Rock · 1990s

Rock loudness in the 1990s

-11 Median integrated LUFS
-19.7 to -6.6 Range
291 Tracks

Loudness distribution

-20 to -19 LUFS: 1 track-19 to -18 LUFS: 3 tracks-18 to -17 LUFS: 1 track-17 to -16 LUFS: 7 tracks-16 to -15 LUFS: 18 tracks-15 to -14 LUFS: 15 tracks-14 to -13 LUFS: 42 tracks-13 to -12 LUFS: 21 tracks-12 to -11 LUFS: 31 tracks-11 to -10 LUFS: 43 tracks-10 to -9 LUFS: 44 tracks-9 to -8 LUFS: 39 tracks-8 to -7 LUFS: 21 tracks-7 to -6 LUFS: 5 tracks -20 LUFS -13 LUFS -6 LUFS

Dynamic range distribution

9 to 10 DR: 2 tracks10 to 11 DR: 20 tracks11 to 12 DR: 38 tracks12 to 13 DR: 53 tracks13 to 14 DR: 42 tracks14 to 15 DR: 34 tracks15 to 16 DR: 32 tracks16 to 17 DR: 24 tracks17 to 18 DR: 25 tracks18 to 19 DR: 8 tracks19 to 20 DR: 9 tracks20 to 21 DR: 3 tracks21 to 22 DR: 1 track 9 DR 15 DR 22 DR

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: Wind Up
Foo Fighters
-6.6 LUFS
Quietest: Girl
Frente!
-19.7 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Stephen Marcussen
n=49 · median -11.9 LUFS
Joe Gastwirt
n=48 · median -10 LUFS
Bob Ludwig
n=37 · median -9 LUFS
Eddy Schreyer
n=34 · median -13.7 LUFS
Chris Blair
n=22 · median -9.8 LUFS
John Golden
n=17 · median -10.1 LUFS
Wally Traugott
n=14 · median -8.6 LUFS
Howie Weinberg
n=14 · median -11.2 LUFS

Other decades

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This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 291 measured tracks, not a survey of every Rock release from the 1990s.