Thin Veil Records

Life Is Strange

Act
.TJ.
Format
Album
Date
Catalog
TVR007

Notes dated .

Frame Rates cover

1Abstract

We make every song over many rounds with an AI music app. In each round we write what we want to hear, the app plays back what it made, and we listen. Then we change the words or the settings and try again. When one version is right, we master it for streaming. This song took 7 rounds and 11 renders over about 10 hours. A render is one full version of the song the app plays back, and one round can return more than one. The charts below call each round a submission, one for every time we sent the app a prompt. We wrote the style prompt, which describes the sound, 3 ways and the lyrics 6 ways before we kept one render.

The song was made in Suno v5. The delivered master measures −17.93 LUFS integrated. Its true peak is −2.95 dBTP, and every streaming decode measured stays under the −0.50 dBTP ceiling. Loudness range is 11.4 LU.

2Settings

AppSuno
Model versionv5
Generation modeJoined from 68fcfd80 and 0f9b44b1
Style prompt as submitted132 characters 
dark ambient electronic, sub bass drone, granular synthesis, tape-saturated, glacial pace, close-mic spoken word, minimal and sparse
Lyrics prompt as submitted62 lines 
[Ambient Intro]

[Instrumental]

[Instrumental Build - sub bass drone, textural]

[Spoken Word Verse]
I watched a man get fired
for guarding a warhead
They called him back on Thursday
Nobody laughed

[Instrumental Break]

[Atmospheric - long, drifting]

[Spoken Word Verse]
My kid asked the machine
what happens when you die
It gave a better answer
than I ever could

[Instrumental Break]

[Dark Ambient - expansive]

[Spoken Word Verse]
I got the promotion
and sat in the parking lot
for forty minutes
feeling nothing

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Minimal - sub bass and texture only]

[Spoken Word Verse]
The news says everything is fine
The news says everything is ending
Both at the same time
on the same screen

[Instrumental Break]

[Atmospheric - breathing room]

[Whispered]
I can't sleep but I'm not awake

[Instrumental Build - slow, tension]

[Spoken Word Verse]
There's a hum in the house
that wasn't there last year
Not the refrigerator
Not the wiring
Something underneath

[Instrumental Break]

[Long - let the hum sit]

[Spoken Word Verse]
I keep almost remembering something
that I've never known
Like a word on the tip of
a tongue I'm not sure is mine

[Instrumental - tension holds]

[Spoken Word - slower, weighted]
The ground is moving
Everyone feels it
Nobody says it

[Instrumental Break]

[Dark ambient - longest pause]

[Whispered Outro]
Life is strange
Not broken
Not ending
Strange
Like waking up inside a dream
that doesn't know
it's dreaming yet

3Method

Render history, by operation
OperationCountDetail
Persona renders62026-02-07. Suno v5 (6). Suno labels: vox (6). Saved persona slots: Trevor Gram (6).
Extensions32026-02-08. Suno v5 (3). Suno labels: extend (2), concat (1).
Studio exports22026-02-08 to 2026-03-01. Suno's editor (2). Suno labels: studio_export (2).
Stem extractions24Stem clips in Suno, duplicates included, 2026-04-20.
Figure 1. Generation timeline. Every render is a tick, one lane per operation, submissions in time order at equal spacing; the labels give the clock time (UTC) of the submissions beneath them. The final render is ringed. 7 submissions, 11 renders.
Generation timeline: each submission, its time, operation and render count
StepTime (UTC)OperationRendersFinal render
12026-02-07 16:00 UTCPersona render2
22026-02-07 16:06 UTCPersona render2
32026-02-07 16:19 UTCPersona render2
42026-02-08 01:27 UTCExtend of 68fcfd802
52026-02-08 01:30 UTCJoined from 68fcfd80 and 0f9b44b11yes
62026-02-08 01:38 UTCStudio export1
72026-03-01 16:39 UTCStudio export1
Figure 2. Slider settings. Each slider as it stood at every submission, on a scale of 0 to 1, with the submissions spaced as in Figure 1. A dot marks a change: 0 of 7 submissions changed at least one slider. Submissions with no slider values in the record (4) are left blank.
Slider settings at each submission
StepTime (UTC)OperationStyle weightWeirdness
12026-02-07 16:00 UTCPersona render0.780.62
22026-02-07 16:06 UTCPersona render0.780.62
32026-02-07 16:19 UTCPersona render0.780.62
42026-02-08 01:27 UTCExtend of 68fcfd80none recordednone recorded
52026-02-08 01:30 UTCJoined from 68fcfd80 and 0f9b44b1none recordednone recorded
62026-02-08 01:38 UTCStudio exportnone recordednone recorded
72026-03-01 16:39 UTCStudio exportnone recordednone recorded

