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THE90SPOPE — Norway-based one-person studio, Lithuanian by origin, bedroom-mastered by necessity. Tracks start as samples, hummed melodies, or beats made in Reaper. Built with AI tools, finished by hand. Active since 2025. Genre decided per track. Mastering is manual, no presets. Summoned by code, shaped by flesh.

THE90SPOPE is a one-person studio operating between the bedroom and the terminal. Norway-based, Lithuanian by origin, active under this name since early 2025 — the alias is older than that. Tracks start as samples, hummed melodies, or beats made in Reaper, then built with AI models (open-source where they cooperate, closed-source where they won't) and finished by hand. iZotope RX before the DAW, the regular mastering chain in it — multiband compressors, clippers, saturators, manual EQ — tweaked for AI sound. No AI mastering. Targets -8 LUFS / -1 dBTP when the source can take it. A track might take a week if it has to. Summoned by code, shaped by flesh.

THE90SPOPE is a one-person studio operating between the bedroom and the terminal — Norway-based, Lithuanian by origin, active under this name since early 2025. The alias predates the project; the project waited for tools that could keep up.

The producer started learning Reaper at seventeen and never switched DAWs. For a long time the music was on-and-off — more curiosity about how things sound than confidence in shipping them. AI music changed that math: instead of one idea per evening, suddenly there were infinite candidates to fix, push, and try to make sound louder and better than they had any right to.

Tracks usually begin as a hummed melody, a sampled fragment, or a beat made in Reaper. That seed is fed to AI models — Musicful AI and various closed-source generators, never Suno — to produce candidates. From there the workflow is unglamorous: iZotope RX before the DAW, with per-section gainstaging, preclipping to even out the limiter, declick, upsampling where it helps, EQ where it's missing. In the DAW it's the regular mastering chain — multiband compressors, multiband clippers, saturators, manual EQ — tweaked for AI sound. No AI mastering. Targets are -8 LUFS / -1 dBTP when the source can hold up; if it can't, the track gets pulled or reworked.

A finished track might have a week in it. Sometimes more. The output is meant to stand out from the usual AI-music output: louder where it can be, weirder where it has to be, mixed by a person who would rather spend an hour fixing a kick than ten seconds picking a preset.

Bedroom-mastered, no excuses about it. Self-described "bedroom sound engineer stage" — not a genius, just stubborn about making things sound better. Summoned by code, shaped by flesh. Use the machine without becoming one.