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Loudness Dock 0.5.1

Supported Bit Versions
  1. 64-bit
Source Code URL
https://github.com/norihiro/obs-loudness-dock/
Minimum OBS Studio Version
28.0.0
Supported Platforms
  1. Windows
  2. macOS
  3. Linux
Summary

The Loudness Dock plugin provides a dock displaying EBU R 128 loudness meter.
The meter dock will display these loudness values for the audio track 1.
  • Momentary loudness
  • Short term loudness
  • Integrated loudness
  • LRA
  • True peak

Usage

Click Docks on the menu, and click Loudness.
gettingstart-01-menu.png

You will see a new dock appear.
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For YouTube
YouTube displays "Content loudness", which is calculated by the same algorithm. However, YouTube's content loudness is a relative number from YouTube's limit -14 LUFS. For example, if your loudness is -18.5 LUFS, YouTube will display -4.5 dB as the content loudness.
youtube-content-loudness.png

See also
  • libebur128 - This plugin uses the libebur128. I acknowledge the author of the library.
  • R 128 - Loudness Normalisation and permitted maximum level of audio signals, EBU.
  • EBU R 128 on Wikipedia
Author
norihiro
Downloads
19,135
Views
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Ratings

5.00 star(s) 4 ratings

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Latest reviews

I honestly cannot believe that something like OBS doesn't have these stats built in natively after so many years, especially for people who might want to use an Audio Interface.

The reason I'm saying this is because for the longest time, I couldn't figure out why my Interface wasn't picking up audio and sending it to OBS correctly (since each interface has it's own Gain/Input setup to fight off the noise floor - so you have a clean audio to work with). It was always either too quiet, too noisy or had heavy reverb when Padded.

And since OBS is still stuck natively on VST2 (and many places have started removing their VST2 plugins) it made it borderline impossible to find a decent Plugin that picks up the correct loudness metering for OBS specifically (most of them seem to always pick up +3-3tdb for some reason?).

Anyways, this plugin is life a saver, and the Author so far on has fixed like 2 for 2 main issues with OBS I would say at the very least.
Exactly what I needed. I read the values through web socket and display it on screen.
Good job Norihiro. Tx for this plugin.
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