On 2016-03-05 23:50:49 +0000, "Dave Plowman (News)"
said:

In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:
Orban, the sound processor people used by just about every radio
station have a desktop sound meter for PC or MAC. One of its meters is
a pretty good perceived loudness meter. Give that a go, and you may
find it tells you what you need to know, even if you then have to make
the changes yourself.

But does that meter look at the entire track before giving a reading? That
appears to be a requirement.


Yes, that's definitely the requirement. I use Logic Pro X which has a
ton of decent sound metering tools for real time, but it's the offline
analysis that I'm looking for.

I won't be slavishly following exact normalisation, but it would be
really helpful to know if I was way off base. Ideally I'd just use ears
of course, but as I say I've heard these things too many times to be
objective now.


Cheers,
Ian