How Loud Should My Mix Be? Loudness In Pro Tools 

Glad to help, it makes my day every time I hear from someone who has benefited from a video I made.

Thanks, that's very nice of you to say.

I missed you guys too. It’s been a different experience hearing from people all over the world the past few years here on RU-vid. Really glad I made these videos and I’ll try to keep doing it as time allows.

Thank you, building it kept me from digging too many potatoes and turnips for my wife!

Well you done now and that is your new weekend gig now lol @@ThomasBoykin

Thanks man, yeah the strike is bumming me out. I’m luckier than most with the little bit of work I have but it definitely sucks not having steady union shows to work on right now.

How do you punch in changes to your mix if you audiosuite it?

Man it is so hard to film while also framing a building, or just operating tools in general. I can do a retrospective but honestly it wouldn’t give much to viewers!

I could do that

Thank you

@@ThomasBoykin learning a lot of things from you... keep posting ♥️

1. I try to gear the mix for the platform that most people will consume the content. If it will play in one festival and then go on Amazon Prime, I'm mixing it like I'd want to see on Amazon Prime. 2. Yes, and if the client is not paying me to do two (or more) completely distinct mixes, this is what they get. 3. I am usually boosting the broadcast or streaming mix to get a web version. The web version will mostly be played on smaller devices, so a slight degradation in sound quality is ok to me. But using good plugins correctly, the sound quality is still good! 4. Yes, but the Netflix and Amazon mix will likely be the same. The web mix will be overall louder, the peaks chopped off a bit, but will be watched on phones and tablets more likely, and noisier locations. Have you heard an airline mix of a movie? The bg noise is boosted quite a bit but since you are on an airplane, it doesn't matter too much.

And should normal speech be, at average, -24 LUF? I'm also in Reaper, I don't know if that makes a difference

Whole mix

My ears

Yeah, you can't control any of that stuff, so don't sweat it! Many mixers are protective of their work and will want to start from scratch if they take over for someone else. There is nothing you can do except for make sure you get paid, smile, and take the next gig.

@@ThomasBoykin Lol, This was my instinctual reaction thanks for validating that!

There are so many kinds of whispers! Stage whisper, true whisper, growl whisper. But I would probably try to keep it no lower than between -42 and -35 lufs. A really loud scream no louder than -12 lufs, but it'll also depend on what's around, the tonal quality,etc. Also is there music playing? What are the BG's doing? You don't want to A. lose track of the story and B. have the audience scrambling to turn the volume down. One thing that can help is playing back the mix on DIM with your monitor controller. Keep in mind that when people watch at home they are fighting a noisy fridge, traffic, HVAC sound, mom cooking dinner in the kitchen, kids playing in the room. Too dynamic and they will lose story points. I will also check the mix on a TV in my mix room, a trick my mentor taught me back in the day.