

So What Can Be Done About It?


What Do the Pros Do?  

Why the range from 79–85 dB SPL? 

Where Do I turn up?

Audio Interface as level controller

Basic Speaker Setup 

Ideal speaker position

DIY Very (Very) Basic Level Calibration 

Typical Music Making Setup 

Calibration “Lite” for Stereo and 2.1 

Meters Showing -20dB -23LUFS
SPL Meter and App C weighting Slow Average
Band Limited Pink Noise 
A calibrated monitor controller marked at the point where the reference pink noise signal measures a specific SPL at the mix position for both speakers.


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