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Originally Posted by bob katz 
There are standards set up by OSHA, but if we all followed that, we'd be mixing at 70 dB SPL for 3 hours and then going home till tomorrow (I'm exagerrating the exact numbers, but OSHA's specifications, the last I read them, are extremely conservative, and in our profession we're breaking those rules all the time... I hope OSHA is wrong, for our sake)
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http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owad...able=STANDARDS
90dB for eight hours.
110 for a half hour!
Fortunately, if you listen too loudly or too quietly you'll be making wrong EQ decisions, so sticking to something like 80-90 will both improve your work and preserve hearing..........
DC