Now one thing I've done some reading up on in this metering system of "LUFS" which is supposed to be PERCEIVED loudness. surely there must be a plugin or something that can achieve the same thing in the mix? Or not? Furthermore: surely I don't have to resort to Sound Forge Pro 12 to be able to do this i.e. But it concerns me that this may not be the way to do it because for sure I'm messing about with the dynamic range of the original audio.
Basically I normalize the RMS levels to -18dB for each solo and then use something called "Wave Hammer" to limit the peaks to -6dB. The closest I've come to evening out these things has been in Sound Forge Pro 12. Problem here is that in some instances: the RMS of the original audio will be less than -18dB RMS but the peaks will be greater than -6dB and in this case HornetVUMeter will reduce the peaks to -6dB but this results also in reducing the RMS level even more than the original and of course this audio is then softer than say another solo or guitar part. I can tell you that something like HornetVUMeter does a terrible job here as it appears as though it will set the level of the track to EITHER -6dB peak OR -18dB RMS. So first off: anybody got any suggestions as to how they'd adjust the individual solos so that they're PERCEIVED to be at the same volume?
The one with the more treble is PERCEIVED to be louder in the mix because of the higher frequencies. Put another way: one guitarist may have used a tone with less tops and more bottoms while another's tone may have more treble and less bottom end. In other words: I can use any number of plugins that will even out the LEVELS (peak and RMS) but it does NOT follow that even with the LEVELS having being evened out that the PERCEIVED VOLUME is the same. I'm emphasizing the words "PERCEIVED VOLUME" because this is NOT (or so it would seem anyway) the same thing as the LEVELS of the audio. So when I pull all of the solos onto the backing track the solos are not at the same PERCEIVED VOLUME. is different as is their guitar tone and recording methods (levels to be exact). In short: different guitarists are sending to me their solos that they've worked on and recorded on their own gear and it's my function to put the whole lot together nice.
As some will know I'm busy with that collaboration project over on the Seymour Duncan forums.
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