Prompts, render by render. Each row is one submission; the two change counts are lines of the lyrics prompt and phrases of the style prompt, against the row before. Open a row for the diff.

# Time (UTC) Type Renders Style · Weird. Lyrics Δ Style Δ
1 2026-02-07 16:00 Persona render 2 0.78 · 0.62 first first

Suno v5 · clips 00b5bee2, d6d334a4

Full prompts as submitted 
spoken word, dark ambient, close-mic male voice, sub bass pulse, lo-fi tape warmth, analog textures, unsettling stillness
[Spoken Word Intro]
[Mood: intimate, heavy, 2am]

I watched a man get fired
for guarding a warhead
They called him back on Thursday
Nobody laughed

[Atmospheric Break]

[Spoken Word Verse]
My kid asked the machine
what happens when you die
It gave a better answer
than I ever could

[Instrumental Break]

[Spoken Word Verse]
I got the promotion
and sat in the parking lot
for forty minutes
feeling nothing

[Atmospheric Break]

[Spoken Word Verse]
The news says everything is fine
The news says everything is ending
Both at the same time
on the same screen

[Spoken Word Verse]
[Whisper]
I can't sleep but I'm not awake

[Spoken Word Verse]
There's a hum in the house
that wasn't there last year
Not the refrigerator
Not the wiring
Something underneath

[Spoken Word Verse]
I keep almost remembering something
that I've never known
Like a word on the tip of
a tongue I'm not sure is mine

[Spoken Word - slower, weighted]
The ground is moving
Everyone feels it
Nobody says it

[Whispered Outro]
Life is strange

Not broken
Not ending

Strange

Like waking up inside a dream
that doesn't know
it's dreaming yet

[Fade Out]
2 2026-02-07 16:06 Persona render 2 0.78 · 0.62 −6 +20 −7 +7

Suno v5 · clips 68fcfd80, dc96cc98

Lyrics prompt

  • −[Spoken Word Intro]
  • −[Mood: intimate, heavy, 2am]
  • +[Ambient Intro]
  • +[Instrumental]
  • +[Instrumental Build - sub bass drone, textural]
  • +[Spoken Word Verse]
  • −[Atmospheric Break]
  • +[Instrumental Break]
  • +[Atmospheric - long, drifting]
  • +[Dark Ambient - expansive]
  • −[Atmospheric Break]
  • +[Instrumental Interlude]
  • +[Minimal - sub bass and texture only]
  • −[Spoken Word Verse]
  • −[Whisper]
  • +[Instrumental Break]
  • +[Atmospheric - breathing room]
  • +[Whispered]
  • +[Instrumental Build - slow, tension]
  • +[Instrumental Break]
  • +[Long - let the hum sit]
  • +[Instrumental - tension holds]
  • +[Instrumental Break]
  • +[Dark ambient - longest pause]
  • +[Ambient Outro]
  • +[Instrumental - slow fade, sub bass only]

Style prompt

  • −spoken word
  • −dark ambient
  • −close-mic male voice
  • −sub bass pulse
  • −lo-fi tape warmth
  • −analog textures
  • −unsettling stillness
  • +dark ambient electronic
  • +sub bass drone
  • +granular synthesis
  • +tape-saturated
  • +glacial pace
  • +close-mic spoken word
  • +minimal and sparse
Full prompts as submitted 
dark ambient electronic, sub bass drone, granular synthesis, tape-saturated, glacial pace, close-mic spoken word, minimal and sparse
[Ambient Intro]
[Instrumental]

