How loud should we master techno?
When mastering techno, the loudness and pressure in the piece of music play an important role in creating the sound. In order to sound like the big, well-known productions, it is important to address this question. In this article, we want to address the question "How loud should you master techno?"
To understand a little more about how much “pressure” a good techno song needs to be competitive with its competitors, let’s look at the graph in which the original audio files of the techno tracks were examined for their loudness and dynamics. Andreas Brede from the Triagon Academy did this as part of his thesis on the topic “Digitization in the music industry and the impact on mastering for streaming platforms” and prepared them graphically for us.
For the loudness analysis of these Techno Master the original audio files of well-known publications were evaluated. The following graphic shows the measured average loudness, as well as dynamics and true peak.
Techno is characterized by a fairly high song tempo, crisp basses, a powerful sound and mostly monotonous macrodynamics. This macro dynamic between quiet and lively song parts makes techno special, as it offers a special constant.
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Our conclusion:
Despite the quite high loudness, we shouldn't let it influence us too much in the mastering process, since the streaming services adjust the tracks as part of their loudness normalization in such a way that a very loud techno track does not particularly stand out compared to a quieter competitor.
How exactly the streaming services deal with the finished techno song, we have in our Upload Streaming Services Article summarized for you.
If you have any further questions about techno mastering, LUFS or audio editing for streaming services, please let us know! We are also there for you if you need professional help with your music project!
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