by Ian Shepherd at Production Advice (full article here) Loudness has always been an important topic in mixing and especially mastering – never more so than today. Knowing how loud is too loud has always been difficult … but now everything has been made far easier. Recently a new tool has been released purpose-designed for measuring the loudness of music. You can now see at a glance how loud your mix is make informed decisions about compression and limiting and choose to make your recordings punchy loud and competitive. And best of all – it’s free. (Kind of) … (cont)
