[MLA] Apple seems to have turned Soundcheck ON by default...

[Ian Shepherd]

Hi Bob,
> Ian, in your copious free time
> 
You’re hilarious 😂
> you should capture both ways. If you detect anything other than just a gain shift, then we should alert Buddy and maybe he can get that changed.
> 
> And in fact, if you can give me links to that choral music I'd like to check it and measure it
> 


It was one or other of these albums, possibly both:

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/hodie-an-english-christmas-collection-re-mastered/73233052 <https://music.apple.com/gb/album/hodie-an-english-christmas-collection-re-mastered/73233052>

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/on-christmas-day/695609721 <https://music.apple.com/gb/album/on-christmas-day/695609721>

(Both are beautiful BTW, although I prefer Britten’s Ceremony sung by a boys' choir rather than adults)

I just previewed the first track of “Hodie" and it has a +9 Sound Check value using iTunes in Mojave, which takes it to +0.1 dBFS @ 2:54 and sure enough it clips audibly, so no limiting in this case.

Ah hell, now I’m going to have to check it on iPhone…!

Ian
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