Hey Peeps,

So I have been studying about loudness and loudness meters, and LUFS and all that stuff and even have the meters (IK Mastering Console, ToneBoosters EU Levels Meters, etc.) But I am still confused.

They keep talking about -24 LUFS being "the norm" for broadcast and even have screen shots. (See below)

But when I run any modern song through one of these--Let's say Glen Campbell's latest--just to be on the "milder side", it is WAY out of that -24 range and totally in the red.

The only tune I could find in my library that shows up as -24 LUFS is an Audrey Hepburn tune Moon River from that old movie and that is just kind of a thin blue strip of a .wav, hardly what you see today. I.E. it is SOFT.

So, I guess my question is how are you you supposed to master at -24 LUFS and get anything anywhere near modern sounds if Audrey Hepburn is the reference?

I know I am ignorant, but I am totally confused.

http://transom.org/2015/the-audio-producers-guide-to-loudness/

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