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The (new to me) R128 standard

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alexis January 7, 2018, 10:43pm 15

Arjan P:

alexis:

Yes, it’s critical that the LUFS level not be too hot for YouTube, iTunes, and other on-line playback sites. The reason is that they will adjust the volume on your track so that the LUFS peak is within their limits.

Alexis, you’re correct, except the streaming services do Loudness Normalization to a LUFS level that will be the integrated loudness of the whole song (or the whole album, but that’s quite a different subject). So we’re not talking peak levels here.
A very informative podcast about it can be found here: http://themasteringshow.com/, episode 41 specifically.

Thanks for the correction!

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