The waveforms are displayed in white against a yellow background. Seen above, only 2 of the songs I randomly selected were still as loud as your usual master. The waveforms look different but most of them averaged at around -4 to -3. Here's a long audio recording of several different YouTube videos played in succession. The YouTube audio controls were left maxed out and streaming into my DAW on one long continuous track. I made sure to pick songs from different producers, artists, genres, etc. I spent some time running the YouTube audio output through my Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 Stereo In Loop feature direct into my trusty Cubase DAW and recorded audio streaming from video to video (awesome functionality by the way: it lets you record anything playing back in your web browser, or anything else running on your computer for that matter). Upon discovering this, I decided to conduct some tests of my own just to see if this was all true and I actually stumbled across something entirely different in the process! YouTube is Most Likely Auto-Normalizing Audio for Uploads Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case anymore and there have been other tests performed by other fellow audiogeeks out there that have found that YouTube is now consistently streaming audio at a lowly 128kbps for all video resolutions. Initially, we were quite happy with the way YouTube represented our Tower Sessions audio and you could even upgrade the quality by switching over to a higher resolution if you wanted to (480p, 720p, 1080p and so on).
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