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Really Digging LUFS Metering


Anderton

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It used to take me hours to balance levels among songs on an album, now it takes 30 minutes or so. There's the issue of what LUFS reading to shoot for, I don't go with the -23 LUFS recommended by the EBU...I master to "what sounds right," and for my music, an LUFS reading of -11.4 seems ideal. It's the sweet spot of dynamic and bit of squashing.

 

I was checking LUFS readings for some of the "loudness wars" CDs, a lot of times it went up to -6 LUFS or so. Anyway, I find LUFS is better than peak or average RMS readings. Good stuff.

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Yeah, it really is cool. I decided to remix a song at the last minute when I heard some timing issue but the album had already been assembled...just dropped it in, matched the LUFS...done.

 

I'm sure purists hate the idea, but I never was much of a purist anyway :)

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