Standardize your monitoring level, part II: mastered loudness vs. mix loudness

Yesterday’s post touched on the idea of using other people’s music to figure out a good listening level for your music work, and I said something that I want to expand on:

1. Open up Spotify, or Apple Music, or whatever other streaming service you subscribe to.

2. Make sure that the “normalize volume” feature is turned off, so that you’re listening to everythi…