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Thanks for sharing so much great info, Emily!
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Chris and Emily,
A few things:
When referencing an Integrated (Program) Loudness variation between two programs – you wouldn’t refer to any such variation in LUFS. LUFS represent “Loudness Units relative to Full Scale.” The correct variation reference would be in “Loudness Units” (LU’s). For example: Program (A) checks in @ -16 LUFS. Program (B) checks in @ -14 LUFS. In essence Program (B) is +2 LU louder than Program (A).
With regards to (in most cases) excessive limiting that may be necessary when targeting something like -14 LUFS/-2 dBTP … sure, if the audio is well processed and optimized before Loudness Normalization, the inherent limiting should not result in compromised fidelity. Note at this stage the Loudness Normalized audio will almost certainly exist in a lossless file format.
The issue of concern is heavily limited lossless audio may not translate well throughout further downstream lossy (MP3) encoding, especially at low bitrates. The lossy distribution file may potentially exhibit codec artifacts and/or distortion, even if the audio is not theoretically clipped.
-paul.
@produceNewMedia
Thank you, Paul!
Did Emily already do a video of micro-editing in Reaper. It is so easy, and there’s a great macro too for removing slightly longer edits.
I’m not sure, Jeremy, I’ll check. I’ll ping her on Facebook – follow here: https://www.facebook.com/podcastengineeringschool/
Hey Emily, your de-breathing technique sounds like exactly what I need! I use Audition as my DAW and I tried to follow your instructions from the podcast but I can’t work out how to replicate it there. Can you help at all? Thanks!