Rock · 1990s

Rock loudness in the 1990s

-10 Median integrated LUFS
-17.3 to -6.6 Range
140 Tracks

Distribution

-18 to -17 LUFS: 1 track-17 to -16 LUFS: 0 tracks-16 to -15 LUFS: 0 tracks-15 to -14 LUFS: 3 tracks-14 to -13 LUFS: 10 tracks-13 to -12 LUFS: 9 tracks-12 to -11 LUFS: 22 tracks-11 to -10 LUFS: 25 tracks-10 to -9 LUFS: 30 tracks-9 to -8 LUFS: 18 tracks-8 to -7 LUFS: 17 tracks-7 to -6 LUFS: 5 tracks -18 LUFS -12 LUFS -6 LUFS

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: Foo Fighters — Wind Up
-6.6 LUFS
Quietest: Faith No More — Caralho Voador
-17.3 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Joe Gastwirt
n=48 · median -10 LUFS
Bob Ludwig
n=25 · median -11 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
Stephen Marcussen
n=10 · median -11 LUFS

Other decades

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This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 140 measured tracks, not a survey of every Rock release from the 1990s.