yup ganyan din type ko (louder than ride cymbal). my nephew once complained that the stompbox preset i chose was too bright daw during a guitar lesson, so baka nga humina pandinig ko sa high frequencies.
personal preference niyo ulit: ano target average RMS niyo (assuming na drums are present throughout the song)?
if i recall correctly (doubtful), karen carpenter songs are around -20 dB, GNR (appetite for destruction) around -15 dB, and first britney spears hit is around -12 dB.
i don't respect the EU standards (-18 db ba yun?) pero i also don't subscribe to 'volume wars part 2'. pag sa film kase annoying yung bumubulong yung bida sabay biglang may malakas na sabog. kainis.
meron ako nabasa sa library dati (whoaaahhh hahaha) galing sa libro ni Bob Katz. Tawag nya dun yung K-system. Bale yung speakers nya naka-calibrate na mag-out ng 83dB SPL at 0db where 0dB is either 20, 14, or 12 dB below full scale. They're called K-20, K-14, and K-12 respectively. yung K-14 for music, K-12 for broadcast, tapos yung K-20 for film and audiophile. The end goal is that at 0dB, naaabot mo yung "ideal" loudness which based on the research of THX or Dolby I can't recall, is not too loud and not too soft. then because 0dB is actually a reference point rather than when a digital signal starts to clip like 0dBFS, it gives you 20db, 14 db and 12db headroom for the three K-system scales.
I recall Sugarfree's Tala-Arawan is a really quiet record, maybe you can reference that. UdD's Capacities is also loud enough but not hot. As for foreign records, may nagleak/ripped na copy ng Death Magnetic na ginamit ata sa guitar hero or some game tapos maganda yung master nya, yung nasa CD release yung hot record.
madaya yung drums ni Carter Beauford naka close mic din yung ride
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