music/MIX_POLICY.json
{
"_doc": "THE MIX AND LOUDNESS POLICY. Targets are MEASURED off the acquired exemplar corpus with ITU-R BS.1770-4, per class; they are not a broadcast spec and not anybody's preference. GAP-183's first doctrine.",
"_honest_tier": "MEASURED MIX -- a property of the reference set and of the render; whether the room flatters the writing is an ear's question",
"derived": true,
"derived_at_denominator": "30 corpus tracks with audio on this box, of 182 rows",
"meter": "ITU-R BS.1770-4 (this file), controlled against ffmpeg ebur128",
"true_peak_ceiling_dbtp": -1.0,
"_why_ceiling": "-1.0 dBTP, the streaming-delivery convention, and it is the one number here that is a CONVENTION rather than a corpus measurement -- the corpus itself runs up to 1.93 dBTP because commercial masters are pushed into the ceiling. We keep the headroom instead: a game mix sums with SFX and dialogue at runtime and a cue that arrives already at 0 has nowhere to go.",
"classes": {
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"n": 5,
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"min_lufs": -12.68,
"max_lufs": -8.36,
"tolerance_lu": 1.44,
"lra_median": 2.98,
"lra_min": 1.49,
"lra_max": 9.89
},
"BOSS": {
"n": 2,
"target_lufs": -11.89,
"min_lufs": -13.69,
"max_lufs": -10.1,
"tolerance_lu": 1.79,
"lra_median": 9.27,
"lra_min": 7.42,
"lra_max": 11.11
},
"CREDITS_TRIUMPH": {
"n": 4,
"target_lufs": -12.13,
"min_lufs": -15.69,
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"tolerance_lu": 2.54,
"lra_median": 6.2,
"lra_min": 2.54,
"lra_max": 7.84
},
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"n": 8,
"target_lufs": -12.18,
"min_lufs": -16.34,
"max_lufs": -7.69,
"tolerance_lu": 2.61,
"lra_median": 4.64,
"lra_min": 2.41,
"lra_max": 21.02
},
"MELANCHOLIC": {
"n": 4,
"target_lufs": -13.95,
"min_lufs": -15.66,
"max_lufs": -8.02,
"tolerance_lu": 2.95,
"lra_median": 8.38,
"lra_min": 6.22,
"lra_max": 8.7
},
"TENSION": {
"n": 3,
"target_lufs": -13.43,
"min_lufs": -13.65,
"max_lufs": -10.08,
"tolerance_lu": 1.63,
"lra_median": 10.66,
"lra_min": 3.46,
"lra_max": 14.66
},
"TITLE_CHARACTER": {
"n": 4,
"target_lufs": -10.12,
"min_lufs": -14.36,
"max_lufs": -7.63,
"tolerance_lu": 2.56,
"lra_median": 4.11,
"lra_min": 2.02,
"lra_max": 5.16
},
"_default": {
"n": 30,
"target_lufs": -11.55,
"min_lufs": -16.34,
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"lra_median": 5.12,
"lra_min": 1.49,
"lra_max": 21.02
}
},
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"EXPLORATION": [
"EXPLORATION"
],
"BATTLE": [
"BATTLE"
],
"BOSS": [
"BOSS"
],
"SANCTUARY": [
"MELANCHOLIC"
],
"TENSION": [
"TENSION"
],
"MELANCHOLIC": [
"MELANCHOLIC"
],
"TITLE_CHARACTER": [
"TITLE_CHARACTER"
]
},
"space": {
"_doc": "one room per cue class, described by numbers a reader can argue with. The IR is GENERATED from a seeded noise decay -- no third-party impulse response is downloaded, so there is no IR licence to read, no attribution to carry, and no set that can be withdrawn from under a shipped game. That is the licence position, stated as one.",
"_why_a_room_at_all": "every cue this program has rendered is DRY: every instrument at the same distance in the same non-place. A real ensemble is heard in a place, and the place is most of what says 'recorded' rather than 'sequenced'. The region's own scenes name the places -- an open highland road, a pool under a waterfall, a ceremonial ground ringed by a crowd -- so the room is a composition decision the plan can declare, not a preset.",
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"EXPLORATION": {
"rt60_s": 1.35,
"predelay_ms": 22.0,
"wet": 0.16,
"hf_damp": 0.42,
"why": "open highland air with distant valley walls: a long, dark, quiet tail that says outdoors without smearing a walking tempo"
},
"SANCTUARY": {
"rt60_s": 2.3,
"predelay_ms": 14.0,
"wet": 0.26,
"hf_damp": 0.28,
"why": "wet stone and standing water under a fall -- the longest and brightest tail of the three, and the most of it, because this is the one cue whose PLACE is the subject"
},
"BATTLE": {
"rt60_s": 0.85,
"predelay_ms": 10.0,
"wet": 0.11,
"hf_damp": 0.55,
"why": "a ceremonial ground packed with bodies: short and damped, because a crowd is an absorber and because a long tail would blur the count the whole cue is about"
},
"_default": {
"rt60_s": 1.2,
"predelay_ms": 18.0,
"wet": 0.14,
"hf_damp": 0.45,
"why": "the neutral room for a class with no declared place"
}
}
},
