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-14 is what Spotify wants, and it’s still more quiet than the pop-songs today. I noticed because my track landed in between Justin Bieber and Katy Perry on a Spotify editorial playlist. I spoke to another soundengineer and just scoffed and said ”-8 mate. You want -8 lufs. The loudness wars are fought in a different place today.”🤷🏼♂️
Congrats. This is a basic intro to mastering and getting people to consider lufs as a unit. As Spotify uses an average of 14 lufs you can make your choruses louder and verses quieter to still have a dynamic range in your song.
Why are UK explanations on the tube so much more better in EVERY aspect?? I don’t feel l'm being shouted at in a hurry! I feel l'm sitting in a nice armchair ready to take notes in my own time 🎉
You are correct you can use the gain on the limiter. However between the gain and the limiter unusually place linear phase eq and compressors. So the limiter I use only to stop peaks at the end of the signal chain.
I'm teaching myself Logic having come from Reaper. At the end of a Render in Reaper it show LUF and loudness level for the whole track. Anything like that in Logic? This is for podcast, so watching a meter in real time for an entire hour show is not realistic. Thanks!
Would it not be better to address the balance issue in the mix? You'll be moving centered instruments off, like kick and bass by just altering the whole balanc.
The panning doesn't change the timing aspect of how you hear the direction of the sound it just balances it's volume. I agree with you if your mix is not as good as it can be it should be mixed further rather than moving to the mastering stage.
So question. why don't you apply the metering and limiter stuff to the master channel? should you take care of each individual channel and then do micro-adjustments on the master?
