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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Maybe you’ve heard of equal loudness contours, maybe not. If you do a quick Google search, you’ll no doubt find dozens of forum discussions, blog posts and magazine articles about them, and how you can use them to improve your mixing and mastering. But from what I’ve seen, they’re all missing an important detail…
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Black Friday has come and gone. And with it, some of the biggest deals on TVs. Whether you were in the market for a new flat screen or not, you know the experience… You got the TV store and browse through aisles upon aisles of TVs. There are smart TVs, curved TVs, 4K TVs, LCD, LED, OLED… So many options! How do you compare them all? And what does shopping for TVs have to do with your music?
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Metallica released their latest album, “Hardwired… To Self-Destruct”, last week. It’s their 11th studio album, a two disc-er with nearly 80 minutes of tunes. I decided to sit down, take some measurements and find out if Metallica still hates dynamics.
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