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{
"id": "EX_006",
"class": "TITLE_CHARACTER",
"title": "Chrono Trigger Main Theme",
"integrated_lufs": -7.63,
"loudness_range_lu": 2.02,
"true_peak_dbtp": 0.32,
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"n_gated_blocks": 1497,
"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "CARDED",
"duration_s": 152.586
},
{
"id": "EX_007",
"class": "TITLE_CHARACTER",
"title": "Frog's Theme",
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"loudness_range_lu": 3.12,
"true_peak_dbtp": 0.11,
"sample_peak_dbfs": 0.1,
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"status": "ACQUIRED",
"duration_s": 83.595
},
{
"id": "EX_014",
"class": "TITLE_CHARACTER",
"title": "Tekken 2 Attract Movie: Sound Track",
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"status": "CARDED",
"duration_s": 21.5
},
{
"id": "EX_017",
"class": "EXPLORATION",
"title": "Sweden",
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"sample_peak_dbfs": -1.2,
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"status": "CARDED",
"duration_s": 215.5
},
{
"id": "EX_018",
"class": "EXPLORATION",
"title": "Subwoofer Lullaby",
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"true_peak_dbtp": -0.09,
"sample_peak_dbfs": -0.1,
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"status": "ACQUIRED",
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},
{
"id": "EX_022",
"class": "EXPLORATION",
"title": "Wind Scene",
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"true_peak_dbtp": 0.25,
"sample_peak_dbfs": 0.16,
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"status": "ACQUIRED",
"duration_s": 204.573
},
{
"id": "EX_030",
"class": "EXPLORATION",
"title": "Route 209",
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"loudness_range_lu": 4.18,
"true_peak_dbtp": -0.34,
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"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "CARDED",
"duration_s": 82.28
},
{
"id": "EX_032",
"class": "EXPLORATION",
"title": "Terra's Theme",
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"true_peak_dbtp": -0.06,
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"status": "ACQUIRED",
"duration_s": 232.733
},
{
"id": "EX_033",
"class": "EXPLORATION",
"title": "Corridors of Time",
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"true_peak_dbtp": 0.31,
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"status": "ACQUIRED",
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},
{
"id": "EX_046",
"class": "BATTLE",
"title": "BFG Division",
"integrated_lufs": -8.36,
"loudness_range_lu": 9.89,
"true_peak_dbtp": 1.93,
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"n_gated_blocks": 5054,
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"status": "ACQUIRED",
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},
{
"id": "EX_053",
"class": "BATTLE",
"title": "Cynthia Battle Theme",
"integrated_lufs": -11.04,
"loudness_range_lu": 2.98,
"true_peak_dbtp": 0.4,
"sample_peak_dbfs": 0.3,
"n_gated_blocks": 906,
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"status": "CARDED",
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},
{
"id": "EX_055",
"class": "BATTLE",
"title": "The Cyber Grind",
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"loudness_range_lu": 3.6,
"true_peak_dbtp": 0.19,
"sample_peak_dbfs": -0.0,
"n_gated_blocks": 2684,
"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "ACQUIRED",
"duration_s": 270.316
},
{
"id": "EX_064",
"class": "BOSS",
"title": "Ludwig, the Holy Blade",
"integrated_lufs": -10.1,
"loudness_range_lu": 11.11,
"true_peak_dbtp": 0.26,
"sample_peak_dbfs": 0.25,
"n_gated_blocks": 2445,
"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "CARDED",
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},
{
"id": "EX_075",
"class": "BOSS",
"title": "Dancing Mad",
"integrated_lufs": -13.69,
"loudness_range_lu": 7.42,
"true_peak_dbtp": 0.1,
"sample_peak_dbfs": 0.09,
"n_gated_blocks": 10571,
"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "CARDED",
"duration_s": 1059.933
},
{
"id": "EX_082",
"class": "MELANCHOLIC",
"title": "The Best Is Yet to Come",
"integrated_lufs": -14.75,
"loudness_range_lu": 6.22,
"true_peak_dbtp": -1.8,
"sample_peak_dbfs": -1.81,
"n_gated_blocks": 3424,
"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "CARDED",
"duration_s": 345.533
},
{
"id": "EX_088",
"class": "MELANCHOLIC",
"title": "An Unwavering Heart",
"integrated_lufs": -15.66,
