Free online tool

Sped Up Song Maker

Make a sped up version of any song in your browser. Start from the Lift preset at 1.30x, tune speed, bass and tone, then export a bright MP3 in seconds.

Open the free editor: upload MP3, WAV, AAC, OGG or FLAC, adjust speed, reverb, bass, tone, width and space, then export MP3 or a ZIP of many tracks. Everything runs in your browser.

A sped up version of a song is the bright, slightly breathless edit that took over TikTok and then spread to Spotify, where labels now release official "sped up" singles alongside the original. The recipe is narrow. Speed between 1.15x and 1.30x, pitch allowed to rise with it, almost no reverb, and a tone lift so the top end sparkles. That narrowness is what makes it work as background audio for short videos: the song stays recognisable, it just has more energy.

The editor at the top of this page is set up for exactly that. The Lift preset is the starting point: 1.30x speed, 0% reverb, +1 dB bass, +3 dB tone, 1.05 width. Load a track, click Lift, press play. From there you are only ever moving one or two sliders. If you want the raw utility version of this with pitch kept in key, use the speed up song page instead. If you want the faster, more exaggerated anime style, that is the nightcore maker, and the differences are explained further down. For the full step-by-step with context on where the trend came from, read how to make a sped up version of a song.

What makes a sped up edit sound right

Three things, in order of importance.

Speed in the pop range. 1.15x to 1.30x. Below 1.15x the change is too subtle to register as a different version. Above 1.30x you have left sped up and entered nightcore, where the vocals become a stylistic choice rather than a singer. The sweet spot for most pop, R&B and rap vocals is 1.20x to 1.25x, which raises the pitch about 3 to 4 semitones.

Dry, or nearly dry. Sped up edits are not slowed + reverb in reverse. The appeal is immediacy. Reverb pushes a sound back into a room, and that is the opposite of what the style wants. Lift has Reverb at 0% for a reason. If a track feels too clinical, 8 to 12% with a short Space of 1.2 to 1.6 s is the most you should add, and even that is optional.

Positive Tone. Raising the pitch already brightens a track, and a further +2 to +4 dB on the Tone high shelf gives it the glossy, phone-speaker-friendly edge that sped up edits are known for. Positive tone is the single setting that most separates a sped up edit from someone who simply changed the playback rate.

Starting points by source material

The Lift preset is tuned for a typical pop vocal. Different sources want slightly different numbers.

The rap row has Bass at 0 because 808s move up with the pitch and usually have plenty of weight left. The dance row is slower than you might expect because a 128 BPM house track at 1.30x is 166 BPM and loses its groove. Multiply your song's BPM by the speed before committing.

Sped up versus nightcore

People use the words interchangeably, but creators and listeners hear them as different things.

The sped up style is about plausibility. A good sped up edit sounds like the artist might have released it that way. Nightcore is about transformation. If you make an edit and someone says "that is just the song but faster", for sped up that is a compliment.

Step by step

1. Load the song. Drag it onto the editor. A 320 kbps MP3 or a lossless file is best, because speeding up shifts compression artifacts into the range where ears are most sensitive.
2. Click Lift. You are now at 1.30x, dry, with a tone lift. Press play and go to the chorus.
3. Set the speed for the voice. If the singer sounds strained or thin, drop to 1.25x, then 1.20x. Stop as soon as it sounds like a version rather than a mistake.
4. Check the low end. Raising pitch moves bass energy upward and the track can feel light. Add Bass in 1 dB steps until the kick has body again. Rarely more than +3 dB.
5. Leave Preserve pitch off. The pitch rise is the style. Turning it on gives you a faster song in the same key in the preview, which is a different product; exported files keep the speed-linked pitch either way. See preserve pitch for when that is the right call.
6. Export. Download gives you an MP3. Select several tracks first and you get a ZIP.

Making a batch of sped up versions

Channels and TikTok accounts that post sped up audio usually work in sets. Add a dozen tracks, Select All Tracks, click Lift, adjust Speed once, and Download All. Every file is rendered with the same settings and arrives in one ZIP. If two or three tracks have a vocal that needs a slower speed, select just those, change Speed, then move on. The bulk slowed reverb page covers the workflow in detail, and everything there applies to sped up batches too.

Save your adjusted Lift as a custom preset with Create preset so it is one click next time. Presets are stored in your browser on that device.

Export honesty

The output is an MP3 at 96 kbps, 32 kHz, encoded in a web worker inside your browser. That is enough for TikTok, Reels, Shorts and YouTube, all of which re-encode your upload. It is not a distribution master. If you are an artist or a label making an official sped up version for streaming services, do it from a WAV in a DAW, because there is no WAV export here and 96 kbps is not what a distributor wants.

Copyright note

A sped up version is a derivative of the original recording. It does not remove or dilute the copyright. YouTube, TikTok and Instagram match sped up audio against the original, which typically results in the rights holder claiming the content and taking any revenue, and sometimes in a block. Official sped up releases exist precisely because labels have seen the demand and want the claim to go to them. If you plan to monetise, use music you own or have a licence for.