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Originally Posted by bob katz Yes, that's what I meant by "turn down the monitor gain."
For those who are eavesdropping in this thread....
The idea is if you start with a monitor gain (position would be a better term) of 0 dB and you close your eyes and you mix, you'll never get an over. Because if it sounds loud, it's also going to be too high on the meters. And there's enough headroom to allow peaks not to overload, even with a very loud RMS.
But as soon as you turn down the monitor gain, you will be tempted to turn up the mix, thereby inviting a higher recorded level and overs because there won't be enough digital headroom as you keep on pushing up your RMS to get the same perceived loudness out of the speakers.
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Your description as I recall it was spot on so we're probably just dealing with semantics.
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I think that what you refer to as semantics is important because if engineers are going to adopt calibrated monitoring they have to understand exactly what it is.
Note that I've revised my previous post to clarify my reading of what you wrote.
JL