As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly mix your song.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, power-user skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your digital audio workstation and create a new session using the song's original sample rate and bit depth.
   2. Export or gather separate, clearly named stems from the beginning of the song, including vocals, drums, bass, instruments and effects, and remove unwanted silence or clipping where you can.
   3. Use LALAL.AI only if you need to separate a finished stereo recording into provisional vocal and instrumental stems, then label those results as extracted and check them for artefacts.
   4. Write down the tempo, key if known, genre, intended mood, target platform, artistic priorities and a reference track, then paste these details and the stem list into the prompt.
   5. Attach the stems if the chatbot can access audio, or paste any available level, peak, loudness and plugin information, and ask it for the mixing plan.
   6. Apply one suggested change at a time in the session, keeping the unprocessed version available so you can compare the result at matched loudness.
   7. Check the mix in stereo and mono on headphones, speakers and quiet playback, then correct masking, phase, harshness, missing vocal detail and excessive bass before exporting a WAV mix.
   8. Compare the export against the reference at similar listening loudness and send it to an experienced musician or engineer if you cannot identify why it sounds different on another system.

   Prompt

   I am preparing a mix of my song and want an actionable mixing plan, not invented claims about what you can hear. I will provide the available stems, their names, sample rate, bit depth, tempo, genre, intended mood, target platform and one reference track description below.
   
   Song details:
   - Genre and mood: [insert]
   - Tempo and key, if known: [insert]
   - Intended platform or use: [insert]
   - Main artistic priorities: [insert]
   - Reference track and what I like about it: [insert]
   
   Stems:
   [paste the stem list, including any known recording or clipping problems]
   
   If audio files are attached, analyse only what you can actually access. If you cannot hear or measure a file, say so. Give me:
   1. A proposed static balance and stereo image for each stem.
   2. A practical order of operations for gain staging, high-pass or low-pass filtering, equalisation, compression, saturation, reverb and delay.
   3. Starting settings as ranges rather than false precision, with the reason for each choice.
   4. Likely masking, phase, noise and headroom problems to check.
   5. Separate advice for the vocal, drums, bass, main instruments and effects returns where relevant.
   6. A short listening checklist for mono, headphones, small speakers and quiet playback.
   7. A final export checklist for a stereo mix, without claiming that it is release-ready.
   Do not rewrite the song, add parts, invent stem content or present subjective choices as facts. Ask only the most important clarifying questions before giving the plan.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.