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Malice wrote:
 Or do the sound producers increase their source levels by an inverse c-weighting so we can EQ to a flat line? |
Loudness is taken care of in the studio - so a flat line should be the goal of our playback systems.
However, it used to be common practice to filter out the very bottom frequencies - especially during the vinyl days where 30Hz material can get the needle to jump outta the gap. I'm sure some of that has carried over, but it's slowly moving lower in frequency. A house curve would be a way of counteracting the roll off employed in the studio.
Nevertheless, I would think of house curves as tone controls for tweaking the tonal balance of recordings to taste....not as any form of equal loudness compensation.