[Instrumental Build - sub bass drone, textural]

[Spoken Word Verse]
I watched a man get fired
for guarding a warhead
They called him back on Thursday
Nobody laughed

[Instrumental Break]
[Atmospheric - long, drifting]

[Spoken Word Verse]
My kid asked the machine
what happens when you die
It gave a better answer
than I ever could

[Instrumental Break]
[Dark Ambient - expansive]

[Spoken Word Verse]
I got the promotion
and sat in the parking lot
for forty minutes
feeling nothing

[Instrumental Interlude]
[Minimal - sub bass and texture only]

[Spoken Word Verse]
The news says everything is fine
The news says everything is ending
Both at the same time
on the same screen

[Instrumental Break]
[Atmospheric - breathing room]

[Whispered]
I can't sleep but I'm not awake

[Instrumental Build - slow, tension]

[Spoken Word Verse]
There's a hum in the house
that wasn't there last year
Not the refrigerator
Not the wiring
Something underneath

[Instrumental Break]
[Long - let the hum sit]

[Spoken Word Verse]
I keep almost remembering something
that I've never known
Like a word on the tip of
a tongue I'm not sure is mine

[Instrumental - tension holds]

[Spoken Word - slower, weighted]
The ground is moving
Everyone feels it
Nobody says it

[Instrumental Break]
[Dark ambient - longest pause]

[Whispered Outro]
Life is strange

Not broken
Not ending

Strange

Like waking up inside a dream
that doesn't know
it's dreaming yet

[Ambient Outro]
[Instrumental - slow fade, sub bass only]

[Fade Out]
3 2026-02-07 16:19 Persona render 2 0.78 · 0.62 0 −7 +6

Suno v5 · clips a85bc41b, d2eedee8

Style prompt

  • −dark ambient electronic
  • −sub bass drone
  • −granular synthesis
  • −tape-saturated
  • −glacial pace
  • −close-mic spoken word
  • −minimal and sparse
  • +Built on a deep sub bass drone
  • +layers of granular synthesis drift overhead
  • +processed with heavy tape saturation for a lo-fi edge
  • +The glacial tempo enhances the minimal
  • +sparse arrangement
  • +while close-mic spoken word textures weave through the shifting electronic landscape
Full prompts as submitted 
Built on a deep sub bass drone, layers of granular synthesis drift overhead, processed with heavy tape saturation for a lo-fi edge. The glacial tempo enhances the minimal, sparse arrangement, while close-mic spoken word textures weave through the shifting electronic landscape.
[Ambient Intro]

[Instrumental]

[Instrumental Build - sub bass drone, textural]

[Spoken Word Verse]
I watched a man get fired
for guarding a warhead
They called him back on Thursday
Nobody laughed

[Instrumental Break]
[Atmospheric - long, drifting]

[Spoken Word Verse]
My kid asked the machine
what happens when you die
It gave a better answer
than I ever could

[Instrumental Break]
[Dark Ambient - expansive]

[Spoken Word Verse]
I got the promotion
and sat in the parking lot
for forty minutes
feeling nothing

[Instrumental Interlude]
[Minimal - sub bass and texture only]

[Spoken Word Verse]
The news says everything is fine
The news says everything is ending
Both at the same time
on the same screen

[Instrumental Break]
[Atmospheric - breathing room]

[Whispered]
I can't sleep but I'm not awake

[Instrumental Build - slow, tension]

[Spoken Word Verse]
There's a hum in the house
that wasn't there last year
Not the refrigerator
Not the wiring
Something underneath

[Instrumental Break]
[Long - let the hum sit]

[Spoken Word Verse]
I keep almost remembering something
that I've never known
Like a word on the tip of
a tongue I'm not sure is mine

[Instrumental - tension holds]

[Spoken Word - slower, weighted]
The ground is moving
Everyone feels it
Nobody says it

[Instrumental Break]
[Dark ambient - longest pause]

[Whispered Outro]
Life is strange

Not broken
Not ending

Strange

Like waking up inside a dream
that doesn't know
it's dreaming yet

[Ambient Outro]
[Instrumental - slow fade, sub bass only]

