For example, consider a situation where you listen to two short audio clips explaining cooking steps one after another. If ...

The loudness unit measured with a LUFS meter has become an essential fixture in contemporary audio production, replacing the antiquated notion that “max‑level” alone defines sonic quality. Rooted in ...

APU Software tells us that their Loudness Series is a suite of plug-ins focused on bringing modern LUFS measurements to real-time compression, limiting, and loudness histogram optimization. There's ...

A version of this article originally appeared on Motherboard Brazil. At the end of May, Spotify made a change to its music files that went unnoticed by almost all of the service’s listeners. What was ...

Internet audio streaming and on-demand playback have become ubiquitous, both in consumer media and professional audio applications. Today, it is a $10 billion industry. Despite this popularity, the ...

TL;DR — It's -16. They should be at -16. For a long time, digital news segments were something of an afterthought. The process was simple: cut them from a broadcast, turn them into an MP3, get them up ...