Punk loudness in the 2000s

-8 Median integrated LUFS
-9.6 to -6.2 Range
14 Tracks

Loudness distribution

-10 to -9 LUFS: 3 tracks-9 to -8 LUFS: 4 tracks-8 to -7 LUFS: 6 tracks-7 to -6 LUFS: 1 track -10 LUFS -8 LUFS -6 LUFS

Dynamic range distribution

10 to 11 DR: 2 tracks11 to 12 DR: 8 tracks12 to 13 DR: 3 tracks13 to 14 DR: 1 track 10 DR 12 DR 14 DR

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: Thank God It’s Monday
-6.2 LUFS
Quietest: Bottles to the Ground
-9.6 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Joe Gastwirt
n=14 · median -8 LUFS

Other decades

← Punk in the 1990s

This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 14 measured tracks, not a survey of every Punk release from the 2000s.