Peak vs RMS volume: why should you care?

Here's a little video explaining the difference between Peak and RMS volume, and what dynamic range is!

It will help you understand how to control the perceived loudness of your track, and will give you a hugely valuable learning tool on how to compare your tracks with professionally mastered tracks.

Learn this technical fundamental as early as possible in your music production career and it will serve you very well.

Content:
00:00 What will we learn today?
00:36 Peak, RMS, Dynamic range
01:53 A secret about our brains (louder = better)
02:48 A less dynamic example
03:28 Comparing your track to a reference track
05:05 Reading the Ableton Live volume meters

[magnus]

This is THE best and clearest explanation I've seen on this topic. You earned yourself a subscriber, keep up the good job.

[nayankarpe]

Best explanation on the entire Internet ❤️

[krazyfingazbeats]

Clear, concise and straight to the point explanation.

[No-tokd]

i’ve watched a lot of production tutorials, and your are one of the best. keep it up

[verse]

A very informative and high-quality video, thank you so much!

[brotherkuma]

Explanation: Quick, punchy and crisp compression. Thank you so much! 🖖🏼

[minjunpark]

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[RogueFire]

great job ! lots of really interesting, fast, clear vids! THANKS

[hardness]

game changer! cant wait to drop my first track using this info

[johanvanhuyssteen]

I love your videos man. Thanks for sharing.

[thedevo]

5:03 has this video been released yet? :0

[alexvoid]

Became a new subscriber! Very clear and practical explanations and tutorials Will recommend to other producers

[Pluppo]

Pure gold, thanks for the clear explanation!

[axlkurt]

B E S T VIDEO EVER! just what i needed man ty!

[WardogActual]

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[shahirmaged]

Great Video. Thank you. your videos are, nicely, to the point. good content and good presentation. Well done and good luck.

[RBmusic]

What amazing videos you do. Very helpful

[alexanderewing]

Thanks for your clear explanation of Dynamic range, etc. Just wondering? When setting the threshold for the compressor/Limiter, should you be trusting your ears, i.e. hearing enough compression without overcooking it and introducing artifacts, distortion etc. Or, are there numbers we should follow, to achieve a similar result. Apologies for the long-winded question but i find compression, the trickiest thing to understand and get right!
Home studio musician.
Alex

[jeffevansmusic]

VU meter. The most important thing. It shows rms levels very well. Get back into using them in your DAW and everything changes for the better. Some of the software ones are very good. I also have expensive real ones as well. Ballistics are also very important. They can tell you so much. Ensure your track VU or rms levels are consistent. Keep your bus rms levels consistent too and your final stereo mix rms or VU levels. It's what they used in the old days. Modern DAW's eliminated them at first. They are coming back slowly. I have been going on about VU meters for decades. Peak meters don't tell you much at all. We do need them but only for very fast transient sounds. Most things are not fast though and the VU meter is king.

[santiagopenaclavijo]

Is this kind of content in the course you guys are offering?