Drum & Bass · 1990s

Drum & Bass loudness in the 1990s

-9.4 Median integrated LUFS
-13.4 to -7.2 Range
41 Tracks

Distribution

-14 to -13 LUFS: 1 track-13 to -12 LUFS: 4 tracks-12 to -11 LUFS: 4 tracks-11 to -10 LUFS: 3 tracks-10 to -9 LUFS: 15 tracks-9 to -8 LUFS: 8 tracks-8 to -7 LUFS: 6 tracks -14 LUFS -11 LUFS -7 LUFS

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: Adam F — Jaxx
-7.2 LUFS
Quietest: Various Artists — Stepper
-13.4 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Stuart Hawkes
n=19 · median -9.2 LUFS
Moses Nagel
n=12 · median -11.2 LUFS

Other decades

Drum & Bass in the 2000s →

This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 41 measured tracks, not a survey of every Drum & Bass release from the 1990s.