Levels and Loudness for Streaming Music Platforms

You’ve taught me so much these past 2 years. I’ll be releasing my album soon I doubt it would sound even half as good had I not watched so many of your videos you always inspire me to step my mixing and mastering up. Now my music is finally at a quality that I’m happy with

Great video. May I ask: What are you setting your limiter ceiling output to be? I read a lot of people saying it should be -1db. Any truth in this? Thanks

Informative! Cool Video 🎶🎥

I see what I was doing wrong. Thank you!

Hey Sean, what's the best way to increase integrated lufs if my mix is running too quiet? Is it a simple fader issue, or does it have to do more with the compression/gain of the individual elements themselves. Thank you.

This was my first thought when lufs came into play but I've heard people say both, make it Louder and let them turn it down, then I heard that if they turn it down they will turn it down more than-14...
I wish they wld just use RMS I'm not a fan of lufs as of now!

My true peak is tagging -3. My rms is -7 to -8 but lufs is blasting the top off.. I seem to have something set wrong. Any suggestions would be appreciated

Thanks man you should send this beat to Bryann T he'd rip 🙏

So for a track that is SUPPOSED to be more quiet what do i do? I have a fairly ambient piano track punctuated with a few sub thumps for added tension. The integrated is around 19LUFS, where as the peaks are hitting my limiter ceiling (set at 1.1dbs). Spotify would crank it to -14LUFS, which I assume would potentially make my peaks distort in ways I don't want. Do I simply need to turn down the sub in relation to the rest of the track, so it can be louder all together? I rather like how the sub feels against the rest of the track currently

Makes total sense, I just put out a beat on Spotify as part of a community project. Mastered to -14 lufs. Now I understand I need to push a bit more as my beat wasn't as loud. Thx!

yooo can you post a link to the deep_vibes_2018 playlist you put together--i wanna peep it

You are a goat.

Thans a bunch.

Very helpful instruction, thanks! I have a question: I have a 60-minute soundtrack with continuous music and very wide dynamic range (from whispers to sustained ff passages, both lasting for over 30 seconds each). I'm not clipping, but I wonder how to set overall LUFS values.

Doing a album to be released. You just don't know how much this video just simplified things for me Thanks

Sean, thank you so much for this video even you are publish it for long a go. I'm new in mixing and mastering process and when I'm went trough the mixing process at the and now I have -14.5 LUFS of Momentary Max. -20.2 LUFS integrated and Short-term -76.4 / -16.3 LUFS. How can I get the loudness of my mix back according to measurement from your video? What to do in this situation?

still relevant in 2021?


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I mastered my song at -9.8 Lufs yet on Spotify the song is significantly quieter than the rest. I know Spotify does this but in this video, you say that's a good area to be in.

you're awesome

Too much talking. Show how to to do it

Hi , thanks for the vid! Quick question: which Level and LUFS meters are you using? Thanks.

Great video🙏 Thanku teacher ❤️ much love from india

Super f*#@ing helpful! Period. I am musician first trying to get more and more knowledgeable about my mixing/mastering game. In just two of your videos, I have gone from staring blankly at these terms on my Cubase control room meter to having a solid grasp on what I am looking for. Thank you. I appreciate those willing to share their knowledge.

Wow, you're really informative and explain well. And know the questions we have! thanks bro

This is a great video , Thnx again Sean!!

Nice

Question about gain staging. When you have all faders to zero, which db levels do you hit for drum, bass and synths? Because without any plugins metering sometimes on bus master is over 0, what should i do exactly?

Great guy

Love you bro,thanks ,godbless you.

very helpful videos. thank you!!

Good video, but funny enough i measured the lufs of very famous songs on spotify and they were around -9 lufs and -11 lufs so spotify didnt seem to put the track to -14 lufs. Then i released mine which was kinda same level of loudness as lets say Bruno Mars 24 k (-10 lufs), i notice spotify then put it at -15 lufs while on my master cd it was -10 lufs, so it seems they dont apply the same rule for everyone... The "set volume " option was off at all times so spotify did apply it autmatically on my song strangely enough without the option being turnt on ...

Thank you so much Sean!

The best video about mastering for Spotify that I have seen thus far! Thanks Sean!

thank you bro

thank you for this, it is so good to know it!

I am Using cantini electric violin for upload my musics in social media platforms...I work in logic pro x....can you suggest me what's the best EQ level, compression level ...

I havent finished watching yet but I'm in love with the song being played at around 3.40 in bg. Where can I listen to it?

Who could not like this video. Thanks Sir!

Amazing Sean, this helped me a lot! Still have a big question, though:
I created some finished masters right from within an arrangement in Studio One, via the master fader.
For peak mastering, I used Waves' L3 set to -0.2db.
Now, I opened the file in a separate mastering window, for analysis and comparison with other tracks. Here, the maximum true peaks is around +0.8.
With current recommendations for streaming services to master for -1db TP, what can I do to achieve that? Can I just lower my mastered wav's total volume by -1.8db?
Thanks! I'm a bit in a hurry so I'd appreciate your help a lot!

First of all thanks for all the content u got, helped me a lot in this quarentine study mode. Now, i got a track that is hitting -11 LUFS but my true peak is low, like -5 db, That brings me the question about something not being ok, specialy coz is a Hip Hop track and i want it fat, loud and low. Maybe theres something in the mix im not doing right?

Do someone knows Facebook loudness and true peak standards?

Dope vid! Thanks Man, very helpful...

This is stupid Gold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Sean! Man, man, man...

wow. thanks for this Sean. Much appreciated. Very simple easy to understand/follow explanation here

Sean is the man ! Thanks

Thanks man!! Helped a lot!!

I'm not sure if this comment section is still active but when using Ozones maximizer, I'll have the meter at -11 through -14 LUFS and my master will still be quieter than masters on streaming services when listening? Why is that? Am I prepping something in my mix wrong for the master? And I also find myself sometimes in a situation where the master assistant will throw the maximizer at like -16 or -17 LUFS. Why is that and how do I fix that?

Thank you sir!

Thanks for sharing. Explained so well.