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calibrate your monitor to the smpte color standard.
this is only accurate with a high end production monitor.
 
allowing the monitor to warm up, after a few minutes  
in a darkened  room make sure there aren't any reflections on the screen.
attach a camera or other source for color bars to the monitor and
adjust the contrast or picture to the midpoint detent. then                                                        adjust color down until the color bars are shades of black and white

 

     correct ntsc color bars without color

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adjust the monitor brightness so that only the furthest right of
the three narrow bars is faintly visible.

    
using the "blue only" button (or a piece of blue gel placed over the screen),  removes all the red and green from the color bar picture leaving only blue. if the "hue" knob is set correctly you will see bars of equal intensity. (see example below)

.blue color bars without red & green

with the blue switch on (or a blue gel in front of your screen) turn chroma (or color) until the gray bar on the far left and the blue bar on the far right become equal brightness... match either the gray or blue bar with its lower sub bar.

adjust the hue knob until the colors cyan and magenta are also equal brightness... match either with their prospective sub bars. be sure the four bars - gray, cyan, magenta and blue are equal in intensity. yellow, green and red (represented in black) should be completely black.

 

 

your monitor will be properly adjusted after following these basic steps.
balance your audio stream to 0db using this1khz (level) @ 0dB tone

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