Hey CJ -Thanks for listening
I guess the loudness wars have contributed to the expectation that mixes have to be LOUD but with Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music now limiting their streaming music levels to -12>>>-14 RMS maybe things are slowly changing for the better (except EDM which is still actively mastered at -7 RMS for maximum loudness in clubs)
(27-07-2017, 04:49 PM)CJ Fuller Wrote: Nothing worse than playing an otherwise decent mix only to see the meter constantly jump up into the red on my mixer, or worse, so over-compressed and limited that it stops being a mix anymore and could just be every track normalized and set to 0...
I guess the loudness wars have contributed to the expectation that mixes have to be LOUD but with Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music now limiting their streaming music levels to -12>>>-14 RMS maybe things are slowly changing for the better (except EDM which is still actively mastered at -7 RMS for maximum loudness in clubs)
Be fierce in your encouragement, kind in your criticism and try and remember that the art of a good critique is not to make someone else's mix sound like yours...but to help the mixer realize their own vision.
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