Bring spots up to streaming level - #307
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Renders were landing around -30 dB mean. A synthesised read comes back quiet and a five second spot has no room to ride the gain, so the advert arrived audible only to someone who had already turned everything up for the programme, which is the one moment it must not ask them to. -16 LUFS is what streaming platforms normalise to, so a spot now arrives at the same loudness as whatever it interrupted. Measured on a real render from the queue: -30.0 dB mean before, -20.0 after, true peak -1.6. The true-peak ceiling matters as much as the target: without it, lifting a quiet source pushes its peaks into clipping, and a clipped voice is worse than a quiet one. On the bed path it normalises the finished mix rather than the voice on its own, which would have moved the voice relative to the bed and undone the -16 dB the bed was deliberately placed at.
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The assertion pinned -af to exactly "apad", which loudness normalisation legitimately changes. What it meant to protect is that a spot without a bed stays on a simple filter rather than switching to the mixer, and that the pad still runs before anything else.
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Renders were landing around -30 dB mean. A synthesised read comes back quiet and a five second spot has no room to ride the gain, so the advert arrived audible only to someone who had already turned everything up for the programme — which is the one moment it must not ask them to.
Measured on a real render pulled from the queue:
-16 LUFSis what streaming platforms normalise to, so a spot now arrives at the same loudness as whatever it interrupted.Two details that are the point rather than incidental:
A silent spot gains no audio filter at all.
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