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[andy k]

OK, Anniversary Mix,
done in Reaper DAW, with stock plugins plus TDR NOVA on master bus.
I set it all out roughly last night on laptop speakers, and completed it this morning on Iloud monitors, no headphones this time.
Ran it through Loudness penalty analyser, (online and invaluable)
and these are the readings--
-1.3
YouTube
-2.8
Spotify
-2.9
TIDAL
-2.3
Pandora
-5
iTunes*
Aeternum reaper.mp3

this is how much it would be turned down-in dB, on all the online services, not sure how to interpret this information yet-they send a full report , but well worth doing if anybody wants to do anything online these days--loudness wars are over.
Its a heavy mix, and if I was going to get experimental with it I would edit out a section in the middle, as it seems to drag for me, and also I would use automation to radically break up the arrangement, but this time i kept it simple, to respect the effort that went into the recording.
let me know what Y'all think.
cheers
andyk