AudioShake AI Review: The Major Label Choice for Professional Stem Separation

Introduction: The Professional's Choice for AI Audio Deconstruction

What is AudioShake?

AudioShake is an AI-powered platform specializing in high-fidelity sound separation for professional applications, widely recognized for delivering industry-leading stem separation technology trusted across the media and entertainment industries to produce clean, high-quality stems. Trusted by major record labels, music publishers, film studios, and broadcasters including Disney Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group, AudioShake has established itself as the go-to solution for enterprise-level audio separation needs.

Unlike generative AI, AudioShake is unique in that it works on any existing audio recording—including decades-old content and physical-world audio that was never designed to be separated—and delivers broadcast-quality results through simple APIs. The company is building the infrastructure to make sound as flexible and programmable as text or images, unlocking entirely new forms of creative expression and interaction.

Who is AudioShake For?

AudioShake primarily serves as a B2B tool targeting enterprise-level clients across multiple industries. Industry professionals including labels, publishers, and film studios access AudioShake Live with drag-and-drop uploading, all separation models, discounted volume pricing, stem storage, and account management. The company has grown rapidly over the past year, signing more than 40 enterprise contracts, and counts numerous music, entertainment, sports and tech companies as clients of its technology, including Universal Music Group, Disney Music Group, Warner Music Group, Warner Bros Discovery, BET, and NFL Films.

Independent artists and small labels can access AudioShake through AudioShake Indie, designed for their unique requirements. The platform serves music producers, sound engineers, music supervisors, and post-production professionals who require broadcast-quality stems for professional applications.

Core AI Functionality: Best-in-Class AI Stem Splitting

Music Stem Separation

AudioShake separates any audio, even if it was never multi-tracked, into a broad variety of instrument stems, including vocals, instrumental, drums, bass, and other elements. AudioShake's AI models earn the highest overall SDR scores in Sony's challenge across music and film separation, with technology recognized as the best in the industry and winner of Sony's Demixing Challenge, which pitted their stem separation against 40 other teams, including Big Tech companies, startups, and research institutes.

Industry professionals have praised AudioShake for its noise floor and clarity of sound, especially in the low end where it's needed most. The latest improvements to their stems offer reduced bleeding from other instruments into the source stems, meaning cleaner stems overall, with more defined separation quality across vocal, bass, drum, and "other" stems, plus snappier drums that retain more of the original transients, resulting in punchier kick drums and sharper cymbals, and deeper and cleaner bass notes.

Advanced Separation Models for Media

AudioShake's Dialogue, Music, & Effects Isolation isolates dialogue, music, and effects from mixed audio files, perfect for film, TV, dubbing, captioning, and synthetic voice tasks, allowing clean dialogue extraction and background audio control. Film and post-production studios like Deluxe are using AudioShake to isolate dialogue, music, and effects, for editing and foreign-language dubs.

Multi-Speaker Separation isolates individual voices, even when overlapping, within a single file—vital for film, TV, dubbing, accessibility, metadata, and voice AI workflows. The technology can isolate individual voices–even when overlapping–for use in film, TV, dubbing, accessibility, metadata generation, and voice AI applications.

Specialized Audio Tools

AudioShake's Lyric Transcription & Alignment transcribes lyrics and generates word-by-word synchronized lyrics in seconds, facilitating lyric transcript creation and enabling turnkey karaoke services, offering low-cost, automated lyric transcription for any song. Their new lyric transcription and alignment models nearly double accuracy, and are over 5X faster.

AudioShake's dialogue and music separation can help clean audio before analysis, giving users cleaner input files for better metadata analysis, sonic branding, and content recognition systems. The AI can be used to remove noise and clean up audio for better analysis or final production.

How It Enhances Workflow: Remastering, Sync Licensing, and Archival Applications

Sync Licensing and Remixing

AudioShake takes any audio, even if it was never multi-tracked, and separates it into a broad variety of instrument stems as well as instrumentals, for use in sync licensing, mixing, interactive audio, and more. The company has worked to make their technology available on other platforms–like Chordal for sync licensing; OOONA, Yella Umbrella, and Cielo24 for localization.

Creates high-quality instrumentals and acapellas on demand, which are often required to close sync licensing deals for film, TV, and commercials. Indie band Bronze Radio Return landed a big sync deal by utilizing the platform, and R&B star THUY created instrumentals for sync licensing using the service. The technology enables going back into new and older catalog music and re-imagining it in new ways, proving indispensable for industry professionals.

Remastering and Immersive Audio

AudioShake allows users to hear, in isolation, individual musicians' performances on tracks from the days before multi-track recording, taking the art of sampling to a new level of sophistication. Within the music industry, BMG used AudioShake's technology to remaster Nina Simone's seven-decade-old debut album Little Girl Blue, while Reservoir Media used the technology to bring De La Soul's catalog to streaming, and Universal Music label Decca Records used AudioShake to separate Pavarotti and Bocelli's voices to remix the duet in an immersive format.

