I'm not really seeing any HUGE difference between Betas 21 and 28... except, what's troubling is the dynamic differences that seem to appear only at the very BEGINNING of tracks. Such differences don't seem to appear anywhere else or at the end. Is this due to the "inverted max release speed" bug?
When viewing the gif, pay attention to the dynamic differences in the waveform at the beginning of each track compared to the ending of each track. I would expect them to look similar, but it's almost like there's some kind of "fade in" type of effect happening at the beginning of some tracks with Beta 28.
(Also, the thing I think best shows the effect of the new RMS mode is "Peak vs. RMS Level." Things look a bit better spread out on Beta 28.
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Three images per track; first image is original track, second is Beta 21, third is Beta 28; both betas are using the exact same settings (attached to post). Actually, there is one difference... on the Beta 28 settings, "Low Level Boost" has "Max Release Speed" increased to its maximum setting of 24.000 from the default 21.600 due to the bug. (On Beta 21, "Max Release Speed" on "Low Level Boost" has a max setting of 34.286 and defaults to 30.857). Would that cause the dynamic differences that I'm seeing ***just at the beginning*** of each track?
(These are not using any of Stereo Tool's compressors or AGC by the way... but I'm using both Auto EQ's and the Low Level Boost which are affected by the new RMS mode. There **is** other processing beside Stereo Tool, but everything is set exactly the same, only difference is Stereo Tool Beta 21 and Stereo Tool Beta 28.)