Youlean has been the most accurate in terms of determining the true peak level when mastering. As long as you don't go over zero, it won't distort in streaming. With that said, I always try to preserve a -0.3 to -0.4 dB margin of error, at least at the very loudest part of the song, and this plug in definitely helps me do that.
100% agree. Youlean makes it really clear what's actually happening with your audio and goes further than a regular dB meter. When I first learned about LUs and Youlean I was blown away haha. Thanks for checking out the video, take care.
cool, FYI the big electronic producers blow the True Peak by 1 to 2 dB on most any track I have analyzed using the PRO version w/drag and drop function.
Hi Dawson! So, the example track you've shared seems to go between 12-15 LUFS integrated. However, when you showed the graph to left showing the LUFS level that the majority of your song sits at. Is this normal? Is the goal still to just reach -14 LUFS when trying to upload to UA-cam or Spotify? Also, you shared that I may have to clip the peaks of certain elements of the song to make sure that the true peaks do not go over -1 dB. If it causes distortion, what are some ways I can do so without causing distortion?
So will this help eliminate artifacts and these platforms like Facebook and Instagram youtube nasty background noise and low volume and its compression?
ah hopefully this answers your question. if you get your master up to proper loudness (social media is usually -14 LUFS -0.1 dBs true peak) then the platforms won't have to increase or decrease the loudness of your audio. if they DO have to adjust the audio for their loudness standards, yes it can ruin the way your audio sounds and the final result will not be how you originally designed the audio. background noise, i think that will have to do more with your recording equip and processing.
So u went into great detail of the interface but then completely skipped how to actually get audio into it?!?! I tried opening a file and also dragging a wav in bit got the message only for pro users. wtf. How do I use this stupid thing ?
hahaha sorry dude. it doesn't affect audio just reads it. put it at the end of your mastering chain, everything you put before it will affect the plugins data.
I had the same questions, and was saddened to see how others "answered" you. Did you get it working? I thought it would initially just "listen" to my computer's audio output, but I had to jump through hoops to make it work. I managed to get my very old Sony Movie Studio Platinum 12 to acknowledge the plug in, after which I able to add it to my "master" audio track and finally monitor the audio output.
I was actually looking for something where you dont have to listen through the whole track to determine the LUFS integrated. Im using the internal multimeter in Final cut pro, but I cannot see that this is better in terms of not having to spend so much time getting the levels right. Sometimes I spend more time on adjusting sound levels (master) than the whole edit. It seems like our technology should have come far enough for us not to sit and jerk around with this. I find these measurments to be highly inacurate. Sometimes I upload my track to youtube just to check that I come in right. If I see between -0-1 and -1.0 I just use it. If not I try again and upload again. If UA-cam can determine this after a quick analysis, so should we be able to without having to adjust the sound when you reach 17 min of an 18 min track, just to have to do it over again. Are you supposed to listen to your entire track 5-10 times just to get the right level? Once I made a video with Da Vinci and they had a way better solution for this, so it does exist.
that sounds like so much work. i found the same issue, where i wouldn't really know the true levels until i played through the whole song, and it takes a lot of time collectively. i would cheat sometimes and just play the loudest part of the track to check levels. i do know the pro version of this plugin would give you the ability to drag and deop your audio and get data from that. obviously double check though before spending money! the youlean website is really good and informative.
i will mention that there is increasingly more softwares which will export at a specified loudness level. FL studio for sure has this, you can master your tracks in FL studio and set the loudness. Even Adobe Media Encoder can export at a specified loudness. If you're really concerned about the peaking, you could rely on those tools. If you're more concerned about the feel of the master, yes doing it by hand or by yourself is probably best. Although, I feel that stressing so much about a tiny loudness difference is a bit counterproductive... depends on what you're working on obviously... but i try personally not to worry too much about the small details
Thanks for this video tutorial Dawson. I am getting only -19.6 integrated LUFS if I stay under -1.0 True Peak Max. How do I get my final mix to a higher Integrated LUFS without clipping, going above -1.0 True Peak Max?
Hey thank you for watching! If you want to bring your LUFS higher, like to -16 or -14 while still remaining under -1 true peak, you'll want to use a limiter which will limit and lower the peaks of your audio, in turn you'll have more 'headroom' which will allow you to increase overall loudness of your audio without passing your true peak of -1 dBs. Furthermore, you could use a compressor to reduce the dyamic range of your audio, again giving you more 'headroom.' This is a really short answer to a big question... But it will give you some direction. Use limiters, compression, and get more headroom. I have a tutorial on a free compressor on my channel called Kotelnikov.
