If you engage the limiter here in normal settings (threshold -1 ceiling -0.3) you will get a wonderfully sounding song of fine DR. In this case there is no brickwall limiter taking care of the peaks on the master, or it is bypassed. The peaks far exceed the VU level, DR is higher but since the peaks are clipping the mix is useless. Needles at -4-5dB show values below zero, much less than above, so the VU level is low, but the red leds show the digital peaks are clipping! To cover all the important things that take part in setting a proper output signal on the master the metering devices, plugins must not be forgotten.Īt the TT DR meter it will show an over compressed garbage of DR4-5 What a horror 🙁īut how to understand this below? (See Fig. It can be set or tweaked by compressors and limiters on the master. Since the loudness war, I dare not say “loud” as we used to tell when the volume of the music was high because loudness nowadays refers rather to the dynamic range or the RMS level (average amplitude value) of the mix. To say “listen to a mix at low level” is not correct, “listen to at low/high volume level” is more correct. Generally refers to the strength of a signal, or some quality. Want to change the volume of the output? Use the volume knob controlling your monitor and not the master fader. In mixing and mastering practice the master fader should be left alone at its default 0 position. The master fader also changes the volume at which you listen to. Can be low volume at home dancing with your sweetheart beside the fireplace:) or extremely high volume at a death-metal concert after which you keep restarting your car engine because you cannot hear it is already running):įaders take care of the output signal strength of the channel. It is the level or strength of a song/signal/track at which we are listening to it. Important to know that the fader on a channel has nothing to do with the input gain on this channel! It can be set by the input gain (if any) on the channel strip, by the input knob of a plugin (if it has) or by an inserted gain plugin. The strength of which a signal hits the channel, a bus, a plugin, the master channel inputs. Since I am mixing in order to get enjoyable music at the end, I would prefer not to dig in the nowadays “even loudness” issue of iTunes, Spotify and the like:( Mixcoach, too) that had 0, I mean ZERO, dynamic range on iTunes and was a horror to hear:(ĭownloaded wave looked like this… (see Fig.
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