Soul loudness in the 1990s

-11.7 Median integrated LUFS
-18 to -9.7 Range
24 Tracks

Distribution

-18 to -17 LUFS: 1 track-17 to -16 LUFS: 1 track-16 to -15 LUFS: 0 tracks-15 to -14 LUFS: 0 tracks-14 to -13 LUFS: 3 tracks-13 to -12 LUFS: 6 tracks-12 to -11 LUFS: 8 tracks-11 to -10 LUFS: 2 tracks-10 to -9 LUFS: 3 tracks -18 LUFS -14 LUFS -9 LUFS

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: Reminisce
-9.7 LUFS
Quietest: Thank You Lord
-18.0 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Tom Coyne
n=24 · median -11.7 LUFS

Other decades

Soul in the 2000s →

This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 24 measured tracks, not a survey of every Soul release from the 1990s.