How to Normalize Audiobook and Podcast Audio to a Consistent Volume Chapter three is whisper-quiet, chapter four blows your earbuds out; last week’s episode needs the volume up, this week’s needs it down. Spoken audio has the same disease as music libraries, but it answers to two different rulebooks: audiobooks inherited an 89 dB tradition…
LUFS for DJs: What Loudness Should Club Tracks Be? Streaming taught every DJ a number — usually −14 LUFS — and the number is real, but it answers a question a club never asks. A streaming platform normalizes playback, so a target exists. A PA system does not: it plays your file at whatever level…
Does MP3Gain Mess Up Cue Points and Beatgrids? (rekordbox & Serato) Short answer: no — and the reason is mechanical, not a matter of trust. Cue points and beatgrids are positions in time. MP3Gain never re-encodes your file, never touches its timing, and never changes its length, so there is nothing for a time position…
rekordbox Auto Gain vs MP3Gain: Trust the Software or Fix the Files? Every major DJ application now levels your tracks for you — and every one of them does it differently, keeps the result in a different place, and forgets it the moment you step outside that app. MP3Gain takes the opposite bet: change the…
MP3Gain for DJs: Level Every Track in Your Library Before the Gig Every DJ library drifts. Tracks arrive from download stores, promo pools, old CD rips and friends’ USB sticks, each mastered in a different year to a different loudness. The result is a set where you ride the trim knob on every single transition….
