You can google "Loudness war" and get tons upon tons of more information on this as well. Here's a great example and a few sites where you can read about the Loudness War.
Gain is the only thing that I will ever use to match track volumes. It has the potential to kill the dynamics of a track, something that can not be fixed. This is why I will never allow a program to do this to my tracks. I understand the problem of tracks not being the same volume as each other, but are you going to have the possibility of hurting a track just to make it sound as loud as the next?
Dynamics give life to a track by giving it highs and lows. Basically, "loud sounds better" to the common person today and most people are wearing shitty Apple earbuds that have to compete with all the surrounding mass of sound, so people are mixing as loud as possible. Here's the problem, an algorithm can't actually hear anything.īasically, I see Platinum Notes helping lend in to something going on that we like to call in the audio engineering world as "The Loudness Wars". What you are doing with a program like Platinum notes is taking out those dynamics with compressors and several other things that some algorithm decided upon. If you remove these you are seriously effecting the intended sound of a track. Not to mention as long as you've got good rips of the tracks they area already mastered with proper dynamics and such that the song is intended to have. I also do not believe in anything that is basically "auto-mastering" a song, and quickly frankly, as I said before, just the concept scares me. I've been an audio engineer for many years, and I have not heard of a single legit engineer using Izotope Ozone for mastering. While Platinum Notes is using a legit mastering suite to perform it's function, it's using the cheapest mastering suite you can buy. There's the recording engineer, mixing engineer, and then the mastering engineer, that all did their tweaks to make that track sound the way it does, the way the artist wanted it to. While not as much in EDM, with most music, tracks have several engineers tweaking the sound a certain way because that's how the artist wants it to sound. I take very much pride in the fact that I have the highest quality rips from all of my CDs and vinyls. If it was a simple volume matching, it wouldn't be that bad, but there's so much more that it has the potential to ruin for me. That being said, I have a completely different opinion on Platinum Notes.Īs an audio engineer, I'm actually afraid of what Platinum Notes would do to my tracks. I recommend it, or at least another "keying" program for every DJ. There’s no danger of messing up your music.Ok, first, let me say this first, I LOVE MiK and every track I have has been run through it. It creates new tracks with a slightly different filename, so you’ll know which ones have been improved. Platinum Notes never overwrites your original files. It’s an elite-quality plugin that makes music louder without clipping it. Any pitch problems are fixed during processing as well.įinally, Platinum Notes adjusts the volume of the output file by using another iZotope filter called IRC Limiter. Both are good settings, but we recommend the “Gentle” setting for most DJs. Hot vacuum tube is like listening to an old vinyl record at a record store. Gentle Warmth is like sitting by the pool in Ibiza during the summer. We have three settings: “No Warmth”, “Gentle Warmth” and “Hot vacuum tube”, which regulate the intensity of the effect. After that, Platinum Notes adds warmth using an iZotope Exciter. It makes your music sound smoother and less distorted. Next, it detects any clipped peaks, and fixes them with a combination of an iZotope multi-band audio processor, and our custom algorithm for clipped peak repair. The benefit of drum analysis is that all your output files will have the same drum volume, which is really nice for beatmatching. Second, Platinum Notes analyses the volume of the file with our special algorithm that pays attention only to the drums. First, the file is decoded to an uncompressed WAV.
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