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WeeklyBeats.com / Forums / General Discussion / Y'all needs to turn your master volume WAAAY down, fr.
What's up with the volume culture folks? Ever heard of VU meters, like, proper monitoring and stuff?
That stuff you post is way freaking loud, it's no joke.
I can't listen to most of the tunes here because of this.
I don't know where you getting your sound desugn advice, prolly from 5-second tiktoks or something.
Think about that.
Unfortunately, the loudness wars are over and volume won. The standard that people are mastering to is -12 to -14 LUFS and that’s….pretty frickin loud.
I’m pretty new to music producing but I have a lot of experience in film editing. My general rule of thumb has always been -3 to -12 beneath peaking for video editing. How would one convert this to LUFs?
It’s not a direct conversion as LUFS uses frequency-dependent weighting. So for the same dBFS, you could get different LUFS depending on the content.
The best way to measure is to use a so-called “loudness meter”. Most DAWs have one native, and most mastering plugins provide one as well for convenience. But if you need one for some reason, this free one from GoodHertz is pretty nice.
LUFS is usually given in three readings: Momentary, Sustained, and Integrated. The rule of thumb is, loop the loudest part of your song. Reset the integrated meter. Twiddle your master level until the integrated reads -14 LUFS (resetting the meter between tweaks). Then you’re done.
If you want to learn more, this SOS article is a decent jumping off point.
It’s not a direct conversion as LUFS uses frequency-dependent weighting. So for the same dBFS, you could get different LUFS depending on the content.
The best way to measure is to use a so-called “loudness meter”. Most DAWs have one native, and most mastering plugins provide one as well for convenience. But if you need one for some reason, this free one from GoodHertz is pretty nice.
LUFS is usually given in three readings: Momentary, Sustained, and Integrated. The rule of thumb is, loop the loudest part of your song. Reset the integrated meter. Twiddle your master level until the integrated reads -14 LUFS (resetting the meter between tweaks). Then you’re done.
If you want to learn more, this SOS article is a decent jumping off point.
Hey thank you so much! I’ll have to check it out
Wait till you hear about clip-to-zero mixing.
Yeah, loudness won the war.
Yeah, loudness won the war.
People who believe that deserve all the bad things can happen to a music producer in this age.
You ppl deserve your channels not growing, you deserve being lost and unrecognized, you deserve being replaced by AI, you deserve being not paid by distributors.
Pocaille wrote:Yeah, loudness won the war.
People who believe that deserve all the bad things can happen to a music producer in this age.
You ppl deserve your channels not growing, you deserve being lost and unrecognized, you deserve being replaced by AI, you deserve being not paid by distributors.
I’m totally with you on that.
Maybe if you flood enough forum's with vague disses things will change for the better.
People who believe that deserve all the bad things can happen to a music producer in this age.
You ppl deserve your channels not growing, you deserve being lost and unrecognized, you deserve being replaced by AI, you deserve being not paid by distributors.
While I respect your opinion, I don't feel this negativity belongs in this forum. Most of us are amateurs and are here to learn, grow, connect, and have a good time. It's one thing to express an opinion about the mixing and mastering of tracks. It's another to make blanket insults.
Pocaille wrote:Yeah, loudness won the war.
People who believe that deserve all the bad things can happen to a music producer in this age.
You ppl deserve your channels not growing, you deserve being lost and unrecognized, you deserve being replaced by AI, you deserve being not paid by distributors.
I thought WeeklyBeats was a place for people specifically not to be weird gatekeeping edgelords?
People are learning here, and no one needs to feel aggressively judged for their stylistic choices or lack of knowledge or skill with mixing. Try thinking about the community you're fostering when you post.
So instead of turning down the volume on your listening device you’ve decided to wish ill on other producers? You have decided other people are deserving of harm because they use reference tracks of modern music with modern levels? Or you’ve decided other producers should be shat on for not having the exact level of knowledge and experience you do? This is the opposite of what WB is about and you should be ashamed of the entire way you’ve carried yourself.
For the most part, this is a safe space for people to learn and grow. Constructive criticism is a thing. Telling people you hope they fail because they dont fall in line is a take. And not one I feel is in the spirit of WB.
(Sorry for double post)
Last edited by LainHiro (February 21, 2026 12:33 pm)
1. You need to mix to the level of the genre you're producing, otherwise when people play your track in a mix, your track will be a lot quieter. You seem to be pretty much at the default for Jungle, albeit your tracks are a bit quiet when compared to popular tracks in the genre.
2. If you have an opinion and want to convince people that they should change what they're doing to agree with you, calling them stupid doesn't actually work, so by posting like this, you're actually just wasting your time, unless your goal is just to troll people.
This is my first year doing weekly beats (although I've been making music for a long time), and one of my goals is to get better at mixing. I've received a lot of constructive and helpful comments that have made me enthusiastic to try and improve. Your post is not one of them.
If you genuinely think all the tracks posted to WB are too loud, perhaps you could do something constructive and show some examples of the spectrum analyzer of tracks in the genres people are posting and then their tracks and show how they might make changes to make them more genre appropriate in your opinion.
Overall, if you're going to express your criticism this way, it might be best to keep your thoughts to yourself.