@@dawsonkamenz unfortunately, all the musicians i know dont speak english nor understand english nor are interested in mastering :( im a music producer and im getting into the master stage of an album im producing for some clients and this video gave much confidence on how i want the album to sound like, although, you earn a subscriber :) you content is really good and helpful, it just hasnt exploted yet!
Excellent presentation, Dawson. 🙌 I love this meter and used the free version for a while. But I think it is so useful, I paid for the pro version -- support great ideas!
Changing the channel configuration and select the available surround sound preset will increase the loudness. This is what i noticed after changing from stereo to Dolby surround sound.
uhm... could be that your limiter is after your loudness meter on your fx chain. make sure youlean is last because it will reflect the changes of everything before it
I came here to understand how to to use this fantastic plugin and all I had is a list of definitions, all my doubts of non-professional passionate remain: what's the best lufs? what's the lufs range i want through the piece? what are pro and cons of different loudness ranges? how true peak affects loudness? what's real time dynamics? what's plr? I understand that this may go beyond the scope of this video, but to know what this video says I just read the manual
haha sorry man i should have included more in the video on actual loudness standards/pros and cons. good place to start though is just researching what loudness standards are on different platforms or the platform you publish to. Spotify is -14 LUFs for example
Ah, if you're peaking you might want to implement a limiter, clipper or compressor with a high ratio. The red peaks on the loudness meter though don't necessarily denote peaking on your speakers... At the end of the day, a true peak higher than 0.0 dBs is gonna need some limiting/clipping though.
Great video! Would you say that -1.0db True Peak is a safe standard to go for, for most tracks? I know how to use Limiters but I don't know how to use Clippers, so I mostly control audio levels by manually mixing directly in the mixer for each individual channel/track.
hey thanks fam! to me, -1.0dBs true peak is safe generally/overall. i typically have that as the max true peak on any project i'm working on, but i know some people will push that further to -0.3dBs or -0.1dBs. The thing about the true peak and measuring dBs, is it safeguards your audio from demanding more from the speakers than they can give. The goal of that is really to prevent crackling/distortion. If you don't hear any distortion, then that's what really matters haha. Hope that kinda gets to your question. Thanks for the support fam
What about for a mix down? Can it be used for that instead waiting until you get to the master? What levels would you set for a mix? Specifically hip hop and r&b music
Yes it could be used for a mixdown before getting to the master stage. I think the most important thing for a mix though is the amount of headroom you have. I don't believe getting an exact loudness level in a mix is that important, from what I know at least. Personally I like my mixes to be hitting around -12 to -6 dbs, regardless of genre. As far as loudness goes, I only worry about it once I'm mastering a beat. If you send your mixdowns to a mastering engineer, it's best to just leave a good amount of headroom so they have room to play around with in terms of loudness. Does that answer your question? Hope that helps.
@@dawsonkamenz your video was the best I’ve seen on this plug-in :-) I still have some issues with my mixing and gain staging so if your able to chat with me and help me on that I could show you a project I got going on if so, is there somewhere better we could discuss this?
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Excellent presentation
Hey man thank you my friend 🤩
Youlean has been the most accurate in terms of determining the true peak level when mastering. As long as you don't go over zero, it won't distort in streaming. With that said, I always try to preserve a -0.3 to -0.4 dB margin of error, at least at the very loudest part of the song, and this plug in definitely helps me do that.
100% agree. Youlean makes it really clear what's actually happening with your audio and goes further than a regular dB meter. When I first learned about LUs and Youlean I was blown away haha. Thanks for checking out the video, take care.
cool, FYI the big electronic producers blow the True Peak by 1 to 2 dB on most any track I have analyzed using the PRO version w/drag and drop function.
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Hi Dawson!
So, the example track you've shared seems to go between 12-15 LUFS integrated.
However, when you showed the graph to left showing the LUFS level that the majority of your song sits at.
Is this normal? Is the goal still to just reach -14 LUFS when trying to upload to UA-cam or Spotify?
Also, you shared that I may have to clip the peaks of certain elements of the song to make sure that the true peaks do not go over -1 dB. If it causes distortion, what are some ways I can do so without causing distortion?
