Privacy
The short version: your audio never leaves your computer, and neither does anything else. The long version is below, and it is short too.
What High Bias collects
Nothing. There is no account to create, no form to fill in, no analytics script and no server that High Bias talks to. The site is a set of static files; once your browser has them, it makes no further requests to us.
What happens to the audio
When you press TAB, your browser — not High Bias — opens its own share picker and asks which tab you want to share. Whatever you choose is handed to the page as a live MediaStream. When you drop a file onto the deck, the browser reads it from your disk and hands the page the samples.
Either way the audio is connected to a Web Audio graph inside your browser: the tape path's filters, the equaliser, the effects rack, the limiter, and the analysers that drive the meters and the scope. Every one of those nodes runs on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no server-side processing because there is no server doing any of the work. Close the tab and the graph is disposed — there is nothing left to delete.
What recording does
The record key captures the processed output using your browser's own MediaRecorder, in memory, and hands the finished file back to you as a download. It is never transmitted. The only copy that exists is the one your browser saves where you tell it to.
What is stored on your device
Two things, both in your browser's localStorage, and both only on the machine you are using: the tapes you save (an equaliser curve, tape settings and the state of the effects rack — settings, not audio), and whether you have turned the on-screen hints off. Clearing your site data removes them. They are never sent anywhere, and there is no way for us to read them.
Third parties
There are none. No analytics, no advertising, no embedded widgets, no tracking pixels and no cookies. Fonts are served from the same origin as the site rather than fetched from a font CDN, so loading the page does not tell anyone else that you visited.
Changes
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