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Hildebrandslied verse 1-6, 25 seconds of spoken word, peaking at -0.1 dB as per Audacity, uploaded to Youtube to get in return the stats-for-nerds-reading of “content loudness -0.8dB”

Recitation, albeit in a dilettante fashion, of the earliest text in German, the Hildebrandslied (another variation of the universal father-son-conflict).

Hildebrandslied 1-6, 25 sec peaking at -0.1 dB (Audacity), “content loudness -0.8dB”

Volume / Normalized 100% / 100% (content loudness -0.8dB)

Hildebrandslied 1-6, 25 sec peaking at -0.1 dB, mostly attenuated to -14 dB, content loudness -6.2dB

Volume / Normalized 100% / 100% (content loudness -6.2dB)

Hildebrandslied 1-6, 25 sec peaking at -0.1 dB, mostly attenuated to -21 dB, content loudness -2.1dB Volume / Normalized 100% / 100% (content loudness -2.1dB)

Hildebrandslied 1-6, 25 sec peaking at -30dB, content loudness -30.7dB Volume / Normalized 100% / 100% (content loudness -30.7dB)

Hildebrandslied 1-6, 25 sec peaking at -0.1dB, boosted by +5dB, content loudness 4.2dB Volume / Normalized 100% / 62% (content loudness 4.2dB)