At the same time your song will have more dynamics, so the loud parts will be much louder than Gaga's whole song, therefore Gaga will sound lifeless and much lower. In this case your song (let's say decently mastered at -16dB LUFS) will pop out compared to Gaga on iTunes, because her song will be lowered and yours not. First and easiest (very simplified): Don't master so loud. If you go for the loudness war, and personally I'd say -10.5dBLUFS Intergrated is already there, your song with -10.5dBLUFS Intergrated will be lowered by iTunes automatically by 5.5dB, because it is too loud Other streaming services have other values for max LUFS Intergrated. Yeah, I'm an amateur but reasonably bright. Now you guys are telling me to lower my song by 5.5dB? I play my song back on an iPhone next to Lady Gaga (i'm not trying to go that loud) and my song is "in the ballpark" loudness-wise. Ultimately, I intend to use a real mastering house like Lagerfeldt or Bob Katz. I'm wondering what you sage gurus do in anticipation of the "dumbing down" of your efforts at perfection.
For this track I can see where I might have to go down to -0.6dB to hopefully get no overs.Įxpanding the discussion: I strive for a CD-quality release, knowing the tracks will end up on all the various streaming services and YouTube which do their own thing. Of course, like most of you, I'm trying to squeeze every ounce of SPL into my final masters (no, I'm not a loudness war junkie which you can see from the analysis specs) but I don't want to give up yet more dB to fall under some magic threshold.
I consistently read about keeping the limiter at -0.3dB to account for quick transients missed by metering but RX4 seems pretty tight on its analysis.
Is this an inherent algorithm problem for MP3 creation? Is there anything I can do about this… or do I just have to put up with it?Ģ.