Step six: Studio

Everything you need to make the right call.

Studio is where a release is usually won or lost, so it gets the most instrumentation: what arrived, what changed, what is approved and what must happen next. Trim and fade stay previews until a render is deliberately confirmed.

Hear every version properly

Stack track versions, A/B audition with gain matching, switch between stereo and mono, and comment directly against a point in the audio. Saved trim and fade previews make direction clear before a delivery file is made.

Two version chips side by side: v23 Pre-master, selected, and Dynamic Master print, each marked as available.

Actual CrateSphere UI

Read the master at a glance

The CrateSphere aligned master comparison, showing dynamics traces for four master versions above a readout of loudness, peak, phase, source and codec values.
Compare version dynamics across the same musical timeline, then read the loudness, peak, phase, source and codec information underneath.

See whether a source is mono or stereo, how hard it has been mastered and how its dynamics compare with the pre-master before it moves forward.

Sequence without downloads

Generate review playlists and propose track order from a release, an accepted project or a compilation. The listening and sequencing decision stays in the project, not on someone's laptop.

A review playlist built from pre-masters, with four tracks in a running order that can be reordered.

Album loudness, in context

Build a streaming-master preview around the album's average LUFS, with true-peak protection. Source masters stay untouched while you audition release-wide consistency.

A -12.60 LUFS album reference, with the gain each track will receive and which ones are peak-ceiling limited.

Keep people around a release aligned

Pre-filled email workflows, persistent notifications and project status help artists know when they can audition masters or artwork, and help the label ask for the next thing it needs without writing it from scratch.

A pre-filled artist email requesting pre-masters, with the sending address, subject and message ready to review.

Make catalogue work operational

Keep reference tracks beside the work, manage canonical catalogue prefixes and numbers, and use electronic agreement workflows with a visible signing status, including back-catalogue confirmations.