MASTERING FOR AI MUSIC

Real ears on
your AI tracks.

I master AI-generated music. Whatever tool made your song, send the WAV.

This is not AI mastering software. This is a human engineer, in a real DAW session, mastering music that was made with AI. That's the only job I do here.

Using AI to make your song is a legitimate creative choice. Finishing it is where you want a person. An unmastered export sounds like an export, not because your song is bad, but because it isn't finished. Mastering is the difference between generated and released, and a shortcut at this step sounds like a shortcut. Every master comes with a written Dossier explaining what I changed and why.

"I gave the mastered version a listen on my desktop, my phone and my car and it sounds awesome. Just what I had in mind. I reviewed the dossier as well and am amazed at the amount of detail in it."

Pam · Mastering client
Mastered WAV + written Dossier · One revision included · 5 business days
HEAR IT FOR YOURSELF

Before you read the case, hear the result.

A real before-and-after, and the full written breakdown of every decision behind it.

WHY AI TRACKS NEED A DIFFERENT APPROACH

Every generation engine leaves fingerprints.

An AI export isn't a finished mix, and it shouldn't be mastered like one. Treat it that way and you tend to get one of two results: a master that polishes the flaws until they stand out, or one that squashes the track trying to hide them.

Here's the structural reason why. A conventional track arrives at mastering with a whole mixing stage behind it: an engineer already rode the vocal, lifted the quiet passages, tamed the harsh cymbal inside its own track, and made a hundred small corrections before the master was ever touched. An AI generation skipped all of that. The stereo file is the first place a human can correct anything, which means mastering an AI track takes on some of the work mixing would normally have done: hand-riding levels on passages that disappear in the car, shaping entrances and exits, solving problems at the only stage that exists. An automated tool can't do that work, because it processes the whole file by rules. You can't tell an algorithm "bring up these two quiet phrases, but the dramatic pause at 1:50 stays." I take instructions like that every week. An algorithm masters the file. An engineer masters the song.

Low-mid buildup where definition should be.
A restrained top end hiding artifacts in the cymbals and vocal air.
Loudness that reads fine on a meter and wrong in your car.

A master built for AI source material works those specific problems: clearing the cloud without gutting the warmth, opening the top without amplifying the artifacts, landing streaming-ready loudness without flattening the performance you got. That's not a preset. It's a practice, built across hundreds of AI tracks mastered across five actively releasing artist projects.

WHAT YOU GET WITH EVERY MASTER

Not just a file back.

  • A professionally mastered stereo WAV, loudness and true-peak verified to current streaming targets
  • Built by human ears in a real DAW session, never a one-click engine
  • One revision included on every track
  • Your Mastering Dossier: a written breakdown of every measurement and every processing decision, so you see exactly what was done and why

"I also really appreciate the Mastering Dossier. Seeing exactly what you heard in the original and why you made each adjustment gave me a much better understanding of what professional mastering is actually doing."

Daniel Eric Pye · Songwriter | Rugged Ravine / Hammer & Steel
WHAT MASTERING HERE DOESN'T DO

Anyone can make it louder.

Less is more is the golden rule of this craft, and I follow it. Your master will not come back brick-walled or squashed, with the quiet parts flattened into the loud ones. I don't make changes just so the master sounds "different" enough to justify the fee. If your track only needs a little, it only gets a little, and either way it's documented in your Dossier, including the moves I considered and left out.

The skill is knowing what to leave alone.

"Not only was Josh's track mastering FAST, but the difference it made was noticeable-even to a relatively untrained ear! The subtlety with which my piece was mastered made a huge difference. I'm already lining up more for him to do!"

Tom Sechrest · Mastering client
PRICING

$50 a song. Any way you buy it.

ONE TRACK
$50
A single song, fully mastered
GET IT MASTERED
FULL RECORD
$500
10 tracks, mastered as one album
MASTER MY ALBUM

"I had just completed my album and faced the daunting task of mastering nine songs so that they each sounded professionally mastered and cohesive as an album. His masters had the sound I wanted and was consistent across all nine songs. In addition, he provided a Dossier detailing every adjustment he made and why, for each song. Highly professional, geared to your wants, and very affordable."

John Teti Sr. · "No Kings"

Same rate every way you buy it, no volume markup and no volume discount. The reason to send a set instead of a single is consistency. Working through a record in one sitting, each track gets the treatment it needs, all aimed at the same overall sound and loudness, so the catalog holds together instead of sounding like ten songs finished on ten different days. Different number of tracks? Email me and I'll invoice exactly what you need.

HOW IT WORKS

Send your track. Get back a master.

You get back one professionally mastered stereo WAV, loudness and true-peak verified to current streaming targets, your Dossier with release-readiness notes, and one revision.

3Business days, members
5Business days, standard
This is the mastering itself, not a diagnosis.
Recorded your own vocals over the track? That's a mix, not a master, a different job that happens before the master, not during it.
WHO'S DOING THE MASTERING
Josh Gilliland

I'm Josh Gilliland, founder of JG BeatsLab. Five of my own AI-assisted bands are actively releasing, and one of my AI-built tracks previously crossed half a million streams on Pandora, real numbers I published, including the royalty checks. I wrote Unlock Reaper, the book on mastering AI music, and hundreds of AI-generated tracks get submitted to me every month, through playlist curation, through mastering, and from people who just want to know why theirs doesn't sound right. I hear the difference between a finished track and an export every single day. When your master comes back, it was my ears on it, start to finish.

Josh Gilliland, Founder
THE HONEST FINE PRINT

Mastering makes your track sound finished. It does not change what your track is, and I don't make promises about how any platform, playlist, or detection system will classify your music.

One revision is included on every master. A revision adjusts the master itself. Some requests, like turning one instrument up or down on its own, are mix changes that happen before mastering. I'll do what the master allows and tell you plainly where that limit is.

If I listen to your file and find problems mastering can't meaningfully fix, such as generation issues, arrangement problems, or a mix that needs real work, I'll tell you before I start. Your payment becomes store credit you can use on anything in the store.

No open-ended engagements. No subscriptions. You own everything, always.

Ready to finish
the track?

Not ready to send a track? Take the 3-minute scorecard and I'll email you what to fix first.