| Consistently, the biggest mistake I find on most mixes is the monitor level being too low. It forces the mixer to crank up the low end, push everything super hot, etc. I just went to a fellow sound for video mixer's place yesterday and his monitoring system was a good 15dB too low. So even though he had pretty good ears, spoken voice was maximum loudness and everything else was the same. I had him hop on the internet and download some test noise off my site, play it from his editor while I turned on my SPL meter. |