Know your immersive master passes
before the label tells you it doesn't.
Drop an ADM BWF on it. Get a straight answer in seconds, against the published major-label delivery specification, with the numbers that actually get deliveries rejected.
Why I Built It
I built this app to help get Dolby Atmos mixes across the finish line.
When you're doing work for labels, a lot of them have a QC company check the files for anything that could get them rejected by the streaming services, or by the label's own QC. When you're under a time crunch, you don't want to spend a bunch of time checking files. This gets me through it much faster.
And since I started using it, my deliveries pass QC at the label, so I'm not reopening a session three months later just to hit Direct Render and re-export.
— Chris Bell
Checks
Every check prints a result. Where something cannot be determined from the ADM file itself, it says so, rather than passing it quietly.
Honesty
It does not certify your file. No tool can. It checks the published specification and shows its working, so the decision stays yours. Treat the report as a pre-delivery reference, not the sole basis for whether a platform accepts the file.
It does not re-render, re-encode or touch your master. It reads.
The Report
A report you can keep, attach to a delivery email, or hand to an assistant.
When something fails, it tells you what to do about it, not just that it happened.
LFE is 0.3 dB above the specification. Trim and re-render.
Who It's For
Mixers and mastering engineers delivering immersive masters to major labels, and the assistants who catch the file before it goes. If you have ever had a delivery bounce for a reason nobody could name, this is the tool that names it.
Price
List $99One-time · License covers 3 Macs · macOS
$79, one-time. Launch price, list $99. One license covers three Macs, so your laptop and the room are both sorted. macOS. Free updates as the published specification changes.
Requires an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Intel Macs are not supported in 1.0.
One rejected delivery costs more than this in your time alone.
Questions or help: info@mercenarymagnetics.com
Built by Chris Bell, Mercenary Magnetics. Thirty years of records, including Grammy Award-winning work, and immersive masters delivered to major labels every month. This is the tool he built for his own deliveries.