[LAU] Tips for mastering?

[Moshe Werner]

+1 on k meter system.

IMHO there is no reasonable way to make "easy going" music sound as loud as
"aggressive" music,
I think that is the reason one is called "easy going" and one "aggressive"
2 cents
Moshe

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org>wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 02:42:04PM +0100, Gabbe Nord wrote:
>
> > * I want a similar soundlevel throughout the whole of the EP, eg. I want
> > the songs to be similar in strength even if they are dissimilar in
> > dynamics/type of song. Some songs are naturally more "aggressive" and
> thus
> > will be a bit stronger, but I want the climaxes in the more easy going
> > songs to be as strong.
>
> Two tools could help you with this, both available on
> <http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/downloads>,
> and used to measure your master output.
>
> Jkmeter displays both the RMS and peak level. RMS is closely
> related to loudness. The '0dB' on the RMS scale can be either
> 20 or 14 dB below full scale, which one you'd use depends on
> the type of music and mixing style.
>
> Ebumeter measures loudness using the EBU R-128 algorithm. This
> basically means filtering and then RMS. It can also measure the
> overall loudness of a complete song (it has 'start' and 'stop'
> buttons), as well as the loudness range. The reference level in
> R-128 is quite low (compared to mainstream mastering practices),
> but you could adjust all songs to the same but higher level.
>
> If you want to know more on how this works, read the LAC2011
> paper.
>
>
> Ciao,
>
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