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Old 2nd July 2005   #18
jonnyclueless
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jakerbean7
0dBv=-20dBfs is technically the "standard". At least according to SMPTE. ProTools defaults to -18dBfs for whatever reason.
Jake
I may be wrong, but I believe that is for broadcast where they can't have levels as hot, else it causes problems in transmission (or something of that nature). And thus it's safer to default them to -18 to cover everything, but music isn't limitted by that, hence the higher levels.
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