FedePatane
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I posted some time ago a post "How loud is too loud" to try and find out the level my final masters should have.
Indeed i was going for a very high volume as many pointed out. So i amended my mistakes by lowering the volume and not hitting so hard the limiter.
changing from this:
https://soundcloud.com/federico-patan-1/los-a-one-note-song-of-rage-remixedv10
to this:
https://soundcloud.com/federico-patan-1/los-a-one-note-song-of-rage-remixedv11
(There was another example that was a lot louder but i don't have the fixed version yet)
targeting an RMS level (measured with voxengo span of around -15db).
That being said the topic of the loudness war arose and the conversation went from volumes to Dynamic range. As I amended my mistake of having the mix too loud I noticed that my master (before limiter) was far from 0db. Even more, my peak avg was around -6db or -5db, and my max peak was around -3db. Even more, using TT DR meter i saw that my dynamic range was about 10db.
So, here is my question, and it is an open question: how good or bad is having small-ish dynamic range? In my mind I was targeting for 14 db (as k14 standar) but if I took out some compression i did on the individual tracks the mix and the compression on the master the final result sounded a mess.
I was happy to see that the limiter was used only to adjust the RMS level to where i wanted and not to cut a part of my peaks, but then again, should I rephrase my question by "how compressed it too compressed?"
What are your thoughts about this?
Thanks in advance to all for your opinions/suggestions/comments.
Federico
Indeed i was going for a very high volume as many pointed out. So i amended my mistakes by lowering the volume and not hitting so hard the limiter.
changing from this:
https://soundcloud.com/federico-patan-1/los-a-one-note-song-of-rage-remixedv10
to this:
https://soundcloud.com/federico-patan-1/los-a-one-note-song-of-rage-remixedv11
(There was another example that was a lot louder but i don't have the fixed version yet)
targeting an RMS level (measured with voxengo span of around -15db).
That being said the topic of the loudness war arose and the conversation went from volumes to Dynamic range. As I amended my mistake of having the mix too loud I noticed that my master (before limiter) was far from 0db. Even more, my peak avg was around -6db or -5db, and my max peak was around -3db. Even more, using TT DR meter i saw that my dynamic range was about 10db.
So, here is my question, and it is an open question: how good or bad is having small-ish dynamic range? In my mind I was targeting for 14 db (as k14 standar) but if I took out some compression i did on the individual tracks the mix and the compression on the master the final result sounded a mess.
I was happy to see that the limiter was used only to adjust the RMS level to where i wanted and not to cut a part of my peaks, but then again, should I rephrase my question by "how compressed it too compressed?"
What are your thoughts about this?
Thanks in advance to all for your opinions/suggestions/comments.
Federico