Hi all,
Newbie question - a library is signing a few tracks, and their delivery specs include the line "Average mix level at around -12RMS"
They are asking for the track, plus the track broken into a few stems (leads, synths, fx, etc.)
Honestly not totally sure what this means - currently I have final tracks "mastered" with Ozone set to -1.0db peak.
Do they want the full track as-is and then the submix tracks peaking lower, or?
Thank you!
Michael
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Re: "Average Mix Level" - help!
RMS is an average over time, your Ozone should have meters that display this. Here is a link to a video on Peak Vs RMS https://youtu.be/gV-Y5Zg_rUA
It sounds like the Library don't want stuff that's been hyper compressed which is all good in my book , some libraries are the opposite and I have delivered tracks at -8RMS which they have said is not loud enough !
There Apps that will quickly analyze a whole file for you too, I don't know if Ozone has this feature but there are free websites such as this one https://youlean.co/file-loudness-meter/
Just to confuse you even further a lot of the audio industry have moved over to describing in LUFS now which are loudness units but for practical purposes 1 LUF = 1db - so if you scan your file with the above, you should be aiming for -12 intergrated LUFS
As far as your peak level goes you may be able to increase it to -0.3db without any problems - if you go higher it can cause inter-sample peaks which manifests itself as distortion with some DACs
For the stems , I wouldn't overthink it - as long as the main mix is correct just bounce the stems out at the exact same level without adjusting anything and they will be fine.
Mark
It sounds like the Library don't want stuff that's been hyper compressed which is all good in my book , some libraries are the opposite and I have delivered tracks at -8RMS which they have said is not loud enough !
There Apps that will quickly analyze a whole file for you too, I don't know if Ozone has this feature but there are free websites such as this one https://youlean.co/file-loudness-meter/
Just to confuse you even further a lot of the audio industry have moved over to describing in LUFS now which are loudness units but for practical purposes 1 LUF = 1db - so if you scan your file with the above, you should be aiming for -12 intergrated LUFS
As far as your peak level goes you may be able to increase it to -0.3db without any problems - if you go higher it can cause inter-sample peaks which manifests itself as distortion with some DACs
For the stems , I wouldn't overthink it - as long as the main mix is correct just bounce the stems out at the exact same level without adjusting anything and they will be fine.
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Re: "Average Mix Level" - help!
Thanks Mark - very helpful!
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