Another tool I would love to share with you guys that I found very useful in doing audio mixes or any type of audio work is something called the loudness radar. And loudness is actually a term in the audio world. Because what we have here are decibels, you see the DB here, and that it's momentary loudness. If I play this it's reacting instantaneously to how many decibels there are per second or per millisecond or wherever it's ranges. So, what loudness is when that's all averaged out? How loud does it seem, to the person when it's being played?

Is a very unique and key metric to doing sound work. Because if you want things to sound, a certain loudness or a certain volume to somebody, you can't just go by, oh, well, it's below negative six and I put everything out negative below negative six. So everything's about the same volume that doesn't work. You have to average the volume of it averaged the decibels, to be able to tell how loud it really is. And that's a hard thing to do visually. And it's a hard thing to do just listening.

So luckily, there's a tool to do it in Premiere. Let's go up to our effects, special loudness radar. We'll double click, and it comes up with this confusing looking circle. And just really quickly, it's a circle. It's going it's playing our timeline in a circle. Just to go round and round.

So what you see on this outer ring is the momentary loudness. And that's the same as what you see here. It's how loud it is at any given instant. But what starts happening over here is the average what we call the program loudness. And that number is given to us. It's calculated for us that loudness right here.

So I'm gonna let this play for a bit. I'm gonna reset, and I'm gonna let it play and we'll see what we can learn from it. All right, so this is giving us some cool information. It's telling us overall, our program is negative 27 lufs or lk Fs. And this is for this is loudness scale. It's its own thing.

And here it's very quiet. In here that said its loudest point in the difference between this the quietest point and the loudest point is 8.4. That's our louder range, it's good to know that because in some cases, you want a big loudness range or a dynamic range. If you're mixing a movie that's going to be played on a great sound system in a theater, you want a big range, you want to, you want those quiet moments and you want those loud moments. However, if you're editing a video for social media that's gonna be played on phones, you don't want that huge range because the speakers aren't capable of doing the range as it should be. And the soft parts might be left out.

And the loud parts might be clipped, maybe you want everything averaged a little more. So this is some good tools to start learning. And I'm going to show you how I use it in a practical mixing sense to take it off the track a one and let's say we have two music tracks, and we're cutting between both of them. Here's the first one. Here's the second one. So to me Because I've done this a lot, I can tell that the second tracks louder.

But what we can do is put the loudness radar. And the loudest loudness meter doesn't affect anything. It's only a meter. It's just showing you things. So if you put it on the master track, it's going to show me everything that's coming into the master, which is everything. So I'm gonna let this play through this track and then to that track, in order to see what kind of drop off and volume or increase in volume, we get Okay, already we could tell is way too loud, the peak sign came up, which means it's you can go into settings and set your target loudness and what you consider a peak to be, and it's going above those.

So what this is really great for is if you're mixing a video, and you've got three pieces of music, you've got four different speakers, and you listen through and when you're listening through, it's hard to tell, is it quieter in that section? Or is that just me or did it get louder there was in it's very, I mean, as you're listening, it's hard to tell how the overall loudness is going. So using this is a tool to say, Okay, well when I get right here, that stuff is too loud. I'm gonna bring that down, and then you can reset this and do it again until it starts being even so I recommend using the loudness radar when finishing your mix and adjusting things, and when I get into our mixing section of the course, I'll show you an even quicker way to do overall loudness export that's built into premiere.