Using BandLab Mastering on your songs

BandLab Mastering offers a variety of presets and features to help you add the final touch to your music. Whether you're commercially distributing your tracks or crafting cinematic sounds for filmmaking, BandLab Mastering helps elevate your projects to distribution-quality standards.

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Mastering Presets

Free Presets

  • Universal – Sound your best through any speaker. Organic dynamic processing and tonal enhancement.
  • Fire – Stand out from the crowd. Pushed and punchy lows without muted vocals.
  • Clarity – Let your idea be heard. Pristine breathy highs with light dynamic expansion.
  • Tape – Aged to perfection. Warm tape saturation with analog dynamic processing.

Exclusive Membership Presets

  • Natural – Preserves the original tone of acoustic or natural-sounding mixes while enhancing clarity
  • Cinematic – Emphasizes the punchy low-end and preserves dynamic range in orchestral and film music
  • Spatial – Expands stereo width using spatialization effects like Stereowise
  • Punch – Adds impact and definition to hip hop and rap tracks – an alternative to the Fire presets

Note

With a Membership, you can adjust the Intensity of the Mastering Preset into three levels: Light, Normal, and Heavy

How do I use BandLab Mastering?
Web Mobile

Mastering in the Studio

  1. In the Studio, click Mastering in the upper right, next to the master volume
  2. Select a Mastering preset
  3. Manually adjust the Input Gain, or choose Auto Gain
  4. Select the Intensity of the preset
  5. Click Apply

Mastering from the Library

  1. From your Library, click a project to go to the track's page
  2. Click the three-dot button on the right, beside the Studio button
  3. Click Edit Mastering
  4. Choose a preset and edit the settings
  5. Click Apply
Using the dedicated Mastering Tool
Web Mobile
  1. Go to the BandLab Mastering page
  2. Upload your song. You can upload several songs at once and master them collectively
  3. Choose your Mastering preset and adjust the settings
  4. Select the Intensity of the preset
  5. Click Download to save the mastered song to your device, or click Add to Library to save the song to your BandLab Library
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