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So will this help eliminate artifacts and these platforms like Facebook and Instagram youtube nasty background noise and low volume and its compression?
ah hopefully this answers your question. if you get your master up to proper loudness (social media is usually -14 LUFS -0.1 dBs true peak) then the platforms won't have to increase or decrease the loudness of your audio. if they DO have to adjust the audio for their loudness standards, yes it can ruin the way your audio sounds and the final result will not be how you originally designed the audio. background noise, i think that will have to do more with your recording equip and processing.
@@dawsonkamenzI struggled with this for years thanks. Put this to use later on. Going to do some testing. Thanks bro
@@lee_the_underground_producerhopefully it helps man and don't hesitate to get back in touch 🤩 all the best!
i got 3.0 lufs with 16.3 db peak max, i think im cooked 😭
So u went into great detail of the interface but then completely skipped how to actually get audio into it?!?! I tried opening a file and also dragging a wav in bit got the message only for pro users. wtf. How do I use this stupid thing ?
hahaha sorry dude. it doesn't affect audio just reads it. put it at the end of your mastering chain, everything you put before it will affect the plugins data.
😂bro
😂😂very naive
I had the same questions, and was saddened to see how others "answered" you. Did you get it working? I thought it would initially just "listen" to my computer's audio output, but I had to jump through hoops to make it work. I managed to get my very old Sony Movie Studio Platinum 12 to acknowledge the plug in, after which I able to add it to my "master" audio track and finally monitor the audio output.
Isn't it Loudness Units Full Scale?
it's both 🤷🏻♂️
This is the best 'how to YouLean Meter' I've found---nice and to the point-THANK YOU Dawson!
wow thank you so much! glad it was informative
which meter should i look to know how loud is my track? is it Integrated or some other?
I was actually looking for something where you dont have to listen through the whole track to determine the LUFS integrated. Im using the internal multimeter in Final cut pro, but I cannot see that this is better in terms of not having to spend so much time getting the levels right. Sometimes I spend more time on adjusting sound levels (master) than the whole edit. It seems like our technology should have come far enough for us not to sit and jerk around with this. I find these measurments to be highly inacurate. Sometimes I upload my track to youtube just to check that I come in right. If I see between -0-1 and -1.0 I just use it. If not I try again and upload again. If UA-cam can determine this after a quick analysis, so should we be able to without having to adjust the sound when you reach 17 min of an 18 min track, just to have to do it over again. Are you supposed to listen to your entire track 5-10 times just to get the right level? Once I made a video with Da Vinci and they had a way better solution for this, so it does exist.
that sounds like so much work. i found the same issue, where i wouldn't really know the true levels until i played through the whole song, and it takes a lot of time collectively. i would cheat sometimes and just play the loudest part of the track to check levels. i do know the pro version of this plugin would give you the ability to drag and deop your audio and get data from that. obviously double check though before spending money! the youlean website is really good and informative.
i will mention that there is increasingly more softwares which will export at a specified loudness level. FL studio for sure has this, you can master your tracks in FL studio and set the loudness. Even Adobe Media Encoder can export at a specified loudness. If you're really concerned about the peaking, you could rely on those tools. If you're more concerned about the feel of the master, yes doing it by hand or by yourself is probably best. Although, I feel that stressing so much about a tiny loudness difference is a bit counterproductive... depends on what you're working on obviously... but i try personally not to worry too much about the small details
@@dawsonkamenz Indeed. Good point! Thanks for that.
Thanks for this video tutorial Dawson. I am getting only -19.6 integrated LUFS if I stay under -1.0 True Peak Max. How do I get my final mix to a higher Integrated LUFS without clipping, going above -1.0 True Peak Max?
Hey thank you for watching! If you want to bring your LUFS higher, like to -16 or -14 while still remaining under -1 true peak, you'll want to use a limiter which will limit and lower the peaks of your audio, in turn you'll have more 'headroom' which will allow you to increase overall loudness of your audio without passing your true peak of -1 dBs. Furthermore, you could use a compressor to reduce the dyamic range of your audio, again giving you more 'headroom.' This is a really short answer to a big question... But it will give you some direction. Use limiters, compression, and get more headroom. I have a tutorial on a free compressor on my channel called Kotelnikov.
