It would make sense for them to keep turning down tracks that exceed -14LUFS. I would be very happy to see the back of this DRC feature and let tracks play at their intended masters if below -14LUFS. Annoyingly I can find lots of advice online that says Youtube don't increase audio levels if a master is below -14LUFS int, and yet if this isn't true anymore it will have profound implications for the playback quality of our mixes and masters on this platform. It might be a trial to see how people react. What is even more frustrating is the lack of communication from Youtube to warn users about this, if indeed this is a permanent change. I've also noticed squashing on 'louder' sections of music. Instead of only applying negative gain on tracks with above -14 LUFS loudness, it seems to be now also applying compression to all tracks regardless of LUFS / loudness value. Reverb tails and room acoustic really pump to the forefront of these videos now as the compression engages and rolls off. YouTube seem to be rolling out a new method of loudness normalization. TV & sports show clips are often mastered to -23LUFS int as per the TV standard, and Youtube have now added DRC to 9DB of compression for these videos to reach -14LUFS int. You're MEANT to hear it faintly in the background as it creeps up. Classical music that has been delicately and beautifully mixed now has that amateurish 'pumping audio' effect especially on the quieter sections.Į.g Holst's Planets' Suite: Mars videos now have +11DB of normalisation/compression squashing the mix - which has ruined the introduction - because during the intro you're not MEANT to hear quiet col legno string sections coming at you at -14LUFS int and this absolutely destroys the listening experience. Videos that are mastered to a lower loudness than Youtube's -14LUFS integrated standard are being heavily raised in volume, overcompressed, and ruined as a result. My view is that this has ruined the Youtube experience for me. As someone previously said here, it also seems to apply to internet browsers on PC as my mobile browsing seems unaffected. Youtube also seems to apply DRC to videos that are roughly 2 weeks old or older, recent uploads are played back at their original volume (presumably before being queued for DRC processing at a later date). It also doesn't affect any videos when the user is not signed into Youtube. I've explored the issue a fair bit and DRC normalisation seems to be tied to some accounts and not others (I have three old accounts and DRC is applied to playback on two out of three accounts). Try putting that track Message from Home into a playlist with other singles and see if it gets normalized differently. Thank you for posting comparisons of audio clips as that is really useful to read. I've been looking for answers online and not been having much luck. Thank you so much for posting and raising awareness of this.
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