That’s all well and good for someone like yours truly, who is definitely not a mastering engineer and whose mixing skills are still a work in progress to say the least. Check out these before and after results in the first of two Soundcloud playlists. Individual parts seemed to stand out more, and for what it’s worth, the overall loudness was pumped up (less so for the tracks that were done at the Low or Med intensity levels). There’s no doubt that for the several of our own remixes that we fed into LANDR, they came back out with more clarity and intensity in the bass and high-end, with less muddiness overall. Changing the intensity level of LANDR’s processing. The whole process only took about six minutes per song, including uploading a WAV, getting the master preview, choosing the intensity level and then receiving and downloading the mastered WAV. Once you choose the intensity level, you just choose the format you want (MP3 or WAV) and finish. Those intensity levels vary the amount of what’s happening in the master, including bumps up in the perceived loudness and the clarification of different parts in different frequency ranges so that they stand out more. However, if you have any of the paid memberships, you can change the “intensity” of the master to Low, Med or High. If you have a free membership, you don’t have any other options, and you click a finish button for a download link to the track to be emailed to you. You simply drag an audio file to the web page (or choose a file from your computer’s directory), and when it’s finished uploading, LANDR begins processing.Īfter about a minute, a clip of the result starts to play and toggles over to the original for you to compare. We tried out the LANDR system, and it was extremely easy to use. Business – Unlimited 192kbps MP3 and unlimited WAV for multiple artists for $29/month (intended for labels, production houses, managers, etc.).Pro Unlimited – Unlimited 192kbps MP3 and unlimited WAV for $19/month.Pro – Unlimited 192kbps MP3 and 4 uncompressed WAV master per month for $9/month.Free – Unlimited 192kbps MP3 files (no WAV masters). In the near future, MixGenius plans on adding more audio formats to LANDR, but for now it outputs either uncompressed WAV or 192kbps MP3 from its drag-and-drop web interface. Since launching in May, LANDR has pulled more than 100,000 users, both at the free level and paid subscriptions. Montreal, Canada’s MixGenius sprung up in 2012 from the founder’s 8+ years of research on a doctoral dissertation. When you may not have the time or the money for a mastering engineer, you can use LANDR on a new track before you play it in a set, on a DJ mix, or to see how it sounds on a single sample or an individual track of a project. LANDR can be useful as it’s own thing, rather than a literal replacement for traditional mastering.In the last couple of decades, we’ve seen digital processes do things with audio that a previous generation may have never thought possible: treating audio “elastically,” real-time pitch correction, the breaking down of polyphonic audio files into their smaller component parts, etc. There are two clear reasons why not to dismiss LANDR automatically. The idea that a small company could offer an alternative to the time-honored craft of audio mastering in the form of dynamic algorithms that return a processed file online in a matter of minutes simply seemed too impossible to believe. That’s why when MixGenius launched LANDR in May, many people greeted it with eye rolls, chortles or outright derision. A lot of mastering these days takes place entirely in software with high-end plug-in suites, but engineers will also still use outboard processing, often utilizing all-time classic studio gear. While plenty of artists master their own material, many of them-even, or especially at the highest level-never really learn the skill and prefer to use dedicated mastering engineers who are both highly educated and experienced with the art and science of mastering. That can include making it punchy or more dynamic, more or less bassy, altering the stereo image, adding multi-band compression/limiting and/or EQ and just in general making it sound “better.” It’s the somewhat esoteric process of taking a mixed-down stereo file and processing it to make it ready for distribution. The mastering of audio can make fools out of even highly experienced music producers. Hear the results and enter an Ellen Allien remix contest for a chance to win a free year of LANDR and other huge prizes. But is that really possible, or is it too good to be true? We test the service and invite a professional mastering engineer to pit his results against the automated LANDR results. Whether you use it on finished stereo productions, individual song tracks, samples or full DJ sets, the LANDR algorithms master WAV or MP3 files. LANDR is a new online service that offers to master your music files in just moments.
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