Why FFmpeg Loudness & Normalization Guides Are All Wrong, Evil & Immoral!

The Wrong Way There are SEVERAL guides online telling you how to normalize audio to provide a great listening experience by using FFmpeg’s “loudnorm” filter. Most walk you through a simple process called “track normalization.” You set a goal loudness, and adjust every piece of audio up or down to match that loudness. This is evil and immoral and I’ll tell you why: Loudnorm changes the way things sound! Loudnorm crushes dynamics!...

October 18, 2018 · 3 min · Luis

How I Built My Own Guitar

Why? I wanted a faster, more efficient way to make music. My solution? Stick a Launchpad in a guitar Sadly, no electric guitars I found had the room for a launchpad. My solution (pt 2)? Build my own guitar with correct dimensions. My advice? DON’T DO IT. It was really hard and time consuming. Unless you NEED to do this to get specific dimensions & realize some crazy idea of your own, just buy a nice used guitar....

May 23, 2018 · 3 min · Luis Gomez