The genre decides how Mixstering hears your song — how hard the drums hit, where the vocal sits, how much room is in the mix. An orchestra session and a hip-hop record never get the same ears.

Every genre gets two dynamics — two ways its loud and quiet moments are treated when Mixstering mixes. The first one is already picked, so nothing blocks you; switch any time before you mix.

No stems yet. Mixstering sorts each stem by its file name — vocals, drums, bass, keys, guitar, strings — and you can correct any stem's type after it loads.

Mixing comes later, on purpose: once your stems line up here, Step 3's vocal tuning is already set to Natural Tune by default — the “Mix my song” button lives in Step 4, with the player it feeds.

Tuning runs first in the vocal chain — before the vocal EQ, compression and reverb — on every stem marked Vocals. It works the way the studio tuners do: Mixstering finds each note you sang, measures where that note's centre sits, and moves the whole note by one steady amount — so your vibrato and slides stay yours instead of being flattened and wobbled, and breaths, consonants and “s” sounds are never tuned at all, which is where the scratchy, shaky sound used to come from. A note that's already in tune is left as the original recording. You don't need to know the key: as soon as your stems land in Step 2, Mixstering detects two keys separately — the song key from all your stems together, and the vocal key from your Vocals stems alone, the notes you actually sang. They aren't always the same, so both are shown below. Tuning follows the vocal key by default, so Natural Tune works even if you never touch a key picker. Natural Tune is already picked for you below — you don't have to tap anything to move on to Step 4. Tap No Tuning or Hard Tune only if you want something different.

This is the straight studio mix — the default Mixstering mix for your genre, before any tone choice. Press “Mix my song” and Mixstering renders it with the vocal tuning from Step 3 — style and key, Natural Tune unless you changed it — applied first in the vocal chain, so the sample you hear is the tuned vocal, exactly as it will be in the saved mix. You get a 45-second sample first — long enough to get past the intro and actually hear the vocal in the mix, the way you'd hear a reference in the studio. Hear this default mix to unlock the tones in Step 5 — the full song unlocks when you save your Mixed in Tone version there.

🔒 Nothing to hear yet. Add your stems in Step 2, then press “Mix my song” — Natural Tune is on by default in Step 3, and your tuned 45-second sample appears right here.

Heard the default? Now pick your tone, then press Mixed in Tone — Mixstering renders your mix in that tone. Hear the mixed-in-tone version in the player that appears, and only then save and download it below.

Your stems, genre, dynamics, tuning or key changed — mix again to hear the current song.

🔒 Nothing to hear here yet. Pick a tone above and press “Mixed in Tone” — the version in that tone appears right here for you to hear before you save anything.

Below the player, once you've heard it: save and download the full-length mixed-in-tone mix as a WAV — the whole song, not just the 45-second sample — and sit with it for as long as you want, before mastering is even mentioned. Mix only — no mastering is applied.

Mastering is not part of the mix and never gets bundled into it. When — and only when — you've lived with your saved mix and you're ready, come here and master it as its own decision. Six flavors run dark to bright — Basement to Air — with big steps between them, and Mixstering measures your saved mix first, then sets the EQ and compression for this song inside the flavor you pick. This is the end stage, so the preview here is the whole song — not a sample — you hear the full master end to end before you save it, then download that same full master as a WAV or an MP3. The earlier steps stay short samples on purpose; the full song is only given up here, at the end.

No stems, no mixing. Bring one finished mix — a song you mixed anywhere — and Mixstering masters it: level, tone, and polish, nothing else touched.

No mix loaded yet. Upload one finished mix and you'll hear it below, pick a flavor, and master it.

The same six mastering flavors Mixstering uses everywhere — one dark-to-bright ladder, with big, clearly audible steps between neighbors. Mixstering measures your song first, then sets the EQ and compression for this song inside the flavor you pick. Pick one, press “Master my mix”, hear the full master — the whole song, not a sample — in the player that appears, then download that same full master as a WAV or an MP3.

Pick the loudness at export: Streaming — about −14 LUFS if it's headed for Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube or Tidal, or Loud share — about −8 to −9 LUFS if it's going out full strength — apps, email, text message, CD. The true-peak ceiling is −1.0 dB either way.