hey what's going on out there i'm sean divine hope you all are doing well
today's video i'm going to show you a quick and easy way to establish not only an lufs
level for one song but i'm going to show you how to match that same level across
multiple songs or an album or your entire catalog so a lot of you are confused about how to do this
and it's actually not nearly as complicated as you would think especially with some of
the tools we have and some of the plugins i'm going to show you today
we've got three songs that were released on an ep recently and these are the final
mixes but you're going to notice if we pull up the wlm plus and we just measure
the lufs integrated levels for these they're drastically different right
so let me just go ahead and i'm going to play back small parts of this and let's measure it
okay so let's say that one's at -21 go into the next one here and finally this last one
we've got a pretty large loudness unit difference in all those right so how do we get them to match
after we've done our mastering processing and i have this just here as an example for you guys
but if we had them all in the session we had done our mastering processing when you get to the last
part of your chain it's going to be either a limiter or a maximizer right
so with ozone we have a tool on the maximizer where we can actually learn a target lufs
measurement now what would we want the target to be if you still think that you should deliver
everything to every streaming service at -14 you're gonna run into some frustrations i'm gonna
put a link to something that will explain more of that i don't want to confuse you guys today
especially if you're just coming to this video and you're not familiar with these levels where do we
set the target if we've already got a single or we've already got you know a song that's done from
the project and we've already you know finished the master we have everything sonically where we
want it we have the final levels where we want it to where it's going to compete
commercially then we'll use that as our threshold to kind of base the rest of the project on
so let's say this single was at -11 okay our final integrated l ufs measurement when we went through
it it was at minus 11. so what i'll do is i will go to the rest of the the project here let's just
open up ozone on these other songs we're going to go to the learn threshold turn that on i'm going
to type in minus 11. i'm just going to play it back for a little bit and let ozone do its thing
that one's got us at about minus six to get us to that minus 11 lufs reading i'm going to bring that
up just a little bit because we're not taking into account the the quieter spaces here trust me it's
still going to be very very close here so we'll set that and then let's go on to the next one here
okay so that's got us pulled down to minus 12 and then finally i'm gonna go to the one we were
talking about just as an example since this is not actually set to minus 11.
we'll set this one as well okay so that's at about minus 10 so then we'll turn that off
now let's pull up wlm plus and not only do i want you to watch the lufs
but just listen in terms of the consistency and the cohesive sound across these tracks now
utilizing lufs in this way will create a lot of consistency
a lot more cohesive sound for your project in terms of master levels because we're factoring
in perceived loudness not just loudness so i hope this is helpful for you guys trying to
establish a certain lufs integrated reading for your song and then matching it across a project
if you have any questions about what we covered here in ozone or in wlm plus or
otherwise in mastering or just about lufs in general love to hear from you guys put it in
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