Real World Peak and LUFS Levels: How Loud to Master Your Song and Why
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Published 2022-07-19
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00:00 – The objective
00:39 – Song examples
01:49 – Getting the original WAV masters for analysis
03:39 – Analyzing the songs’ true peak and LUFS levels
10:52 – Setting good peak and LUFS levels in your mastering limiter
17:01 – Analyze your master with TC Electronic’s Finalizer website
20:05 – Let’s summarize all this rigamarole
21:17 – The loudness penalty, ouch
22:20 – My conclusion
TC Electronic Finalizer Online - finalizer.com/analyzer?a=c78&compare=false&mview=t…
Loudness Penalty Meter Online - www.loudnesspenalty.com/
Is your system ready for lossless sound? t.co/mzIvIfWifF
SATRN, Deadmau5 - www.beatport.com/track/satrn/12753831
Not So Bad (feat. Emie), Emie, Yves V, Ilkay Sencan - www.beatport.com/track/not-so-bad-feat-emie/129109…
Sweet Dreams (feat. Lynne[a]), Erik Hawk, Lynne[a] - www.beatport.com/track/sweet-dreams-feat-lynnea/84…
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All Comments (10)
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Here's a great follow up article by iZotope on this whole topic. www.izotope.com/en/learn/10-great-reference-mixes-…
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This video deserves a lot more views than it has
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Inconvenient truth of mastering! I think i should join the loudness war now. haha Thanks Erik.
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Awesome vid. Great tips and tools. Just added this to my music production folder.
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Very thorough 🔥
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Good Stuff!!!!
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Great video Hawk! The normalization setting can be disabled on Spotify & Apple Music by the user anyway, so there is really little incentive to master a song to the recommended level set by these platforms. Sometimes it’s also the frequency balance that will affect the perceived loudness, more so than how much the limiter is being pushed. So EQing or some multi-band processings will do the job, making the final limiter to work less.
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Great video. How can we measure lufs , rms of music, or videos in YouTube. Also it is happened the same as TV in the past. The commercial appears very load, YouTube advertising sound very load if it compare to videos.
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for dubstep we got about 4 to 5 LUFS and for tearout dubstep it about 2 to 4 LUFS no joke
