Quentin Harley wrote at > http://www.64studio.com/howto-mastering
Two notes "Place the dB SPL meter to measure exactly in the spot where your head would be while seated at the mastering rig." One of the problems ;). To be honest there are low-coast dB SPL meters, e.g. "DIGITAL SOUND 8928" for 39.00 EUR at Thomann. http://www.thomann.de/de/digital_sound_8928.htm I would recommend to lend a more expensive one, if someone has the right room, where measuring in the first place can be useful. But I might be wrong, maybe db SPL meters like this one are fine too. If you do the mastering in your flat or in a "studio" that is lined with molded pulp egg carton or other nonsense you don't need to do any measuring, because it's useless. For near field monitors you need to keep your head at one place, but most of the mixing is done with other monitors, because you can't do a good job, when you aren't able to move around. You need to check that the sound is fine on cheap equipment and able to fit to the broadcasting laws of your country, so you need another expensive pair of monitors, e.g. Auratone or a special device called Optimod and a phase correlation for the analogue signal, if you won't use home-recording tricks, but the professional way. "Do not use the limiter too much, because the limiter has a distortion like effect on the audio, best left alone it possible." It should be possible to bypass the limiter, while recording with headroom that isn't optimized to the "loudness war", but referring to Katz's method. Speakers are more important for the mastering, but especially an unpleasant limiting for e.g one hit of a cymbal can be better perceived by using good headphones. I'm using AKG K240DF, when I bought it, it was the best studio headphone, today's studio headphones are much better, but modern headphones are very expensive and a soft slap can damage modern headphones very easily. _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
