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Patreon Exclusive for the Ambient Tutorials tier and up! One of my patrons recently asked me about the topic of "Track Loudness" so I though

Patreon Exclusive for the Ambient Tutorials tier and up!

One of my patrons recently asked me about the topic of "Track Loudness" so I thought I'd create a video about it. Track loudness is a topic that comes up mostly in regards to mixing and final output and chances are this is something you're either struggling with or just need a bit of reinforcement when it comes to your own process.

My biggest piece of advice when it comes to "loudness" is to make sure that you aren't ruining the dynamic range of your track either on purpose or accidentally. Focus on your overall output and mix shape and the question of "loudness" won't be an issue at all. The important thing is that your track is mixed well, sound spacious and wide, and is full of life.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!

Cheers,

-S1gns

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Heavycap

Thank you for this Chris, helped me a lot.

driverlessbus

Hi Thomas, yes your comment is so very helpful. The pink noise link knocks off 100% search-time. Thanks for that, Thomas.

Thai Yogi

Thanks for this one, Chris. Really helpful. Since starting to work with the gain staging architecture in the remote vision ableton utility template, I've been going back to basics to reconsider and revisit what I thought I knew about mixing, "gain" and what a well mixed waveform should look like both on SPAN and in Audacity. Anything more/additional you have on the next steps to take a mix that is finished (at a -6dB peak) to a reasonable "home mastered" track, and maybe anything you can share about what LUFS to think about when moving a song from a -6dB master to a track at -0dB to put up on soundcloud (there I think you can make it as loud as you want(?)) versus the streaming services, which have a -14LUFS standard, would be great.

Paul Daniel Russell

Thank you for sharing this tutorial Chris. I find content like this really helpful. Cheers.