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Originally Posted by bob katz It's just semantics and arithmetic. 0 dB on the meter in the K-System is ALWAYS 83 dB at the correct monitor control position. That's part of the design. You were talking about a pink noise signal of -20 dBFS, yes, it would yield 77 dB with a 6 dB monitor attenuation. But I was talking about a pink noise signal at 0 dB on the meter, which would yield 83 dB.
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Then what is the meaning of "turn down the monitor gain"? My understanding is that K-20 would have the monitor gain at 0 and K-14 would have it at -6. Moving from 0 to -6 is obviously turning down the monitor gain. Is that what you meant by "turn down the monitor gain", or did you mean something else?
If you had written "But turn down the monitor gain, say, to -6 and you have to use a peak limiter or other protection" I would have thought "Yeah, that's how it works". Or if you had written "But turn down the monitor gain, say, for K-14, and you have to use a peak limiter or other protection" again I would have thought "Yeah, that's how it works". But the "83 dB at 0 level" following "K-14 monitor gain" looked to me like you intended it as a definition of of the K-14 monitor gain, which it can't be because we ALWAYS have 83 db SPL when a K-N meter reads 0 as long as the monitor gain is set correctly (i.e., at 0 for K-20, at -6 for K-14, and -8 for K-12).
Is my description of the monitor gain for each of the K-N meters correct? If not, then I'm afraid I'm really lost.
I think I'm not lost. I believe that in "83 dB at 0 level" the "level" referred to the monitor position when in fact you were referring to the K-14 meter. Is that right?
John Link