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Originally Posted by Lagerfeldt  Yes, there are various reasons.
The two main ones:
-RMS vs. Peak
-Punch, harmonics, distortion
Do a search on RMS. |
Often even a bigger reason is frequency content. i.e. a 3kHz sine wav at 0dBVU will sound a heckuva lot louder than 50Hz sine wav at the same level reading! Which is why when given requests to make things "louder" often one of the first things an ME will do is to push mids and upper mids forward.
Best regards,
Steve Berson