--- title: "Free AI mixing and mastering: what's included | Mixroadie" description: "What the free tiers of LANDR, eMastered and BandLab include, why free mastering can't fix a mix, and what uploading your song costs you besides money." url: "https://mixroadie.com/blog/free-ai-mixing-and-mastering/" published: "2026-10-19T00:00:00.000Z" --- # Free AI mixing and mastering: what's included What the free tiers of LANDR, eMastered and BandLab include, why free mastering can't fix a mix, and what uploading your song costs you besides money. GUIDE 19 October 2026 3 min read Updated 21 October 2026 Most search results for “free AI mixing and mastering” lead to the same kind of service. You upload a stereo file, hear a louder version, and then find out which part is free. Some are free all the way through. Some let you listen for free and charge for the download. Almost none of them mix anything. That’s the limit of working on one stereo file, and the services are open about it. It’s still worth knowing before you spend an evening uploading bounces. ## What the free tiers include We checked these in October 2026. Pricing pages change, so look again before you decide. **BandLab Mastering** is properly free. You upload a track, pick one of four mastering presets, and download the result as MP3 or WAV, as often as you want. If you only want a quick master of a finished mix, this is the one to try first. **LANDR** lets you upload as many tracks as you like and listen to the mastered previews in the browser for free. Downloading a master costs money, either per track or through a subscription. **eMastered** works much the same way. You can upload, hear the master and compare it with your original for free, and you pay when you want to download it. So “free” covers three different deals: free, free to listen, and free to try. All three are mastering a stereo mix. ## Why free mastering can’t fix your mix Mastering works on the finished song as one piece of audio. It can make the whole thing louder, brighter, darker or more compressed. It can’t turn the vocal up without turning up the guitars that sit in the same file, because by then they aren’t separate any more. If the reason you’re unhappy with a song is that the vocal disappears in the chorus, the kick and bass blur into one low smear, or the snare sounds like a cardboard box, mastering won’t help. Usually it makes those problems louder. A mastering engine pushing a mix toward −14 LUFS will pull the buried vocal up exactly as much as the band burying it. Mixing happens before that point, on the separate tracks. That’s where a vocal gets brought up 2 dB, a guitar gets a cut where it covers the singer, and the bass gets out of the kick’s way. Only tools that work on your multitrack can do this. Our article [What AI mixing can and can’t do](https://mixroadie.com/blog/what-is-ai-mixing/) sorts out which tools work at which stage. A quick test: solo nothing, play your mix, and ask whether you’d be happy if this exact balance were just louder and more polished. If yes, a free mastering service is a fine choice. If no, the work is still in the mix. ## The cost that isn’t money All three services above work by upload. Your unreleased song goes to someone else’s server. For a demo you’ve already posted on SoundCloud, that may not matter. For an unreleased single, a client’s song, or anything under a label deal, it might. Before uploading, read what the service’s terms say about storing your audio and what it may be used for, and how you delete it afterwards. Some musicians are fine with what they find. Some aren’t. LANDR also sells a mastering plugin that runs on your own computer, if you like LANDR’s sound but don’t want to upload. ## Where Mixroadie fits We should be upfront: Mixroadie isn’t free. It costs $69, paid once, with a year of updates and two computers per licence, and a free 7-day trial on one song with no limit on requests. What you get for that is the stage the free services skip. Mixroadie works inside your REAPER project, on the separate tracks. It proposes the mix fixes first: levels, cuts, compression, de-essing, panning, each with its reason and its before and after numbers. Then it masters the result for Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, club, CD or vinyl. Your audio is never uploaded, in any configuration. If you don’t use REAPER, it won’t work for you yet. In that case BandLab for free mastering, plus some time on the mix itself, is a reasonable place to start. If you do, compare its result with a free master of the same bounce. That comparison will tell you more than any article.