About:
Clay House makes software, records and games. Everything it puts out is made in house — which is where the name comes from.
Three kinds of work and the same hands on all of them. A game, a record and a piece of software look like different trades, and they are not: each one is a thing you make, finish, and put out under your own name.
Apps and useful things. Tools that do one job properly and run on the machine in front of you rather than somebody else’s. Dubplate Studio is the current one — it reads years of scattered projects and bounces, pairs each to the session that made it, and plays an album end to end, and nothing about you ever leaves your computer: its one connection is a check for a new version.
A label. Garden Atlas is the first artist on it. The work is getting a record made properly and then keeping it — artwork, a release that is planned rather than posted, a page that still exists in five years. Nothing is taken down because it did not perform.
Mobile games to Steam games. Cut-It-Close is the first one out: an object drops in, you swipe a freehand line to slice it, and you are scored on how close the split came to an exact fraction. Real polygon area, so a pixel of slip costs you.
Who
Clay House makes software, records and games, and every part of them is made in house: the code, the music, the art. That’s where the name comes from.
It was started by Carter Young, a musician and developer based in Los Angeles, California.
Few things, made with care, and never abandoned.
Buy me a coffee
Clay House is one person: the apps, the records and the games. They're free, with no ads and nothing about you for sale. If something here saved you time or made your day, a coffee keeps it going.
Coming soonDubplate Studio has no analytics, no crash reporting, no tracking and no license check, and it never sends your music, your library or anything about you to Clay House Software or to anyone else. The app turns away web requests of every kind before they leave it, with the one exception below: a check for a new version, which you can turn off.
About once a day, Dubplate Studio asks this website, clayhousehq.com, for one small file that says what the newest version is. When there's a newer one, it asks you: Update or Not right now. Nothing is downloaded until you press Update; then it downloads the new version from this website, restarts and opens again. Neither the check nor the download carries anything about you or your library: no account, no identifier, no list of anything. The download names only the app, with no version. Like any visit to a website, both reach this site's host from your internet address — see This website for what the host keeps.
The check is on from the start. Turn it off in Settings, and Dubplate Studio makes no connections at all.
The one thing that does reach the internet is something you ask for: a link to an artist's Spotify or SoundCloud page opens in your web browser, the way any link would.
Dubplate Studio reads the audio and project files in the folders you sync. It never changes, moves, renames or deletes them. When you export, it writes new files to a folder you choose and leaves your originals exactly as they were.
When a song's file has moved, Dubplate Studio goes looking for it: it checks the file names on your connected drives and in your Downloads, Desktop, Documents, Music and Movies folders for the one it has lost. It's matching a name. Nothing else about those files is opened or kept, and none of it leaves your computer. macOS asks you before Dubplate Studio can look on a removable drive.
Everything you build in Dubplate Studio — which songs are where, your folders, records and running orders, artwork, lyrics, notes, voice memos, credits and artist profiles — is stored on your computer, in Dubplate Studio's own folder:
~/Library/Application Support/dubplate
Dubplate Studio keeps dated copies of it in the same place, so a damaged library can be put back. Clay House Software has no copy and no way of getting one. Delete that folder and the library is gone, completely.
Tempo, key, loudness and waveforms are all worked out on your computer. No audio is ever sent anywhere to be analyzed. Dubplate Studio only uses your microphone when you record a voice memo, and macOS asks you first.
This website, clayhousehq.com, uses no cookies, analytics, advertising or tracking of any kind. It loads nothing from anyone else — no outside fonts, scripts or images. It keeps two small things in your browser, for itself: that you've seen a section's opening, so it isn't shown again, and which service you'd rather listen to music on. Neither leaves your browser.
The site is hosted by Vercel. Like any web host, it keeps standard server logs — the address a request came from, the browser, which page and when — to keep the site running and secure. Clay House Software doesn't use them to identify or follow anyone.
If you write to support@dubplatestudio.com, your message and your address are used to answer you, and for nothing else. They aren't added to a list, shared or sold.
Clay House Software holds no personal information about you beyond any email you've chosen to send, so there's normally nothing to ask for, correct or delete. If you've written in and want that conversation deleted, say so and it will be.
Neither Dubplate Studio nor this website asks anyone for personal information, whatever their age. Neither is aimed at children under 13.
A new version of this policy goes here first, with the date at the top updated. The app starting to collect anything at all would be a big enough change to say so on the front page, not only here.
Questions about any of this: support@dubplatestudio.com.