Is SoundCloud normalizing or adjusting our uploads/streams to -14 LUFS, as described in this video, or not?

-14 LUFS


For my latest project, which I mixed and mastered in Studio One, I aimed for -14 LUFS and was hitting around -13 LUFS, in the Yellow by S1's meters, never in the Red. I set the Ozone 9 Maximizer to -0.5 dB True Peak. Compared to a few other songs I listened to on SoundCloud that were produced by community members, mine 'seemed' lower in volume. I uploaded a 16-bit wav.



This thread from a year ago is also relevant. Bud Merritt mentions mastering to -12 LUFS and using MB compression as well, and of course he's very good at this.

LUFS

Scott