100% agree. Youlean makes it really clear what's actually happening with your audio and goes further than a regular dB meter. When I first learned about LUs and Youlean I was blown away haha. Thanks for checking out the video, take care.

thank you for this interesting comment... you've given me some stuff to research/study!

wow thank you so much! glad it was informative

which meter should i look to know how loud is my track? is it Integrated or some other?

Wow thank you my friend. Would you be able to send this video to some other musicians? It would help the channel greatly. Take care!

@@dawsonkamenz unfortunately, all the musicians i know dont speak english nor understand english nor are interested in mastering :( im a music producer and im getting into the master stage of an album im producing for some clients and this video gave much confidence on how i want the album to sound like, although, you earn a subscriber :) you content is really good and helpful, it just hasnt exploted yet!

Forgot to reply, all good, thank you again so much. Hope the album mastering goes well man! @@chukarec

Thank you sir have an amazing day!

Glad it was helpful man thanks for watching!

hey thanks T. glad it was helpful!

aw man thanks!

Hey man thank you my friend 🤩

hey thank you so much!

amazing :) thank you!

you bet. some really interesting sounds on VOID$ keep up the great work!

thanks for watching fam

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Hey thank you for watching! If you want to bring your LUFS higher, like to -16 or -14 while still remaining under -1 true peak, you'll want to use a limiter which will limit and lower the peaks of your audio, in turn you'll have more 'headroom' which will allow you to increase overall loudness of your audio without passing your true peak of -1 dBs. Furthermore, you could use a compressor to reduce the dyamic range of your audio, again giving you more 'headroom.' This is a really short answer to a big question... But it will give you some direction. Use limiters, compression, and get more headroom. I have a tutorial on a free compressor on my channel called Kotelnikov.

hey thanks fam! to me, -1.0dBs true peak is safe generally/overall. i typically have that as the max true peak on any project i'm working on, but i know some people will push that further to -0.3dBs or -0.1dBs. The thing about the true peak and measuring dBs, is it safeguards your audio from demanding more from the speakers than they can give. The goal of that is really to prevent crackling/distortion. If you don't hear any distortion, then that's what really matters haha. Hope that kinda gets to your question. Thanks for the support fam

@@dawsonkamenz Awesome thank you

haha sorry man i should have included more in the video on actual loudness standards/pros and cons. good place to start though is just researching what loudness standards are on different platforms or the platform you publish to. Spotify is -14 LUFs for example

Yes it could be used for a mixdown before getting to the master stage. I think the most important thing for a mix though is the amount of headroom you have. I don't believe getting an exact loudness level in a mix is that important, from what I know at least. Personally I like my mixes to be hitting around -12 to -6 dbs, regardless of genre. As far as loudness goes, I only worry about it once I'm mastering a beat. If you send your mixdowns to a mastering engineer, it's best to just leave a good amount of headroom so they have room to play around with in terms of loudness. Does that answer your question? Hope that helps.

@dawsonkamenz yes that answers my question. Thank you so much for your reply.

ah hopefully this answers your question. if you get your master up to proper loudness (social media is usually -14 LUFS -0.1 dBs true peak) then the platforms won't have to increase or decrease the loudness of your audio. if they DO have to adjust the audio for their loudness standards, yes it can ruin the way your audio sounds and the final result will not be how you originally designed the audio. background noise, i think that will have to do more with your recording equip and processing.

​@@dawsonkamenzI struggled with this for years thanks. Put this to use later on. Going to do some testing. Thanks bro

@@lee_the_underground_producerhopefully it helps man and don't hesitate to get back in touch 🤩 all the best!

Ah, if you're peaking you might want to implement a limiter, clipper or compressor with a high ratio. The red peaks on the loudness meter though don't necessarily denote peaking on your speakers... At the end of the day, a true peak higher than 0.0 dBs is gonna need some limiting/clipping though.

I hope I got to the point of your question!

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uhm... could be that your limiter is after your loudness meter on your fx chain. make sure youlean is last because it will reflect the changes of everything before it

hope that helps man let me know if it's still not working!

hahaha sorry dude. it doesn't affect audio just reads it. put it at the end of your mastering chain, everything you put before it will affect the plugins data.

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@@dawsonkamenz your video was the best I’ve seen on this plug-in :-) I still have some issues with my mixing and gain staging so if your able to chat with me and help me on that I could show you a project I got going on if so, is there somewhere better we could discuss this?

@@MendingSilencesure i hit you up on IG

yessir cd is a lot louder than spotify or youtube