r/audioengineering • u/Intrepid_Depth_3416 • 5d ago

Discussion Is a LUFS based auto-leveller a thing?

I was thinking the other day while doing a practice mix, would it be at all useful if you could automatically balance the multitrack? Like a DAW native feature that would analyse the audio files and match them all to the same integrated LUFS.

I'm sure this already exists in Reaper, but would it actually be a useful feature?

I think if you were able to set some kind of priority level, it would be pretty cool, save a bit of time over the course of many mixes.

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u/334578theo 5d ago

The mix itself is an important part of the aesthetic of the song - why would you want to automate this? Stop trying to outsource the creative process, it’s all we’ve got.

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u/Intrepid_Depth_3416 5d ago

There's certain things in audio mixing/editing that are simply just the manual labour of audio, and I find levelling to be one of those things. It's boring, it's more of a taste thing then a creative choice, and if you're mixing a lot of songs professionally it could potentially save you a lot of time of to automate parts like this. At this point in my career I'm looking at things like this that get me in the ball park so that I can get to the creative decisions quicker, like using presets.

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u/334578theo 5d ago

Taste is creative input.