how long until we don’t need limiters anymore?

i was looking at the different loudness normalization levels here in smart limit today's sponsor and then it's a recent aes document that sets the guidelines that everyone follows and it got me thinking how long until we won't need to use a limiter when mastering our songs currently spotify normalizes to minus 14 integrated ldfs apple music minus 16 and amazon music minus 19. but hey yes are already anticipating dropping these a further six to around -23 lufs wondering if your speakers are powerful enough to play it -23 set spotify to quiet mode and see if you can play music loud enough to your liking without speaker distortion so when streaming platforms loud it's normalized to -23 what does that mean for the fate of mastery limiters here are the loudest levels of my last 18 songs before mastering in fact without any limiting at all i didn't use a single limiter in any of these projects since i got in the habit of being lazy and relying on my mastering limiter to catch everything normalizing to minus 23 gives the following gain adjustments see how even the quietest one a minus 18.4 integrated lufs will be turned down by over 4 db even allowing 2 db of true peak headroom velocity encoding i'd still have more headroom than i need in other words i wouldn't need a mastering limiter a minus 23 is just the beginning netflix normalizes to -27 so things will get quieter still naturally these numbers would look different if i was working with recordings of real instruments but even if i was writing classical music and these numbers were 10 quieter they'll still become a point when a mastering limiter isn't needed as technology improves and speaker dynamic range improves streaming loudness levels will decrease with powerful enough speakers it doesn't matter how high the occasional peak goes because you can always increase speaker gain to get the main music bits acceptably loud there'll be a point in my lifetime when music streaming services are streaming at -40 lufs or whatever replaces lufs whilst pretty much every platform uses it lufs is horrendously flawed for measuring loudness of modern electronic music its frequency weighting is unnecessarily simplistic and it measures maximized waveforms incorrectly since it uses rms to calculate average level an rms mathematically falls apart when measuring tones with a constant amplitude such as most modern electronic music anyway for the next 5 or 10 years we need a mastering limiter and smart limit makes life super simple choose a genre click record to analyze your song and check the settings that it's intelligently chosen for you choose the playback platform and hit quality check to see how the current settings work on that platform marvelous catch you on the flippity flip

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Length: 2min 51sec (171 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 17 2021