When setting up your monitors and sound card do you set your speakers to 0db than adjust with your dac (interface)appropriately? or vice versa? or inbetween. Which is best for even balance?

Srry if its an easy one but its something I been pondering about and want to get right.

Nope.

You calibrate monitors to a certain set level. Most pop/commercial music is made on calibrated systems to 14DBFS and score is usally -18DBFS, reason being that pop wants itself to be louder and score should have more dynamics.


Personally, I wish everyone with calibrate to at least -18DBFS and hecne why my fabulous tutorial form a few years back only tells you how to to calibrate to that:

http://tranceaddict.com/forums/show...99#.VL2tPmTF9M4

The first part actually tells you what 0db actually means, then a tutorial tells you how to calibrate.

Thank you Rann, will look more into detail on that. I knew me ears were telling something is wrong.

Anytime

Honestly, anyone with decent monitors should be calibrating their system, especailly so if you've got monitors like yours.

Hmm no wonder the standard consumer setup sounded better than mine at guitar center. I know some kind of sorcery was involved.


thanks again/

I turn mine up when I want them louder and I turn them down when I want them quieter.

I didn't realise I was doing it wrong

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Originally posted by tehlord I turn mine up when I want them louder and I turn them down when I want them quieter. I didn't realise I was doing it wrong

The only option now is to delete every single project file you have and start from scratch, since it's all been done wrong.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery The only option now is to delete every single project file you have and start from scratch, since it's all been done wrong.

F**k it, count me in - I knew something was wrong with all my tracks

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Careful deleting everything like that, it gets easier every time.

Well, now that you know everything is wrong, you could always calibrate your system, the re-mix every track you ever wrote.

Shouldn't take too long

he meant -14dbfs

when you see positive dbfs, they meant dbu and it is usually +4 and it is a reference to 0dbfs and used because hardware and digital are a little different

these systems only really matter when music isn't the only thing that will be present in the final product. For a track, it is largely irrelevant.

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney these systems only really matter when music isn't the only thing that will be present in the final product. For a track, it is largely irrelevant.

Well, shit. I already deleted everything.