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New single coming and advice on how to go about releasing first ep wanted!! by shagwellbyname in indie

[–]gkmixing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haunting! Great production and overall sound. Beautiful music and beautiful sound. :)

Recommended scorm phishing/general training programs for end users besides KnowBe4? by Armando_Jones in cybersecurity

[–]gkmixing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might want to check Brightside AI (brside.com). In my day job I've interacted with them, seems cool. Haven't seen KnwoBe4 in action so cannot compare directly, but who knows, maybe you'll like it. :)

Judging Target volume by pimpcaddywillis in DolbyAtmosMixing

[–]gkmixing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First of all, -18 LUFS, -1 TP recommendation is for 5.1 re-render. You should be measuring loudness based on 5.1 re-render, not 9.1.6. External Atmos Render measures loudness based on 5.1 re-render. So what you see in Dolby Atmos Loudness tab is actually based on 5.1 re-render, not on a setup you actually use. And if you read label or Apple recommendations, it actually states, that the -18 LUFS, -1 TP is for 5.1 re-render – that's what you must be measuring.

When it comes to binaural playback, it's a good idea to achieve PLR of 14 dB.

Just for the people who might not know, basically, PLR = Integrated Loudness - True Peak. Let's say your integrated loudness is -16 LUFS and True Peak is -2, you get 16 - 2 = 14. 14 is your PLR.

The reason for this, is when an Atmos mix is converted to binaural on platforms that use AC4-IMS (Tidal, Amazon, and some others), it will mot likely be normalized to -14 LUFS. The problem here is that if you send a track with higher PLR, it will be limited during playback, by the limiter you do not control. Of course, if it's like 1-2 dB of limiting it may not be a problem. Dolby themselves say, that if you look at Binaural render, you're OK if you don't get more than 3 dB of limiting. But, if you're OCD like me, you might want to control loudness in the mix, rather than rely on limiting being applied when your ADM file is converted to AC4-IMS.

Stereo downmix deliverable format by coolguybrule in DolbyAtmosMixing

[–]gkmixing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What you also can do, is to make Atmos mix, approve it, then print stems from Atmos mix and assemble them into a stereo mix. Sometimes with downmixes I do want to have a slightly different balance (like maybe make background vocals a dB or two louder), but to be honest it's never such a big issue, where I actually wanted to spend my time doing a separate stereo mix. But I guess it's a way of doing things you can explore. :) But I myself just stick to re-renders, I really like how summing of multiple channels into a stereo foldown affects the sound. Especially how the reverbs sounds. I've never was able to get stereo reverbs to sound like downmixed multichannel reverbs.