Well, I did read your posts twice. If you believe I don’t know what you’re talking about, and if you don’t care to explain further, I guess you’re right, I’m doomed to ignorance.
I’ll be strong and try to make it through somehow, thanks.
Hopefully more relevant to the OP - here’s another link that may be helpful, re: LUFS levels for mastering in YouTube, iTunes, etc. There was an original source I’ve come across before, but can’t locate it now (izotope, I thought …):
Also, it’s important to keep in mind that the LUFS value represents the apparent overall loudness of the track, without addressing directly it’s dynamic range. In other words, two songs could have the same overall apparent loudness, but one sound much more interesting because it has a wider dynamic range.
The Loudness Range value in LUFS-type meters addresses that, there’s a nice description of that in the SOS link I put several posts up.
It is also exactly what I already said…
No highs without lows. “Punch” is the delta between the 2.