AI Music Mastering

AI mastering is the last step of a record, done by software: it sets the final loudness, tone and peak level for every speaker and streaming service. In Veena, the free AI DAW with a personal music producer built in, CoProducer masters the song it helped you build, and the mix stays open while it does.

CoProducer masters to streaming loudness or to a reference track, and the open mix is what saves you an afternoon. Online mastering services work on a stereo file you've already bounced, so a problem you hear in the master sends you back to your DAW to export and upload again. In Veena, the mix and the master live in one session, so the fix is a fader and a sentence.

What AI mastering does to your song

Four jobs, in the order an engineer would think about them:

1. Tone. A gentle, whole-song EQ decision: a touch more air, a tighter low end, less boxiness in the low mids.
2. Glue. Light compression so the song moves as one piece, not as parts.
3. Width. A stereo image that feels wide on headphones and still holds together on a mono phone speaker.
4. Loudness and peaks. The final level, measured in LUFS, with the true peak held under a ceiling so nothing distorts when a streaming service encodes it.

CoProducer measures before it touches anything — loudness, spectrum and peaks across the whole song — and it hears the mix it helped build, so it knows which part is the lead and which is the bed.

The loudness numbers for streaming

Streaming services play everything at a common level, which changes what "loud enough" means. Spotify's own guidance for artists (Spotify for Artists, September 2026):

Its mastering tips: target -14 dB integrated LUFS, keep true peaks below -1 dB, and if your master is louder than -14, keep true peaks below -2 dB to avoid extra distortion in encoding. A master louder than -14 is simply turned down. A quieter one is only lifted as far as its peaks allow: Spotify's own example is a -20 LUFS track with true peaks at -5 dBFS, which only comes up to -16.

In practice, crushing a master to be the loudest song in the playlist buys you nothing but a turned-down, flatter song. Ask for the level you want in plain words — "master for Spotify, -14 LUFS, peaks under -1 dB" — and that is what CoProducer delivers.

How to master a song in Veena

1. Finish the mix. If the vocal is buried, mastering won't dig it out. AI mixing balances every track first, or mix it by hand.
2. Ask for the master. "Master this for streaming, warm and punchy, -14 LUFS." Add what matters to you: "keep the kick punchy", "don't squash the chorus".
3. Listen, then compare. Ctrl or Cmd+Z takes the master off and Ctrl or Cmd+Shift+Z puts it back, so you can flip between the mix and the master as often as you like.
4. Adjust in words. "A bit less top end", "more low end on the drop", "less loud, more dynamic". Each request is a narrower change, not a fresh roll.
5. Export. Open the account menu in the sidebar, choose Export, and save a 24-bit, 48 kHz WAV for distribution or a 320 kbps MP3 to share. No cap, no watermark.

Master to a reference

The fastest way to describe a sound is to point at one. Import a reference — your last single, or the record you're chasing — onto a muted track, and ask CoProducer to "match the low end and brightness of the reference". It compares the two songs' tonal balance, low end, brightness and loudness and masters yours toward it, without copying anything from the reference itself.

Use a reference in the same genre and tempo range, or the match chases the wrong things: a trap master held against a folk record will lose its 808.

Veena vs LANDR, Ozone and BandLab Mastering (September 2026)

Each rival's facts come from its own mastering page, product page or help centre, as of 23 September 2026.

LANDR previews masters for free, but "you'll need a paid subscription or a one-time purchase to download your master": $10 a track, or a LANDR Studio plan from $8.25 a month, and among those plans only Standard and Pro master to WAV, while Essentials masters MP3 (LANDR's mastering and plugin pages, September 2026). Change the mix and the online service needs a fresh export and upload.

iZotope Ozone 12 is a plugin suite — $55 for Elements, $219 for Standard, $499 for Advanced — "for use with AAX, AU, and VST3 compatible DAWs (64-bit only)" on macOS or Windows (iZotope's product pages, September 2026). It needs a DAW you already own, and a song you already made somewhere else.

BandLab Mastering is free with four presets: Universal, Fire, Clarity and Tape. The Natural, Cinematic, Spatial and Punch presets and the intensity control need Membership, from $14.99 a month, and the mastering EQ and reference mastering belong to Max, a tier its pricing page lists as "Coming Soon" (BandLab's help centre and pricing page, September 2026).

Veena is AI mastering with the producer who built the song still in the room: free to keep, free to export, and one sentence from the next revision.

Keep going

Mastering is the end of a song you built somewhere. In Veena it's the end of a song you built right here, with your AI music producer writing the parts and the stem splitter opening up your own recordings. For the numbers behind loudness, read LUFS and loudness explained; for picking a good match, see what a reference track is; and for every format you can export, see Veena export formats.