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2015/07/23 17:45:17 (permalink)

What is your preferred meter option (PEAK, RMS, RMS+PEAK) and why?

Would love to know how you guys view these choices.
 
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    jpetersen
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    Re: What is your preferred meter option (PEAK, RMS, RMS+PEAK) and why? 2015/07/23 17:51:53 (permalink)
    Peak for clipping, RMS for perceived volume level.
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    Re: What is your preferred meter option (PEAK, RMS, RMS+PEAK) and why? 2015/07/23 17:56:08 (permalink)
    I have all the meters in Console view set to Peak + RMS. Peak is always worth knowing, of course, as you don't want to clip, but it's not actually very meaningful beyond that. RMS gets somewhat closer to a measure of perceived loudness.

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    Re: What is your preferred meter option (PEAK, RMS, RMS+PEAK) and why? 2015/07/23 17:58:36 (permalink)
    I use peak for meters, and (Voxengo) SPAN for RMS.

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    Re: What is your preferred meter option (PEAK, RMS, RMS+PEAK) and why? 2015/07/23 18:38:46 (permalink)
    More info here.

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    Re: What is your preferred meter option (PEAK, RMS, RMS+PEAK) and why? 2015/07/23 20:30:23 (permalink)
    Zargg71
    I use peak for meters, and (Voxengo) SPAN for RMS.


    this is what I do as well.



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    Re: What is your preferred meter option (PEAK, RMS, RMS+PEAK) and why? 2015/07/23 20:34:25 (permalink)
    I really like 3/4.

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    Re: What is your preferred meter option (PEAK, RMS, RMS+PEAK) and why? 2015/07/23 21:05:23 (permalink)
    I use Peak+RMS, but I don't like how it looks. It is very hard to read it. It definitely should have much more customizable options.
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    Re: What is your preferred meter option (PEAK, RMS, RMS+PEAK) and why? 2015/07/24 16:51:42 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby magik570 2015/07/24 21:15:31
    Peak for tracking set to hold peak value.

    After that peak and RMS plus Span as needed.

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