"loudness_range_lu": 8.7,
"true_peak_dbtp": 0.05,
"sample_peak_dbfs": 0.04,
"n_gated_blocks": 1060,
"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "ACQUIRED",
"duration_s": 106.998
},
{
"id": "EX_092",
"class": "TENSION",
"title": "Snake Eater (Ladder Climb)",
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"loudness_range_lu": 10.66,
"true_peak_dbtp": -1.03,
"sample_peak_dbfs": -1.07,
"n_gated_blocks": 1733,
"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "CARDED",
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},
{
"id": "EX_094",
"class": "TENSION",
"title": "Dark Creature Pursuit",
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"true_peak_dbtp": -0.35,
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"status": "CARDED",
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},
{
"id": "EX_102",
"class": "TENSION",
"title": "Magus Castle",
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"true_peak_dbtp": -0.02,
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"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "ACQUIRED",
"duration_s": 28.58
},
{
"id": "EX_110",
"class": "CREDITS_TRIUMPH",
"title": "Want You Gone",
"integrated_lufs": -8.66,
"loudness_range_lu": 4.88,
"true_peak_dbtp": 1.28,
"sample_peak_dbfs": 0.53,
"n_gated_blocks": 1409,
"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "ACQUIRED",
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},
{
"id": "EX_113",
"class": "CREDITS_TRIUMPH",
"title": "To Good Friends",
"integrated_lufs": -11.36,
"loudness_range_lu": 7.84,
"true_peak_dbtp": -0.29,
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"n_gated_blocks": 1387,
"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "ACQUIRED",
"duration_s": 140.567
},
{
"id": "EX_124",
"class": "TITLE_CHARACTER",
"title": "Deus Ex Main Title (UNATCO)",
"integrated_lufs": -14.36,
"loudness_range_lu": 5.16,
"true_peak_dbtp": 0.31,
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"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "ACQUIRED",
"duration_s": 127.295
},
{
"id": "EX_136",
"class": "EXPLORATION",
"title": "Humming the Bassline",
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"loudness_range_lu": 2.41,
"true_peak_dbtp": -0.49,
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"status": "ACQUIRED",
"duration_s": 257.941
},
{
"id": "EX_142",
"class": "EXPLORATION",
"title": "Shinshu Field",
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"true_peak_dbtp": 0.13,
"sample_peak_dbfs": 0.09,
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"status": "ACQUIRED",
"duration_s": 205.053
},
{
"id": "EX_145",
"class": "BATTLE",
"title": "Go Straight",
"integrated_lufs": -9.84,
"loudness_range_lu": 2.71,
"true_peak_dbtp": -0.37,
"sample_peak_dbfs": -0.41,
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"status": "CARDED",
"duration_s": 268.807
},
{
"id": "EX_147",
"class": "BATTLE",
"title": "Fighting of the Spirit",
"integrated_lufs": -12.68,
"loudness_range_lu": 1.49,
"true_peak_dbtp": -0.32,
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"status": "CARDED",
"duration_s": 188.68
},
{
"id": "EX_161",
"class": "MELANCHOLIC",
"title": "Aria di Mezzo Carattere",
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"true_peak_dbtp": -0.93,
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"n_gated_blocks": 2350,
"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "ACQUIRED",
"duration_s": 237.573
},
{
"id": "EX_162",
"class": "MELANCHOLIC",
"title": "Schala's Theme",
"integrated_lufs": -8.02,
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"true_peak_dbtp": 0.21,
"sample_peak_dbfs": 0.2,
"n_gated_blocks": 1721,
"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "ACQUIRED",
"duration_s": 174.573
},
{
"id": "EX_179",
"class": "CREDITS_TRIUMPH",
"title": "Ending Theme (Balance is Restored)",
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"true_peak_dbtp": 0.22,
"sample_peak_dbfs": 0.21,
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"standard": "ITU-R BS.1770-4, absolute gate -70 LUFS, relative gate -10 LU",
"status": "ACQUIRED",
"duration_s": 1295.6
},
{
"id": "EX_180",
"class": "CREDITS_TRIUMPH",
"title": "Dreams Dreams",
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"loudness_range_lu": 2.54,
"true_peak_dbtp": 0.0,
"sample_peak_dbfs": -0.12,
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"status": "ACQUIRED",
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}
]
}