Drop a premaster into DQ Master Rack and it masters instantly, to the DQ Signature, our own studio's chain. Every control responds live. Hear the finished master before you pay anything.
You only pay to export. Hear the finished master first, every time.
The full, real master, free. The paywall is the export, never the sound.
Tell it “warmer”, “more air” or “punchier”. Speak naturally in any of 10 languages, and the engine turns your words into mastering moves.
The DQ Signature is our own chain: the one we master client records on, not a model trained on the internet.
Renders locally. Your audio is never uploaded, and it never trains anyone else's model.
One premaster, mastered four ways: ours, and three of the services people usually reach for. Nothing here is normalised. Every file plays back at the level it was returned at, so you hear exactly what each one hands you. Switch between them while it plays.
Pick a style
Measured in your browser from the clips playing on the Listen tab
Frequency balance · averaged across the clip, at the levels they came back at
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Integrated loudness measured to ITU-R BS.1770-4 with gating, taken from the exact files playing above.
Each file plays at the level the service returned it at. The gap is the point: the quieter ones are quieter because that is what came back. Streaming will pull all of this to the same loudness later, so listen past the volume to the low end and the width.
The frequency chart is where the real differences show. Watch below 100 Hz: cloud services tend to thin the bottom to stay safe on every system, and the low end percentage in the table tells you by how much.
This is how much of the stereo image survives being folded to mono. Around 1 is mono-safe. A master that drops below zero has width that will partly cancel on a club sub or a phone speaker.
All four versions come from the same premaster, exported at the same sample rate, and trimmed to the same thirty seconds. The three comparison services are not named. They are the best known AI mastering service, a dedicated online mastering engine, and the mastering built into a major streaming platform. Measurements are taken in your browser from the exact files being played, so you can check them yourself. Loudness follows ITU-R BS.1770-4. Files are delivered as MP3 for the web, which changes peak levels slightly and is why peak is not reported here.
Hear it on your own track.
Drop a premaster and it's already club-ready. Nudge lows, mids, highs, width and loudness. The engine does the rest.
Modelled on the EQs sitting on our own desk, with tube-driven saturation and a transformer output stage. A boost here adds weight and colour, not just level, which is the part a clean digital EQ never gives you.
Shape the curve by hand on the live analyser, or hand it a reference and let it match band by band.
Width applied band by band instead of across the whole mix. Open the top end right out, hold the low end tight and mono-safe, and set exactly where the two meet.
Phase stays intact the whole way down, so the record that sounds huge on a club system is the same record that still holds together on a phone speaker or a mono club sub.
Not an off-the-shelf brickwall. This is the limiter we tuned to the settings we reach for day in, day out, so the moves we would otherwise make by hand are already sitting in it.
HPF limiting leaves your low end alone and limits only the mids and highs. Your bottom keeps its weight and its power instead of being dragged down every time the kick lands.
Mid/side limiting holds the centre steady while the sides stay open, so it gets loud without collapsing inwards. True-peak ceiling held at −0.2 dBTP, last thing in the chain: loud enough for a club, clean enough that no streaming platform turns it down.
A 24-bit master plus a loudness-normalised streaming twin, spec-perfect for every platform.
Every module, in the order your audio actually hits it. This is the DQ Signature chain, and all of it is in the free download.
Click any module in the chain
The colour of the desk, applied at the level the track actually needs rather than the same dose every time.
Feed in your own previous masters and the engine learns your house sound, so every release lands the same.
What you are listening to is the render. Not an approximation, the same file you would export.
LUFS, RMS and true-peak live on the rack the whole time, so you always know where you sit against target.
Type what you want changed, in your own words. The engine hears you and moves.
Producers have always talked to their engineer this way: “a touch warmer,” “more punch,” “back the highs off.” Master Rack listens the same way. No parameter to hunt for, no menu to learn. Just say it, in your own words, in any of ten languages.
Every move shows on the rack in real time, so you see exactly what changed and why. It's still the DQ Signature chain doing the work. Natural language just replaces the mouse.
| Dead QuietMaster Rack | LANDR | Waves | SoundCloud | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hear the finished master, free | ✓Full quality, no watermark | ✗Preview only | ✗Preview only | ✗Pro accounts only |
| Talk to it in plain words | ✓"Warmer, more air", 10 languages | ✗Not offered | ✗Not offered | ✗Not offered |
| One real studio's sound | ✓The DQ Signature chain | ✗Generic algorithm | ✗Generic algorithm | ✗Generic algorithm |
| Your audio never leaves your machine | ✓Renders 100% locally | ✗Uploads to the cloud | ✗Uploads to the cloud | ✗Uploads to the cloud |
| Full advanced chain + true-peak metering | ✓EQ, dynamics, harmonics, limiter | Limited | Limited | ✗None |
| Build your own reference sound | ✓Reference bank, unique to you | ✗Not offered | ✗Not offered | ✗Not offered |
| Pay as you go | ✓From £5.99 a master, with monthly subscription options | •Subscription-led | •Per-track credits | ✗Subscription only |
Anyone can master in Easy mode. A label can run a whole roster through it, no engineering.
Drop the artist's mix into Easy mode.
Bounce the master and send it for their ears.
Type their notes in plain words, no dials.
Build a reference bank, for your unique sound.
Feed in a bank of your previous masters and the engine learns your house sound, so every release on your label lands with the same signature, automatically.
One credit covers a whole track. Your first export spends it — then re-render, tweak and re-export that same track as many times as you like, free. A new credit is only used when you upload a new track.
DQ Master Rack runs entirely on your own Mac — nothing is ever uploaded. The free download includes both builds — Apple Silicon and Intel — so it works on any Mac. Inside, just open the installer that matches your chip; it’s the same app either way, with the same features and the same DQ Signature sound.
