# Track feedback
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/more/track-feedback

A free tool at tools.aden.space/feedback. Drop or record a track, through one genre or several (guessed from the track), and read what its low end, balance, drums, sidechain, stereo, key, structure and loudness do, as notes, a map over time, readings against the genre, a mastering chain or the spectrum in 3D, with the tool that fixes each note one press away. Read in the browser.
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## What it is [#what-it-is]

Feedback on a track in words, with the picture behind each note. Open
`tools.aden.space/feedback`, or search "feedback" in ⌘K. No account needed,
and nothing is uploaded.

## Using it [#using-it]

* **Drop a track, or record it.** Record your DAW plays the track through
  the browser's share picker (tick "Share audio"), so there is nothing to
  export; Record an input takes an audio interface or a virtual cable.
* **It is read in your browser:** how its power spreads from
  sub to air, how the clap, hats and kick sit against each other, how the
  bass ducks under the kick, how far the hats swing, where the stereo folds
  in mono, which parts leave the key, where the drops land, and how loud it
  is.
* **The name counts.** A genre in the file or version name ("Night Drive
  (Tech House Mix)") is the guess. An extended or club mix ("Extended
  Mix", "EXTENDED", "Club Mix") keeps its first and last 16 bars as the DJ
  intro and outro, never the drop, and gets 32 more bars before its first
  drop counts as late.
* **The genre** is otherwise guessed from the tempo, where the backbeat lands, the
  pump and the balance, and marked Guessed. Pick your own, or several when a
  track mixes styles (techno and bass house): a reading passes when it is
  usual in any of them. A genre is a lens, not a rule. **Any genre** only
  flags what is off in every genre: clipping, phase and clashing keys. Each
  genre knows its tempo and where its snare or clap lands (on 3 for dubstep,
  color bass and future bass; on 2 and 4 for house).
* **The waveform** sits over every view, drawn like a version's in Aden:
  press it to play from there, press a part's name (Intro, Drop 1, Break) to
  jump to it. A tick marks each note's moment, and the open note's stretch
  is tinted.
* **Try the moves.** On **Range**, drag a band's dot on the tone curve (or
  use the arrow keys) to try an EQ move; the line follows. You hear the
  moves on Range and Master from the start; the other views play the track
  as it is. On **Master**,
  each step's diagram has its knobs under it: the high-pass corner, ratio,
  attack and reduction for the glue, drive, the clipper, and the push into
  the limiter. Turn one and its diagram follows (`stepWith`), the limiter's
  showing where the push lands. **Hear the changes** (on by default) plays the track through all of it,
  with its loudness live; switch it off to hear the track as it is.
  Knobs start where the feedback suggests; double-click one, or **Reset**,
  to go back.
* **Pick the steps you'll do**: each master step has a box. Untick one and
  it dims and drops out of **Hear the changes**, so you hear only the chain
  you'll build; tick it again (or turn its knob) to bring it back. **Reset**
  ticks every step again.
* **Open a step bigger**: press a step's drawing for a dialog with it large,
  its knobs, a play button and its box (untick and tick while it plays to
  hear it out and in). Tone opens **Compare to a reference**, the clipper
  and the limiter open **Loudness check**, on the same track.
* **Press the map** (or the 3D view) to move the playhead to that bar.
* **Switch views**: **Notes** to read, **Map** to see where over time,
  **Range** to see each reading against the genre, **Master** for what to
  put on the master and in which order (clean the lows, shape the tone,
  glue, width, sheen, clip, limit, each with settings for this track and a
  small picture of the setting to copy: the filter or EQ curve, the
  compressor's curve and attack, the width across the spectrum, the
  limiter's move from where the track sits now), **3D**
  to turn the spectrum over time.
* **Add a note** of your own in the box under the waveform, like a comment
  on a version: the clock puts in the time the track is at, Enter adds it.
* **Mix score.** Beside the genre, "Mix 82%": how close the mix sits to
  its genres, lower as the notes add up (clipping, phase and clashing keys
  count more; notes kept as intended don't count). A quick read for sorting
  demos, not a verdict. Saved demo feedback keeps it, and the inbox card
  shows it.
* **Space** plays and pauses. The view and the genres you picked stay in
  the address, and a refresh opens the last track again with your notes
  (kept in this browser only).
* **Rate a note**: thumbs up or down under an open note tells us which notes
  are right.
* **On a version in Aden.** A version's **…** menu, **Analyze > Track
  feedback** (or ⌘K, "Track feedback"), opens the same reading on that version's audio. A note's time plays the
  version from there.
* **Save as track** keeps your own notes, and a label's, as timestamped
  comments on the new version.
* **From a demo.** A label or team that declines your demo can send you its
  feedback: the link opens here with your demo, the genres they heard it
  through and their notes. **Save as track** keeps working on it in Aden.
  When you sent the demo from a track in Aden, their notes also land on that
  track as comments, each at its moment.
* **Play** a note from its moment, **open it in the tool** that fixes it, or
  press **✓** to keep it as intended. Kept notes stay one press away.
* The kick, clap, snare and hi-hat tools take their drum from the same song
  to make a better one. **Edit notes** opens the stretch in the note editor,
  to move notes or turn minor into major. The Key finder, Loudness check and
  Mix vs reference open with the track.