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Understanding Loudness & Broadcast Standards
This is going to be pretty broad cause this stuff just confuses me so I wondering, if you guy's could give me some resources to check out so I can understand them a little better. …
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Explain the Fletcher-Munson Curve To An Idiot
I just know that it's has something to do with the loudness levels being equal across the frequency spectrum, care to explain it further?
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How do you record loud sounds?
Yesterday I had the good fortune to do some car drop recordings. Needless to say it was loud and great fun ;) There was 4 other recordists there and during the after session beers …
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The power of many drums
I recently saw a performance of 10 drummers playing in unison. It has a certain power to it. It's loud of course. Although they played together quite well, obviously the attacks do …
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How loud is 0dB, and what is a good dB to mix to?
In Shaun's recent post about the sound design challenge, he mentioned that there was a request for a loudness-limit (-10dB peak, I believe), and I realized that I was most likely t …
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loudness metering
Been asked at work to mix to a loudness reading aswell/rather than ppm. I think the UK are switching over to this it seems.
Have any of you used these before?
which do you recom …
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An esthetic for evoking a loud(er) sound
Let me try explain the sound, it's sounds to me like distortion and/or saturation. I have noticed this esthetic developing, it's come up in a few movies lately. I just watched Rise …
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recording extremely loud sound sources
During the next month in Valencia (Spain) is taking place a fest in which the main act everyday is a massive burst of firecrackers in the main city square. This event called "Mascl …
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SPL Meter Question
I was looking at a few different SPL meters, as I need to buy one, and I noticed that every one of them measured from 31.5hz to 8khz. Why? Why not 20 - 20? I'm guessing it has t …