Loudness Explained®

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Adam Pollard aka Multiplier, delivers videos on an invaluable topic, loudness. Understanding loudness gives you an edge when mixing, mastering, or just preparing your tracks and songs for further processing or release. See why with these tutorials!

Adam welcomes you and starts with why loudness is important to understand, and then explores perceived loudness, normalization, and the consequences for playback dynamic range when applying these processes. Then learn all about peak normalization and limiting, and the important to note consequential loudness vs dynamic range tradeoff.

Throughout the rest of the series you'll learn highly useful topics and techniques such as converting audio to MP3 & AAC formats, playback headroom, how loud should you make your track, measuring loudness with both LUFS and RMS, loudness matching, what exactly you should compare to your loudness to and what workflow is best to use, advanced limiting concepts, true peak limiting, Fletcher Munson Curves, DC Offset, what affects loudness and so much more.

See the individual tutorial descriptions for more info. If you produce, mix or master music, you have to know the inner workings of loudness and how it applies to today's music technology. Get going on the right foot and improve your mixes and masters... Watch"Loudness Explained" today.

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This was a decent class to learn a bit of the technical background behind loudness and metering, and I learned a few things. I did however think the presenter was absurdly repetitive and therefore made the class feel a bit tedious. I'm all for repeating key points where necessary, perhaps in a different wording to help drive the idea home, but he will literally say the same sentences three times in a row – to the point I actually thought there was an issue with my player. Also there is one chapter where he says that bass steals the most headroom from your mix (which is true), so to solve that it's best to turn the bass down. But then he goes on to say that if your mix is too loud, then the best thing to do is to turn the bass up. Not sure that really makes sense or if I agree. It would be nice if there was a loudness class presented by a professional mixing or mastering engineer, and not an EDM producer, so that we could be provided with more stylistic examples and technical viewpoints as well.

I am a: Professional, Musician, Producer, Sound Designer, Sound for Film/TV, Logic Pro

Possibly I am missing pictures diagrams. The teacher (Multiplayer) uses his hands to symbolize images, in the long run it becomes too much, as I lack images. Mne anyway, the curd is very good and explained but that it could be significantly improved by supplementing with pictures

I am a: Professional, Musician, Producer, Sound for Film/TV, Cubase

Very good insights about loudness mainly focusing on electronic music

This particular Tutorial was very helpful.

I learned a lot of new information from this awesome course

Perhaps, it's buyer beware, but I tried to watch this once more to give it a chance for broadcast production. I couldn't get more information from the series than I already knew from rudimentary recording manuals. Adam has had other great videos, but simply saying the same phrases over and over only pads the video length. And, throughout, I realized it was made primarily for the EDM market. I wish I knew that before purchase. I would have never clicked and purchased it. I use LUFS and LKFS effectively all the time to get the best sounds out of my productions. And, those productions are for broadcast, not music. I also even out and level music for On Air purposes. These are all different types of music, and not EDM only. So, the process is more general, not specific for Calm Act Loudness standards for broadcast. And, the argument in the series about different platforms having different loudness levels set by the end users? It's true, but when supplying a track to one of those streaming services, it's still good to compare your production to the others for perceived loudness in the mix.

I am a: Professional, Producer, Sound Designer, Studio One

I sought out a tutorial on the subject of sound due to the changes in loudness regulations for online streaming. Adam describes the topics within the subjects very well indeed !

Brilliant explanation of loudness! Adam is a natural educator and makes it very easy to follow what can be a very confusing subject.

I am a: Professional, Musician, Producer, Audio Engineer, Sound Designer, Sound for Film/TV, Cubase, Logic Pro

Love it, good job.

I am a: Beginner, Student, Hobbyist

Thank you Adam!

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