Terry Mikkelsen
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I have the KRK V8s. Don’t let the color offend you too much. Its like a fine piece of art on the wall, after a little time to get used to it, you only notice it when you want to gaze upon its beauty. 🙂
ps that yellow woofer is kevlar, will stop a bullet if you get crazy clients and you need to protect yourself.
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Don’t confuse tone with peak levels.
Tone was set at 0VU in the analog days. You can have program audio louder than 0VU and it is natural to do so. Analog also had an inherent compression attribute with tape saturation.
When we moved to digital, there is no compression to the format when you exceed its maximum abilities. So, it was determined to lower the average level to allow some headroom in the program levels. This became a highly subjective issue. There is no absolute (except as those determined by each house) and so that is why you see different specs.So it breaks down like this:
1. Find out what your final delivery format is and what levels they require (both average or tone levels and the maximum).
2. Lay your tones at the appropriate level. Lets say -16dBfs for this example. Now you know that if you need to goto analog for some reason, you will have -16dBfs on your digital machine and your analog needs to get set to 0VU.
3. Adjust your speaker volume to a comfortable level while listening to your -16dBfs tones.
4. Without adjusting your speakers, adjust your program volumes to be roughly the same comfortable volume that your tones were.
5. Now scan through your program and make sure you do not exceed the maximum level specified by your final house. (If needed, add some gentle compression and/or limiting)ps I like RMS Buddy for level monitoring
pps I prefer -1dBfs for CDs
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I guess the question now is: What is your final output intent? Are you or your intended audience going to print this document? Or is this for a website to be displayed on a monitor only?
If printing is involved, you should try to get your colors correct in the CMYK profile and so that they look “right” on the screen when you choose separations preview. I only use InDesign for this purpose so I don’t have as much RGB experience in this program. I assume that you could retain the RGB graphics and output a pdf which does not alter the colors. But in creating a pdf, in my mind, assumes the document would get printed at some point.
If your intent is a web page, I would design in DreamWeaver or another web authoring program. This would retain your RGB files and display them properly.
Good Luck!
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Just as a test, I would place the tif and png into the document anywhere. Now goto “Window>Output>Separations Preview” With that palette open, now select the drop-down menu from Off to Separations. Notice the colors. Now while still viewing the separations, place the psd file. Did the colors change for the entire document? Did the colors of your png or tiff change? Write back the results of the test.
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If you select text with the black arrow, you only select the container box. Overprinting may still be the issue.
Option 1: select all text boxes with black arrow tool. Then select the small “T” either at the bottom of your tools palette or at the top of the swatches palette. Now open the attributes palette. Uncheck the overprint fill box if it is on.
Option 2: If you have threaded text the above option will not work (because you can’t select the “T”). In this case you actually need to highlight all of the text with your type tool. Then look at the attributes palette.
Option 3: Transparency modes can have an overprinting like effect. Select all text boxes with black arrow. Ensure mode is set to normal. (In CS & CS2 this is in the transparency palette, in CS3 & CS4 it is the effect palette.)
Option 4: Lastly, check the pdf output settings. If your text is getting flattened this could adversely effect the text. (Text should be on the topmost layer of your project if possible to make sure that other objects to do overlap and cause text to be rasterized) If your pdf compatibility is set to version 5 or higher this will keep your text “live”. You can verify by going to the advanced column of the pdf export dialog box. There you will see the Transparency Flattner setting on the left. These should be grayed out.
Good Luck!
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Click “File>Document Setup” and uncheck “facing pages”.
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Yes, you were right. Design at 36×48. When click print, choose the “setup” tab on the left and then click on “Tile” at the bottom right. Make sure you have the paper size set to 13×19. It will print guides to help you line up the sheets and then you paste together.
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Yes, its more time consuming to manually adjust the levels, however, it will always be superior to any filter/plug-in/preset. If compression is used, try to do small amounts at a time, layering the filters as needed.
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