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Oct 24, 2026
Dave JacksonHOST
I noticed that today.
Dave JacksonHOST
It says, hi, in our show, we use a compressor to keep audio dialogue at minus 19 LUFS.
Dave JacksonHOST
We already know we're dealing with somebody who's really into details.
Dave JacksonHOST
We then use a compressor to maintain audio levels of the background music to no greater than minus 30 LUFS.
Dave JacksonHOST
sometimes even pulling it back to minus 35 or so.
Dave JacksonHOST
But before publishing an episode, I then listened to it on at least a dozen different kinds of speakers.
Gray Hair DaveHOST
It delivers the finished files as a family MP3 and a mastered wave.
Gray Hair DaveHOST
Clean of low rumble, leveled to podcast loudness standards at negative 16 LUFS.
Gray Hair DaveHOST
It's doing all this for me.
Gray Hair DaveHOST
But it suggests I run it on Chrome, which is not bad.
Michael LaskowHOST
Hey, Gloria, see you soon, I hope.
Michael LaskowHOST
Every library is different, but what integrated LUFS level do you think is the usual for sync instrumentals?
Keith LuBrantGUEST
I am not the person for that because I don't even look at it.
Michael LaskowHOST
Yeah, and I guarantee you Matt Vanderboe and all the other, you know, taxi all-stars, as I affectionately call them, nobody gives a damn about LUFS.
Michael LaskowHOST
Yeah.
Keith LuBrantGUEST
It just doesn't matter.
Robin VincentGUEST
And you know that it is right there.
Robin VincentGUEST
You know, you can look at you can look at meters all day long and you can see talk about LUFS, or I think they're called LUFS and mastering LUFS, or you can look at, you know, VU meters going this way and this way, but at the end of the day, it's just what you hear.
Robin VincentGUEST
So I took a big kind of risk in one day last summer.
Robin VincentGUEST
Summer 2025 was hot as hell and AI was happening hardcore.
Gene SteinbergHOST
Mm-hmm
Darren O'NeillHOST
... complete file at what it thought the right LUFs were, you know, the right amount-
Gene SteinbergHOST
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm
Darren O'NeillHOST
... of the volume, which I thought was still way too low.
BruceHOST
W- what are you getting for free? Because if, uh, if you're getting it for free, then you're the product.
John JamingoHOST
So one of the things that I use Grok Bot for, and I just, I'm playing with it, I took the latest episode of Over 50 Overhaul, and I gave it the MP3, and I said, "Go in, normalize the audio, make it at negative 18 Lufs.
John JamingoHOST
Go in, take all the ums out of it, all the long pauses out of it, and all the w- times I start a sentence with so, take the so out-
BruceHOST
Mm-hmm
Simon SeverinoHOST
Render the plan with FFmpeg.
Simon SeverinoHOST
Cut on the frame, soft audio fade so nothing pops, loudness at minus fourteen LUFS for YouTube.
Simon SeverinoHOST
Write captions and chapters on the new timeline, then check your own work.
Simon SeverinoHOST
Length, audio and sync, loudness, black frames, and look at twelve stills from the video.
Victor MenegauxGUEST
It's not.
Victor MenegauxGUEST
It doesn't sound loud, I know, and that's all, like, LUFS, so the, the loudness measurements of records.
Victor MenegauxGUEST
So it, it doesn't necessarily, it isn't necessarily louder.
Victor MenegauxGUEST
It just sounds louder, which is a weird way to describe what lu- LUFS are.
Victor MenegauxGUEST
But I've learned a lot about plugins in the last few years, at least the last three years, th- or two and a half at least.
Victor MenegauxGUEST
More I used to own plugins, but I've just learned a lot about them.
Victor MenegauxGUEST
I think it's great.
Victor MenegauxGUEST
But now I actually know enough to have my own mastering chain, so I have like, that's everything on everything I-- unless it's just a basic edit.
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