I told you the Board Room gets it before anybody. Here it is. It goes on my socials after you've had it. The MIXSTEIN beta is open to anyone who qualifies. It's free while it's a beta. And you don't need a call with me to get it running. There's an install page with a video I recorded on a clean Mac, start to finish. About ten minutes. Who qualifies right now: Ableton Live Suite, or Standard with Max for Live, on an Apple Silicon Mac. That's wave one, and you can have it today. Logic, Studio One, Pro Tools, PC, Intel: you're wave two. Lock your spot anyway and you hear first. Nothing to pay either way. What you're stepping into: put it on the mix bus and it reads the whole session. Not the words you typed. The session. It names what's fighting, with the numbers, tells you why, and makes the move in Ableton's own devices on your track. Then it goes after the vocal the way my hand does. 37 cuts on one take, and it found 16 of my 18 within milliseconds. On price: I'm a new company and this isn't a premier product yet, so I'm not charging like one. Founding members lock a spot now and keep that price for life. Nothing is charged while it's a beta. The number's on the site. If you locked earlier, you got the new one. How you get it: go to mixstein.com and lock your tier. Your download link comes with it. It's yours and it works three times, so a bad download or a second Mac is covered. Each beta build runs 30 days, then you grab the next one. Still free. Install questions go in the pinned thread so every answer helps the next person. No date on the real release. Undeniable, not early. What's the first fight you think it'll find in your mix? — DSG

For months you've watched me build MIXSTEIN in front of you — an AI that doesn't just talk about your mix, it opens Ableton and makes the moves. Real devices. Real settings. On your session, not in some cloud demo. Last week I watched it read a record against a J Dilla instrumental, tell me exactly where the mids were lying, and prescribe the moves — and when it had nothing worth fixing, it said nothing. That's the part that took the longest to build: a tool with restraint. Tools that make moves are everywhere. Tools that know when NOT to are not. Here's where it stands: MIXSTEIN is going out very, very soon — but not wide. First it goes into the hands of a small group of creators while I'm personally on the line with each of them. They stress it, break it, shape it. Then it expands from there. Then the real thing arrives for everybody else — and by then it'll have been battle-tested by people who actually mix. If you've been waiting for the moment to pay attention, this is it. Question for the room: if MIXSTEIN could take ONE thing off your plate the first time you open it — what would you pick? Answers here genuinely shape what the first group gets.

Tore the entire studio down to the studs. Every cable out. Every piece of gear on the floor. 60 wires that had no business being in the signal path — gone. Then rebuilt the whole room from zero: every patch point verified, every unit exactly where the workflow wants it, the recall system dead center where it belongs. First time in the history of this room that ALL the gear has been on at once and the room just... handles it. Cold, quiet, everything green. Here's the lesson in it, because there always is one: your signal chain is only as honest as its worst connection. I've been preaching gain staging and clean signal path in here for months — and then I opened up my own walls and found 60 wires of "I'll fix it later." You can't hear a bad patch bay in one session. You hear it over a hundred sessions, as mixes that almost translate, gear that almost sounds like it should, little gremlins you learned to mix around without knowing it. So before I hand anybody anything — before the next MIXSTEIN move, before the next mix leaves this room — the room itself had to pass the same bar as everything I ship: undeniable or nothing. Photos below. The room MIXSTEIN gets built in now looks like what it's building. Question for you: what's the "I'll fix it later" in YOUR setup right now — the thing you've learned to work around instead of fixing? Drop it below. Naming it is half of fixing it.

I'm New To Mixing and Mastering Will you have a Glossary of Recording and Mastering Terminology and their meaning so I can communicate with Mixstein Effectively? (IHOPE SO)

Morning from Zimbabwe! I just wrapped an early session. I'm manually aligning vocals of which I like doing (although time consuming) because I like the control i have over making stack and harmonies feel and sound natural as opposed to what a plugin would do. @TouchTone Dsg I don't think I asked this, will Mixstien be able to handle this task too...the key word.... TASTE?