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Choosing an online mastering service.

Most services sound similar in a marketing demo. These are the questions that separate them for a home engineer.

What to ask any service

Can you hear it before you pay? A full A/B against your own mix, not a sample clip.

Can you see what was done? Named stages and a score, or a black box.

What does it cost over a year? Per-track or subscription, and what you lose if you stop paying.

Where do the loudness numbers come from? A published standard, or a preset. We explain ours on the methodology page.

Is a person available? Some releases deserve a human engineer. Ours is on the engineer page.

Each page below compares LuvLang with one service using what that service publishes on its own site. Check their pricing pages for current figures.