Hello my friends,
I've been searching about LUFS and differences with RMS, and it makes so much sense. If you don't know about this, in the end I will leave some basic info.
The question is next:
I want my tracks to be listened on spotify, where the standard LUFS is 14. But there's a loudness war thing outside.
If I bring my tracks to, just say 8 LUFS, I'm killing the dynamics for the sake of volume, and anyways Spotify will lower it to 14, so I killed my dynamics for a loud track that will still be lowered in general volume, so
Does it matter to have a loud track, fight the loudness war if my purposes are to be heard on Spotify/iTunes/SC?
Which collateral effects does it have?
Thank you!
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LUFS means Loudness unit Full Scale (relat.), which is the new standard to measure the loudness of a track (or anything). Spotify has a 14 LUFS standard just to make a Skrillex track equal in loudness to a Classical Music track.
This guy makes a clear explanation of it, and he considers the 8 LUFS as the frontier of the danger zone (no dynamics, loud AF). You must know in EDM the overuse of compressor is a thing, and people want their tracks to be as loud as possible to get noticed by someone. I don't know if there is an information issue or something, but at the end all of the tracks are bringed to a standard loudness, so maybe there's no need to make your track SO loud with the trade-off it brings.
Obviously, if you do not know about dynamics or don't care about them, just ignore this. I create tension and release with volume, so I care about dynamic range.
Submitted September 18, 2017 at 06:47PM by Perspectivas https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/70yamq/loudness_and_metering/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Monday, September 18, 2017