How loud is my song?

There are two answers, and mixing them up is why loudness is confusing. One is the volume knob — how loud it happens to play right now. The other is the measurement: integrated LUFS, the number streaming platforms read when they decide how much to turn your track up or down. Upload a track above and you get that number in about thirty seconds, along with true peak and dynamic range.

Why your track sounds quieter than releases you love

It's almost never the volume fader. Commercial masters are denser — they spend more of their time close to the ceiling. Compression, limiting, and saturation raise the average level without raising the peak. If your peaks already touch the top and the track still sounds small, you don't have a level problem, you have a density problem — and often a tonal one underneath it, because harsh mids and uncontrolled lows burn loudness headroom for nothing.

What streaming does to your loudness

Spotify plays everything at around -14 LUFS. Apple Music around -16. Master louder than that and they turn you down; quieter and they turn you up (with limits). So chasing a big LUFS number for its own sake buys you nothing on streaming — the level gets given back. What survives normalization is character: the density, the punch, the tonal balance. That's why the dynamic range number next to your LUFS matters as much as the LUFS itself — it tells you whether the loudness came at the cost of the punch.

Check it, then hear it

The analysis is free and takes seconds. If the numbers say your track needs work, you can master it right here — the AI works from your track's own analysis, tells you exactly what it changed, and you compare every version against your original at matched loudness, so you're judging the sound, not the volume.

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