Disney partnered with AudioShake to be able to re-engineer its early recordings, some of which are nearly a century old and available only in single-track formats. Facilitates the creation of immersive audio mixes (like Dolby Atmos and Sony 360) by providing clean stems from a stereo source, and can be used to remove "bleed" from multi-tracked live recordings for a cleaner final mix.

Archival, Dubbing, and Post-Production

Sports leagues and organizations are using the technology to remove unlicensed music from clips, in order to avoid copyright fines. AudioShake enables users to take greater control of their audio by removing copyrighted music, cleaning loud or noisy broadcasts, and separating speakers into different streams.

Improves transcription accuracy by over 25% by providing clean dialogue stems to transcription services. Powers dubbing and localization workflows by separating dialogue from music and effects, allowing for easier replacement of voice tracks in different languages. Big Tech is utilizing the products to separate audio for AI training purposes, with film studios isolating dialogue and more for dubbing as sports teams boot licensed music from highlights.

The Enterprise Model: Pricing and Platform Access

AudioShake Live vs. AudioShake Indie

For music, AudioShake has an on-demand platform designed specifically for industry professionals called AudioShake Live where users can quickly upload songs and create stems, with demos and free trials available upon contact. AudioShake Live is customized for labels, publishers, film studios, and professionals, offering on-demand stem creation, access to various AudioShake models, discounted volume pricing, stem storage, and dedicated account management.

For independent artists and labels, AudioShake offers AudioShake Indie. Audioshake Indie offers free stem preview generation with paid plans from $20 to $99 per month, offering 4 to 20 stems per month, with pricing depending on the output format (mp3 vs wav). Indie users can upload a track, choose the stems they want to extract, and download them for free, with the ability to upload up to 10 tracks per month for free.

API and SDK Integrations

All AudioShake separations are available via API, and many are also available on-device. AudioShake brings the power of award-winning sound separation directly to applications or edge devices, available via AudioShake's API or SDK (iOS/MacOS, Windows, Android, and Linux platforms).

AudioShake has integrated across a number of platforms in the sync and localization industries, with music supervisors able to access services on Chordal, and dubbing freelancers and studios finding the technology embedded in workflow tools including OOONA and Yella Umbrella, as well as through services including Dubverse and cielo24. Partners include DJ software like Algoriddim's djay Pro, music creation apps like TwoShot, and localization platforms like OOONA and cielo24.

The Verdict: Why AudioShake's AI is Trusted by the Pros

Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths: AudioShake delivers "industry leading technology, hands down" and is "the first platform that truly delivers at a broadcast quality level," making it "quick and painless to create an instrumental and/or a vocal stem from an existing track" and highly recommended "for any music publisher or record label." The company has grown rapidly with 40+ enterprise contracts across media and AI driving nearly 400 percent year-over-year revenue growth, with a customer base that includes some of the world's largest film studios, broadcasters, music labels, sports leagues, and technology companies.

Weaknesses: Users report high costs, with one noting it's "absurd" to pay $60 to extract a whole song to 4 WAVs for comparison. Specific pricing details, demos, and free trials for AudioShake Live are available only upon direct inquiry. The primary "Live" platform is not openly accessible to the general public, requiring enterprise-level engagement for full access.

AudioShake vs. The Competition

vs. Lalal.ai & Fadr: AudioShake users note that while they've "tried other on-demand services before," the quality was "not usable for commercial purposes," highlighting AudioShake's superior quality for professional applications. While consumer tools like Lalal.ai and Fadr are suitable for quick remixes and brainstorming, AudioShake is built for broadcast-quality, commercially usable output.

vs. Moises.ai: Moises is a musician's practice tool with features like chord detection and pitch shifting. AudioShake is a professional post-production tool focused purely on the quality of audio separation and enterprise applications.

vs. RipX: RipX offers deep, note-level editing after separation, making it a surgical sound design tool. AudioShake focuses on delivering the highest fidelity stems directly from the source for use in standard professional workflows.

Is It Worth It for a Professional?

Industry professionals have noted that "AudioShake has blown our minds with their on-demand stemming tech" and represents "a leap forward in the technology using AI to solve something" that has seen "multiple bad versions" in the past decade. For major labels, publishers, and film studios, it is an indispensable tool for unlocking the value of their catalogs.

For music supervisors and post-production engineers, it solves critical workflow problems and can save projects. AudioShake Indie gives indie artists, producers, and labels access to the same award-winning instrument stem separation used by all the major labels. For independent artists with a budget, the "Indie" tier offers access to professional-grade quality that was previously out of reach, providing a competitive edge for sync placements and high-quality remixes.