Hi Frantz,There is a good song quietly buried in there. I agree that the mix is odd.I did find the mix to be a little unusual :
1) Quite quiet overall
2) Very little low frequency content - mainly mids with a little bit of highs?
If you right click on the video and chose Stats for Nerds, you'll see that YouTube turned down the volume on this song by 11.3dB which means it is mastered much too loud.
I'm not sure that's what the YT stats mean (I might be wrong) but this is my understanding:
Volume / Normalized: 100% / 50% (content loudness 6dB)
The first percentage describes the Volume slider setting in the YouTube player window and can be adjusted by clicking on the “speaker” icon and dragging the slider up or down.
The second percentage reflects the normalization adjustment being used. This is the amount by which the playback volume of the clip has been turned down to prevent users being blasted by sudden changes in volume in comparison to everything else.
The final value is the “Content Loudness” value and indicates the difference between YouTube’s estimate of the loudness and their reference playback level.
So for example a reading of 6dB means your video is 6dB louder than YouTube’s Distribution Loudness level, and a 50% normalization adjustment (-6dB) will be applied to compensate.
Whereas a negative reading of -3dB, say, means it’s 3 dB lower in level than YouTube’s Distribution Loudness, and no normalization will be applied - YouTube doesn’t turn up quieter videos.
The video here in this thread:
Volume / Normalised: 100% / 100% (content loudness -11.3dB)
This means that there has been NO normalisation of this track's volume by YT because the original level was -11.3dB below their threshold…it’s a VERY quiet track!
@ irpacynot:
You are confusing RMS average levels / LUFs / Peak levels here...where I should peak my masters. I was doing -12db, and now I've been fluctuating between -13 and -13.5. I didn't realize I could go even lower. That's awesome to know.
A Master that peaks at -12dB is VERY quiet. (My album about to be released - every track peaks between -0.1 and -3dB)
But...
That is NOT what the levels on YT are all about, they are measuring LUFs which are focused much more on the average loudness of your track and NOT the very loudest peak.
Example: One of my tracks (after mastering) peaks at -0.1dB a different one peaks at -2dB, but they both have the same LUFs (basically overall average loudness) of -12dB.
If you are mastering your tracks at a peak of -12dB that is generally much too quiet (and does start to explain some of the mixing issues with the sound of this track)
Don't forget this article I mentioned above as well about bass in small speakers:
https://bobbyowsinskiblog.com/the-reaso ... cy%20range
Statistics: Posted by ChameleonMusic — Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:57 am