-9 is cd quality just saying
yessir cd is a lot louder than spotify or youtube
THANK YOU SO MUCH BROTHER! I ALREADY HAD A IMPLE IDEA ON HOW TO USE YOULEAN BUT YOU MADE MY DAY WITH ALL OF THIS
Wow thank you my friend. Would you be able to send this video to some other musicians? It would help the channel greatly. Take care!
@@dawsonkamenz unfortunately, all the musicians i know dont speak english nor understand english nor are interested in mastering :( im a music producer and im getting into the master stage of an album im producing for some clients and this video gave much confidence on how i want the album to sound like, although, you earn a subscriber :) you content is really good and helpful, it just hasnt exploted yet!
Forgot to reply, all good, thank you again so much. Hope the album mastering goes well man! @@chukarec
Excellent presentation, Dawson. 🙌
I love this meter and used the free version for a while. But I think it is so useful, I paid for the pro version -- support great ideas!
wow thank you! yes i can understand getting the upgrade... one of those plugins that's really worth it.
Changing the channel configuration and select the available surround sound preset will increase the loudness. This is what i noticed after changing from stereo to Dolby surround sound.
thank you for this interesting comment... you've given me some stuff to research/study!
Thanks man, this was very helpful :)
hey thanks T. glad it was helpful!
Why doesn't my limiter change the loudness shown on the YouLean Meter?
uhm... could be that your limiter is after your loudness meter on your fx chain. make sure youlean is last because it will reflect the changes of everything before it
hope that helps man let me know if it's still not working!
Awesome presentation. Thanks for sharing. Cheers mate!!
Thank you sir have an amazing day!
Thanks bro.
thanks for watching fam
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you bet. some really interesting sounds on VOID$ keep up the great work!
Very helpful video! Thanks man!
Glad it was helpful man thanks for watching!
I came here to understand how to to use this fantastic plugin and all I had is a list of definitions, all my doubts of non-professional passionate remain: what's the best lufs? what's the lufs range i want through the piece? what are pro and cons of different loudness ranges? how true peak affects loudness? what's real time dynamics? what's plr?
I understand that this may go beyond the scope of this video, but to know what this video says I just read the manual
haha sorry man i should have included more in the video on actual loudness standards/pros and cons. good place to start though is just researching what loudness standards are on different platforms or the platform you publish to. Spotify is -14 LUFs for example
such a beautiful explanation thanks a lot
hey thank you so much!
Very useful - thanks.
amazing :) thank you!
but the question is what tool should help us lower those red peaks
Ah, if you're peaking you might want to implement a limiter, clipper or compressor with a high ratio. The red peaks on the loudness meter though don't necessarily denote peaking on your speakers... At the end of the day, a true peak higher than 0.0 dBs is gonna need some limiting/clipping though.
I hope I got to the point of your question!
Great video! Would you say that -1.0db True Peak is a safe standard to go for, for most tracks? I know how to use Limiters but I don't know how to use Clippers, so I mostly control audio levels by manually mixing directly in the mixer for each individual channel/track.
hey thanks fam! to me, -1.0dBs true peak is safe generally/overall. i typically have that as the max true peak on any project i'm working on, but i know some people will push that further to -0.3dBs or -0.1dBs. The thing about the true peak and measuring dBs, is it safeguards your audio from demanding more from the speakers than they can give. The goal of that is really to prevent crackling/distortion. If you don't hear any distortion, then that's what really matters haha. Hope that kinda gets to your question. Thanks for the support fam
@@dawsonkamenz Awesome thank you
What about for a mix down? Can it be used for that instead waiting until you get to the master? What levels would you set for a mix? Specifically hip hop and r&b music
Yes it could be used for a mixdown before getting to the master stage. I think the most important thing for a mix though is the amount of headroom you have. I don't believe getting an exact loudness level in a mix is that important, from what I know at least. Personally I like my mixes to be hitting around -12 to -6 dbs, regardless of genre. As far as loudness goes, I only worry about it once I'm mastering a beat. If you send your mixdowns to a mastering engineer, it's best to just leave a good amount of headroom so they have room to play around with in terms of loudness. Does that answer your question? Hope that helps.
@dawsonkamenz yes that answers my question. Thank you so much for your reply.
Bro thanks! Wish your channel the best success!
aw man thanks!
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@@dawsonkamenz your video was the best I’ve seen on this plug-in :-) I still have some issues with my mixing and gain staging so if your able to chat with me and help me on that I could show you a project I got going on if so, is there somewhere better we could discuss this?
@@MendingSilencesure i hit you up on IG