Drum & Bass · 2000s

Drum & Bass loudness in the 2000s

-10.9 Median integrated LUFS
-24.8 to -5.1 Range
482 Tracks

Loudness distribution

-25 to -24 LUFS: 1 track-24 to -23 LUFS: 0 tracks-23 to -22 LUFS: 0 tracks-22 to -21 LUFS: 1 track-21 to -20 LUFS: 1 track-20 to -19 LUFS: 1 track-19 to -18 LUFS: 3 tracks-18 to -17 LUFS: 6 tracks-17 to -16 LUFS: 15 tracks-16 to -15 LUFS: 23 tracks-15 to -14 LUFS: 21 tracks-14 to -13 LUFS: 30 tracks-13 to -12 LUFS: 62 tracks-12 to -11 LUFS: 73 tracks-11 to -10 LUFS: 78 tracks-10 to -9 LUFS: 62 tracks-9 to -8 LUFS: 45 tracks-8 to -7 LUFS: 37 tracks-7 to -6 LUFS: 15 tracks-6 to -5 LUFS: 8 tracks -25 LUFS -15 LUFS -5 LUFS

Dynamic range distribution

7 to 8 DR: 2 tracks8 to 9 DR: 10 tracks9 to 10 DR: 24 tracks10 to 11 DR: 63 tracks11 to 12 DR: 73 tracks12 to 13 DR: 75 tracks13 to 14 DR: 65 tracks14 to 15 DR: 58 tracks15 to 16 DR: 40 tracks16 to 17 DR: 26 tracks17 to 18 DR: 22 tracks18 to 19 DR: 15 tracks19 to 20 DR: 6 tracks20 to 21 DR: 0 tracks21 to 22 DR: 2 tracks22 to 23 DR: 1 track 7 DR 15 DR 23 DR

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: Heaven
Various Artists
-5.1 LUFS
Quietest: Power Of The Trinity
Congo Natty
-24.8 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Stuart Hawkes
n=19 · median -7.9 LUFS
Craig Bevan
n=18 · median -11.9 LUFS
Rankin
n=18 · median -10.1 LUFS
Simon Davey
n=18 · median -11.7 LUFS
Christian Dwiggins
n=16 · median -9.6 LUFS
Julian Lopez
n=12 · median -7.8 LUFS
Brian Gardner
n=9 · median -11.5 LUFS
Shane McEnhill
n=5 · median -14.5 LUFS

Other decades

← Drum & Bass in the 1990s

This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 482 measured tracks, not a survey of every Drum & Bass release from the 2000s.