Appreciate the feedback and glad it’s been helpful for you 🙏

Thanks so much Andre 🙏

@@SeanDivine u too, brotha!

Great to hear it D 🙌🙏

Appreciate that Nesta!

Glad to hear that! 🙌

Glad to hear it 😊🙌

Keep it up 🙌

Same

same, he know projects be droppin

I second that

Same here.

Glad it helped Lacrease 🙌

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Thank you man, welcome!

Technically, LUFS is intended to measure perceived loudness (not just loudness like Peak or an average like RMS). That being said, it doesn't account for everything. This video has some more in-depth methods - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/htx5l8mctry0oqs.html

@@SeanDivine Thanks for the response! I use LUFS to volume match songs. However, when one song ends loudly and the next song starts softly, it makes the listener want to jack up the volume because the next song is "perceived" to be lower in volume.

thanks man, sure thing kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nshgp5xpqr3PhZ8.html

@@SeanDivine I went back and rewatched that video (saw that I already liked it) with a renewed mindset and everything you said made sense and serves as a great strategy. Mastering quieter never really bothered me until recently. I remember being frustrated that my wife didn’t already have Soundcheck enabled (which apparently isn’t enabled by default like it is for Spotify) so my -14lufs masters I delivered sounded “lost” in the sea of commercial releases. I was operating under the mindset that compression would come standard in cars one day like the modern day “bass and treble” settings so I might as well gain some punch by mastering lower if I get on radio (which obviously every station sounds different and uses completely different compression settings). But now that I also realize I like the sound of some compression on the master (as long as it isn’t overboard) I’m game to play! Did y’all know about the Loudness Penalty plug-in? It shows you and plays back in real time how your song will sound on each streaming platform and reads out how much it will raise and lower each track. KZfaq doesn’t raise a track in volume if it’s less than -13 LU and Tidal doesn’t raise either. Spotify uses a limiter which could slightly alter tracks under 14 (or whatever they will change to)

yep, it's the only mastering hardware I use :) other than that, I have some "go to" mastering plugins but mostly chains I've built with StudioRack and Ozone!

@@SeanDivine How much would you charge to master a track?

Hi E, Mastering Chains SR includes limiting / maximizing, so you would want to place any Ozone processing BEFORE StudioRack and also be mindful of signal flow for best results in terms of the dynamics.

it depends on the platform... it's a safer bet to have at least 1dB True Peak of headroom to factor in the conversion to lossy formats. That said, as far as the major platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal), I've never noticed any unexpected results going over. What you hear in the lossy formats is generally what you get (with normalization turned off)

@Global Gaming thank you teacher

The safest bet is to go -1 TP. That said, I’ve delivered my own songs closer to 0 without any noticeable difference... it really comes down to the dynamics of the track and the quality of the master

It depends on the session. It's a Waves StudioRack chain and/or Ozone in most cases.

I believe this is an Advanced version feature

you can manually adjust the threshold on any maximizer / limiter to reach the target LUFS, it's just quicker and easier this way

Use a brickwall limiter / maximizer like the one included in Ozone :)

There's a lot of them.. the stock multimeter in Logic does it also

Ozone 10

@@SeanDivine Thank you. Is it the standard or advanced?

No. You can set the target wherever you prefer in the settings at the bottom of the interface,

Actually, KZfaq should bring the lufs reading to -14 for the entire video (not just the music)

These weren't mastered, just mixed :)

Not necessarily, it just means you’re above the target you have set on WLM plus

Yep!

@@SeanDivine with the maximizer?

It's the Waves loudness meter plugin

not accurate in this case and I wouldn't recommend normalizing an entire mix