Hello!
It's not a genre specific system, but it sure is special. It's an idea for achieving consistent media peak headroom and physical listening levels. It's a blessing and a revelation once you try! One of those "why didn't I do it before?" things. The level switch/pot/fader ahead of the amp gets a real world reference. Instead of being set at an arbitary level or tuned to the current track, the physical level in the room becomes the loudness reference point.
It also takes care of headroom in mixing. At K20 (-20dB average level), the chance of getting any digital overs is near gone. Keeping the levels at the -20dB average is easy, since it's the same SPL I always listen to anyway. If it's too loud or too soft, it'll physically be too much or too little in the room. Don't even have to watch any meters at all to make consistent results without digital overs.
Mastering varies a bit more, pushing the average level to K14, K12, K10 .. call it what you want. The effect is always the same. The ears is all it takes to gauge if it's too loud or too soft. Recently had to dig out a finished album to insert a tune that was way much louder than the rest. After pulling the digital fader down so it sounded nice in the room, the level on the track was exactly right for the rest of the album. With a non-calibrated SPL, that simply couldn't have happened.
Give it a try! Am sure you wont look back.
