This month I took seven products off the JG BeatsLab site. I master AI-generated music, and I want the site to say that in one sentence instead of making you read a menu to find it.
Here's what went:
Track Triage
The Vocal Mix
Release Readiness Plan
Promotion Plan
Fader, which is no longer sold as a product
The AI Music Producer Bootcamp
The 3-Song Sprint as a standalone purchase (it now lives inside the $97 JG BeatsLab Membership)
Those were real offers, and I'd stand behind the work in any of them. They aren't where my weeks should go anymore.
Why I cut them
Each product has upkeep. A sales page has to match what the product actually does. An email goes out when someone buys, an automation sends it, and the content has to stay current as the tools change. None of that cares whether the product sold this month. A product that rarely sells still costs me time each week, and that time comes out of the same week I master in. Multiply that by seven and the upkeep stops being background noise.
Some of it went stale on its own. The Bootcamp is the clearest case. A Suno update made part of its content out of date, and when I looked at what a rebuild would take, it wasn't worth it. The Bootcamp did its job. It was also built on how one tool worked at one point in time, and when that tool moved, the product owed a rebuild I wasn't going to make. I'd rather retire a product cleanly than keep selling something I know is partly out of date.
That points at the bigger reason. I want to be tool-agnostic. A product tied to one generator means rewriting it whenever that generator ships an update, and there's always another update coming. Mastering doesn't carry that problem. Whatever made the song, it reaches me as audio, and the work starts there.
Mastering is also where my customers come back. People send me one song, then they send the album. That second order is the one I pay attention to, because it tells me the first master held up once it left my hands. That's the work I want more of. I master each song myself, start to finish, and a shorter menu means more of my week goes into that work instead of around it.
The last reason is the plainest. A simpler story is easier to tell and easier to buy from. "I master AI-generated music" fits in one line. The old menu needed a page, and you had to work out which product fit your song before you could buy anything.
What's left
Mastering is the center of it. It's $50 a song with one revision included. Each master comes back with a Mastering Dossier, a write-up of what I did to the song and why, so you aren't left guessing what changed between the file you sent and the one I sent back.
If you're going to keep sending me songs, the $97 JG BeatsLab Membership is where the better rate lives. It's a one-time purchase with no subscription. The headline benefit is mastering at $40 a song for good, with priority turnaround, and it includes the Red Lab Library.
Jukebox is my monthly submission call for AI artists. I listen to each song all the way through, up to five get a feature each month, and songs that fit one of my playlists get placed there. The Unlock books stay. If you have a question that doesn't fit any of that, 1:1 consulting is available on request at $150 an hour.
That's still five things on the site. What changed is that mastering is the one I'm building around.
If you bought something that's no longer listed, email me with any questions about it.
A long menu looks like range from the outside. From the inside it was seven sets of pages, emails, and automations asking for my time whether anyone bought that week or not. I'd rather put that time into songs. Doing one thing well, with my own hands on every master, beats a full menu I can't keep current.
Josh, Founder, JG BeatsLab
Mastering is $50 a song. The $40 rate lives in the $97 JG BeatsLab Membership.
