3 Feb
2015
3 Feb
'15
2:58 a.m.
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Chris Caudle wrote:
Everyone should read Bob Katz's original two part
article on level and
metering recommendations:
http://www.digido.com/articles-and-demos12/13-bob-katz/22-level-practices-p…
http://www.digido.com/how-to-make-better-recordings-part-2.html
tl;dr version: Use calibrated monitor levels and set the levels to sound
appropriate for the style of music you are mixing, like used for mixing
films.
Thank you for posting this. It explains a number of things to me. Ardour
at default has peek meters for each track because avoiding clipping while
having a strong signal is important. Once the track is recorded, the meter
for that track serves only to remind us there is signal there because we
will mix the final level by what sounds good not the meter. The master
meter is set to look at average levels because we are mixing for a point
that _should_ have the needed headroom already so the quality of the sound
is more important.
I bought an SPL meter years ago just so I could keep a standard level on
my monitors to mix to. I was using 80db as I recall, so not too far out.
(the meter is not super high quality so mainly it was giving me the same
level all the time.)
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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net