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Hi,
On Thursday 20 August 2009 01:45:32 Bearcat M. =C5=9Eandor wrote:

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> One of my pet peeves (and i'm sure for many of you as well) is the

> "loudness wars", that is the setting of levels close to digital 0 in the

> recording studio.  If i set my pcm and other volumes to 100% in the alsa

> mixer am i in fact doing the same thing at home?

No, you are not. This is about generic volume in listening environment, not=

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about mastering the volume of a piece of music.

You actually want to set all the volumes apart from the last one to a high=

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value. Otherwise if the first level is down and you have to turn up the lat=

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ones to hear something, you amplify the noise more then needed. If all volu=

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are up and you only turn the last one down, the noise introduced by all=20

previous gain-stages is reduced too.
Some times its not practical to control the over-all-listening-volume at th=

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last stage (which would be the knob at the back of the active monitors), bu=

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the main control should be one of the last volume-controls in the chain.
Have fun,
Arnold
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