Youtube STABLE VOLUME Is Messing Everything Up?

[@PrincipalAudio]

Stable volume is the feature I wished they had a LONG time ago. All those videos people upload where their audio is -37.5dB LUFS int... 😂 At least I can hear those videos now! The only issue I've had is where it glitched out on a music video, turning it down quite a lot because the video was -5.5dB LUFS int. Aside from that, it's such a great feature for the vast majority of content. It's disabled by default for music videos. EDIT: Your point about music hardware demos is such a good one. EDIT 2: I have it disabled until I come across a super quiet video, then enable it so it saves me accidentally blasting the neighbours if I want to reference something to a music video where it's disabled and forgot to turn down the SSL2+ (dedicated Windows audio interface).

[@GeorgeAmodei21]

Good to know! Thx David

[@LeeDaHitman]

MixbusTV kicks ass!!! My favorite mixing and mastering channel 💯

[@AMB666]

Totally appreciate your effort to make us (the community of engineers/musicians) up to date with what's going on! Thank you so much for helping people man! I actually noticed something weird when hearing a guitar amp review and when the guitarist switched from crunch to total distorted channel...the volume just turned down awkwardly...like some sort of stupidly dialed compression....I checked the options and found that stable thing which is totally was annoying when hearing that beautiful chug went down!

[@trashunicorn2308]

Definitely good to know, thanks man!

[@MrXikwriNeyrra]

Just turned it off a few days ago when I saw it, thank God I'm constantly using CC and playbackspeed so as soon as I saw it, I did shut it down.

[@ishortiz9988]

Wow! Great info as usual from you. Thank you

[@SoundKilterStudio]

Oh! Well we learn something new everyday don't we!? Thank you as always for the info man!

[@emilybeats6556]

Thank you David!

[@rrs731]

Good to know! Thank you David

[@AsheraEmilySky]

From a literal technical side it causes the phone to bounce from using the headset speaker to using the loudspeaker when you go from mini monitor to full screen, the interesting thing is that on most models (phones/ units) the volume drops drastically in loudness if you had the volume all the way up for example and the phone is in mini viewing mode and you switch screen to full screen mode the volume drops significantly. Possibly the opposite of what you may assume or expect.

[@Rhekluse]

I believe KZbin fully rolled out Stable Volume around July 2023

[@AVDRE]

yes but it waasnt available to everyone on all platforms

[@emiel333]

Stable Volume is available for many months now. I turn it off. For every video. I think I noticed this feature somewhere in the summer.

[@PharaohLawLess1]

Thanks for the knowledge

[@SkinnEmannProductions]

Your always on top of new things appreciate the video

[@AVDRE]

In my experience it doesnt really have a really bad side effect. Even tutorials it helps the dialogue be louder so you dont go deaf when other people demo stuff lol Luckily its off for music tho

[@nota76]

O yes! exactly my thoughts today! And Here your answer! Thank you! Merry Christmas David!!!

[@onoesmurlocs]

Windows already has that option under sounds enhancements , I actually forgot I had it on lol

[@ollykramer3673]

Off topic but that Bella's video is so badass!

[@Rolanoid]

The new mantra is going to be "Like, subscribe, notification bell on, stable audio off"

[@DevilBirb]

I mainly do post work and work with content creators as an audio editor. I've heard how this effects my work and it sounds like ass. I'll deliver a stream mix and it just slams the dynamic range.

[@pocket1684]

Thanks as always for this info.. Happy New Year

[@nashsevenofficial]

I mean it's been a long time since YT started it but they are the best on implementing useless stuff that nobody asked and just put it by default. YT single handed was able to create a whole industry of small apps created to reverse whatever YT changes.

[@rundajulesproductions7735]

I hope YT puts that as an option on the content creator side to disable it. Sometimes I can't even determine if what I am making is music. I don't want to leave it up to Y.T. AI to make that determination. (and I need my dynamics!)

[@Mr_Kri]

I just realized David hasn't aged at all over the years. I think he must have oversampling 🤔

[@dropLove_]

Thanks for this super-important info! Good chance to hear the difference on 'Felony' playing at the end of this video. Maybe sounds a bit like a TPK limiter. Definitely need to educate everyone. Would be a good idea to emulate this exact algorithm so we can test before uploading. Music is only safe if it stands alone, it seems. Appreciated, David. Love.

[@Mojardan]

I notice this stable volume option over 2 months ago.

[@juanmr6878]

if you compose music for a videogame trailer for example, this feature will totally ruin the sound ratio between music and sfx, i think that feature must be only in podcast or vlog videos.

