Hat Guy
- 84 HzdoNo single EQ cut settles the kick and bass at 84 Hz: even out the level instead.
- Low bass 60-100 Hz, levelmeasuredLow bass 60-100 Hz, level: -7.1 dB vs integrated loudness. No sized move: bring it down toward the references.
- Clickscheck by earClicks: 1 clicks. No sized move: listen at the times listed; put a short fade on the edit there, or re-render if it is a glitch.
05 Moves measured
What to do, in the order it matters, assembled from the measured sections. Nothing here is new: each line restates something measured.
Scored for an unmastered bounce, from the findings in the tabs: each flagged one takes its share off its area, so every point lost is something you can open and read. A quiet or dynamic mix never loses points; only a squashed, hot or clipping one does. Hover any score for the detail.
01 What changed
Measured against an earlier bounce of the same song. Nothing is re-analyzed; this is arithmetic over two stored reports. The tonal figures are loudness-matched, so bouncing hotter or quieter can't pass itself off as a tone change.
#16 · v16 (2026-11-09) → #17 · v17 (2026-11-09). 10 of 42 tracked figures moved: 7 better, 3 worse. Anything smaller than a figure's deadband counts as unchanged, so noise doesn't get reported as progress.
Length changed 22s -> 166s. If the arrangement changed, these deltas compare two different pieces of music, not two mixes.
The upper bass (100-200 Hz) was judged differently against the references: not compared before, within the references' line now. Its kick-vs-bass advice changed with that verdict.
sub 20–60 0.7 dB louder · low bass 60–100 1.0 dB quieter · upper bass 100–200 0.2 dB quieter. Averaged across each zone, so a narrow move looks smaller here than it does on the curve.
02 Frequency
The same references as four-band averages, on the same frequency axis. Anything the averages flatten out shows up in the curve above.
-1.96 dB/oct against the references' -2.6 to -1.2 · brighter than 10 of your 19 references.
Every band from 63 Hz to 13 kHz is within 2 dB of the references' range, and the sub (25 Hz–50 Hz) isn't louder than nearly all of them.
- 393 Hz, 10.1 dB · other 91% · G4, 5¢ sharp · on a pitch: may be a played note, listen before cutting
- 247 Hz, 9.1 dB · other 76% · B3, 3¢ flat · on a pitch: may be a played note, listen before cutting
- 164 Hz, 8.2 dB · bass 56% · E3, 8¢ flat · on a pitch: may be a played note, listen before cutting
- 1.97 kHz, 4.7 dB · vocals 60%
: 200–500 Hz dips 6.4 dB between notes each second · references 5.5–8.4 dB; ordinary.
Bouncing louder or quieter does not move these. Only tone does, which is why this is the row to mix against: the shares above squash a 2 dB boost into about one percentage point. These are levels against integrated loudness, not dBFS, so they only mean something next to the reference column.
A peak sitting on a pitch is the part being played, not a fault: don't cut it. Only a note that dominates the low end needs evening out, and the moves list names it when one does. Spread between the strongest and typical peak: 4.1 dB.
03 Signal & headroom
Stereo: 0.8, 33%, 0.87. Holds up in mono: it loses 0.5 dB folded down, short of the -2.15 dB line. Reference records for this genre run 26–48% (median 34%, n=19), so this sits inside their range. Width is an arrangement choice, not a fault.
(41 s against 49 s)
(attacks over the 300 ms before them, 95th pct): 4.7 dB · references 2.7–5.4 dB; not flatter than them (17 of 19 have less). By band: low 5.9, mid 3.7, high 5.2 dB.
Stereo by band · width is a choice; losing level in mono is not
04 Vocal & low-end
Captured from your buses during playback, so these are the two problems a stereo bounce hides — the levels come straight off the buses, with no separation bleed. A comparison with your references notes it when it uses a separation of the mix.
The four captured buses add up to your mix before the Stereo Out chain by construction, so the levels below are the real ones. The bounce differs from that sum by a 10.6 dB below the mix, with the level fitted out — that’s your mix-bus plugins at work, not a routing fault.
- even it outNo single EQ cut settles the kick and bass at 84 Hz: even out the level instead.
Vocal placement
Your vocal's clarity sits at 3.0 kHz, its strongest presence peak (8.8 dB above the rest of the voice there).
: the vocal stem's esses (5–9 kHz) spike 11.9 dB above that band's own typical level · references 14.9–27.1 dB (bus level; ranked on the separation: 14.4 dB); within their range.
Compared like-for-like: your mix was also separated with Demucs, the way the references were measured.
Mix balancedrums, bass and the rest
References compared : your mix was also separated with Demucs, the way they were measured, and that separation was ranked (“ranked on the separation”). The levels shown are your buses.
: it moves 3.2 dB against the track note to note · references 1.8–4.5 dB (bus level; ranked on the separation: 2.9 dB); within their range.
Kick vs bassthe low-end fight
Kick peaks at 31 Hz, bass at 82 Hz. The one band worth acting on is 168 Hz at 0.65 , carrying 11% of the low end. On the drums' side that is the snare, measured on the kit buses. Across the reference records the worst such band usually runs 0.78, and only the top tenth go past 0.92. hold 3.7% of your low end. The references usually sit around 12.6%, and go as high as 28.1%.
References were measured from Demucs separation; this comparison is approximate.