Straight answers about making records.
Mixing, mastering, vocals, stems and the rights questions nobody answers straight. Written for people who make music, not for people who make plugins.
- Mastering6 min
What LUFS should you master to in 2026?
Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and TikTok all normalise loudness — and they do it differently. What the targets actually are, and why mastering louder than them makes you quieter.
Read - Rights7 min
Who owns AI-generated music?
The honest answer in 2026: it depends on how much of it you made. What US copyright law actually says, what platform terms actually grant, and what that means for releasing.
Read - Stems5 min
How stem separation actually works
Pulling vocals, drums and bass out of a finished mix is not filtering — it is a neural network reconstructing each source. What that means for the quality you get back.
Read - Vocals5 min
Why tuned vocals sound robotic, and how to avoid it
The chipmunk effect has a specific cause: formant shifting. What formants are, why naive pitch correction destroys them, and what to do about it.
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