<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="">Hi Ian,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is actually something important to report to Buddy. He’s looking for data to convince his people from adopting Album Normalization ’td1008 style’ in stead of the ‘average loudness’ style that’s currently implemented. So indeed, if you can give us the PLR of each version we can send a clear text to him.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Eelco<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Jan 2022, at 21:58, Bob Katz <<a href="mailto:bobkatz@digido.com" class="">bobkatz@digido.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Oy, that's bad. Sound Check is not supposed to implement DRC. Please Measure the PLR of each version. That would tell us something to tell Buddy about if it's happening.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">I'm not subscribed to Apple Music. It's just one more service I don't want to pay for. If I sign in, can I download this one album without beig forced to be a subscriber?<br class=""></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Bob</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></p><div class="moz-cite-prefix" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">On 1/19/22 2:11 PM, Ian Shepherd wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:C84DBB58-5D22-4FEE-9F60-1CF423A82534@mastering-media.co.uk" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" 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:part1.B3lLH9Qg.S1b25bU2@digido.com"><Sound%20Check%20DRC.png></span></div><div class=""><br 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="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">ian@mastering-media.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></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="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">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="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">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=""></blockquote><div class="moz-signature" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><pre class=""><font class="3D""" face="3D"Courier"">
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