[Fade Out]
4 2026-02-08 01:27 Extend of 68fcfd80 2 n/c −6 +7

Suno v5 · clips 0d6599b5, 0f9b44b1

Style prompt

  • −Built on a deep sub bass drone
  • −layers of granular synthesis drift overhead
  • −processed with heavy tape saturation for a lo-fi edge
  • −The glacial tempo enhances the minimal
  • −sparse arrangement
  • −while close-mic spoken word textures weave through the shifting electronic landscape
  • +dark ambient electronic
  • +sub bass drone
  • +granular synthesis
  • +tape-saturated
  • +glacial pace
  • +close-mic spoken word
  • +minimal and sparse
Full prompts as submitted 
dark ambient electronic, sub bass drone, granular synthesis, tape-saturated, glacial pace, close-mic spoken word, minimal and sparse
5 2026-02-08 01:30 Joined from 68fcfd80 and 0f9b44b1 · final render 1 −3 0

Suno v5 · clips d43d54cc

Lyrics prompt

  • −[Ambient Outro]
  • −[Instrumental - slow fade, sub bass only]
  • −[Fade Out]
Full prompts as submitted 
dark ambient electronic, sub bass drone, granular synthesis, tape-saturated, glacial pace, close-mic spoken word, minimal and sparse
[Ambient Intro]

[Instrumental]

[Instrumental Build - sub bass drone, textural]

[Spoken Word Verse]
I watched a man get fired
for guarding a warhead
They called him back on Thursday
Nobody laughed

[Instrumental Break]

[Atmospheric - long, drifting]

[Spoken Word Verse]
My kid asked the machine
what happens when you die
It gave a better answer
than I ever could

[Instrumental Break]

[Dark Ambient - expansive]

[Spoken Word Verse]
I got the promotion
and sat in the parking lot
for forty minutes
feeling nothing

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Minimal - sub bass and texture only]

[Spoken Word Verse]
The news says everything is fine
The news says everything is ending
Both at the same time
on the same screen

[Instrumental Break]

[Atmospheric - breathing room]

[Whispered]
I can't sleep but I'm not awake

[Instrumental Build - slow, tension]

[Spoken Word Verse]
There's a hum in the house
that wasn't there last year
Not the refrigerator
Not the wiring
Something underneath

[Instrumental Break]

[Long - let the hum sit]

[Spoken Word Verse]
I keep almost remembering something
that I've never known
Like a word on the tip of
a tongue I'm not sure is mine

[Instrumental - tension holds]

[Spoken Word - slower, weighted]
The ground is moving
Everyone feels it
Nobody says it

[Instrumental Break]

[Dark ambient - longest pause]

[Whispered Outro]
Life is strange
Not broken
Not ending
Strange
Like waking up inside a dream
that doesn't know
it's dreaming yet
6 2026-02-08 01:38 Studio export 1 −26 n/c

Lyrics prompt

  • −[Ambient Intro]
  • −[Instrumental]
  • −[Instrumental Build - sub bass drone, textural]
  • −[Spoken Word Verse]
  • −[Instrumental Break]
  • −[Atmospheric - long, drifting]
  • −[Spoken Word Verse]
  • −[Instrumental Break]
  • −[Dark Ambient - expansive]
  • −[Spoken Word Verse]
  • −[Instrumental Interlude]
  • −[Minimal - sub bass and texture only]
  • −[Spoken Word Verse]
  • −[Instrumental Break]
  • −[Atmospheric - breathing room]
  • −[Whispered]
  • −[Instrumental Build - slow, tension]
  • −[Spoken Word Verse]
  • −[Instrumental Break]
  • −[Long - let the hum sit]
  • −[Spoken Word Verse]
  • −[Instrumental - tension holds]
  • −[Spoken Word - slower, weighted]
  • −[Instrumental Break]
  • −[Dark ambient - longest pause]
  • −[Whispered Outro]
Full prompts as submitted 
I watched a man get fired
for guarding a warhead
They called him back on Thursday
Nobody laughed

My kid asked the machine
what happens when you die
It gave a better answer
than I ever could

