![]() ![]() Basically, Reaper is an open-source no-nonsense software that supports a wide range of plug-ins, audio interfaces and effects, and then again. That makes it hard to bring things to a nice level – I do a lot manually but you need to bring the levels together with compression somewhat. Reaper allows you to drag and drop your FX and VSTs, or to seamlessly map your MIDI controllers, paste/cut/split/edit individual tracks, and offers plug-in support for the vast majority of music creators. I play a lot of diverse genres and obviously have speech and old crackly 78s, old badly mastered MP3s where that’s the only source, old 50’s tracks next to more recently better mastered material. ![]() 16 or -14 is good, probably a little OTT for music podcasting but that depends on your mastered material – the problem with saying ‘loudness target X = bad/good’ is it really depends on your content. 23 LUFs is fine for broadcast where they then compress it for air, but for podcasts you need more. My podcast isn’t on Spotify anymore so less important, but despite that there is a sweet spot for radio/voice/podcasting where you want to be loud enough to cut through crappy earbuds, commuting, car listening etc. Agreed for mastered music tracks, loudness targets aren’t really necessary, kind of but usually make sure you have high dynamic range and the steaming services sort out the rest – but for podcasting? YES! Very needed, and so glad they added it, because every podcast I have to fiddle with my compressor to hit it.
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