LUFS LEVEL I MASTER TO 🎛️

When I master tracks for major artists 👩🏻‍🎤

I'm mastering to around -8 to -6 LUFS

#tipsandtricks #mixing #mastering #musicproduction #shorts

[ProAudioIQ]

In the later 90s, Bob Ludwig had an article in Mix magazine, I think. and he essentially slapped fellow mastering engineer’s hands telling them to knock it off and to please stop squashing and killing music and to let music breathe again.
And that was back when we only had L1 Ultramaximizer Before everything started getting really crazy with L2 and L3.
We really do have a responsibility to be the technicians and not let the non-technician musicians try to dictate where their loudness level should be - because they don’t know. If they are pushing for louder at this point it’s because their engineer isn’t doing a good enough job explaining dynamic range and showing examples of how their mixes could actually sound if they were allowed to keep some life in them. The consumer has control over the playback volume level so no one needs to be delivering to music in a range designed for extreme sound effect capture of recordings like jet engines etc.
Please don’t promote more loudness. All it does is cause listening fatigue and kill openness and harmonic content we could actually be enjoying in music.

Young engineers are not going to really understand what’s being discussed here but you do and it’s going to have lasting implications that none of us want. -14 LUFS is there for a reason. Please use it or at least get close to it. Going louder, only hurts the final quality of the music. Don’t just take my word for it, just ask any mastering engineer Who has been mastering before Ultramaximizers started being used. Or, have your mastering engineer, do an A/B comparison for you. One that is squashed and packaged to be louder than It should be, and one that lets it breathe. You be the judge listen to the openness of the instruments. Listen to the sound and space of the room if there’s any left.

Musicians, YOU can tell the mastering engineer what you need. They work for you! If they can’t control the levels, you may need to help them.

[SuziesAshes]

Doesn’t matter. A good tune is a good tune and everybody has a volume knob. Once it sounds good it is good 😊

[tvman]

I master to -9 because in many cases you need to be a genius engineer like Streaky to have -8 sound good and not overly compressed. If you're a home studio guy doing everything yourself I recommend -9.

[ilikebassmusic]

I love this cheeky bastard. Great shxtpost

[vincecrow]

ad thing. Like it’s a “penalty”. You’re not getting turned down to the point where your music sounds quieter than other songs. It’s literally just turning down to the point where it sounds balanced with everything else. Who cares? With loudness normalization now a days, this is all you need to know: 2 things. 1, if you’re mixing pop, rap, or EDM you need to mix and master loud (around -9 to -7 LUFS) because those songs get played in the club, at a festival, at a music venue, and there’s no loudness normalization there. Having loud mastered tunes for the dance floor makes it so that the transients are less pokey and painful to the audience and makes it so that when a DJ is going from song to song, every song sounds consistent with the next one. And 2, if your music is not going to be played on the dance floor, then loudness is an artistic choice. Just do whatever you think sounds the best for the material you’re working on. Getting turned down is not a bad thing. It’s literally just a neutral thing that makes playing song to song sound balanced on a streaming platform.

[coldacre]

for your information... when I shave my back hair I keep it down the 2-3 back hair fluffs.

[oztrekgelsoft]

This us exactly what i do👌 built a nice plugin to push the lufs level and not crush it with compression and smash the mix .
Giving maximum potential of the loudness with out destroying the integrity

[martijn_nl]

For many genres that are used to be played loud it doesn’t matter if transients are killed as they translate to a chunk of noise anyway. Not so much suited for most Audiophile stuff though.

[ProAudioIQ]

Just for the record, I actually am a huge fan of this channel and the tips and information provided. This one just took things a little outside of where they should be in my opinion, and many other’s who are trying to stop this loudness war from continuing.

[briansommers]

used to be -9, the loudness wars continue

[lunarfifthstudios]

Wow, even a lot of larger metal bands only go to -10 or -9 from what I've seen... interesting... I'll toke on this!

[JoshWearsPrada]

I just stick to the standard -14 lufs so nothing extra gets squished on steaming platforms. Not sure why people go louder than that if it's gonna get compressed anyways

[impossiblemusicforce]

Thank you so much for all the precious tips all the time! Unfortunately I forget the bigger part
In using FAB Filter I'm not really the one who knows what he does! I became issues with the left right balance when I started to try mid / side, left, right!
Netherthelesss I got godd sounding results with the ProQ3!
And tweaking the L2 stops at the point where I recordnize there is no treshold, do I have to adjust the input gain that it works well?
But I've tested to cut the low freqzencies and at 30 Hz the 2-3 db more to replace the cutted freqzencies! The way I hear was also a problem! You are tottally riright to cut the low frequenicies!
I have to renew the calibration of how I hear to get the feeling for the range I have to work in! My Masters are better, the instruments have more room to sound!
The ProQ3 sounds great! And what I tried to was Post Mastering! And again, thank you for your amazing knowledge about Mixing and Mastering! LG

[demonix]

Some artists are going up too 0LUFS now days such as Svdden Death

[doubleaceprod]

I do too... Except I don't work for major artists😂. It's easier on FL studio. Maximus and fruity limiter used together 😉😉😉

[Kktcyou]

That’s what I find when I load all of the top hit songs into
metric A/B
and that’s what they all come out to

It’s so weird that I will log into and read on a daily basis, production expert, and several other so-called production expert articles that are coming out every day
and they don’t get it
I don’t know what they’re making their opinions from

But it’s definitely not reality

Load in any song into that plug in and check out the overall peak level
That’s the real world
Some of them even go to -5 and louder

[Sey_Les]

He says that because the -14 lufs thing for Spotify is when u have volume normalization on. That's my understanding from what I read. Keep a good dynamic balance....and if it sounds good on shitty headphones or speaks....it'll sound good on anything

[SpacehotelMusic]

I always ended up magically hitting -7.7 with my well honed template... I've never chased lower LUFs (-14 etc) because I knew how low it sounds outside of streaming and many of us don't get a choice to make different level masters for different formats/services so have to use the main 'CD' one. Clipping through prism convertors and very mild limiting following that (around -1.4 gr). Sounds fine on the radio next to other stuff like the killers.

[anrianka]

but how to keep the dynamic of the song?

[josephramone]

Can you please delete the other video where you tout -14 LUFS? Or delete this one. The videos are contradictory.