Ozone Meter Bridge ?

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2011/12/13 22:15:57 (permalink)

Ozone Meter Bridge ?

OK here goes,
I'm running the Ozone Advanced demo and trying to convince myself to go with just 5 and not advanced BUT look at these shots and explain to me what I'm seeing, please.
Here is the MASTER buss in Sonar, it show a -0.7db peak for the song.

Here is the Ozone 5 standard meters shot, basically the same thing, right?

Now here is the fancy new Meter Bridge shot

So the Meter Bridge is telling me I have inter-sample overages?
I have read the manual, I know it sounds far fetched.
And what about the "LU" and "LUFS", is this stuff I can't possibly live without?
Any thoughts, enlightenment?
Thanks,
Tom

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    bitflipper
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    Re:Ozone Meter Bridge ? 2011/12/13 23:05:27 (permalink)
    I've not studied it in depth, but my understanding is that LUFS is a unit of averaged, weighted loudness measurement that's supposed to correspond to perceived loudness. I think the reason iZotope offers it is because of the new European broadcasting standards for loudness, which are trying to formalize consistent levels in radio and television.

    I have an EBU loudness meter that was a free download somewhere, I forget where. I spent a few weeks using it on every project to see if it would help me achieve consistency. It really didn't do any more for me than watching average RMS levels with SPAN. And because the loudness meter was a CPU vampire, I stopped using it.

    For decades, engineers got by with the most primitive measurements imaginable short of a Magic Eight-ball: the good old VU meter. And it actually works pretty well, as long as you establish a known relationship between 0dbVU and your monitor's actual loudness - which of course is what the K-system is all about.

    So my guess is that no, having those extra metrics will probably not make your life any easier. I'll continue to be content with SPAN in Mastering mode and K-12.


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    Re:Ozone Meter Bridge ? 2011/12/14 17:20:12 (permalink)
    Right. Sonar only shows sample peaks, but when your digital signal is made into an analog one the signal level can (most certainly will...) be higher than that. (euck... that's a gross oversimplification. sorry.) For music production the R128 standard (which is where the LU stuff comes from) doesn't offer much advantage over normal RMS metering, as bitflipper pointed out. It does lots of other fancy stuff in terms of ignoring super quiet passages and surround loudness metering that don't really apply to music makers.

    But here's a nice video that explains why you should use it: http://youtu.be/BhA7Vy3OPbc It's by Thomas Lund of TC Electronic.

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