I got the promotion
and sat in the parking lot
for forty minutes
feeling nothing

The news says everything is fine
The news says everything is ending
Both at the same time
on the same screen

I can't sleep but I'm not awake

There's a hum in the house
that wasn't there last year
Not the refrigerator
Not the wiring
Something underneath

I keep almost remembering something
that I've never known
Like a word on the tip of
a tongue I'm not sure is mine

The ground is moving
Everyone feels it
Nobody says it

Life is strange
Not broken
Not ending
Strange
Like waking up inside a dream
that doesn't know
it's dreaming yet
7 2026-03-01 16:39 Studio export 1 0 n/c
Full prompts as submitted 
I watched a man get fired
for guarding a warhead
They called him back on Thursday
Nobody laughed
My kid asked the machine
what happens when you die
It gave a better answer
than I ever could
I got the promotion
and sat in the parking lot
for forty minutes
feeling nothing
The news says everything is fine
The news says everything is ending
Both at the same time
on the same screen
I can't sleep but I'm not awake
There's a hum in the house
that wasn't there last year
Not the refrigerator
Not the wiring
Something underneath
I keep almost remembering something
that I've never known
Like a word on the tip of
a tongue I'm not sure is mine
The ground is moving
Everyone feels it
Nobody says it
Life is strange
Not broken
Not ending
Strange
Like waking up inside a dream
that doesn't know
it's dreaming yet
Direction and arrangement
Lyrics byT.J. Kelley
Credited vocalsThe Silent Architects.
Prompt revisions between submits7 steps, 3 style prompts and 6 lyrics prompts.
MasterRecorded as approved in the label's track tracker (entry dated 2026-10-02).
ArrangementSection order is set out in the lyrics prompt as structure tags, as submitted.

4Results

Renders in total
11
Style prompt versions
3
Lyrics prompt versions
6
Stems kept
5
Final render made
2026-02-08

Date read from: Suno's record for clip d43d54cc, created 2026-02-08 01:30 UTC.

Final renderClip d43d54cc. Suno's join of clips 68fcfd80 and 0f9b44b1, titled "Life is Strange (Unmastered)", created 2026-02-08 01:30 UTC, 303.72 s. The raw export of this clip carries its id in the embedded Suno comment and is 14,578,560 samples at 48 kHz, 303.72 s, the same length as the clip to the sample; the 2026-09-16 chain script reads that file. The delivered master does not descend from it. It descends from v4, which the match script describes as a stems re-remix (not verified: its correlation with the sum of the stem files is 0.854 and with the raw mix 0.986). v4 is 14,578,559 samples, the same length as the stem files on disk; our records do not say which stem set it used or how it was mixed. Counted here and made after this take: 2 renders (9511c4ae, 9b39bded). Step 5 →

5Mastering

MasteringThin Veil Records' proprietary mastering process, run on our own machine by an AI agent. The process is model-agnostic; any capable language model can run it. For the album stages every value was measured by script; how v4 was made is not on record. Approved by ear before release.
Mastered on2026-10-02
BriefThe version that was mastered is v4, which the match script describes as a stems re-remix (not verified; see the chain), not the 2026-09-16 chain output from the raw export. The chain for the raw export ran on a prelude brief: master it for sound, hold its intentional level offset below the album, no dynamics work (limiter reduction measured 0.00 dB), and it reproduces its own output exactly, but that output is not in this master's lineage. The album stages then took the bass-treated v4 through balancing, a head and tail match to the earlier master and the release trim. Originally released with an earlier master. The earlier version of this master, built in spring 2026, carried processing aimed at AI-detection models: per-stem phase reconstruction on every stem, in a heavier two-pass form with added magnitude jitter on some of them (the stems Suno labeled Lead Vocals and Other), an AAC round trip on each stem, a noise bed at 8 to 16 kHz on those same stems (the build script adds it; the August 2026 measurements did not show the bed in the final master), and a reference match to a commercial track. Our build record does not fully reconstruct the shipped chain. That work ended on 2026-08-14. This version does not start from the earlier master; it starts from v4, and how v4 was made is not on record. Replaced by Audio Swap on 2026-10-02. When checked on 2026-10-30, Apple's and Spotify's previews matched this master.
Figure 3. Codec safety. True peak in dBTP of the delivered file, against the label's file ceiling of −1.00 dBTP, and of each streaming codec's round trip, against the decode ceiling of −0.50 dBTP (the colored lines). 4 of 4 measurements clear their ceiling.

