Describe the sound you want. Wavely's AI builds the full mastering chain — no knobs to dial, no technical knowledge required.
Why it matters
Mastering is the final step that makes your music sound finished, competitive, and professional across every platform and device.
A mix that sounds quiet or flat next to other tracks will lose listeners in the first 10 seconds. Mastering brings your track to competitive loudness without squashing its life.
Your mix sounds different on earbuds, car speakers, club systems and AirPods. Mastering balances the frequency spectrum so it translates on every playback device.
Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube apply loudness normalisation. Without mastering to the right target, your track either sounds too quiet or gets turned down by the algorithm.
The difference between a demo and a release-ready record is often the mastering. It's the final layer of polish that makes a track feel intentional, complete, and confident.
The difference
A mastering engineer gives you the best possible result — but at a price most independent artists can't afford. DIY tools require years of training. Other online tools are black boxes. Wavely is the missing middle ground.
Full control, when you want it
Every Wavely master comes with the full processing chain exposed — 11 elements, every parameter visible. If the AI's decisions don't match your vision, adjust anything: EQ curves, compression ratios, saturation drive, stereo width, limiter ceiling. The transparency is always there. The control is always yours.
How it works
The third one is where Wavely differs — you never have to accept a result you can't see inside. The last one is what makes the second record faster than the first.
Drop in your WAV or AIFF. Wavely analyses loudness, dynamic range, spectral balance, and peak levels in seconds.
"Warm and punchy like early J Dilla." "Bright, radio-ready pop." Just describe it — Wavely figures out the rest.
Wavely analyses your mix, builds a plan from your description, runs the eleven-stage chain and exports every format. A minute or two, depending on the track.
Hear it against your original, read why every decision was made, and adjust any parameter in the chain until it matches what you imagined.
One master, at the loudness the reference calls for, in every format you need: WAV at 24 or 16 bit, 44.1 or 48 kHz, and MP3. Streaming platforms set their own playback level; the density stays yours.
Once a chain sounds right, save it. Your preset joins the library as your own, ready to master the next track — and because Wavely measured the master you approved, it aims at that sound on a new mix rather than pasting the same settings onto it. An album can be made to sound like an album.
The preset library
A 1971 record and a 2019 record were mastered to completely different targets — not because taste changed, but because the format did. Wavely's library encodes those targets so you can ask for one by name.
From 1959 recordings made almost without processing, through the CD-era loudness war, to the dynamics that streaming normalisation brought back by 2022.
9 genres so far — each needs a different low end, a different width and a different amount of limiting. A reggaeton master and a jazz master have almost nothing in common.
A preset encodes loudness target, dynamic range, stereo width, mono crossover and a ten-band tonal curve — the characteristics that actually define how a record sits.
Untouched dynamics, room air
Narrow, dynamic, valve warmth
Bright, punchy, forward vocal
Mid-forward, dense, aggressive
Filtered, saturated, club-loud
Sparse, deep sub, wide vocal
Presets describe a sonic target — loudness, dynamics, tonal balance, stereo image — derived from the characteristics of the productions they are named after. No recording is reproduced, contained or distributed. Album and artist names are used to identify a sound, and imply no affiliation or endorsement.
Pricing
Most artists don't put out music every month. Credits never expire, so you only pay when you actually have a track to finish.
Free
Hear what Wavely does to your track.
Credits
One credit, one finished track. No subscription.
Pro
€144 billed yearly — €12/month.
An EP of five tracks: €250+ at a mastering studio, €12.50 here — and you keep control of every parameter.
A credit is spent per track, never per export
The mastering chain
Every Wavely master runs through this chain, in this order — each stage tuned to your audio and your intent, and every parameter visible and editable before you export.
Removes rumble, harshness, and problem resonances before anything else touches the signal. A clean signal compresses better and sounds more natural.
A fast, transparent compressor that binds the elements of your mix together. It adds cohesion without flattening the dynamics.
Character and colour, applied after compression — warmth, air or presence. Where a preset carries a measured reference, this is the difference between your mix and that record, not a fixed curve.
A slower, more colourful compressor that adds density and character. It shapes the feel of the track rather than just its level.
Splits off the sibilance region and ducks only that. A wideband compressor triggered by an "s" pulls the whole mix down with it; this leaves everything below the crossover untouched.
Three bands, each responding only to its own energy. The low end can be controlled hard without every kick drum pumping the vocal and the cymbals along with it.
Tape, tube or harmonic saturation adds the harmonics that make digital recordings feel analogue and alive.
Controls the width of the stereo image, keeping low frequencies in mono so the bass stays solid on every system while the mids and highs open up.
A brick-wall limiter catches every peak above the ceiling, so the master never clips on the way to the platform.
A soft final clip for anything the limiter's look-ahead missed. It bends the last stray peaks smoothly under the ceiling rather than flattening them — hard clipping is what the loudness war is remembered for.
The track is normalised to the LUFS the reference calls for. This is why changing an EQ band moves the tone but not the loudness — the target is a destination, not a result. It is also the only place loudness is decided: the exports are containers, and streaming platforms set their own playback level.
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