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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Dynamic Range plugin
Last post by Treelady -
Completely from my daily experience (mastering engineer)
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.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Dynamic Range plugin
Last post by bamajon1974 -
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I don't have the True Paek Scanner installed, just foo_dr_meter.

Truepeak scanner is a one stop shop. You can use it instead of replay scanner as well. So just one scan and you have all truepeak, replaygain, clipping, lra and dr in your tags. Of course you can disable what you don't want.

Is DR Meter now redundant with True Peak Scanner? Meaning that all of the functionality of DR Meter is now present in True Peak Scanner?

Thanks!

The only thing that has not been implemented in the current version of Truepeak Scanner is writing the foo_dr.txt file.

That's what I needed to know! Thank you!
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Dynamic Range plugin
Last post by Defender -
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Quote from: mexx on
I don't have the True Paek Scanner installed, just foo_dr_meter.

Truepeak scanner is a one stop shop. You can use it instead of replay scanner as well. So just one scan and you have all truepeak, replaygain, clipping, lra and dr in your tags. Of course you can disable what you don't want.

Is DR Meter now redundant with True Peak Scanner? Meaning that all of the functionality of DR Meter is now present in True Peak Scanner?

Thanks!

The only thing that has not been implemented in the current version of Truepeak Scanner is writing the foo_dr.txt file.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: Dynamic Range plugin
Last post by bamajon1974 -
Quote from: Defender on
Quote from: mexx on
I don't have the True Paek Scanner installed, just foo_dr_meter.

Truepeak scanner is a one stop shop. You can use it instead of replay scanner as well. So just one scan and you have all truepeak, replaygain, clipping, lra and dr in your tags. Of course you can disable what you don't want.

Is DR Meter now redundant with True Peak Scanner? Meaning that all of the functionality of DR Meter is now present in True Peak Scanner?

Thanks!
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Polls / Re: Sound colors of codecs
Last post by TF3RDL -
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Everybody with basic understanding of lossy compression knows that lossy encoders don't introduce coloration.
Unless the audio is encoded at low bitrates to the point artifacts are audible to even begin with, though it obviously depend on the lossy codec (e.g. MP3, AAC and its variants like xHE-AAC, OGG Vorbis, Opus) that audio is encoded with?

for @Klymins, what does "sound colorization" really mean in the context of artifacts introduced from lossy audio compression at very low bitrates?