Integrated loudness −17.93 LUFS Loudness range 11.4 LU

Codec safety: loudness and true peak measurements of the delivered master
MeasureValueMargin to ceiling
Integrated loudness−17.93 LUFS
Loudness range11.4 LU
Delivered file, true peak−2.95 dBTP1.95 dB (ceiling −1.00)
Opus 128, true peak−2.63 dBTP2.13 dB (ceiling −0.50)
Vorbis 96, true peak−3.20 dBTP2.70 dB (ceiling −0.50)
AAC 256, true peak−2.91 dBTP2.41 dB (ceiling −0.50)
File ceiling−1.00 dBTP
Decode ceiling−0.50 dBTP
Figure 4. Signal chain, in processing order, as applied to the final render.
  1. The master starts from a file held as 'v4', which the match script describes as a stems re-remix. That is not verified: v4 correlates 0.854 with the sum of the Suno stem files on disk and 0.986 with the raw mix. No script or report for building v4 was found on disk, and our records do not say how it was mixed. The copy used is held in a folder named as recovered from a Time Machine snapshot of 2026-09-29; the file's modified time is 2026-09-17 18:06. It is 14,578,559 samples, the same length as the stem files on disk.
  2. Bass treatment (a function in the match script, called 'meet in the middle' in its notes): 2nd-order Butterworth high-pass at 35 Hz and a low shelf of -4 dB at 80 Hz (S 0.7), applied zero-phase. The call that wrote the next file was not saved as a script, but the function applied to v4 reproduces that file to within 32-bit float rounding (largest difference 3e-8 of full scale).
  3. Album balancing, 2026-10-01 (script): one clean linear gain of +1.71 dB on the bass-treated file, zero-phase, TPDF dither to 24-bit. The gain wanted was +1.90 dB, to bring the body back toward -16.29 LUFS-I (its level before the bass cut); the -1.0 dBTP true-peak ceiling held it to +1.71 dB. LUFS-I -17.78 to -16.06, true peak -2.72 to -1.01 dBTP.
  4. Head and tail matched to the earlier master, 2026-10-01 (script): the file was aligned to the earlier master by a median lag of 42.2 ms and set to its sample count, then the earlier master's music-band envelope (100 Hz to 1.5 kHz, 50 ms windows every 5 ms), relative to its body, was imposed on the first and last 20 s (full authority to 20 s, raised-cosine ramp over the next 2 s). Gains were limited to -60 dB and +24 dB, boosts were capped so no local peak rose above 0.3 dB under the source's true peak, and digital silence was kept in the first and last 3 s where the earlier master's music band is below -100 dBFS. Quantized to 24-bit by rounding, first and last sample zero.
  5. Fine touch-up after the match, 2026-10-01 (script): the match's gain smoothing dipped 3 to 11 dB for about 100 ms before the bass entry at 1.40 s. A fine-resolution gain ride over 1.25 to 1.52 s removed the dip. Samples change only between 1.250 and 1.520 s; LUFS-I and true peak unchanged.
  6. Release trim, 2026-10-02 (script): one clean linear gain of -1.75 dB on every track of the album (measured -1.750 dB), TPDF dither to 24-bit, first and last sample zero. LUFS-I -16.18 to -17.93, true peak -1.20 to -2.95 dBTP. Every streaming decode of the finished file is at or under -0.5 dBTP.
  7. Delivery, 2026-10-02 (script): written as a 24-bit, 48 kHz WAV with industry INFO tags and a bext chunk and no encoder signature. The audio is bit-exact with the trimmed file, and the delivered file is the one measured here. Re-running the balancing, match, refine and trim scripts on 2026-10-30 reproduced the trimmed files sample for sample.
Table 1. Mastering decisions: each move, what it rests on, and its cost.
MoveBecauseTradeoff
Master built from v4 (described in the match script as a stems re-remix; not verified), not from the 2026-09-16 chain output from the raw export.The match script names v4 as the source for this track. Our records do not give the reason for the choice.
Bass treatment: high-pass at 35 Hz and low shelf of -4 dB at 80 Hz.The script calls it a 'meet in the middle' sub reduction. The balancing script's notes say the input 'carries' a bass cut with no make-up, and a listening note asked that the bass at the start of Costumes match the end of this track.The cut removes level: -17.78 LUFS-I afterward, which the balancing gain partly restored.
Album balancing: +1.71 dB make-up after the bass treatment.Make-up for the level the bass cut removed: restore the body toward -16.29 LUFS-I (its level before the cut), capped at -1.0 dBTP, which keeps the track about 6 LU under Costumes.+1.90 dB was wanted and +1.71 dB applied, because the true-peak ceiling held it.
Level held well under the rest of the album.The track is a deliberate prelude. The chain script for the raw export and the balancing script both keep its level offset below the album on purpose.It is the quietest track on the album: -17.93 LUFS-I delivered, 5.05 LU under Costumes.
Fine touch-up of the gain dip before the bass entry at 1.40 s.The match's gain smoothing dipped 3 to 11 dB for about 100 ms before the entry. After the touch-up the deepest cut left in that window is 3 dB (measured at 20 ms steps).
Head and tail matched to the earlier master.The script's stated job is to impose the earlier master's head and tail music envelope, relative to its body, on each remaster.
Release trim of -1.75 dB, the same on all 11 tracks.Gate A, the label's check that every streaming decode sits at or under -0.5 dBTP. The trim is the same for every track on the album. Before the trim this track's worst decode measured -0.88 dBTP, already under the line.1.75 dB of loudness. The delivered file measures -17.93 LUFS-I.
Left untouched
No width processing in the album stages; correlation 0.945 for v4 and 0.896 for the delivered file.
No compression, limiting, saturation or width change in the balancing step.
The 2026-09-16 chain output from the raw export (high-pass, two bells, low-band saturation, a 13.5 kHz shelf, no limiter work) is not part of this master.

