Questions about the Recording Levels poster

What’s on the Recording Levels poster?

10 entries in 2 groups. Setting and monitoring levels. Practice: Aim dialogue peaks near -12 dBFS, Never let peaks touch 0 dBFS, Set from th…; Room and kit: Record 30 seconds of room tone, Kill fridges, fans and air conditioning…. Digital clipping cannot be repaired, only disguised. A quiet clean take can be raised; a clipped one is gone.

Who is the Recording Levels poster for?

Recording Levels belongs to the Communications & Media section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning production can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Recording Levels poster?

Before rolling on anything with dialogue, and while monitoring throughout. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Recording Levels belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Recording Levels?

Setting Up an Interview, The 180-Degree Rule and Angles & Height sit alongside Recording Levels in the Communications & Media section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Setting Up an InterviewThe 180-Degree RuleAngles & Height

Is the Recording Levels poster free to download and print?

Yes. Recording Levels downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Communications & Media section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Recording Levels poster print at?

Recording Levels is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Recording Levels loses nothing.Printing guide