[@MeanTrainingMachine]

Glad it doesn't affect music tho', still turning it off for exactly the reasons you mentioned!

[@Gdude899]

volume control should only be available from your monitoring hardware imo cause of the countless times I've got annoyed with volume changes on the internet I think its great and am disappointed this feature hasn't taken over the entire binary 0's and 1's computer and internet world

[@necroticpoison]

Loved it for a month until they just took it away completely from me. And have premium, so idk what they're doing, would love it back

[@Fanafranky]

Thanks for sharing this, I never even saw this since on the phone app the switch is hidden in the additional settings! But yeah they did good by disabling this for music. At the same time it's a great option for dialogue, basically the entire time I worked in TV broadcast we had something like this on everything to normalize loudness to a stable -24LUFS, because it's literally a worldwide standard (-ish, there's a 1 or 2 dB difference between the American AES and European EBU standards but it's the same principle). And thank God that includes ads now because loud ads in the 90s were painful 😅

[@kelainefes]

It includes ads? That's huge if true

[@Lordsallakh]

why not make this feature as a preference/setting for creators when they are uploading their videos on yt?

[@mixbustv]

Good question 😄 YT just does things and then let everyone else figuring it out lol makes no sense

[@electronichq974]

Does switching off the stable volume option permanently switch it off for all videos? It would be a pain if we have to switch it off for every video we watch.

[@mixbustv]

Yep, it's individual videos unfortunately

[@mistermusicenterprise3148]

Thank You.. Off that shi...

[@ArielNora]

I'd have never known!

[@akaSVAT]

This feature is available since autumn 2023 I guess. There’s no reason to panic, ‘cause it’s not working as should be. Me, personally, clearly hear the A/B difference in tutorial sound videos.

[@mixbustv]

It was introduced back then, meaning only few channels actually had. It's now extended to everyone.

[@WilliamHGBray]

The Stable Volume feature sounds terrible to me. It makes the sound way too compressed sounding and makes dialogue less clear.

[@mj974-z9w]

Hey David! I have a question about bass. I created a bass sound in Serum using 2 oscillators with different shapes. The first oscillator is panned 20% to the left, while the second one is panned 20% to the right, aiming to create a wider sound. I have Ozone 10 set up to keep everything mono below 200Hz on the bass channel. I removed the fundamentals on both oscillators using the process menu in Serum. I also tried to address some 'resonant frequencies' that didn't sound right by using a sidechain dynamic EQ. When the kick drum hits, it attenuates frequencies around 45Hz, 88Hz, and 131Hz. I did this because the bass sounded too boomy without the attenuation. Before this, I listened to it on club speakers, the bass sounded like a mess, even though there isn't much happening around 200Hz. While it's now more controlled, it's still not quite where I want it to be. Is it because the phase problems with 2 different oscillators making the bass ''hectic'' Mainly, the bass is in F2 What do you think I should work on fixing next? I would appreciate a brief response.

[@mixbustv]

Seems like you're trying to micromanage a bit. If the bass you're creating gives you so many issues I'd simply change it for something else. But I know that's not the answer you want, so, without listening to it is almost impossible to know, yet, I'd think the problem might be on the 2 oscillators cycling and not retriggering every note, so I'd check that (if Serum has the option like Massive), the other thing is you're probably better off creating two different waves, separately because it's easier to phase align them (and you can also see if they go out of phase overtime which is most likely what's happening. Out of phase can also mean bump not only dips)

[@pinprime]

Dont work for the music at the end of this video :)

[@mixbustv]

Which is lowered by 60% for the outro, go figure

[@kadiummusic]

Just tried to switch it off and it won't let me. 🤔

[@marcusedvardsson5505]

Thanks! I will keep an eye on this and turn it off!

[@FishStickington]

Nice video, but this mic used in these last two videos is not it IMO. It almost hurts to listen to at times, great content otherwise though!

[@ILOVEDRAGO]

Bro, you mastered your vocals for this video with aliasing!

[@mixbustv]

You can't master vocals, bro.

[@ILOVEDRAGO]

@mixbustv it is ironic how we listen to smallest sonic differences, yet your voiceover is pretty harsh 😇😅😅 no disrespect, i know we not mastering vocals, unless it's some barbershop baby 😃😃😃

[@RockstarRecStudio]

Turning it off!

[@DaskaiserreichNet78]

2:51 KZbin is suggesting you watch Matt Walsh.

[@pixelcomet]

hehe yeah yeah. I like it for clueless amateur creators. besides that, for the totally off content I'm using a browser(plugin) compressor as well. 🙃