Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 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.
For this application it is not critical. You only need to make sure that you adjust all your monitors the same, and that you reach a SPL level of around 83dB > > "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. Here I agree. I don't use the limiter at all, but some might want to employ it as a failsafe. Used in this manner it does not create problems. Cheers, Quentin _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
