How To Set The Perfect Monitoring Levels For Your Home Studio

We hear frequencies differently at various volume levels. We hear less bass when it's quieter, and more bass when it's louder. In this video, we’ll walk you through 5 steps you can take to calibrate your speakers to a set monitoring level suited to your studio space. This will help you get the most accurate response from your monitors in your studio every time you go to mix or master a track. Your ears will become used to the level you set and you will intuitively recognise when your tonal balance is off or if the track is too loud or too quiet.

[sankarkdk]

this is the best video... so simple and thoughtful

[christristan]

Thanks very helpful, but if my monitors have a bass know do I adjust it with my volume meter as well or how should I have it while mixing? High low? I usually just have it in the middle

[danmenez]

Killer video! But, just one question: when adding the 500hz to 2000hz filter, the overall volume gets lower, should I compensate it in order to get the -9LUFS?

[zatazaibaba]

How can I do if during my mixing process I do not reach -9db lufs? For example, I don't mix with limiters until the end, so in my mixing process I am below that volume, how is it done in those cases?

[drinkinslim]

Thanks. How would we do this for headphones? (A lot of producers mix in headphones.)

(For example, I use Shure SRH940 with ToneBoosters' "TB Morphit" plugin to correct the EQ curve and (optionally) studio speaker/room emulation, such as JB isone Pro or Waves CLA nx. If I had money, I'd get Slate Audio VSX since it includes all of the above, including multiple high-end studio emulations. Sorry for the novel.) :)

[freimutspitzkopf]

There is so much shit about audio out there. Your video isn't. Got a new sub!