With the availability of limiters, and a fair amount of sources influencing mixing engineers to use them, mixes are often sent off for mastering at levels that are far too loud. This means there are few reasons why a master should be louder than these settings. This varies based on whatever setting the listener has selected.įor example, if a track was mastered at -10dB LUFS, its loudness will be truncated to comply with Spotify’s normalization settings. In order to accomplish this, Spotify will turn down the overall volume of your song. Also notice that Spotify’s loudest setting, plays the track at -11dB LUFS.
Notice that Spotify not only alters your song’s volume, it offers different options to their listeners. Loudness settings from Spotify’s Artist FAQ section
