"any changes?"




It is the same as it always was.

You can still only go to 0dBFS... no matter what... so if people want it any louder than that they are gonna need a bigger amp or more efficient speakers.

That's not really all the much different than it has ever been.


best regards,
mike

well, i have seen a pattern in my own process:

1. mixes =  typical RMS of -22 to -18, peaks at about -6db. that's a pretty large crest factor.

2. Masters = Typical RMS of -10 (sometimes 9), peaks limited to -.2db.

and even though i thought my masters with -10 RMS average were pretty good, and strong without sounding super squished, and not fatiguing......

they still come out to about DR 8 or 9.


which i'm not happy with, so i'm gonna start backing it off.


it's 'The Way' you get to just below 0db, that matters.

and everybody does it a bit differently, and a lot of the ways i hear it, i  don't like.

I took a sparse ballad up to -12.0dB RMS average a week ago and it made me feel really dirty.

I was listening to Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl as a eye opener... I don't think you can compete with -4dB RMS Average unless you write a song just for that purpose.

i'm curious to know where folks who were into this conversation back uin 09, are sitting with this now.

I'm curious to know which folks are still hanging around here, 4 years later. And why they still haven't got lives yet.