MeterPlugs has introduced Loudness Penalty Plugin – an audio tool, for MacOS & Windows, that’s designed to help you assess how your music will playback online.
In this video, Master Engineer Ian Shepherd takes the Loudness Penalty plugin for a spin. He shows you how you can use it to preview how your music will sound online, spot loudness “pain points,” and more.
Features:
- Realtime Loudness Penalty scores
- Supports the five most popular streaming services
- Discover when you can turn your music up, without a penalty
- Preview how your music will sound online
- Faster than realtime processing with Pro Tools’ Audio Suite
Pricing and Availability
Loudness Penalty Plugin is available now with an intro price of US $29 (normally $49). A free online version of this is also available.
Hmm. No Soundcloud?
Soundcloud doesn’t do loudness normalization, so there’s no “penalty”
Really? Cool. Thanks, thats very good to know.
There’s a website that does this for free, drag and drop your audio file: https://www.loudnesspenalty.com
Gil – thanks for the feedback. I updated the post with this!
I think its not that easy: Spotify has three different Loudness normalisation modes and it also depends on wether you playback the song on the playlist or in album mode. Also: only Deezer is measuring loudness in lufs, the other streaming services are using different methods. german computer magazine c’t did a detailed analysis on this: https://www.heise.de/tests/Sechs-Musik-Streaming-Dienste-im-Klangvergleich-4332672.html
Genius.
Problem I have always had, is that my mixes come out too quiet, or lacking in presence. IMO mixing is a dark art and far harder then actually making music.
My short, quick reaction to this statement is that you probably have far to much low end and low mid energy. Try high pass filtering on tracks that don’t need a lot of low end presence.