headroom

name = "party"

description = "Loud room playback (the anti-night): maximum perceived loudness, dynamics sacrificed."

# push everything to a hot room-filling target; symmetric limits

[agc]

enabled = true

target_lufs = -12.0

attack_ms = 1500.0

release_ms = 600.0

silence_threshold_lufs = -70.0

max_boost_db = 12.0

max_cut_db = 12.0

# heavy rms + auto-makeup: loud and even, fidelity be damned

[compressor]

enabled = true

detector = "rms"

threshold_db = -24.0

ratio = 6.0

knee_db = 6.0

attack_ms = 10.0

release_ms = 150.0

makeup_db = "auto"

rms_window_ms = 60.0

# ceiling just under 0, no soft tier — let the brickwall slam

[limiter]

ceiling_dbtp = -0.1

lookahead_ms = 2.0

release_ms = 60.0

hold_ms = 3.0

oversample = 4

link = "stereo"

[meters]

publish_hz = 20.0

[[rules]]

match = { process_binary = ["ardour", "reaper", "qpwgraph", "carla", "bitwig-studio"] }

route = "bypass"

# music players processed so the whole room mix is loud and even

[[rules]]

match = { process_binary = ["spotify", "mpv", "vlc", "strawberry", "rhythmbox", "audacious", "mpd"] }

route = "processed"

[default_route]

route = "processed"