Mastering for Spotify

thank you for this
"thats what she said"

I know jump cuts are all the rage right now, but the natural pauses people take while speaking to collect a thought before verbalising it is just as useful to the listeners as it is to the speaker. I think if you dialled back the editing, I know the pauses would add up, but it would be more 'chunkable' for viewers if you let us all catch our breath - or should i say your breath.

Thanks for the knowledge nonetheless!

If you turn off normalization in Spotify I noticed most aren’t mastering at -14 for Spotify they are going hard lol. I can hear it on songs I know well

I’m glad that the war of loudness will be over soon. Maybe it already is. But I'm really shocked by the fact that they can make your track louder. I don't mind if my tracks will be turned down. It still sounds the same and the listener can turn the volume up themselves. But I don't want any limiting on it after the master that I approved. So. If people choose the 11lufs option. I have to make every single track at least 11lufs or louder. I'm a bit disappointed about that.

is it the same for soundcloud? anyone know what algorithm soundcloud uses? I aim around -8 LUFs integrated but recently i backed off on the mix and i uploaded a track at -11LUFs and found its a lot quieter and doesnt have the same energy as my other tracks

do you have a video on how to match these recommended levels?? Mixing to a true peak is simple enough but I don't quite understand LUFS

wonderful! timely! and a good pointer to go watch your groove3 video on loudness, will do !!!

I still don't understand, why should we for -9/-11lufs instead of -14lufs?

dude chill...we recording your inhales now? lol

Man Im trying to get thru this but the inhaling process you possess is a lot to overlook.

I took this to mean I should aim for -11.5 avg LUFS for my tracks based on your advice (contrary to Spotify's recommendation of -14). So, I did that. Mastered 27 tracks that way. Seemed like a good idea. But now on Spotify, those tracks sound turned down and the high end presence is missing. I do not think this idea worked. Or my implementation of it did not work.

I have a track I’m mastering, now it’s pretty loud overall (not a lot of quiet parts) so the integrated LUFS is pretty loud altho momentary one is not super loud. So on one hand, if I use a limiter pretty hard, the overall sound will be louder but might be taken down more on Spotify etc. if I go lighter with the limiter then it would be lower volume to begin with... Would it matter at all? How would you go about it?

I uploaded almost an year ago an ep on spotify and i immediately noticed that it just slowed the songs, like the bpm was lower, how can that be explained? i made sure i was't just confused i listened both versions several times.

so if my song is quieter than -2 True Peak spotify will bring up the volume to be like other songs and it wont just be awkardly quiet?

Every time he takes a breath, take a shot.

I keep coming back to this vid, xD, I really need to start understand RMS and Peak Limiting man...

bro great fucking video

I LOVE YOU MAN! 😍You give me all the tips I need in a very entertaining and funny way! 😅😍🌈

Sites like LANDR become more and more enticing after watching videos like these. Very informative, but so is calculus. but thanks still.

This nigga is on something crazy...white people lol

I wish presenters took what they were saying seriously enough to make more accessible. The style drowns out much of the substance here and this left me more annoyed by the confused and incomprehensible noise stream clouding the information. We all need successful mentors who can help us recognize when the comedy has trashed the value of what we are doing. I hope this evolves.