Mastering for Spotify?

What is Spotify doing with the audio we put in it?

Check Burn by KD-Soundsystem over here:

Check the studio here:

[themancable]

-14 LUFS is great for music, it's good for future mastering. Let the smartphones catch up. Thx for the helpful video!

[Anakin]

The problem by the normalization is that quiter songs are louder and louder songs are quiter. It can be sound very unbalanced

[MeterPlugs]

Great video! Little teaser: we've got something coming soon that's going to help with figuring out what Spotify is doing to your music. Looking forward to sharing with you :)

[masterrender]

So than do you have any ideas? How to make it loud with true peak option

[sqcaraudio]

I used a digital loop back in my soundcard. Did all the same anylisis as you have. All the loud tracks that have so called "loud" buillt into them also have no dynamics. There are progressive mastering aproaches in the top 40 now that deliberatley master to -13lufs or -12lufs, these tracks realy shine in punch and detail and they can still have a degree of brickwall level behind that detail. Back to the -6lufs crowd you can see that the "WAR" they are fighting is over, they are now loosing. Where do people listen to music today? Youtube, Spotify.. all have loudness managemnt as default setting.

[JakeWildMusic]

So, if my master is louder than -14 LUFS everything *above* that threshold will just be reduced to the volume? The denseness of the mix means it's *very* quiet in comparison to other stuff on spotify that's currently up.

[stenne]

My guess is the answer to your question is in the R128 standard. Google R128 and you probably get the answer.

[synaikido]

What do you think of the console1? Workflow - of course - must be great!

But is the SSL emulation anywhere near the original (especially depending on EQ, I want to be able to drive hard without harsh sound)?
The EQ e.g. sounds really different than the slate one for example (less distortion/vibe or sth) and I'm not sure if I like the sound of Softube in their emulation, though I know I really like the Slate SSLEQ modeled Sound.

The emulation of softube sounds kind of predicable/plastic. Maybe i'm completely wrong, don't know... Do you have an opinion on this?

Now the Console1 got so cheap, I'm really interested in the workflow, but the sound must be good, if it's gonna be the quick fix/change on each instrument!

Best regards and big fan of your videos!
Synaikido

[Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

What's the device behind your shoulders? The one behind your mac as well?

[Dubious_Dubs]

For a second there I thought my video card was dying, but twas in the video. Nicely explained by the way.

[natewilliams]

If you take off the switch in Spotify and your song is quiet how do you then master it so it’s loud and competitive with normalization and when there is no normalization

[yahu]

WE NEED SOMETHING LIKE HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE FOR MUSIC LIKE IN FOTOS

[aex]

Tiesto and Guetta mastering at -5 dB LUFS! they don't make a separate master for Spotify, and upload the unique -5 dB LUFS master and Spotify down-level at -5 dB true peak. Is for this reason if you guys mastered a -14 dB LUFS for Spotify, your music sound like a ant compared with commercial ones... Bye.