Do I put the Youlean-Loudness-Meter in front of every channel?

[Punchinello]

Hi all!

Do I put the Youlean-Loudness-Meter in front of every channel? Or just in front of the whole song?

Sorry for this stupid question but I am still trying to use it properly. And I have not found a good tutorial yet on Youtube, etc.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Cheers! Chris

[Djstarski]

You would put it on the song

[moggadeet]

Instead of measuring the loudness of each track, what I have seen is people using a limiter on some tracks to control the loudness of each track. This serves as a reference to start mixing. For instance Jelie sets a limiter on the kick and turns it to -5dB and starts mixing from them.

On a similar technique, others use a loudness meter on a kick + bass channel, set the kick to -6dB and adds the bass so that it totals -3dB. This should balance the signals of kick and bass.

For for none of these techniques you need such a plugin like the one you mean.

[RandomSkratch]

Just put it on your master buss and use channel solos to check individual ones.

[PhillipOrdonez]

You want to set it on the master channel. If you are interested in measuringa single channel you can set it on that as well, is a matter of seeing, measuring, deleting.

Also, depending on the material you are working on, you want to set the auto button on or off. Because that will either restart whenever you stop and play, or ignore that.
For example when i work with podcast editing, I set it to auto, so that by the time I'm done editing, I know the integrated loudness, even though I consistently start and stop the audio throughout. Then I set the auto off and restart the panels before exporting, so it analyses the entire rendered program, and at the end of the render I can see the exact loudness measurements.

[Ahornberg]

For me, a loudness meter only makes sense on the whole song.
Maybe take a look here http://dynamicrangeday.co.uk/about/

[Punchinello]

Thanks, everyone! Now I have something to dive into.