SPL Meter Choices - Loudness Measure (Part 2)

This posting is a continuation of the SPL Meter Choices - Loudness Measure (Part 1), contains a wide selection of gauge loudness. To combat the loudness war, of course we need a variety of tools that support. Please have a look and choose according to your needs.

SPL Meter Choices - Loudness Measure (Part 1)

Loudness Measure

To measure the level of loudness, we can use the VU meters (if measured in the form of audio files). But what if we want to measureloudness from the outside? you of course need an SPL meter. And with this tool is expected that all of us keep the loudness is not only in the world of audio mastering, but can also be used for various things as needed, maybe you can also use it when measuring noise levels in the factory. In essence, let's keep our ears from the loudness level that we do not need. In the world of music specifically, we should always keep the dynamics of the works that we will sell to the audience. If you do not already have a SPL meter to measure the loudness of the sound, please select one from the list below, and let's stop the loudness war.

Loudness Measure ?

Actually you can not "measure" the subjective feeling loudness in decibels with a "dB"-meter. You can objectively measure the sound pressure with a "sound pressure meter" that shows the sound pressure in pascals or the sound pressure level SPL in dB or dBA. SPL is a measure of the sound pressure present; dB above the Threshold of Hearing.

Dynamic Range Meter and Foobar 2000

Pleasurize Music Foundation is making a very good application for the Measure of loudness of a song or album. You can get the application to become a member of the organization Pleasurize Music Foundation. But they also make a version that can be used in foobar (audio player) and all for free download before you even decide to become a member.

Pleasurize Music Foundation, call the application with the name DR Metering, DR (Dynamic Range), although for some people, especially among audio experts consider how to label it a little ambiguous, but the result of DR metering is quite useful for all walks of music listeners. They release of a very convenient tool DR Metering the which is compatible with almost all formats and supports direct readout from the CD drive. This fulfills a desire of the DR Manifold user community. Foobar2000 is a free and very versatile media player.

Here's an explanation of the DR application metering and Foobar, I get from the official website Pleasurize Music Foundation:

AC-R128 - Loudness Measure

One more Loudness Measure that you can use to measure the loudness of an audio. Plugin that this one has a digital number, so for those of you who like a meter in the form of digital numbers, this free plugin is the right choice.

VU Meter - Loudness Measure

Image Reference: Wikipedia.org

For the person who engaged in audio editing, of course not bother with the "how to loudness measure of the audio using the number". But here I try to share a bit of science behind the ways of the audio editing is just to help people who do not understand about mastering the science but wanted to know or analyze their collection album as very loud or quite standard. So maybe this will sound very simple but we hope can be helpful for people other than the audio engineer who also wanted to combat the Loudness War.