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Best AI and Online Mastering Tools for Musicians (2025)

  • Martina
  • 05 December 2023, Tuesday
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As the last stage of audio post-production, the aim of mastering is to add the final polishing touch to your music and turn the audio mix into a ready-to-go release. We’ve talked about the importance of music mastering multiple times, like in our guide on ‘How to master electronic music’, or in our articles on ‘How to record, mix, and master classical music’ and ‘Mastering Reverb: The Secret to a Killer Mix.’

In this article, we’re looking at a slightly different set of mastering tools — so-called AI mastering tools that are driven by AI technology to accomplish the same results as human beings. Let’s get into it!

The benefits of AI mastering

1. Affordability

Unlike professional mastering engineers, AI mastering tools tend to be extremely cost-effective. This is not to belittle the value of a mastering engineer, but if you’re looking for an affordable yet effective way to master your music, an AI mastering tool might be the perfect solution for you. Professional-like mastering software also tends to be quite costly, which simply makes the AI mastering tools a winner in saving costs.

2. Time-saving

Are you looking for ways to spare some time? AI tools can certainly help you! Unlike humans, who can only manually master one track at a time, AI mastering tools can edit and enhance multiple tracks simultaneously, having it done in just minutes!

3. Accessibility

Of course, with the power of the internet, AI mastering tools are accessible to nearly anyone. More importantly, however, they are accessible to everyone regardless of their knowledge of or experience in music production. The process of mastering AI is usually rather streamlined and easy to understand which itself helps save time.

4. Consistency

Consistency in sound is a crucial ingredient to making your music feel cohesive and unified. This, in return, enhances the listening experience of your fans, preventing your tracks from seeming all over the place. AI mastering tools can ensure consistency across multiple tracks, delivering polished masters time after time.

The best AI mastering tools on the market

Price: $9 per track (using a preset), or $10 per track (using your own reference track), one-time fee; get tracks included with our AMPLIFY plans

iMusician’s Instant Mastering tool is a quick, online audio mastering solution designed to meet the needs of independent musicians and labels, looking for time-efficient and budget-friendly options that ensure high-quality results. With Instant Mastering, you get to save both time and expensive studio mastering costs while achieving a professional sound.

The tool does not require any mastering experience, meaning that it can be used by anyone, regardless of their skill level. You can choose from a set of presets spanning countless genres. All presets are adjusted to genre and industry standards, allowing musicians to achieve a sound that meets platform requirements. Alternatively, you can use your own reference tracks as a sonic blueprint to get your music mastered in line with your taste.

Instant Mastering is ideal for artists or labels who are juggling multiple projects at the same time or facing tight deadlines and who are looking for a quick solution to get their music release-ready. It is also a great tool for those who do not intend to learn how to master their music, or who cannot afford to hire a professional engineer.

The tool comes with much flexibility, giving musicians the option to listen to unlimited, full previews for free and make side-by-side comparisons before paying for the download. This way, they do not have to commit to anything until they feel satisfied with the results.¨

Features:

  • With Instant Mastering, your tracks are ready for release in minutes

  • The tool is accessible to all artists, even those who upload their music through a different distributor, and is designed to meet the requirements of streaming and download platforms

  • There are no limitations to your projects—you can upload and master as many tracks as you want

  • Instant Mastering gives you the choice between X genre-specific presets and allows you to use your own reference tracks

  • You can make side-by-side comparisons before deciding to download a track

  • You get unlimited, full previews for free—no need to commit before you are confident that you love what you hear

  • You do not need to commit to a full subscription to master your tracks—our tool is available for a one-time fee or included in plans

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2. LANDR Online Mastering

Price: From $12.50/month

The AI-powered tool by LANDR runs on an adaptive engine that pulls knowledge from thousands of mastered songs to offer a unique mastering solution for every track. Based on that, It is able to analyze and make amends to your tracks according to their genre, style, and other parameters.

Features:

  • Master songs from your web browser, Desktop App, or Mobile App

  • Free mastering previews

  • All mastered tracks are optimized for streaming — in MP3, WAV, or HD WAV formats

  • Get your songs mastered at an incredible speed

3. CloudBounce

Price: $10.90/track

CloudBounce was established in 2015 as an AI-powered mastering tool backed by some renowned names and parties in the audio industry, including Focusrite, ROLI, and Abbey Road Studios. Traditionally, the tool has offered online mastering with a simple web interface. Newly, you can also edit and polish your music in a new CloudBounce desktop app.

CloudBounce offers various effects to help you achieve your envisioned sound, including compression, EQ, limiting, stereo imaging, and others. Once you upload your track, the engine needs only a few minutes to showcase your new version of your audio file, after which you can either purchase the final master or tweak it with some additional simple choices.

Advantages:

  • Fast turnaround time and easy-to-use design

  • Possible real-time waveform preview before purchasing your master

  • You can easily share your mastered tracks with your listeners

Disadvantages:

  • There’s a limited option of preference styles

  • Their computer-generated algorithm won’t pick up on some nuances in the audio that a professional engineer could

4. eMastered

Price: From $13/month

Made by Grammy-winning engineers Smith Carlson and Colin McLoughlin, e-Mastered is an AI-powered online mastering tool that strives for a ‘professional sound in seconds.’ Designed to be professional yet fast and easy to use, the mastering application will analyze your audio and pick the tools that it needs to make your music sound crisper, louder, and more lively than the original.

Additionally, it offers reference mastering, meaning that you can upload a reference file alongside your own track and have the engine figure out why it sounds the way it does. Afterward, it automatically matches the loudness, balance, compression, and more to make your track sound (almost) like your favorite song.

Advantages:

  • Advanced Mastering options — you have some control over the intensity of several aspects, like EQ, compressions, stereo width, volume, or the overall strengths of the master

  • Master your music using reference mastering option

  • A customizable library page to share your music with your fans

  • Tracks statistics to see how many people have been listening to your music

Disadvantages:

  • You can download an unlimited number of masters per month only with a subscription plan

5. Maastr.io

Price: From $10/month

‘Built by engineers, for engineers,’ Maastr.io offers an automatic AI web app that allows artists to polish their music with genre-specific presets and complementary plugins for mixing and loudness. Highlighting the importance of streamlined workflow, the app enables users to master their music in three easy steps — upload, master, and export.

Additionally, Maastr.io allows for comprehensive mix notes, enabling individuals to better provide or receive feedback from their clients or collaborators. Users can pinpoint the exact section of the mix they’d like to change or amend.

Features:

  • AI-powered mastering done in just minutes

  • Genre-specific mastering presets & optional plugins for mixing and loudness

  • Cloud-based online processing

  • Improved communication and feedback process with collaborators and clients

  • Simplified iteration process — iterate with ease and store every revision for instant playback and easy comparison

6. Amuse Mastering

Price: $5/track

Amuse’s AI mastering tool is relatively new on the market and is powered by Masterchannel. The tool is very similar to the one from BandLab or eMastered. You simply use the Amuse website to upload your track and dive right into the mastering process. It should take only a few minutes until your track is mastered and ready to go.

Advantages:

  • You can re-upload your tracks as many times as you want

  • You can master multiple tracks at the same time

  • No technical experience required

Disadvantages:

  • The computer-generated algorithm won’t pick up on some nuances in the audio that a professional engineer could

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