<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>This was playing from Apple Music BTW, and from the album so in Album Mode. Presumably using “loudest track” would fix it. However in Track mode it will presumably be worse, in some cases.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On a more positive note, they are obviously actively focusing on audio stuff at the moment, because Atmos, so hopefully it can be fixed !</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ian<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Jan 2022, at 19:14, Ian Shepherd <<a href="mailto:ian@mastering-media.co.uk" class="">ian@mastering-media.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">Even clearer with a larger waveform scale. One step forward… OTOH maybe most classical listeners don’t use Sound Check…?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="cid:9EA9F4D2-E0D7-4428-87FF-A91C3D8C8361@fritz.box"><Sound Check DRC.png></span></div>
<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Jan 2022, at 19:11, Ian Shepherd <<a href="mailto:ian@mastering-media.co.uk" class="">ian@mastering-media.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">Confirmed, sadly - iPhone 11 with iOS 15.1 has pretty blatant DRC happening, monitored via a lightning-to-analogue converter. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s pretty aggressive so I hesitate to call it limiting - here are the waveforms for Sound Check Off (top) and On, level-matched by ear:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="cid:82D2EF68-518E-4F1B-BCE1-3768022E15EB@fritz.box" class=""><Sound Check DRC.png></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is about 1:30 into the first Track of “On Christmas Day” 😕</div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">Ian</div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Jan 2022, at 16:54, Ian Shepherd <<a href="mailto:ian@mastering-media.co.uk" class="">ian@mastering-media.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hi Bob,<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p class="">Ian, in your copious free time </p></div></div></blockquote><div class="">You’re hilarious 😂</div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p class="">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.</p><p class="">And in fact, if you can give me links to that choral music I'd
like to check it and measure it</p></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It was one or other of these albums, possibly both:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://music.apple.com/gb/album/hodie-an-english-christmas-collection-re-mastered/73233052" class="">https://music.apple.com/gb/album/hodie-an-english-christmas-collection-re-mastered/73233052</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://music.apple.com/gb/album/on-christmas-day/695609721" class="">https://music.apple.com/gb/album/on-christmas-day/695609721</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Both are beautiful BTW, although I prefer Britten’s Ceremony sung by a boys' choir rather than adults)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ah hell, now I’m going to have to check it on iPhone…!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ian</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>