Surf · 2000s

Surf loudness in the 2000s

-7.2 Median integrated LUFS
-8.5 to -5.8 Range
26 Tracks

Loudness distribution

-9 to -8 LUFS: 5 tracks-8 to -7 LUFS: 12 tracks-7 to -6 LUFS: 6 tracks-6 to -5 LUFS: 3 tracks -9 LUFS -7 LUFS -5 LUFS

Dynamic range distribution

9 to 10 DR: 3 tracks10 to 11 DR: 14 tracks11 to 12 DR: 7 tracks12 to 13 DR: 2 tracks 9 DR 11 DR 13 DR

Loudest and quietest

Loudest: Who Put the Bomp
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
-5.8 LUFS
Quietest: Sloop John B.
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
-8.5 LUFS

Most-represented engineers

Eddy Schreyer
n=26 · median -7.2 LUFS

Other decades

← Surf in the 1990s

This database is hand-curated and not exhaustive — treat this cohort as a sample of 26 measured tracks, not a survey of every Surf release from the 2000s.