New metering - what is useful for gain staging?

[Drew Mazurek]

Originally Posted by SpinningDisk

Now now....

now now what?

I am hoping to learn a new trick!!

[SpinningDisk]

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[Blues Bird]

Originally Posted by Drew Mazurek

Venue is an Avid product.

http://www.avid.com/US/products/fami...-sound-systems

OK, Thanks.

[Blues Bird]

Originally Posted by Drew Mazurek

Can someone explain to me how your ear tells the difference between -20dBFS and -6dBFS unless your control room volume is calibrated?

The OP asked about individual tracks which to me points to basic setting of levels. How do your ears do that?

Yeah, exactly. I want to do an analog like gain staging while recording and mixing, especially when using analog hardware as inserts and on the 2bus. But also with plugins it is certainly not a good idea to slam with , let's say, -6db FS...

So I want to keep my signals while recording and mixing at around +4 dBu (+0 VU) which is -18 dBFS at my system. For this the old pro tools metering isn't helpful at all (too fast peaks and barely visible levels). So i thought maybe the new VU style metering would help, but I am not sure: for a signal with lots of fast transient (like a kick) the VU metering is to slow...

[Emcha_audio]

Originally Posted by Blues Bird

Yeah, exactly. I want to do an analog like gain staging while recording and mixing, especially when using analog hardware as inserts and on the 2bus. But also with plugins it is certainly not a good idea to slam with , let's say, -6db FS...

So I want to keep my signals while recording and mixing at around +4 dBu (+0 VU) which is -18 dBFS at my system. For this the old pro tools metering isn't helpful at all (too fast peaks and barely visible levels). So i thought maybe the new VU style metering would help, but I am not sure: for a signal with lots of fast transient (like a kick) the VU metering is to slow...

I'm pretty sure you know this, but that's because the VU is really there to represent the average loudness of the material.

[Top Jimmy]

Originally Posted by Drew Mazurek

The OP asked about individual tracks which to me points to basic setting of levels. How do your ears do that?

http://www.prosoundweb.com/article//..._in_the_world/


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