that required expensive gear and years of training. AI tools like Masterchannel empower you to achieve a professional final product yourself, no matter your budget or experience level.

When to Choose Masterchannel.ai

Masterchannel is the perfect solution for independent artists who need fast, affordable, and high-quality masters for streaming releases, demos for labels, or content for YouTube and TikTok. It gives your music the professional polish it needs to compete with all the other songs every day!

Try Masterchannel.ai for free and hear the results for yourself.

Worried about streaming services squashing your punchy rock mix? Learn how to use LUFS and intelligent mastering to get a loud, powerful, and dynamic master for your rock songs.

Don’t Let Spotify Ruin Your Rock Mix: A Guide to Dynamic Mastering

As a rock artist, you live for dynamics. The explosive crack of the snare, the chug of a palm-muted guitar, the surge of a powerful chorus, that’s the energy that makes rock music feel alive. But then you upload it to Spotify, and it sounds… weak. The drums are flat, the guitars feel squashed, and all that power is gone.

Welcome to the modern rock producer’s dilemma. You want your track to be loud, but the old “Loudness War” trick of crushing your mix with a limiter is the fastest way to have your music ruined by streaming platforms.

The Secret to Powerful Rock Masters: Dynamics, Not Just Volume

The solution isn’t to be the loudest. It’s to be the most powerful. A great rock master has a healthy dynamic range, the difference between the quietest and loudest parts. This is what allows your drums to punch through the wall of guitars and your chorus to feel bigger than your verse.

How Masterchannel Preserves Your Rock Mix’s Soul

This is where intelligent mastering is a game-changer for rock artists. Masterchannel understands the sonic fingerprint of rock music. Our AI knows that the transient impact of your kick and snare is sacred.

• It increases the overall loudness to be competitive on Spotify without crushing the crucial dynamics.
• It applies transparent compression that glues your mix together while letting the drums breathe and hit hard.
• It balances the EQ to ensure your guitars have bite without being harsh, and your bass sits powerfully without turning muddy.

You get a master that is loud, compliant, and most importantly, still feels like the powerful rock track you created.

Upload your song to Masterchannel and get a dynamic rock master that’s ready to shake the speakers.

Your pop song needs to shine on every speaker. Learn the mastering secrets to get clear vocals, punchy drums, and a wide mix that competes with today’s top hits.

Your Pop Song Sounds Good in the Studio, But Flat Everywhere Else? Here’s Why.

You’ve crafted the perfect hook, the chorus is undeniable, and the synths are sounding great. But when you play your pop track in the car or on your AirPods, it just doesn’t have that “expensive”, radio-ready feel. The vocals get a little lost, the kick doesn’t hit as hard, and the whole thing feels smaller than the major-label tracks on your playlist.

This is a classic pop production problem. The solution isn’t necessary buried in your mix but in the final polish.

What a Professional Pop Master Achieves

Modern pop music has to sound incredible on every system, from tiny phone speakers to massive club systems. A great pop master needs to deliver three key things:

1. Vocal Clarity: The vocal is the star of the show. The master needs to carve out the perfect space for it to sit on top of the instrumental, sounding clear, present, and intimate.
2. Dynamic Punch: The kick drum and snare drive the energy. The master must make them punchy and powerful without turning the rest of the track into a “sausage” waveform.
3. Stereo Width and Depth: Professional pop tracks feel wide and immersive. Mastering enhances the stereo image, making your synths, pads, and effects sound bigger and more engaging.

The Modern Solution: Get a Hit-Ready Master in Minutes

Achieving this balance used to require years of experience and a room full of expensive gear. Today, AI-powered tools can deliver that competitive edge.

When you upload your pop track to Masterchannel, our system instantly recognizes the genre conventions. It’s been trained on thousands of successful pop hits, so it knows exactly how to treat your music:

• It enhances vocal clarity, ensuring your lead vocal and harmonies cut through the mix.
• It preserves the punch of your drums while pushing the overall level to be competitive on all streaming platforms.
• It widens the stereo field, giving your track that expansive, professional sound.

Upload your track to Masterchannel and get a free, polished master that’s ready for the radio.

Are your vocals getting buried by the beat? Learn how to use mastering to perfectly mix your hip hop vocals and instrumentals together with Masterchannel!

Your Hip Hop Vocals Sound Buried?

It’s the most common problem in home-studio hip hop: you have a hard-hitting beat and a fire vocal take, but when you put them together, they fight each other. Either the vocal gets lost behind the 808, or it sounds thin and disconnected from the instrumental.

And you’ve tried adjusting faders, playing with EQs, and adding compression, but nothing seems to work. The secret isn’t always in the mix itself, it can be how you optimize it in the final master.

Why Vocals and Beats Clash

A busy hip hop instrumental and a lead vocal often occupy the same key frequency ranges. This creates a “muddy” or crowded sound where neither element can truly shine. While a good mix is essential, the mastering stage is what “glues” them together into a single cohesive track.

How Mastering Creates the Professional Sound

Professional mastering engineers use subtle, full-mix adjustments to carve out space for each element. They apply precise equalization and multi-band compression to ensure the vocals can cut through the beat without sounding harsh, and the beat can hit hard without overpowering the artist.

The Masterchannel Advantage for Hip Hop

This is where AI mastering excels. Masterchannel analyzes your entire track, beat and vocals, and identifies these problem areas automatically.

• It intelligently EQs the track to create space for the vocal in the midrange.
• It applies transparent compression to control dynamics and “glue” the two elements.
• It ensures your low-end (the 808s and kick) remains powerful without drowning out the artist.

The result is a track where the beat is powerful, and the vocal is right upfront, clear and present.

Upload your track with vocals to Masterchannel and hear how clear your music can sound.

Looking to breathe new life into your music? Whether you’re updating old tracks or preparing an album for streaming, Masterchannel.ai makes it easy to remaster your songs online—with studio-quality results in minutes.

Why Remaster Your Music?

Remastering helps you:

• Improve clarity, loudness, and balance
• Make tracks consistent across an album
• Prepare for streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music

How to Remaster a Song or Album with AI

1. Upload Your Track or Album
Go to Masterchannel.ai and drag in your files (WAV or MP3). You can upload a single song or a full album.

2. Get a Remaster in Minutes
Our AI engine delivers a professionally re-mastered version, optimized for loudness, EQ, dynamics, and stereo width.

3. Compare and Download
Preview the result and download instantly. No plugins or manual tweaking needed.

Remaster an Album Online

Masterchannel ensures consistent loudness, tone, and dynamics across your entire album—perfect for reissues or streaming releases. You can access this feature in your dashboard.

Start remastering your music today with Masterchannel: