The only vaguely comparable pricing is pay-per-master, also offered by CloudBounce, so we have used this when judging the service’s value for money.Īs well as mastering individual tracks, LANDR’s service can also master an entire album The recent release of the LANDR Mastering Plugin, which wraps the company’s AI into a very flexible mastering processor, muddies the waters even further. This muddies the waters when attempting to compare LANDR’s pricing with the other services we are looking at. LANDR has more strings to its bow than just online AI-driven mastering, with a curated collection of over 40 plugins made up of both LANDR-original and 3rd party plugins, sample libraries, software and tools, and training courses. This could cause a master to be rejected by publishers and platforms, and will likely lead to distortion and clipping during playback, especially on consumer-grade audio systems. The biggest issue we found, though, is that eMastered is not using true peak sensing, and so produces masters that can include inter-sample peaks in excess of +1dB-FS. This could cause a master to be rejected by publishers and platforms The biggest issue we found is that eMastered is not using true peak sensing. Dumb gain processors have been able to do this since the Loudness standards were created! Loudness was a bit on the high side, even when using the lowest setting, and we weren’t impressed with the AI’s attempts to match our masters to a reference track, it failing even to match loudness. West End Blend - Kane Guru (CloudBounce)ĮMastered’s mastering options are presented in an intuitive manner (Image credit: Future)ĮMastered delivers a solid-sounding master with a decent EQ balance, although we felt that it overdid the very low end resulting in a somewhat boomy sound when listened to on a good monitoring system. The default settings produced masters that were considerably louder than we would have liked and, with only the one “Less Loud” setting – which is still quite loud – there’s insufficient control over this vital aspect of mastering, a shortcoming not limited to CloudBounce. On the plus side, we were impressed with the EQ balance CloudBounce’s AI achieved On the plus side, we were impressed with the EQ balance CloudBounce’s AI achieved, taming the very low end whilst maintaining an even, flat clarity across the whole spectrum. Given that a mix is placed in that queue every time you want to try an alternative mastering setting, and that the AI may have to process your audio once again when you request a download, it all become rather tedious. Nevertheless, the amount of thumb-twiddling we were doing whilst waiting for things to happen was more than for the other services, and we were even refused service a couple of times due to the AI’s processing queue being full. ![]() We found CouldBounce to be quite slow during our testing, although we may just have been unfortunate in using the service when it was particularly busy. CloudBounce offers various ways to adjust the sound of your masters (Image credit: Future)
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