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You can also put the DR meter over your premastered mix too to make sure you are not squashing things too hard.ĭave it is mentioned in the SOS article I referred to. K system and VU meters during production, and then LUFS and DR meters on mastering. K system metering with VU meters goes a long way towards dynamic masters. Steely Dan have got it exactly right in their CD 'Everything Must Go' It has a DR reading of about 10 and the CD reaches about -11 to -10 dB rms level wise a lot of the time. There is a sweet spot in mastering betwen loudness and dynaimc range. It is NOT the same as the LRA range either. The DR meter gives you more info about your audio. You also need the DR meter as well as the LUFS meters. You can craete the same setup using the TT DR meter. You don't need the Perception plugin either.
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You need the test signals to actually set up your loudness meters first.
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There is some very interesting reading to be done there as well as a whole set of LUFS test signals. Check out the links mentioned in that article too.
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I am using the free Orban loudness meter and it is great also. It is a good reference to go for because it means Apple wont be adding or subtracting much again at that level. Apple are using a ref level of -15 to -16 LUFS in terms of their automatic gain adjustments in itunes etc. Read this it is an excellent article on the subject. I prefer it around -12db rms, for Acoustic / singer & songwriter / classical etc.įor punchy music maximum down to -9db RMS, for Pop / Rap / Rock music etc.īelow -9db dynamic range, audio start to suffer in detail, clarity, and it also start to distortĪlso start sounding harsh and hard mid ranged as more and more as you push it. If they had said -15 LUFS, i would agree. that will be like -20db rms ? way to low you ask me ! It's one of the most basic mastering tools. So lets say u mix with it and go for -12 LUFS, you actually have -9db RMS level atleast, just for the record.Ĭakewalk need to get a meter like the peak and rms meter in steinberg wavelab Using this meter will make you mix 3 db harder than ordinary rms ! This is LUFS reading : showing -3db less than actual reading Personally i like the RMS reading, as an accurate metering. Thats why we get the -3 / +3 db diffrence. one use square pulse reading another use sine wave reading. There's a difference in LUFS and RMS reading. Some metering plugins seems to be " off by " -3 db " less reading. A very dynamic track can also be organised to do this. Tracks don't have to be squashed hard either to achieve this.
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With care it is possible to get a VU to dance nicely just up to 0 db VU and not go much over. Your tracks will often move nothing like it so you have to take steps to get it there. Really nice mastered tracks make a VU move a certain way. You can also learn a lot watching how a meter dances to the music. (that is where the difference between the men and the boys really occurs, see if the ballisitics are wrong for example a meter may overshoot making you tu rn the gain down thinking the level is too high or a meter may fall short making you turn the gain up thinking the level is too low ) Klanghelm seem to have got this sorted though. They will all read 0 dB VU on a continuous tone but many DO NOT dance in the same way a real VU meter does. I have a pair of very high quality real VU's and have done some quite exhaustive tests comparing ballistics. Not sure about the others but the Klanghelm is the closest ballistics wise to the real thing.