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Metering
Jan 14, 2020 0:34:56 GMT -6
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Post by matt@IAA on Jan 14, 2020 0:34:56 GMT -6
Ive been going around in circles a bit on this. Forget convention. If you’re putting a basic LED meter on a piece of outboard gear, what do you think makes sense for a user in this day?
Peak program or VU? Do you put a peak / overload / clip? If so, is that at some user adjustable amount (perhaps the final output and lighting at PPM standard for 0 dBFS for your interface)? Or strictly when that unit clips? In other words would you meter the unit itself or presume to help the user meter the chain?
It seems to me most of the analog metering out there is not as useful as it might have once been due to the way people record now.
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Post by Blackdawg on Jan 14, 2020 0:43:58 GMT -6
I think it's more important to meter the unit itself. Some it's fine to just have a signal and peak light on it (500 gear).
Otherwise a VU meter with a peak light is great I'm and standard for most analog gear.
If you're doing an led meter I'd do something like JLMs where you can have floating peak plus Vu or ppm.
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 14, 2020 6:19:32 GMT -6
I’m happy with what Jeff does by putting the “signal present” led on his mic pres. Other than that, as far as mic preamps go, you can basically just listen or you have the metering in the daw. Switchable input, gr, and output meters on compressors are much more important as you can see what your feeding into the front end of that gear.
The Lola’s have switchable ppm/vu LED’s on the front panel, but honestly they don’t make much sense to me.
I’m not a huge fan of blinking lights on gear, definitely hate things like the above/below threshold on the dbx 160. Sooo distracting.
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