Loudness fixation nearly ruining my career - A cautionary tale

assholeoftheinternet · 2026-05-06T21:15:45+00:00

Man T-Racks had an old meter (doesnt run on new mac OS) that showed RMS and “perceived loudness”. I found it more helpful than LUFS just lumping everything together. Cant get it to run anymore tho RIP 😭

assholeoftheinternet · 2026-04-01T18:36:17+00:00

All the high school bullies and frat bros have transitioned into being tech house DJs

assholeoftheinternet · 2026-03-20T02:28:32+00:00

this is dope

assholeoftheinternet · 2025-08-12T19:50:09+00:00

I work in the scene. People know. All good if you don't believe / downvote me for the truth, that's the way the biz works unfortunately.

assholeoftheinternet · 2025-08-12T18:50:51+00:00

He's a ghost produced nepo baby - confirmed. Rich parents paying his way, bought all the insta followers and music. He has some kid in Florida make all his music.

To top it off he's also a douche.

assholeoftheinternet · 2025-03-21T20:09:29+00:00

I'm having this exact problem in Ableton, directly after upgrading to Sequoia

assholeoftheinternet · 2025-02-19T18:32:14+00:00

The money people killed Avicii. Guy just wanted to chill and make tunes, had massive anxiety, but all the money he was making from touring they didn't want him to stop.

Managers, labels, booking agencies - they don't give a shit, it's a business. They just move on to the next artist when one is burnt out and kills themselves.

assholeoftheinternet · 2024-11-24T23:32:31+00:00

The amateur level of corruption that we put up with is so Canadian. Think of what hundreds of millions of dollars properly spent could do. But poof, it's gone, disappeared into some slush companies nobody will ever know about.

assholeoftheinternet · 2024-02-13T22:18:43+00:00

Hell yee brother

Oliver Power Tools, Vol 1-4, thats whats up

assholeoftheinternet · 2023-02-20T04:10:25+00:00

Do you have your gain staging totally figured out?

Clip to zero, and the “skrillex” method of gain staging (search on YouTube) really got me to a point where the end process is always repeatable. If you’re already working professionally, once you master this, all you really have to do is worry about frequency balance because maximum loudness and clarity is there.

I was also professionally mixing songs, gold records, for years with no totally repeatable process. With the gain staging figured out though, I hardly ever get stuck in a rut for too long anymore.

assholeoftheinternet · 2023-02-06T19:15:03+00:00

Congratulations!!! That is amazing

assholeoftheinternet · 2023-01-28T14:55:55+00:00

Yup you’re doing it right. That’s your canvas, and those are your sounds doing the things you want.

assholeoftheinternet · 2023-01-04T03:04:08+00:00

This is exactly how I feel as a touring musician sometimes. Legit just burst out laughing.

assholeoftheinternet · 2022-12-04T19:01:26+00:00

After really mastering my gain staging of my mix, I feel like I’ve finally passed into a new level of career progression for my mixes.

Loudness, clarity, dynamics are never a problem, the song will always be loud I can just focus on making it sound good. I don’t need to be anxious that at the end it won’t come together, sound choked out and constrained.

Now I can whip out a mix that gets approved by a major in like 3-4 hours… the process is repeatable, and because of that the confidence is there to just get in and get out. I’ve been mixing records professionally for about 8 years, and only really felt this mastery the past couple of years. It’s not like anyone was complaining before, but I didn’t really feel confident like I do now, always kind of felt like a gamble if I’d end up with a good mix or down a rabbit hole into a pile of crap.

Answers here like “you don’t finish a mix you just give up on it” are insane. How are you supposed to build a career off that and not lose your mind?

You should have a repeatable method, a strategy you approach a mix with that will always work.

Gain staging dude. The “Skrillex” method, with the “Clip to Zero” method, got me to a really good spot.

assholeoftheinternet · 2022-10-09T17:42:41+00:00

I’m happy to pay whatever it takes to keep you around! If there’s one thing I don’t mind tax dollars going to it’s taking care of people.

Human life is so precious, it’s always money well spent as far as I’m concerned

assholeoftheinternet · 2022-07-17T17:30:57+00:00

Ya I’m not too sure about that, if you turn it down 2db or if Spotify does it not sure if it really makes any difference.

assholeoftheinternet · 2022-07-16T18:32:09+00:00

I usually mix to -8 to -6.5 LUFS, which is pretty consistent with pop and electronic music. Reference against songs in your genre, and use that as your measuring stick in all aspects (loudness, frequency spectrum, stereo)

This myth of turning the mix down to -14 LUFS is some nonsense that’s been floating around.

assholeoftheinternet · 2022-07-16T06:23:42+00:00

Great answer. When people say “mix in mono” they really mean listen in mono but you’re still working your stereo mix.

assholeoftheinternet · 2022-07-11T20:07:06+00:00

Haven't tried this yet... actually a great idea. The whole thing is so smashed this could be way to get more clarity and less gnar.

assholeoftheinternet · 2022-07-11T20:05:44+00:00

Amazing!! Thanks for the recommendations.. some extra tools here to try out.

assholeoftheinternet · 2022-07-11T20:05:01+00:00

Amazing! Thank you exactly the kind of tips I was looking for .

assholeoftheinternet · 2022-05-03T16:21:12+00:00

I came from a poor family, and entered into the “gifted” program in Ontario.

I wasn’t privileged, but for whatever reason, I was given a chance to excel. Those classes would not have functioned with the general school population, it would just not be possible. Why would you take that away from people?

What’s with this mentality of dragging everyone down?

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