Analysis

Findings taken from the audio in the catalogue rather than from received wisdom. Every figure on these pages is measured, and where the sample is too small to claim something, the page says so.

How much louder a chorus gets

The measured lift from verse to chorus, and how consistent it is.

How songs are built

Where sections fall, how long they run, and the shapes that recur.

Which layers carry a record

Energy split across drums, bass, vocals and the rest, stem by stem.

The tempos music is actually at

Where tempo really clusters, against where people assume it does.

Mixing in key with Camelot codes

What the Camelot wheel encodes and which neighbours genuinely mix.

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