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Technical notes on artifact removal built for AI music. Written from spectrum measurements and papers, not guesswork.
What to Fix Before Mastering an AI Track — Release Order
Releasing a Suno or Udio track depends on order, because raising loudness raises the codec hiss with it. What to clean first, what to leave to mastering, and why an air-band boost is the worst thing you can do to a generated track.
2026-09-067 min
Why AI Music Sounds Metallic — and How to Fix It (Suno, Udio)
AI music artifacts come from two different mechanisms: a high-frequency noise floor left by residual vector quantization, and stationary spectral lines created by the decoder's transposed convolutions. Here is why each happens, what engineers do about it, and how Honenuki removes both.
2026-09-069 min