The video above is a great, creative introduction by the popular "Snake Oil" YouTube channel, to my new plugin Loudness Penalty. It offers an excellent, entertaining overview of what the plugin does, and why you might want to use it. Meanwhile you can watch my video walking you through how I use the plugin myself here.
There have been a few common questions about there plugin that lots of people have been asking though, so I thought I'd collect some of them here. So, here we go !
It's been exactly a year since I announced the free Loudness Penalty website in collaboration with MeterPlugs - and people love it !
Literally every day now I see it being shared on social media, and get messages from people who've found it helpful, which is fantastic.
There's one particular feature request we've been getting far more than any other, though - and it's this:
"Can you release this as a plugin ?"
Now, that was never our intention originally, but the requests just kept on coming, so... here it is! You can now assess the Loudness Penalty of your music in realtime, without leaving your DAW.
And there are a few extra features not available on the website !
For a demonstration of how I use the plugin, and some of the subtleties to the results it show, check out the video above. And to get the plugin for yourself, click the link below.
Higher bit-depth files sound better because they have better resolution, right ? 24-bit records the signal with more accuracy so it sounds better than 16-bit, and so on ?
Wrong.
In fact, the only difference between 24 and 16-bit audio is the noise floor. IF you're doing it right.
(Even 8-bit audio can store the audio with equal "resolution" - although if you do go that low, the noise will be a problem.)
Lots of people have a hard time accepting this though, so I made a video to show that it's true - and also explain the simple way to ensure you can maintain maximum "resolution" for your audio - at any bit-depth.
So next time someone tells you digital audio is fundementally flawed because if it's limited "resolution" - show them this video !
Everybody's talking about Queen at the moment, for obvious reasons - the new film "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a huge hit. I have mixed feelings about whether I want to see it or not - with Freddie at the heart of the story, but not here to help tell it, tragically.
But what I have been doing recently is digging into the treasure-trove of YouTube footage available of the band, and in this post I thought I'd share a few of my favourites from what I've found.
