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<blockquote data-quote="Per Søvik" data-source="post: 97320" data-attributes="member: 1285"><p>Re: Mixing live tracks: headphones or monitors</p><p></p><p>Reading the last few posts, I realize that I probably failed to realize the levels we were actually talking about, so I did a quick check just to make sure. </p><p>To me, 65 to 70 with 75dB peaks are comfortable for long term listening, anything above 80 dB starts to get tiring after a while and 85 to 90 dB is as far as I want to go with realistic listening levels. Louder than that is just LOUD.</p><p>So what are these very low levels that the famous mix engineers work at? If what is comfortable for us 50+ folks with representative hearing damage is considered to be low level, then I'm definitely low level too. </p><p>Then again, I'm very comfortable wearing my 10dB plugs at concerts and my 20dB plugs at festivals (when I'm in the audience, not behind the desk) so maybe my hearing is too damaged to be considered normal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Per Søvik, post: 97320, member: 1285"] Re: Mixing live tracks: headphones or monitors Reading the last few posts, I realize that I probably failed to realize the levels we were actually talking about, so I did a quick check just to make sure. To me, 65 to 70 with 75dB peaks are comfortable for long term listening, anything above 80 dB starts to get tiring after a while and 85 to 90 dB is as far as I want to go with realistic listening levels. Louder than that is just LOUD. So what are these very low levels that the famous mix engineers work at? If what is comfortable for us 50+ folks with representative hearing damage is considered to be low level, then I'm definitely low level too. Then again, I'm very comfortable wearing my 10dB plugs at concerts and my 20dB plugs at festivals (when I'm in the audience, not behind the desk) so maybe my hearing is too damaged to be considered normal. [/QUOTE]
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