6Disclosure

Table 2. AI disclosure as filed to the stores (DDEX, via DistroKid).
CategoryDeclaredNote
AI composition Yes Filed with an AI-flagged music credit.
AI lyrical content No Filed with a lyrics credit with the AI flag off.

7Limitations

Recalled. One or more facts come from the producer's own account, listed under References.

Slider settings
no longer in the platform's historySuno's record for the kept clip carries no slider values. The sliders of the earlier steps are in the history, where Suno kept them.

Our records hold the credit flags above. They do not hold what was filed at upload for vocals, instrumentation or post-production.

8References

  1. Suno's records for this song's clips (placed by parent links, lyrics and working time, since titles differ) and for the lineage of this take, read 2026-10-30 from the library and the trash
  2. The raw Suno export of the kept clip, whose embedded Suno comment names the clip, measured for length
  3. The Suno stem files for this take, counted on disk
  4. The mastering engineer's report and chain script for this track, covering the mastering of 2026-09-16, and the engineer's sweep and verification records
  5. The album balancing script and its inputs, 2026-10-01
  6. The head and tail match script and the fine touch-up script, 2026-10-01
  7. The release trim script and the delivery script, 2026-10-02
  8. Our re-run of the chain, balancing, match, touch-up and trim scripts on 2026-10-30, compared sample by sample with the files on disk
  9. The delivered master, measured by script on 2026-10-30
  10. DistroKid's credits for the release as they read on 2026-10-30
  11. The label's track tracker entry for this song
  12. The check of 2026-10-30 comparing the Apple and Spotify previews with the masters
  13. The author's attestation of 2026-08-11 that the lyrics are human-written
  14. The label's build ledger for the earlier masters
  15. The build scripts for the earlier master of this track
  16. The August 2026 diagnosis of the earlier masters, which measured the noise bed and notes that the shipped chain is not fully reconstructible
  17. The label's AI-disclosure policy, which dates the end of the detection-era processing

Notes written .

Recorded and published by Thin Veil Records. Notes dated .