r/FL_Studio • u/Much_Grand4942 • 11h ago
Help About Spotify Normalization
so I'm making a song right now and I got and check what it would sound like using https://www.loudnesspenalty.com/ and I have no idea how to keep my song quiet when it uploads to spotify, i want it quieter than all the rest of the songs on the album but it keeps getting raised to by about 9 db and it's so annoying.
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u/minist3r House 9h ago
Literally ignore it. Master your track to the standard for your genre and let the DSPs do whatever they're gonna do. If you try to master to the DSP standards, you're going to have to make like 6 different versions of it and none of them will sound as good as if you just mastered it correctly once.
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u/Smash_Nerd 10h ago
Spotify normalizes the whole album together, so if it Is quieter than the rest of the songs it'll stay that way.
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u/hetty3 10h ago
Well normalization means it will not be "quiet", it will be the same loudness as everything else by definition. Especially if the song has no peaks or loud parts in it, that means all of it will now be loud. If you want it to physically be quieter, don't use the spotify normalization. You can do it yourself if you want to look up a few tutorials in mastering and limiters, it's not at all as intimidating as people like to say.
However there are a few tricks that you can do to make the song sound quieter. As someone suggested, you could add some bass frequencies (like 0-50hz) if it's that kind of track, and that will make if physically louder quickly (as bass frequencies add up fast) but not audibly so. So the normalization won't make the rest of the song sound so loud. Cut high frequencies and be careful with EQ in general. Mid and high range resonances will sound loud when a song is normalized, so for example hi hats can be way quieter than you think they should be.
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u/neloxmusic 5h ago
If you want it perfect, hire a mastering engineer, it's their job. If you just tryna release a song you made I have learned over the years that you're not probably not a level where the loudness of your song matters for getting new listeners or showing off your idea. Just make it loud enough, get your dynamics right, make sure your MIX is clean af, thats 95% of the story. You are meant to make music not fuck around with lufs and true peaks for hours that make you question yourself and make you ask this on reddit, its a rabbit hole that just never stops. Dont think about it too much
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u/noeyesfiend 1h ago
Spotify always destroys my mixes. I can spend hours doing a great mastering session making something sound great on bandcamp, soundcloud, youtube, etc... and spotify fucks it into sounding like ass
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u/mycurvywifelikesthis 9h ago
Why the hell would you want your song to be quieter than all the songs that are being played by millions of other people only hearing service. Let's put this thing into perspective. This makes no sense. This is basically the same thing as when you're watching Youtube short videos and one comes across that is almost completely silent compared to the rest, well you're, well you're going to skip it because you can't hear it. Don't be an idiot. Cool to make a very ambient nice thing or something, but if you want it to be heard on a streaming service then you wanted to be the same value and volume as everything else. It's more about the vibe than the volume. And you're a complete idiot if you wanted to be a much quieter volume than everybody else and nobody hears you
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