Custom Loudness

Custom Loudness is the flexible loudness workbench in the Magnetron recipe set. Instead of locking you into one platform profile, it opens a processing popup where you can decide how files should be measured, matched, limited, exported, and even converted on a run-by-run basis.

• Normalize by LUFS, dialog-gated LKFS, peak, true peak, PPM, or RMS.
• Process files individually, match everything to the loudest file, or use one reference file as the gain anchor.
• Export all files, modified files only, or run analysis without export.
• Keep the source format or convert to WAV, AIFF, or FLAC during output.

The recipe analyzes every queued file first, stores the measured values, and then opens a settings popup before processing continues. That makes it feel more like a mastering decision point than a fixed preset recipe: you can adapt the rule set to the job in front of you instead of maintaining a separate recipe for every special case.

Popup Settings

• Normalize mode and target
• Analyze mode: individual, loudest as reference, specific reference file
• Export policy: all, modified only, never
• Output format: keep source or convert
• Output container, bit depth, sample rate, and dither when converting
• Tolerance
• Limiter mode and limiter threshold
• Overwrite
• Custom Folder, Sub Folder, Name Tag
• Revalidate after processing

The recipe can also show detailed before-and-after measurement information in the file tooltip, which makes it especially useful for custom client specs, edge cases, and internal QC tasks where the built-in platform presets are too rigid.