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Most split disputes start in the session, not in the royalty statement. This guide covers the co-writing day itself: what to settle before you start, how to keep a running record while you write, and how to agree and sign song splits before anyone goes home. Laws checked against official texts on 25 Oct 2026.
Workflows
A practical guide to recording the world outside your room and turning it into music: choosing a recorder, picking and placing mics, settings that save you in the edit, file habits that keep metadata intact, and the rights questions that matter before you release a track built on someone else's sound. Manuals, standards and laws checked on 25 Oct 2026.
Workflows
A stem splitter doesn't recover the original multitrack. It estimates each part from the finished mix, and its mistakes come out as bleed and artefacts. This guide covers how the models got from Spleeter to Demucs to today's band-split transformers, why the errors happen, and a workflow that plans for them, keeps unreleased audio on your own machine and clears the rights before you release anything.
Workflows
A desk review of four AI mastering options from what their makers publish, with no scores yet. Prices and features are easy to compare. The real differences are in the terms, from eMastered's clause letting it train on uploads, to LANDR's opt-in training programme, to Ozone, which runs in your DAW and needs no upload at all.
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