ABSTRACT
Loudness Wars Well, we’ve come a long way in equipping our mixing toolkit. For better or worse though, no modern mixer sends a track to their clients without at least a bit of premastering/loudness maximizing. While we, in the engineering world, lament the “loudness wars” that have been stamping the dynamic range out of music for decades, the fact is that if you give your clients a CD that sounds, significantly, quieter than a commercial CD, they’ll tend to think that the mix sucks. It’s just the world we live in, so let’s make sure you know how to get the most volume out of your clients’ reference mix, even if you send an uncompressed mix on to mastering.
