WFVoiceover
New member
Hello everyone. First post and getting used to sound recording in general.
Recently, I have put together a home studio in a spare room, which is dead enough and have no real noise issues.
The main purpose of the room is to record audiobooks.
At this stage, I am cleaning up the recordings and the EQ seems to be fine. They are loud enough for me to hear with headphones on. At the moment, through no logic other than guess work, I hard limit the whole recording to -6dB as I recalled someone telling me that I should have the final product sitting around the middle of the yellow band on the meter.
This works fine for me, but the question is....should I instead just normalize the audio to -1 or 0 dB in order to ensure that listeners in a louder environment like on a subway for instance, get maximum bang for their buck?
Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Thank you for your advice.
Recently, I have put together a home studio in a spare room, which is dead enough and have no real noise issues.
The main purpose of the room is to record audiobooks.
At this stage, I am cleaning up the recordings and the EQ seems to be fine. They are loud enough for me to hear with headphones on. At the moment, through no logic other than guess work, I hard limit the whole recording to -6dB as I recalled someone telling me that I should have the final product sitting around the middle of the yellow band on the meter.
This works fine for me, but the question is....should I instead just normalize the audio to -1 or 0 dB in order to ensure that listeners in a louder environment like on a subway for instance, get maximum bang for their buck?
Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Thank you for your advice.