Deadmau5 talks about the LOUDNESS WAR! #shorts

[andrewpossofficial]

Love how deadmau5 still fights for clearness and dynamics. I always liked his music for that. Real HQ producer

[noahf]

If you aint red lining, you aint headlining

[mattstevens]

Love how he always sounds so disappointed 😅

[thePastafarian]

Producers who truly respect the art are dwindling year by year. Joel is definitely one of the few good ones

[udioFour]

Once had a guy tell me something like "i cant get this sound loud without distorting it" i jokingly said "this might be crazy but turn the volume up" & he replied "oh yeah that worked". That shit blew my mind someone couldnt think of that lol

[DustinHaggerty-ljix]

They don't want to be quieter than the last thing. Great fucking point. Needed to hear this

[stoneagealienz]

And then spotify and youtube started accounting for that and will literally play shit at lower volume if the track is I think around -16 to -14 lufs. Not gonna lie kind of a genius move.

[icanseewhytheyhateus]

listen to deaftones for good example of dynamic range durring the PEAK of the loudness wars

[GingerDrums]

Now we have LUFS based loudness norms for commercials :). R128 is a great German invention. The best way to get transparent loudness is clipping, not limiting.

[snfx]

"20 years" loudness wars started on the radio, probably in the 40s

[bassinblue]

When I listen to old school legendary albums, I notice they're not loud but they have something albums don't have today and it's...RANGE. You get some tracks that are loud and pumpy, then you get softer songs with just an acoustic guitar. Why have people fucking forgot about the MUSIC!?

[mtrxd]

Ugh... reminds me of singing with a large band and each guitar/bass player have their own amp, and keep on turning them up to hear themselves over each other, and I'm like: I don't have an amp for my voice y'all.

[PrankZabba]

Remember when 70s records were so loud that you could hear it just fine coming off the needle?

[timmyaudio]

dude idk why but this is just hilarious 😭

[shortbusbully]

The loudness war has been going on waaaay longer than 20 years. It really started basically as soon as cds (the first digital music platform) came out, but the same techniques had been used going as far back as the 50s.

[jerryhill]

When i was at Polyphia's Q&A Tim had talked about a little peak distortion is cool sometimes. His bassist clay looked confused, but i guess it works for some of their stuff cause his productions sound really good

[TheMostHated]

I thought i was doing something wrong when my mixes kept coming out quiet 😭😭

[InTransitGaming]

Bro you should hear rural Thailand music. I swear i need ear plugs every time

[_XRMissie]

I love dynamic range, and I love brick wall sound... But to be "competitive" on streaming platforms like Spotify, if you value dynamic range, your mix will be SIGNIFICANTLY quieter than similar songs with the same true peak. There's a tradeoff between writing music to be played on a tin can, and writing music to be played on big, highly tuned speaker systems. Most of us don't have a Dolby-Atmos setup at home to truly enjoy the objective clarity of a dynamic mix.

[subradiant_music]

So true man he's so dope at mixing and mastering