I used this on a few instruments, but let’s look at how it’s used on the bass. However, Maximus is much more than a pristine quality Mastering Maximizer, its also a Compressor, Limiter, Noise Gate, Expander, Ducker and De-esser. So if you make your song at -14, it will sound way quieter than all the other songs on streaming services that don't normalize volume (SoundCloud, for example). Maximus for Dynamics When it comes to your dynamics, Maximus is a valuable plugin mainly because it lets you maximize or use low-level or upward compression to bring detail forward. The problem with lowering the LUFS yourself is that everyone else's music is louder than -14 (for example it's common for dubstep to get up to -5). But then it doesn't matter how loud your song is, because Spotify will always make it the same volume. The reason people say to not go over -14 LUFS or whatever is because if your song is louder than that, some streaming services like Spotify will decrease the volume until it is -14 LUFS. Louder things generally sound better, so you should try to get LUFS as high as possible without sacrificing quality.

So if you decrease LUFS, you make your song quieter, and there's pretty much no way around that. The LUFS measurement is designed to try to mimic how the human ear perceives loudness. I used it on my last song and it worked fine.Įxcuse the long winded comment, but I want to make sure you understand LUFS, because I don't think there is any reason to intentionally decrease LUFS.

There's a free VST called ( ) that has a true peak limiter in it.

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