03-08-2015, 05:18 PM
Just a quick addendum. It's ok for sections of music to be louder than -27 LUFS, it's the average loudness of the entire piece of audio that's being normalized, so unless your music is way too dynamic, which is never really a problem, the standard will only adjust the level of the music as a whole.
Nor do I suggest you master your music to -27 LUFS. ITunes normalizes to -15 LUFS or thereabouts, so it's be unwise in my opinion to go much more dynamic than that or your music won't sound competitive if released on that medium. Mastering engineers used to submit one final masters, but now often release masters appropriate for a single on the radio, for the album as a whole, for ITunes, for vinyl... and it's made their job much harder. -27 LUFs is really only necessary at the mastering stage for film/tv.
Cheers.
Nor do I suggest you master your music to -27 LUFS. ITunes normalizes to -15 LUFS or thereabouts, so it's be unwise in my opinion to go much more dynamic than that or your music won't sound competitive if released on that medium. Mastering engineers used to submit one final masters, but now often release masters appropriate for a single on the radio, for the album as a whole, for ITunes, for vinyl... and it's made their job much harder. -27 LUFs is really only necessary at the mastering stage for film/tv.
Cheers.