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Originally Posted by drakem Thank You BOB and You all here for this great thread.
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I have another question. Right now I read the book "Mixing with your mind" (great book by the way) by Mike Stavrou. In one chapter he explains his thoughts about mixing to digital.
He writes, one shoud aim for better peak/VU ratio (less peak more VU)than to analog, trying to mix close to digital 0VU. It looks like he thinks that digital audio tends to produce more distortion at lower VU than analog. (man, I hope I understood everything correct  ). |
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When we mix with K-14 (we love it ,our customers allmost allways...) we tend to stay between -10 -5db peak (but at monitor gain about 79db), than it sounds OK. ITs not close to digital 0 at all...
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It's simply not a problem. If it sounds good, it is good. The vast majority of "good sounding" music recorded in the past century has about a 12-14 dB peak to average ratio. The more we realize that our recordings are going to be judged in the context of a very large group of music recorded between 1945 and 1999, whose average level is about a K-14, the more it makes sense to aim for that average. They're playing classic big band and jazz CDs in a local restaurant... They just "go together", no struggle at all. In another local restaurant they're having big trouble playing modern rock CDs together because of the smashing of the late 90's CDs versus even as "late" as 1990. And the horrid sound. So they went back to the radio.
BK
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