Organize and setup your mastering chain for your techno house downtempo or hip hop productions.
Mastering for vinyl lufs.
These are the basic rules to follow when mastering for vinyl.
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This can be confusing since requirements differ from service to service so i wanted to create a simple table containing all presets that are included in the youlean loudness meter so you can easily find out what you need to do.
So many viewers complained over the years that something had to be done and lufs was born in the us and lkfs same thing different term in europe.
Try not to exceed the maximum recommended playing lengths per side as longer playing times will lead to a dramatic decrease in recording level and dynamics.
Mastering audio for clubs would be an exception where you could push the loudness a bit further.
On the other hand the requirements of extremely high recording levels decrease the possible playing time see recommended playing times for all formats.
Mastering for vinyl in detail.
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Club tracks will be the last to submit to the end of the loudness wars unless there were loudness normalization guidelines brought into clubs the louder club tracks sit around 4 to 6 lufs during the drops.
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It consists of a mono stereo image up to 150hz a tamed high end and if needed a track listing that is consistent with the frequency limitations of record cutting.
All jokes aside mastering audio these days needs to touch the loudness standards.
All presets are actually based on the itu r bs 1770 algorithm some with a slight.
The lufs loudness units relative to full scale meters in levels are extremely accurate at displaying the perceived loudness of audio material.
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This is called loudness normalisation and.
Back before lufs commercials were heavily compressed so they d be a lot louder than the tv program even though the actual meter levels were the same.
Mastering for vinyl is the process of creating a separate master that can be cut into a vinyl record without added unwanted distortion.