| bob,
i want to do this, but i am just confused on one thing.
you said,
"If a client tells me in advance----that he would like his master to be as "loud" as Green Day---I know EXACTLY where to preset my monitor attenuator before going to work, and without having to put Green Day back in the CD player or reference again to it. "
i am trying to understand this. do you mean that you remember exactly at what volume the Green Day CD sounded like?
"In other words, if I have previously played Green Day on my reference monitor system and I know where the attenuator falls for this "genre" of music, then it eliminates both the guesswork AND the comparative listening process. I can preset my attenuator and get right to work!"
are you saying that your ears naturally tend to mix towards this one specific volume level? that you can consistently remember on an hour by hour basis and day to day?
"f I put on a pop or rock CD in my room, and to make it "pleasantly loud" I find I have to attenuate the control to, say, -10 dB, I KNOW OBJECTIVELY that this recording has been moderately "squashed". "
are you saying that you have the ability to level match every single thing that you listen to? even if days or months apart?
Or am I totally off here?
i don't get it?
"we can preset the monitor control to the position we would like the master to end up working at, and then master with our eyes closed, knowing we will be making a record with X absolute loudness and X amount of compression. "
okay. I just don't see myself being able to match levels this consistenly day in and day out. or even from one hour to the next. or from one genre to another. Is there something I am missing because I just don't get this? is it something you just train yourself to do? are we always naturally mixing towards the same volume and never realized it? i guess i am just so confused.
help? |