Drum & Bass · 1990s

Drum & Bass loudness in the 1990s

-11.6 Median integrated LUFS
-19.8 to -5.2 Range
330 Tracks

Loudness distribution

-20 to -19 LUFS: 3 tracks-19 to -18 LUFS: 2 tracks-18 to -17 LUFS: 3 tracks-17 to -16 LUFS: 15 tracks-16 to -15 LUFS: 26 tracks-15 to -14 LUFS: 29 tracks-14 to -13 LUFS: 34 tracks-13 to -12 LUFS: 31 tracks-12 to -11 LUFS: 53 tracks-11 to -10 LUFS: 44 tracks-10 to -9 LUFS: 48 tracks-9 to -8 LUFS: 22 tracks-8 to -7 LUFS: 13 tracks-7 to -6 LUFS: 5 tracks-6 to -5 LUFS: 2 tracks -20 LUFS -13 LUFS -5 LUFS

Dynamic range distribution

8 to 9 DR: 4 tracks9 to 10 DR: 14 tracks10 to 11 DR: 19 tracks11 to 12 DR: 44 tracks12 to 13 DR: 59 tracks13 to 14 DR: 47 tracks14 to 15 DR: 49 tracks15 to 16 DR: 36 tracks16 to 17 DR: 27 tracks17 to 18 DR: 17 tracks18 to 19 DR: 9 tracks19 to 20 DR: 4 tracks20 to 21 DR: 1 track 8 DR 14 DR 21 DR

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: Shark Food
Various Artists
-5.2 LUFS
Quietest: Krystaline
Paradox & DMR
-19.8 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Stuart Hawkes
n=21 · median -9.2 LUFS
Simon Davey
n=16 · median -14.7 LUFS
Moses Nagel
n=12 · median -11.2 LUFS
Guy Davie
n=10 · median -15.5 LUFS
Graeme Durham
n=6 · median -15.3 LUFS
George Peckham
n=5 · median -11.9 LUFS
Mike Palmer
n=2 · median -16.2 LUFS
Nilesh Patel
n=2 · median -16.6 LUFS

Other decades

Drum & Bass in the 2000s →

This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 330 measured tracks, not a survey of every Drum & Bass release from the 1990s.