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Mastering for DJ sets

Every drop of your set lands at one level.

The mix is done. This is the finish: every drop lifted toward your loudest. The automation proposes every gain. You keep the last word.

Master a set
Free
The first 60 minutes, as MP3.
Paid
From €2.99 a master of up to 4 hours, as WAV.

No account, on every plan.

Levelled for where it lands, not where it was mixed.

A track sounds a certain way depending on the system you mixed on: a club system with a heavy low end made the bass-heavy tracks feel too big, so you pulled them down. In that room, the right call. Then the set leaves, for headphones, a car, somebody's laptop. The room stays behind. Your corrections travel with the file. Setmaster levels the set for wherever it plays next. It does adjust the gain but won't alter the sound, unless the level goes into the clipper.

Polish your gain staging.

Not every jump in level is the room. Some are slips: a trim set by ear, a channel fader left a little low. The same levelling evens them out.

Pull the fader. Watch eight drops line up.

Every drop hits the same. Press play, pull the fader, switch the leveller off and on, and hear it.

100%
The whole mix, 14:39 Press play · click in a lane, or drag the bar, to jump to any moment · pull the fader · switch the leveller off and on · hover a drop, or tab to the gain lane, for its gain Press play · tap in a lane, or drag the bar, to jump to any moment · pull the fader · switch the leveller off and on · tap a drop for its gain
8drops found
+3.00dBlargest lift
0.00dBspread at pull 100%, down from 3.00
Gain onlyno compressor, no limiter

Mastering a DJ set is not mastering a track.

  1. 01Track mastering

    ONE MIX COMPRESS LIMIT EQ FINISHED TRACK LIMIT LIMIT

    Changes the sound. It compresses, limits and shapes the tone of one mix until the track is finished.

  2. 02A set

    THE TRACK FROM 01 EACH AT ITS OWN LIMIT

    Strings finished tracks together, each mastered already, at its own level. Limiting them again would be damage.

  3. 03Setmaster

    GAIN TARGET · THE LOUDEST DROP LIFT ONLY. NOT MASTERED AGAIN.

    Lifts each drop toward your loudest and carries the gain through the breaks between them.

What sets it apart

Your breaks stay breaks.

An automatic gain lifts whatever sounds quiet, and a break sounds quiet. Setmaster hears the whole set first and finds the drops, so the gain holds through each drop and carries across the break.

Automatic gain

The break comes up and the drops pump. The space you built disappears.

Setmaster

Each drop is lifted as one, and the gain ramps in between.

Machine learning does one job here. It finds the drops.

That pass over the whole set is where the compute goes. Everything it marks is a proposal: drag a boundary, set a gain by hand, add a drop it missed. The gains themselves come from measurement and maths.

drop drop drop drop DRAG A BOUNDARY SET BY HAND + ADD A DROP IT MISSED drop drop drop DRAG A BOUNDARY SET BY HAND + ADD A DROP IT MISSED

The whole pass.

Nine steps from upload to inbox. Four of them are yours, and nothing hides behind a single Master button.

Setmaster reads the set

  1. Upload Your set: WAV, MP3 or FLAC, up to four hours.
  2. 01 Analysis Drops and breaks found. Loudness and true peak across the file.
  3. 02 Artefacts Every second checked for short clicks that stand above your music.

You decide

  1. 03 Edit Trim, cut, EQ, pan. Adjust any drop it proposed.
  2. 04 Pull How far drops move toward the loudest.
  3. 05 Clicks Hear each one, mark it Click or Music. Clicks don't set the loudness.
  4. 06 Loudness Set the final loudness. Setmaster proposes one for your file.

Setmaster renders and sends it

  1. 07 Levelling One gain per drop, ramped between. Measured after your EQ and pan.
  2. 08 Ceiling True peak where you set it, measured on your music, not on a click.
  3. 09 Delivery Encoded, tagged, emailed, as WAV or MP3.
  4. Inbox
Loudness

Clean or loud. Your call.

Setmaster proposes a loudness depending on the file you put in.

If you put in a file below the ceiling, Setmaster will lift it to -1 dBTP by default. This is safe for streaming as it leaves headroom for encoding.

If you input a loud file that is potentially already clipping, Setmaster will match its loudness in the output. You can still pull it down or push further.

A set · illustration Drag the fader · hover a card Drag the fader · tap a card

Example

A whole DJ mix, before and after.

Almost two hours on SoundCloud, as recorded and as mastered with Setmaster.

Try it

Hear it on your own set.

Free
The first 60 minutes, as MP3.
Paid
From €2.99 a master, or €4.99 and €9.99 a month. WAV, and MP3 on request.

No account, on every plan.

Master a set