13-11-2021, 03:57 PM
"Is anyone really going to switch off the song at this point because of a pitch-slide? And even if they did, wouldn’t that listener’s song stream already count towards the charts by then anyway?"
Her team might possibly be one step ahead of you there. I don't know for sure, but 'the internet' would suggest that YouTube counts a 'view' as as a user initiated stream watched for 30 seconds or more. Adele doesn't actually start singing until after 1 minute and 50 seconds into the official video...
I have wondered for a while if adding silence actually allows you to cheat the normalization and bump the average volume up a bit on YouTube? Lots of silence could bring the average LUFS value down a bit for the whole video maybe?
As an aside - I think my favourite video intro might be those 20 seconds at the start of the video for Janet Jackson - What Have You Done for Me Lately
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Cheers!
Her team might possibly be one step ahead of you there. I don't know for sure, but 'the internet' would suggest that YouTube counts a 'view' as as a user initiated stream watched for 30 seconds or more. Adele doesn't actually start singing until after 1 minute and 50 seconds into the official video...
I have wondered for a while if adding silence actually allows you to cheat the normalization and bump the average volume up a bit on YouTube? Lots of silence could bring the average LUFS value down a bit for the whole video maybe?
As an aside - I think my favourite video intro might be those 20 seconds at the start of the video for Janet Jackson - What Have You Done for Me Lately
.Cheers!
Just uploaded a mix/master? Waiting for comments? Why not give back and critique a mix/master, or two!