Make your tracks louder with Logic’s Adaptive Limiter
Ensure your finished tracks compete with others in the loudness wars on streaming services like Spotify or Apple Music
• App credit: Apple Inc
Logic Pro
Developer Apple Inc
Difficulty
Time needed
20
Logic’s built-in Adaptive Limiter can help create the correct impression of perceived loudness for your mixes so they can hold their own against other tracks. Although we wouldn’t recommend this as an alternative to having your track professionally mastered, in the absence of expensive mastering plugins from third-party developers, this trick works great for ensuring that quick rough mixes sound loud enough. Our example track mimics a rough mix peaking at around -3dB. Left like this, the track would sound too quiet against other material on streaming services, so here’s how to fix that.