Punk · 1990s

Punk loudness in the 1990s

-10.4 Median integrated LUFS
-20 to -5.9 Range
143 Tracks

Loudness distribution

-20 to -19 LUFS: 1 track-19 to -18 LUFS: 1 track-18 to -17 LUFS: 1 track-17 to -16 LUFS: 0 tracks-16 to -15 LUFS: 1 track-15 to -14 LUFS: 3 tracks-14 to -13 LUFS: 11 tracks-13 to -12 LUFS: 13 tracks-12 to -11 LUFS: 20 tracks-11 to -10 LUFS: 39 tracks-10 to -9 LUFS: 15 tracks-9 to -8 LUFS: 21 tracks-8 to -7 LUFS: 13 tracks-7 to -6 LUFS: 3 tracks-6 to -5 LUFS: 1 track -20 LUFS -13 LUFS -5 LUFS

Dynamic range distribution

9 to 10 DR: 2 tracks10 to 11 DR: 13 tracks11 to 12 DR: 17 tracks12 to 13 DR: 32 tracks13 to 14 DR: 28 tracks14 to 15 DR: 25 tracks15 to 16 DR: 13 tracks16 to 17 DR: 10 tracks17 to 18 DR: 2 tracks18 to 19 DR: 0 tracks19 to 20 DR: 0 tracks20 to 21 DR: 0 tracks21 to 22 DR: 0 tracks22 to 23 DR: 1 track 9 DR 16 DR 23 DR

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: I’m Telling Tim
NOFX
-5.9 LUFS
Quietest: Together on the Sand
NOFX
-20.0 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Brian Gardner
n=22 · median -10.4 LUFS
Stephen Marcussen
n=16 · median -10.9 LUFS
Eddy Schreyer
n=13 · median -10.3 LUFS
Joe Gastwirt
n=12 · median -8.6 LUFS
Howie Weinberg
n=10 · median -10.1 LUFS

Other decades

Punk in the 2000s →

This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 143 measured tracks, not a survey of every Punk release from the 1990s.