Because this is crazy.
Hello everyone, I don’t get how I watch mastering engineers that are Grammy nominated on YouTube get masters of -6 LUFS using the same plug ins I use, when I can barely get to -10.5 before my mix starts distorting. Every song that I am currently working on for my next project I have a reference song for and comparing them to it my songs are way quieter compared to the reference. I do have some fast attack times on my compressor for vocals for this mix But they say “do what sounds good” and that I did. I’ve put HOURS and hours of research into this and my mixes have come a long way although I’m still stuck on mastering. I have multiple limiters so I don’t push one to hard, although no saturation because I’m not sure where to put that in my chain such as before or after limiting. I notice that my vocals don’t really sound like they’re pushed to hard although I notice that the 808 is to loud which I am going to go back and level. It seems like no matter what I do I can’t achieve this Goal of a loud master I’m happy with. I love that feeling of a loud song, and the LUFS number is not something I depend on for me to be satisfied but how the master should sound in my head is way different from what I have at the moment. And maybe it truly is just the 808 being pushed to hard? I kinda hit a brick wall with this and I can’t make any progress in this aspect, any help would be great! As well as certain things to look out for as well. Compared to a “professional” mix or mastering engineer I’m a self taught artist that is striving to get the best product I can possibly get. Thank you, and I’m sorry for anything I’ve said that makes me look “dumb” I just want to learn
Does anyone have experience mixing commercials for use in a cinema? Mostly wondering about the loudness standard used.
Generally I listen to music at conversation level, maybe a bit above it sometimes, and in general I like the -14 LUFs normalization going on with loudness. It's works fairly well, with very few exceptions (like maybe Carpenter Brut that sounds way louder than everything else, but that's probably because of how compressed his music is.)
Most commercials are at a similar level to the music I listen to, but at times a loud commercial hits. Not anticipating it because I'm in a game or something, I can't adjust the volume before the commercial breaks. Even if I did, I'd have to adjust volume after every song to be sure.
I saw somewhere that you can report these commercials to Spotify, but what's the point. By the time they'd get around to normalizing it the same company will have a new commercial out anyway.
I don't think this is good for my tinnitus. I listen to reasonable levels in general.
Where I live, there are several areas that are inundated with shops/stores that are advertised exclusively in foreign languages. This means that, as a speaker of my country's national language, I am simply not able to provide any of these businesses with my patronage. Obviously, no other english speaking people will be able to live/work/shop in these areas either. It seems clear that this is promoting at least to some degree the idea of segregation.
This segregation means that people in these areas don't need to learn/understand English, and they can exist comfortably in relative isolation from society as a whole. It also restricts the ability of the rest of society to be comfortable with these different cultures and to facilitate social/cultural progress.
I'm not arguing against cultural communities within a larger society. What I do believe, though, is that cultural communities that are inherently inaccessible to the rest of society are detrimental to the interests of everyone.
This book that argues the author of Acts recast the intense controversy between the two pillars of earliest Christianity, Peter and Paul, into a unity and harmony that historically never actually existed: McAdon argues that the author of Acts disagreed with, used, and mimetically transformed Gal 1-2 via compositional strategies in Acts 7:58 to 15:30; similar to how the same author had transformed Matthew's birth narrative when writing the gospel of Luke.
I remember it from Canadian tv in the mid 2000s to 2010s. It was very likely a got milk? ad but I can’t find it for the life of me. the phrase “Calcium may help prevent osteoporosis” feels so familiar which is why I think its got milk, but Canadian dairy farmers have pushed out a few scary dairy ads of their own. I think the guy had a blue shirt, and he looked like a beanbag chair 😭 it terrified me as a kid
As /u/Rucknium pointed out to me lately, this sub has really no way to stop blatant advertisement spam and that we should just borrow a rule from /r/Monero for a "quick fix".
The rule says:
"If you have any affiliation with an exchange, product or service that's being discussed, you must disclose that information. Advertisement can occur every two weeks at most."
In order to decrease the workload for mods (which will be very heavy anyway), I suggest a small change:
"If you have any affiliation with an exchange, product or service that you posted/linked, you must disclose that information within 1 hours of posting such an ad. Advertisement can occur every two weeks at most."
My suggestion is that the poster should have up to 1 hour after the post is submitted to subreddit to reveal his affiliation in the post itself or in a first comment. If the poster does not do so or the advertisement happens more often than 1 time in 2 weeks, the post will be removed.
Please vote on this matter by stating your opinions below.
Just upvote/downvote is not counted as an actual opinion, please actually use written opinions.
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This is for a series of simple "explainer" type videos. Each video has only two audio sources, a voiceover track and a music track that plays underneath. The goal is to have consistent levels similar to a commercial announcer.
My plan is to use loudness control on all of the voiceover tracks first, getting the volume consistent by using the same setting each time. Then combine the voiceovers with the music tracks, and then run loudness control on each of those final combined tracks.
If anybody has done this before, what settings would you recommend? The two presets that sound the best and most consistent to me for the voiceovers are "podcast delivery" and "video streaming delivery". Am I on the right track here, and what would be the best setting for the final combined tracks (with both voiceover and music)?
Edit: The two presets I mentioned might not be available in older versions of RX. I'm using RX 8, if that makes a difference.
