Do you need to care about loudness while mixing, or is best to let the mastering engineer find the right levels? Can a mix be too loud, or not loud enough? What are some good starting points? Let’s look at a couple approaches - what I like to call “old school” and “new school.”
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Norway has started the process of shutting down their national FM broadcasts in favour of digital broadcasts, a process that will conclude by the end of the year. Why is this significant from a loudness perspective? How does digital audio broadcasting (DAB) differ from FM? Does radio even matter going forward?
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On NYE, “rivals” deadmau5 and Marshmello played back to back sets at Decadence. During the NYE show, Marshmello fans tweeted their distaste for deadmau5’s set, to which deadmau5 replied:
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It’s the hotly debated question that fuelled the Loudness Wars. And yet, however many years later, have we gotten any closer to a conclusive answer? There are lots of opinions and anecdotes, but I wanted to see if I could find something concrete. I dug up some of the latest research on the subject. Here’s what I found:
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Can you make your plugins sound better by adjusting your audio’s levels? Does it make a difference if your audio is at -23 LUFS or -10 LUFS? Have you been misusing your plugins all this time? My answer: “Probably not, but maybe…”
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