New Perception Plugin

"You don't have to learn the skill..."

Does look handy though. Putting this on my list to check out. Thanks for sharing

I just didn't purchase a record the other day because it was DR6. It wasn't the first. It won't be the last.

There's plenty of music that's been recorded WELL. Mastered WELL. If you want your contribution to "stand up" to my collection of DCC and MoFi and Pono masters...you're gonna get it in double digits.

I bought the new McLachlan despite it being DR8...she could sing into a cassette Walkman and I'd buy it. New artists and artists who aren't in my top ten of all time don't get that luxury.

maybe from a website like the following?
dr.loudness-war.info/album/list

Me either, just googled it Now if it's actually accurate, who knows

WHAT? 0? are you serious!! That's ridiculous...

To clarify, It's a negative sum game. I'm not buying anything because it has dynamic range. I obviously have to like music content to buy it. I'm REFUSING to buy recordings because they have had all life removed from them and will be unplayable on my listening system.

I should've stopped by 2000...I just shook my head and figured "this too shall pass"-like it was a fad...it hasn't...so market pressure exerted.

Sounds like you speak from experience.

LOL!

This is free and does pretty much the same thing. Putting it through it's paces today. VST only, 32 bit.
www.sadglad.com/SV/Super-Volu.html

One last thought on loudness in mastering...as it relates to Soundcheck offsets--or any manual way you want to match gain--including this one. It makes the assumption that there's not an inherient "cost/penalty" to higher RMS. On systems that digitally attenaute--meaning your iThing or computer app (generally speaking)--there isn't an inherient penalty. But, if ever you wonder why "audiophiles" (or more accurately just people who actively listen to music on purpose built systems) still have issues with say DR8 "nicely done" loud masters--it's because you're driving the input of the analog section beyond it's sweet spot.

I ran into this when I was doing a lot of comparing vinyl masters to the new Oppo playing Pono masters...see, you HAVE to gain match, or it's an absurd comparison---on shitty little systems, louder will be better...and on big systems, quieter/more dynamic will be better--period, all day...so, when you digitally attenuate the digital player/DAC to match the output of the vinyl preamp...yes, the dynamic master still wins--but, not by as large a margin...this is because volume isn't ALL relative. ie, you can't just "turn down" a loud master--you have to DIGITALLY attenuate it...if you use the analog volume control on 95% of receivers, you're literally still distorting the input and then turning down the output...so, you've got quiet AND distorted playback.

This is why I can take FXG, which does this gain offset....or T-Racks which also does it...I can get my stuff to say DR9 or 8 without doing a TON of harm....UNTIL, you uncheck the offset and actually feed the DR8 RMS to the analog amp--then it sucks.

So, I wanted to point this out to all those doing one's own "mastering"--it doesn't matter if you can "transparently" get single digits...which good mastering engineers have been able to do for some time...because when you put that into a CD player (most of which can't digitally attenuate) you will be saturating the analog sections of whatever preamp it's fed into...again...matters not for an iThing or a computer speaker...or technically, the Oppo is a 32bit Sabre DAC able to attenuate prior to conversion losslessly...but, a normal "everyman" CD player or DVD player being fed to a stereo can't....so DR14-10 WILL sound better on those systems--even if it loudness is done "transparently".

This is why I've LONG said I think we need two formats. That worked. We KNOW most people don't care...that's why 80% of sales when I was in record retail were cassettes versus vinyl or CD...but, the real music listening fans DO care...and want the dynamics. The answer to this is IN that statement. The people who DON'T care....don't care...they're not going to NOT buy because it's too dynamic. They buy based solely on content. The people who DO care...don't want it loud. So, that's who you cater to, IMO. But, then-I'm biased, being that I AM that audience.

And I DO buy a lot of music.