BigD1977
Power User
Following Bob Katz' declaration that 'the Loudness wars are over' in a press release at the AES convention in New York, Sound On Sound magazine have run a piece on the end of the Loudness War in it's February edition.
Basically, it details how ITU-R BS.1770-3 uses time averaging, frequency weighting, gating and inter-sample peak detection to attain a more accurate loudness measurement of audio that corresponds with how our ears perceive how loud a track/program material is, but more importantly, how this new (as of August 2012) standard would affect mixing and broadcast. In effect, broadcast material that is hyper compressed would appear to be subjectively quieter and less interesting than more dynamically rich material. Given that broadcast studios and some streaming services employ loudness optimisation, the hope is that this standard will mean an end to the (IMHO) insane overcompression of masters after, and a lot of the time, during mixing.
I was just wondering if anybody else had read any articles on it, or even if you have started to mix or master in a different way because of it.
Basically, it details how ITU-R BS.1770-3 uses time averaging, frequency weighting, gating and inter-sample peak detection to attain a more accurate loudness measurement of audio that corresponds with how our ears perceive how loud a track/program material is, but more importantly, how this new (as of August 2012) standard would affect mixing and broadcast. In effect, broadcast material that is hyper compressed would appear to be subjectively quieter and less interesting than more dynamically rich material. Given that broadcast studios and some streaming services employ loudness optimisation, the hope is that this standard will mean an end to the (IMHO) insane overcompression of masters after, and a lot of the time, during mixing.
I was just wondering if anybody else had read any articles on it, or even if you have started to mix or master in a different way because of it.