I have a piano tune and I'm comparing the Youlean Loudness Meter, Sonible True Level and Loudness Penalty. Youlean and True Level basically match at -16.4 LUFS but when I uploaded an mp3 and ran it in Loudness Penalty it's at -17.5. I'm trying to hit -14 for Youtube/Spotify levels and I think these targets usually matched before so I'm not sure why they'd be different now.
The other issue is hitting a ceiling of -16.4. I'm using Pianissimo and didn't really need to gain stage anything. When the -16.4 showed up on Youlean and True Level I raised the output 2.5db on the EQ but that didn't do anything. I have a Tone Boosters Barricade Limiter on the Master Bus with a pretty stock setting, I think, and I'm just trying to reduce peaks so I'm not understanding the wall at that level. I get that's the function of a limiter but I don't remember having this problem before. I'm trying to squeezee out 2db and have it match on the three different readouts but I'm getting shinola. Here's a couple of screen shots that hopefully might help. Thanks
The other issue is hitting a ceiling of -16.4. I'm using Pianissimo and didn't really need to gain stage anything. When the -16.4 showed up on Youlean and True Level I raised the output 2.5db on the EQ but that didn't do anything. I have a Tone Boosters Barricade Limiter on the Master Bus with a pretty stock setting, I think, and I'm just trying to reduce peaks so I'm not understanding the wall at that level. I get that's the function of a limiter but I don't remember having this problem before. I'm trying to squeezee out 2db and have it match on the three different readouts but I'm getting shinola. Here's a couple of screen shots that hopefully might help. Thanks
Statistics: Posted by ConnollyMusicCreates — Mon Feb 17, 2025 4:03 am