AI Metering and Loudness: How Smart Tools Are Changing the Way We Mix

Making a Scene - AI Metering and Loudness: How Smart Tools Are Changing the Way We MixIntroduction: Why Loudness Matters More Than You ThinkIf you’ve ever turned on your favorite playlist and noticed that one song blasts out of your speakers while another sounds much softer, you’ve experienced the problem of loudness. For decades, musicians, producers, and engineers have been caught up in what many people call the “loudness wars.” Everyone wanted their track to sound bigger, bolder, and more powerful than the one that came before it. But in the modern streaming world, that fight doesn’t really matter the way it used to. Platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and Tidal have built systems to normalize, or even out, the volume of every track that gets uploaded. http://www.makingascene.org