Make Your Audio Loud But Not Too Loud: Loudness Normalization Part 2

For a long time, I struggled to get my audio loud enough without over compressing it or making it clip and distort. And I also seemed to have a hard time getting the loudness of my audio to match from one episode to the next. Incredibly frustrating…

But thanks to some recent developments in the broadcast TV world, I stumbled upon this idea called Loudness Normalization along with some standards specified by European and US broadcast agencies. And I learned about an online tool that can actually process your audio to these standards so that it is just the right loudness for your audience on YouTube, Vimeo or anywhere else online.

This is part 2 where we look at the technical details and how to do this loudness normalization using Adobe Audition.

Come on over to http://LearnLightAndSound.com to learn more.

Automate your loudness automation using http://auphonic.com

Find Ray Ortega’s “The Podcaster’s Studio” over at http://thepodcastersstudio.com

This episode shot with the following:

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RODE NT 5 (Intro)

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RODE NT1A Large Diaphragm Condensor Mic (for the screencast part of this episode)

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Tascam DR-60D Audio Recorder

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Panasonic GH4 (Intro)

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Olympus 45mm f/1.8 Lens

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Photoflex Starlite QL Softbox Kit:

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Music copyright Curtis Judd 2011

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