85, 82, 89 — The Numbers a Cinema Is Tuned To
B-chain alignment, the X-curve and why a flat room measures wrong, and the exact reference levels that let a mix made on one stage be correct in a theatre nobody involved has ever visited.
B-chain alignment, the X-curve and why a flat room measures wrong, and the exact reference levels that let a mix made on one stage be correct in a theatre nobody involved has ever visited.
A film is mixed once, on one stage, and then played in thousands of rooms of different sizes, shapes and acoustics, by people the mixer will never meet. There is no obvious reason that should work at all.
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