Funk · 1980s

Funk loudness in the 1980s

-14.5 Median integrated LUFS
-17.7 to -13 Range
24 Tracks

Distribution

-18 to -17 LUFS: 2 tracks-17 to -16 LUFS: 1 track-16 to -15 LUFS: 5 tracks-15 to -14 LUFS: 8 tracks-14 to -13 LUFS: 8 tracks -18 LUFS -16 LUFS -13 LUFS

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: Faith No More — From Out of Nowhere
-13.0 LUFS
Quietest: Red Hot Chili Peppers — Pretty Little Ditty
-17.7 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

George Marino
n=13 · median -14.6 LUFS
John Golden
n=11 · median -14 LUFS

Other decades

Funk in the 1990s →

This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 24 measured tracks, not a survey of every Funk release from the 1980s.