It’s a rush almost like a drug, I would imagine, and I was hooked”. He remembers his first gig vividly: “It was a big birthday party, and I was terrified before I started, but it turned out to be a very uplifting feeling being able to control the dancefloor, just with the right song selection and some mixing. He bought his first reloop controller in 2013, and has since then been hooked on DJing. Once you do this, you’ll want to periodically check to make sure you’re still at a good level – dynamics processing can increase the mix’s volume.The Danish DJ and producer Terry Golden has been playing in rock and soul bands since his early teens, but fell in love with electronic music after hearing Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren and Jean-Michel Jarre. If you get a different reading, adjust the monitor’s gain accordingly. Turn the volume on your audio interface up until you reach somewhere between 70 dB SPL (small room) and 85 dB SPL (large room.).Place your SPL Meter (or smartphone with an SPL Meter app) in the listening position – the spot where your head is when you’re mixing.Put a mono pink noise on your master that reads -20 dB RMS.Make sure both monitors are set to 0 dB.
Anywhere between 70 and 85 dB SPL should do the trick. However, I’ve found that to be pretty loud, especially for smaller studios. If you really want to get specific about your monitoring level, science says that 83 dB is the perfect level to mix at. The track will sound weak and midrange heavy at lower volumes.Ĭonversely, if you can get your track to sound great at lower volumes, it will still sound amazing when you turn up the gain. In other words, we think we have a great mix, but we really don’t. This creates an illusion of power and clarity. However, lower and higher frequencies are accentuated at high volume levels. Our ears are most sensitive to mids – that is, frequencies around 3–4kHz. The next question is obvious: what level should I set my monitors at? We know that we should always mix at the same Sound Pressure Level in order to be as consistent as possible.
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