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Setting Monitor Mixing Volume
By Editor's Desk on February 7 2009 08:00 AM | Permalink | Author Info
We have set up our new studio with care and detail. We have installed our favorite near field loudspeakers as our studio monitors and have set them up accordingly in a decent-sounding room, and are ready to start work. At what volume should we listen as we mix? Is there an ideal volume for working on our mixes?

Once again, the most common answer one usually finds in the Internet chat rooms and forums is not really the correct answer.

In this article, Glen Stephan explains the myth of the 85dB SPL monitoring volume, and then explodes it and replaces it with the reality of what the pros do and say. Click here to read the full story.









 
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