ABA Media Platform is a one-person media studio in Greeley, Colorado — a recording room, measurement tools you can run yourself, and a way to get your song recorded where each step is priced before it starts.
Fifty years in media production and information technology, and the failure was identical in both. The standard existed. The specification existed. The credit line on the record existed. Nothing anywhere would stop the work from shipping without them.
Rules that nobody enforces are not rules. They are decoration — and somebody is always making money in the gap where the enforcement should be. Every gear list you have read, every credit, every “professionally mastered,” every AI tool that handed back a number with nothing behind it: not once were you given a way to check.
Here, something enforces them. Including on me.
Four ways in
You see what each step costs before it starts, and you only pay for the next one. Stop at any step and you leave with a finished mix. If the song isn't ready to record yet, there is a room for that first.
Full production talent in one room: guitar, bass, keys, synths and programmed drums, up to the first-chair parts and the arrangement, with parts played on guitar and turned into any instrument. And no guessing whether the room is real: any line of the gear list gets recorded playing before you book.
AudioVibes measures it against the target it was made for and names the difference — ITU-R BS.1770-4 and EBU R128, in your browser, on the machine in front of you.
Arrangement Based Automation settles the technical decisions before anyone plays, so the performance does not have to compete with them.
New in the ABA Toolbox · ABA Compare, prototype
ABA Compare, new and in prototype, plays the versions of a mix you load at the same loudness and lined up in time, so you pick by ear and not by level, or blind behind closed doors. It joins ABA Phaze Check, which lines up the mics at tracking; ABA Pocket Check, which shows where your performances share space; and AudioVibes, which checks the finished master. The ABA Toolbox Repair Book, third edition, gives you the most likely fix for what Phaze Check and AudioVibes find, and how to use Compare.
Why this exists
In May 2024 my brother Russ flew out to Pennsylvania and drove me back to Colorado — to Pierce, half an hour north of here. Surgery followed in August. The recovery was quoted at four to six weeks and ran most of the following year.
None of that is the story. The story is the voice that refused to let it be a recovery — get off your butt, there is something here. Before the surgery, and all the way through the part that was supposed to be rest, my head was doing the same work over and over: define the problem, refine it, define it again. Media production on one side, information technology on the other, fifty years in both. Nothing was built in Pierce. Everything was worked out there.
In June 2025 Russ and I moved to Greeley, and the move was the business decision: a studio has to sit inside the market it serves, not half an hour north of it. Everything since has gone into building it — this room as it stands now, iterations on the production process that have not stopped, and four tools, each one built after the same problem turned up on one job too many.
There are two of us left, and Russ is seven years younger. So what I wanted out of that year was not work. It was a business that outlives me and keeps paying him — made out of the only two things I actually know, carrying both of us now, and not dependent on me being here to run it.
What follows from that
A business that has to outlive its owner cannot run on the owner’s judgment. It has to run on rules that refuse things: checks that fail and stop on their own, whether or not anyone is watching, whether or not the man who wrote them is having a good day. Fifty years of watching unenforced rules take work away from the people who did it — that is the design document.
Which is why every claim on this page was written by the person who benefits from it, and why they are numbered, published beside the approved sentences they came from, and kept next to the ones that were withdrawn.
What the job actually leaves you
Nobody pays for a day in a room. They pay for what the day produced — the takes, the mixes, the master, the session that can be opened again. If a piece of that is missing, they did not get what they paid for, and neither of you finds out until months later, when it is needed.
If you work sessions, you have touched this whole list. Almost none of us has ever organized it correctly.
The short version
Hover for the arrows, or leave it running.
The evidence
A promise to be checkable means little without the thing you check it against. An architecture that refuses claims is only worth something if you can see what it refused.
The claims this site makes, and the approved sentences they come from, word for word.
Withdrawn claims stay on the page they were withdrawn from, struck through, with the date and the reason.
The production score rests on declared heuristics, not calibration. It is described that way wherever it appears.
