Finalizing and downloading
Finalize renders the whole song with the selected revision at full quality. What you get, in which formats, what each plan includes, and the Projects menu.
#Finalizing
- Select the revision you wantClick its row in the Mastering A/B list. Finalize uses the selected revision, including its Custom EQ if the EQ is on.
- Press FINALIZE MASTERINGBottom right of the workspace. A confirmation asks if you are sure; press Yes.
- Wait a minute or twoThe original file is downloaded from storage, the revision's exact settings are applied to the whole song, and the result is saved. Longer songs take longer.
- Download from ProjectsYou land on Projects with the track marked Master. Expand it and use the menu on the Preview: Master row.
#What you can download
| Menu item | What it does |
|---|---|
| Download master as wav | 24-bit WAV at the sample rate of your upload (44.1, 48 or 96 kHz). No resampling, no dither. |
| Download master as mp3 | 320 kbps MP3. Whichever format was not rendered natively is converted on the fly. |
| Copy mastering seed | Copies the seed of the finalized settings so you can reuse them on the next track. |
| Convert | Opens Advanced Conversion: WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG, AAC, M4A or AIFF, 44.1 or 48 kHz, 16, 24 or 32-bit depending on format. |
| Analyze & Simulate | Opens the master in the free Loudness Penalty tool to see how each streaming platform will turn it down, with speaker simulations. |
| Continue Mastering | Deletes the finalized master and reopens the workspace with all revisions intact. Download first if you want to keep the file. |
The original row has its own menu: download the original, rename the project, or delete the whole project.
#What it costs
| Plan | Finalize |
|---|---|
| Free | Previews and revisions only. Finalizing opens the membership page; your revisions wait for you. |
| Unlimited | Unlimited finalizes. |
| Unlimited Plus | Unlimited finalizes, plus priority in the render queue. |
Previews, revisions and A/B listening never cost anything. Details on every plan are on the Plans and limits page and on Pricing.
#Delivery checklist
- Streaming: WAV. Platforms encode it themselves; giving them an MP3 means encoding twice.
- Headroom: if a platform asks for -1 dBTP, set True Peak to -1 before finalizing.
- Loudness: run Analyze & Simulate. If a platform will turn your master down by more than 3 or 4 dB, you paid for loudness you will not keep; consider a lower Intensity.
- Metadata: the free metadata editor writes title, artist and cover art into the MP3.
- Mono check: flip Mono Compatibility to Mono on a revision and A/B it. If the bass vanishes, widen less.
Can I finalize the same project again with a different revision?
Yes. Choose Continue Mastering in Projects, select the other revision and finalize again. The earlier master is deleted when you continue, so download it first.
Is there a watermark?
Not on regular accounts. The only watermark exists in the free guest funnel on the landing page (the one with the deliberately silly hee-hee), and it is spelled out there.
My download is an MP3 but I uploaded WAV
Use Download master as wav. The other option converts. If you uploaded FLAC or AIFF, the master is rendered as WAV.