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[Bob Katz]

Dear Eelco:


On 6/7/17 5:42 PM, Grimm | Eelco wrote:

> The majority of pop albums will stay above -20 LUFS for the softest track if the loudest track is at -14 LUFS.

Eelco, don't get caught trying to use that argument! This is a red 
herring. You (we) should never have to mention the softest track in an 
album as a "virtue" or even a potential defect! It defuses and confuses 
the reader. It defuses this important point: There are plenty of soft 
passages in good albums that go well below the integrated loudness of 
the entire album. There are plenty of wonderful-sounding albums with 
soft songs that are more than 4 dB below the integrated loudness!

So it should never be necessary to even discuss the softest track as a 
criterion or concern in favor of album normalization. An album has its 
"center of gravity" and where that is normalized for the particular play 
device is all that needs to be discussed. Once the skeptics agree that 
if the center of gravity or the integrated loudness of the album is loud 
enough on portable devices that have limited gain, then our work 
promoting album normalization is done.

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