Setting Audio Levels for Multi Person Livestreams Using a Loudness Meter - Youlean

Have you ever hosted a livestream with remote guests on a service like Streamyard, and then learned in horror from your audience that they can barely hear one person while another person is super loud?

In this episode, we have a look at one way to set your audio levels when you have multiple participants in a livestream on services like Streamyard, Restream.io, Riverside.fm, and other cloud based streaming services. Instead of using simple peak meters, we demonstrate how to use a loudness meter which is much better at getting everyone’s audio levels to the same target so that your audience can focus on the stream.

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Index:
00:00 Start
00:07 Summary
00:17 Introduction
00:32 Cloud streaming services
00:47 The problem with peak meters
01:40 Loudness metering
01:50 Use a loudness meter on separate computer
02:17 How I do it - Audio Hijack
02:31 Youlean Loudness Meter
02:39 Separate computer
02:49 Use a cloud streaming service
03:00 How I do this
04:07 Target -23 LUFS
05:31 Demonstration
09:58 Please buy my courses