Dolby Atmos Dynamics – immersive audio’s secret weapon ?
People love Dolby Atmos mixes – they hear them and just have a huge smile on their face. That’s what the engineers working on Atmos right now are telling me, anyway. And it’s not really surprising....
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Streaming Loudness – AES Recommendations 2021, and why you should care
The Audio Engineering Society just released an updated set of guidelines for streaming loudness, code-named TD1008. But they’re not for you! They’re not for artists, or producers, or recording, mixing...
View ArticleIt’s not how loud you make it, it’s how you make it loud
I didn’t coin this expression – I wish I had! I first heard it from veteran mastering engineer Bob Katz, and it’s just as true today as it ever was. There’s far more to achieving a real perception...
View ArticleDoes Adele really sound better on YouTube ? And if so, WHY?!?
Adele’s latest single “Easy On Me” doesn’t use a click track or autotune, but it is still mastered pretty loud. At least on CD, that is. On YouTube that doesn’t seem to be the case, though – and the...
View ArticleDe-clipping Adele – was I wrong?
Adele recently shared an informal “laptop recording” of her song “To Be Loved” on her YouTube channel – and it’s great. A raw, authentic “real life” recording with a beautiful performance....
View ArticleIs Billie Eilish too loud ? (Here come the Loudness Police)
I was recently tagged in a heated Facebook debate about whether the heavy distortion in Billie Eilish's song "xanny" was deliberate artistic intent, or due to excessive compression & limiting in...
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Amazon Music Loudness Normalization Arrives
The title says it all, really ! Bill Koch emailed me yesterday to let me know that Amazon Music have recently added Loudness Normalization to their mobile and desktop apps. I've only had time to do...
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What's going on with loudness normalization ?!?
Yesterday I posted on the MeterPlugs blog about the fact that YouTube had switched to using a -14 LUFS reference level, and why I thought that was a good thing. But today, it looks as if they've...
View ArticleLoudness Penalty Plugin - FAQ
The video above is a great, creative introduction by the popular "Snake Oil" YouTube channel, to my new plugin Loudness Penalty. It offers an excellent, entertaining overview of what the plugin does,...
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Streaming Loudness in 2022 is 95 Percent Normalized
As far as I can tell, 95% of the music you're hearing online is normalized, in 2022. But what does that mean, and how did I come to that conclusion ? And most importantly, why should you care ? What...
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