http://www.pleasurizemusic.com/

Support the cause! Get the free meter plug-in. This is badly needed.

From the website:

"The Pleasurize Music Foundation (currently in the process of establishment) began operations in January 2009 and is a nonprofit organization (which will be proofed by the American government/IRS in 2009).
Our aim is to improve the sound quality of music in its various recorded formats – including data compression methods such as MP3 – as well as music destined for radio broadcast.
Only music that provides a positive musical listening experience has real market value. The Foundation's aim is to increase the value of music within the creative production process for the entire music industry."

Great idea.

Signed up :)

Bill

ORIGINAL: ambientNRG

http://www.pleasurizemusic.com/

Support the cause! Get the free meter plug-in. This is badly needed.

This is very nice. For those new to compression, limiting, and their use in mastering it offers a psychologically good tool to help avoid abuse of "loudness enhancing" techniques. The meter is really nicely done and its great "eye candy" so people will tend to use it, its just nice to watch. Then when you watch your own mix/mastering job turn it solid red you may just get the idea to rethink what you've done. There's still no substitute for well trained ears but this can help you train them. Most commercial pop product fails the test miserably and turns the meter solid red.

I highly support this cause. This is a great counter-weapon in the "loudness war."

--Bill

I signed-up also! Although I currently use K Metering System which accomplishes the same goal.

All we are saying...is give peaks a chance.

I ran the offline version on my band's CD and it came out as DR10. I think that's a good value, according to the manual.


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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR10 -0.29 dB -12.18 dB Fell On 3 - Sympathetic Resonance - 01 - Breathe.wav
DR11 -0.30 dB -13.72 dB Fell On 3 - Sympathetic Resonance - 02 - Take Me Up.wav
DR10 -0.30 dB -13.30 dB Fell On 3 - Sympathetic Resonance - 03 - Free.wav
DR9 -0.29 dB -11.29 dB Fell On 3 - Sympathetic Resonance - 04 - Walk Away.wav
DR11 -0.29 dB -13.36 dB Fell On 3 - Sympathetic Resonance - 05 - Angel.wav
DR9 -0.32 dB -11.79 dB Fell On 3 - Sympathetic Resonance - 06 - Show Me.wav
DR10 -0.29 dB -13.08 dB Fell On 3 - Sympathetic Resonance - 07 - Last Goodbye.wav
DR10 -0.29 dB -11.59 dB Fell On 3 - Sympathetic Resonance - 08 - Shining Down.wav
DR10 -0.30 dB -13.02 dB Fell On 3 - Sympathetic Resonance - 09 - Out Of Reach.wav
DR10 -0.29 dB -12.91 dB Fell On 3 - Sympathetic Resonance - 10 - Nothing Inside.wav
DR10 -0.30 dB -12.13 dB Fell On 3 - Sympathetic Resonance - 11 - Wonder.wav
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Number of files: 11
Official DR value: DR10

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ORIGINAL: DesertHermit
I ran the offline version on my band's CD and it came out as DR10. I think that's a good value, according to the manual.

As good as this idea is and as cool as the meter and the offline analyzer are its important not to become a slave to these things and to train, trust, and use your ears. These tools yield interesting results on some material.

I did a recording of a classical singer with solo piano accompaniment. There's no compression or limiting on it at all. It shows a DR of 8 on the offline meter. That's just the nature of the material. It sounds wonderful and has some startling dynamics! The dynamic is more long-term than short however and these tools show short-term dynamic. You'll find that many "drummerless" recordings tend to show less dynamic range with these tools in general.

All analysis tools are guidelines. Be careful out there ;-)

--Bill

ORIGINAL: pdlstl

All we are saying...is give peaks a chance.

Priceless!!!

There's a kind of irony... I think... maybe... to an organization dedicated to dynamic range releasing a plugin for measuring it that is some 2 or 3 times larger than it needs to be.