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The Meter. Is the song ready, and who is it for?
Upload a mix or a master. The Meter measures it on your own device, reads the numbers against the streaming standards, and tells you what kind of song it is, who is likely to listen, and what to fix before it goes out. It is free, for anyone, with no account.
Free for artists, producers and managers · nothing is uploaded · built for Emberlight Artists' onboarding
Three minutes, on a real song.
A finished track measured on camera. The numbers and what each one costs you, the delivery check, the note by note intonation pass on a vocal, the repair you can run yourself for nothing, and what it costs if you would rather a person did it.
Rather read it? Download the manual. Rather just try it? Open The Meter and put a song in.
One link. Then it lives on your phone or desktop.
The Meter is a free app that installs from the browser, with no app store and no account. Open the link once, add it to your home screen or install it on the desktop, and from then on it opens from its own icon and measures offline.
Add to Home Screen
Open the link in Safari. Tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen. The Meter appears next to your other apps.
Install app
Open the link in Chrome. Tap Install in the bar at the bottom, or use the menu and choose Install app.
Install from the address bar
Open the link in Chrome or Edge. Click the install icon at the right of the address bar, or use the menu and choose Install The Meter. It gets its own window and a place in your dock or start menu.
Works on any recent phone or computer. Files are measured on the device and never uploaded. The readings and pitch copy use Soundcheck's server for the text only, and nothing is stored.
The numbers a mastering engineer would check first.
Every figure comes with a plain verdict, so you do not need to know what a LUFS is to see whether the song is too loud for Spotify.
Integrated loudness and range
Measured the way Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube measure it. Whether the platform will turn the song down, and how much dynamic life is left in it.
Headroom and clipping
Sample peak against the minus one decibel target, and a count of runs of full-scale samples that will distort once the file is encoded.
Width and mono compatibility
Correlation between left and right, and how much of the mix sits in the sides. Too wide and it collapses on a phone speaker.
BPM and key, with a confidence
For playlist pitching, for the DJ, for the sync brief that asks. Marked as an estimate, because it is one.
Seven-band balance
Sub to air, so a muddy low-mid or a harsh top shows up as a bar rather than a feeling.
Energy across the song
A second-by-second energy curve. How long the intro takes, where the lift is, whether the last chorus actually goes up. Plus head and tail silence to trim.
Genre, audience, placement, and what to fix.
The measurements are only half of it. Press one button and the numbers are read the way an A&R person and a mastering engineer would read them together, in plain English, with a release readiness score.
Genre and mood
Primary and secondary genre, sub-genre, mood, and the artists it will be compared to. Useful when the artist thinks it is one thing and the record is another.
Audience and markets
Age range, listener profile, the countries where it is most likely to travel, and the moments people would play it in.
Playlists, radio, sync
The playlist types to pitch, the radio formats it suits, and the kind of sync brief it could answer.
An ordered fix list
Pass, warn or fail on each quality point, then the fixes in the order to do them. Copy it as text for the producer, or save the whole thing as the song report.
Your song next to a hit
Drop a reference in the same lane and see loudness, tone, energy curve and time to the hook side by side. "Yours takes 38 seconds to get there, the reference takes 11" ends most arguments about arrangement.
The odd one out, and a running order
Drop the whole record. One table shows the track mastered 3 LU louder than the rest, the one that is far too long, the one in a key that jars, and a suggested sequence to start from.
Will the distributor bounce it?
True peak with oversampling, sample rate, bit depth, head and tail silence, and whether an ISRC is in the file. Green means it will not come back from DistroKid or the label.
The singer and the drummer, honestly
Give it a vocal stem and it shows where the singer is flat or sharp and what the note needed to be. Give it drums or bass and it shows where the take drags or pushes, hit by hit.
Hook, repetition, sync, radio
Paste the words. It says whether the hook lands and how fast, what a radio editor would cut, and what kind of sync brief it could answer.
The words the artist freezes on
The Spotify playlist pitch, the sync one-liner and a short bio, written from the reading in the artist's voice. Then the release checklist, so the record is ready and not just the song.
Diagnosis is free. So is the first repair.
Level, true peak, clipping, silence and stereo width are fixed on the page and handed back as a delivery-ready WAV, with the ISRC written in. Pitch and timing faults export as markers, so a producer goes straight to the spot. If you want a human to do it, the job is already diagnosed and priced per song.
One PDF with everything in it.
Every check you have run, on branded A4 pages: cover, verdict, delivery, readout with the tone and energy charts, timing, intonation, the lyric reading, audience, reference match, pitch copy and the release checklist. Checks you have not run are marked pending, so the report is always complete. One button, saved from the browser, ready to send to the artist or the label.
We built it for our own onboarding.
Emberlight Artists takes on new artists every month, and every one arrives with a folder of songs and a firm belief about what genre they are in. The Meter was written so a manager can get a straight answer in a minute, before the first meeting. There was no reason to keep it to ourselves.
- Free for artists, producers, managers and labels, with no account and no limit we have needed to set
- Your audio stays on your device; only the measured numbers are sent, and only when you ask for the reading
- Nothing is stored. Close the page and it is gone
- If you want it inside your own management system, or branded as you, that is a conversation
The Meter tells you the vocal is out. The Take fixes it.
The Take is our vocal repair app: it moves the notes that were sung flat, sharp or drifting to pitch, keeps the voice, and shows every change. The Desk and The Diary run the business around the record.