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Old 29th May 2006   #121
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I just have a mark on the monitor attenuator. Sometimes I turn it up a couple clicks, other times down a couple. Mostly I leave it on the mark.

Mastering is not like film where there is a calibrated level, all you need to know is what 85 - 90 dB SPL sounds like in your room and do your "work" there.

If you listen too quietly you make it too bright/bassy, and if you listen too loud it will be dark/thin. How's that for a generlisation? But mostly true.

The K System is just to make folks cut at a lower level, isnt' it?

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