Ian Shepherd

Ah I’m a huge fan of minimum viable everything 😛 Hard to argue with that level of bang-for-your buck !

Got my ticket, despite the inevitable ISGE (Immersive Space and Gear Envy) that will ensue...

Thanks 👍

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I hope you're right !

Depending on your perspective on ethical click-bait, you might want to change the title to "Why The NI Insolvency Is Great News (A Love Letter To Reaktor)" 😛

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Seeing lots of doom & gloom but @timexile.com has a very interesting and informed perspective on the @nativeinstruments.bsky.social situation...

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Thanks ! I haven’t heard them, I’ll take a listen 👍

She really does - will do !

OK I wasn’t *that* uncool 😂

😂 It’s a fair point well-made !

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Exactly !

There are exceptions to every rule, clearly 😛

YouTube video by GroundUP Music NYC Natalie Cressman & Ian Faquini - March (Official Video)

I’m a lapsed trombone player, and always felt a bit sad that it wasn’t a very… cool instrument.

I may have to revise this opinion

Infographic showing the "chessboard illusion" - a chessboard with a shadow cast across part of the image. Two squares are labelled - a white one in the shadow has the same colour intensity as a black one outside the shadow. However they appear to be quite different shades because our brains understand the context of the shadowed area. The text reads: Expectation - Matched LUFS will sound the same perceived loudness (A LUFS = B LUFS) vs. Reality - LUFS targets aren't enough (LUFS work, but perception is complicated)

The Equal LUFS Illusion

Equal LUFS means it'll sound the same loudness, right ?

Often yes, but it's not *always* that simple...

More info: productionadvice.co.uk/equal-lufs/

YouTube video by Zero Now GREED

I mastered this song for Patrick De Caumette back in 2023 - so cool to see it used as the soundtrack for an award-winning video !

Sorry I never replied to your email, I recently upgraded my Mac so need to see if I can finally play with these !

Loving everything about this…

Yeah people complain about edge cases in music too, but I’m not sure a significant improvement is possible without (eg) genre detection

I definitely think it’s better than nothing, but yes - I’ve been disappointed by the lack of impact the normalisation has had - although I do think we’ve pulled back from the worst of it

Fair comments. I don’t find momentary helpful either - short-term is the most useful for music for me

I get that, but it’s not a suggested standard, just their compromise level between playback volume and flexibility for normalisation.

What I find is that everyone still maxes everything out rather than taking the opportunity to master things at whatever level works best for the music 😕

Agreed ! But it’s enabled by default and most music fans don’t change that. Even less on Spotify and nobody at all on YouTube.

That’s the ironic thing, most people in music production are listening to something different than the majority of music fans

Fair enough - I don’t advocate aiming at -14 (or any other integrated number) but I also don’t find high LUFS a good solution - it’s the increase in density that causes the change in sound, but I think there are more effective strategies to achieve that

Well, I haven’t dug in that deeply but I’m pretty sure they used a shelf because most signals just don’t have content up there.

Either way I totally get that it isn’t perfect, but it’s pretty good given the fairly crude model.

Agreed but the standard actually works pretty well for music as well, and is widely used. But there’s a lot of confusion about how it works and the best way to implement it

Ugh 😕

They’re taking down sides and rear in a surround stream ? Or do you just mean in a stereo downmix ?

I didn’t understand this to begin with but you’re normalising to -6 dBTP, is that right ? Do you not have to hit an integrated LUFS value these days ?

(Spotify use a limiter to lift songs below -11 LUFS if a subscriber chooses the “Loud” option in the preferences, but that’s a really small proportion of users afaict)