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Originally Posted by Dumb-Ask  My room is tiny so I have to sit 60cm away from my speakers, I've calibrated my room to 79 dB ref ( I mix independent films for festivals and docs)would you say this would be an appropriate level for such a small room? it would be nice to get my mixes to translate in medium size cinemas. P.S. I normally bring my mixes to my friends studio and found that my dialogue levels are very low. about (31 to33 dbfs rms) and I always need to boost them up about 3to 4 db. |
If your dialogue levels are too low then you need to either adjust your ears or adjust your calibration levels to compensate.
Personally, I don't know how you can mix feature projects sitting that close to the speakers. My home studio has the speakers about 2 1/2 meters away from my listening position, but I would prefer it to be about 3 1/2 to 4 meters, even though the Sky System One speakers recommend 2-3 meters max. I have heard them in another studio at 4 meters and they sounded great, very theatrical. They can't reproduce the same upper volume levels, but in a small room 100dB feels like 105 anyway, so I don't care. Average mixing levels are well within the system's capability and it feels so much more representative of a larger dub stage when further away.