My experience has been that 14 LUFS is very quiet for SoudCloud.
They are apparently one of the few platforms that make no adjustments to what you upload.

I'm a big fan of loundnesspenalty.com - free and no signup required and very fast.
It only takes a few seconds to see how and if your song will be altered by the platforms.
I use this as a basis for all my mastering.

A LOT of the forum songs would require huge changes by the platforms as many are very loud.
And the changes made my the platforms can introduce artifacts IMHO.

You can check it out here at this safe link.
https://www.loudnesspenalty.com

Here's what our current forum song looks like:

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Bud

Last edited by Janice & Bud; 07/12/25 08:19 AM.
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