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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Dynamic Range plugin
Last post by Treelady -Note, the DR meter doesn't work super well with Classical and complex material. But that's ok.
DR is their DR value, it represents how loud humans will think this is.
RMS - the average loudness of the entire file. This is a textbook definition, so it doesn't account for silence and dynamics. The AES (Audio Engineering Society) Standard for RMS is the RMS value -3
Peak - Is the maximum value of any sample in the file.
LUFS - Loudness Units Full Scale - an international standard that is similar to DR. It's used to validate loudness for compliance issues for things like Broadcast, TV, Movies
DR Levels you will encounter as of this writing:
12 - 10 Folk
11 - Jazz
10 - Instrumentals, Blue Grass
9 - Old School Country
8 - Things with dynamics. This is the smallest house on loud street. Most genres sound good here in terms of dynamics. If you want louder use the volume knob.
7 - Rock, Classic Rock, half of Alternative,
6 - Pop Radio, Pop Country, Contemporary R&B, Metal
5 - NuMetal, Dark Metal, Speed Metal, Rap and Hip Hop (distortion becomes apparent here for many recordings)
4 - EDM (There is distortion but the audience doesn't care)
3 + Well, the distortion is noticeable to even non sophisticated listeners, also at these point most speakers can't resolve this, speaker damage is likely at high volumes over extended time periods.