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Club-ready audio analysis.
Built for the rig, by people who play out on one.
Audio Anal is in private beta. Drop your email— we’ll send the download link when it’s ready.
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There’s a surprising number of DJs still playing bad-quality files in the club.
Half the time the file looks lossless. It’s a .flac or a .wav, the metadata says 44.1 kHz / 16-bit, the icon is the right colour. But it’s been transcoded up from a 192 kbps MP3, or it’s a vinyl rip with the surface noise and rumble still baked in.
On headphones at home? You probably can’t hear it.
On a properly tuned, custom-built rig like our Poseidon sound system? It’s painful. The brick-wall cutoff above 16 kHz turns into hiss when you push the highs. You can feel the hollowness — the lack of low-end energy, the missing space around the mix, the high-end clarity that just isn’t there.
So we built Audio Anal.
Drop a folder of files in, and it tells you — track by track — whether each file is actually club-ready, or just a dressed-up MP3 in disguise.
What it checks
- Codec & formatmust be genuinely lossless — FLAC, WAV, ALAC — at ≥ 44.1 kHz, ≥ 16-bit.
- Loudness, true peak, dynamicsEBU R128 reference measurements. The same numbers Spek, Logic Pro and iZotope use.
- Brick-wall cutoff detectiondirect FFT analysis of the upper spectrum. MP3 / MP2 / AAC encoders impose a hard low-pass somewhere between 16 and 21 kHz, depending on bitrate. We find that cliff to within 50 Hz — including on 320 kbps fakes.
- Vinyl-source detectionhigh noise floor + sub-30 Hz rumble. A vinyl rip can sound great on hi-fi but will fight your subs at 110 dB SPL.
- Spek-style spectrogramrendered for every file, so you can eyeball the suspicious ones yourself.
Each track, one verdict
Each verdict comes with the specific reason. Pass-grade files can be tagged green in Finder. Full report exports to CSV or JSON.
Why we built it
Because we’re tired of pulling tracks mid-set when the rig exposes a fake. Because mastering studios send approved files that aren’t always what they say on the tin. Because a club system that costs more than a flat deserves files that respect what it’s been built to do.
If you booked the rig, bring the right files.
One email when the download’s ready. That’s it.
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