1pauper1 Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 the output level on the out 1/2 channel strip doesn't read the same as any meter plug i throw on the strip. what's the deal, which meter do i believe ? the uotput channel strip reads about .4 less than L8's own multimeter plugin. same for 3rd party meters ( peak reveal , sonalksis free-g etc. ) i'm placing the meter last in the plug chain of course. i want the final out to be the standard -.3db , but with a .4 variance between meters has me scratching my head. L8.02 .....OSX 10.5.4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-m-m Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 I've noticed a .1 db varience from time to time ... .4 seems excessive. You've got your out 1-2 fader set at 0 db right?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Also make sure your Master fader is set to 0 dB, or it will offset the level of Output 1-2 (and all other output objects if any), even if the Out 1-2 is set to 0 dB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Metering is always doing some kind of sampling and averaging, with different time windows, frequency bands, etc. So I would expect some discrepancy between meters -- in addition to obvious differences like peak vs RMS, left/right/left+right sum, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pauper1 Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 0k, the master fader was the culprit, i had it set to -0.3 which begs the question.........why isn't there a meter on the master, if that is in fact the final summing adjustment ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-m-m Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 I simply leave the master fader at 0db all the time and forget about it. There may even be a way that you can disable it, but I'm not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beej Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 which begs the question.........why isn't there a meter on the master, if that is in fact the final summing adjustment ? Because it's not an audio channel, and no audio is flowing through it. It simply adjusts the output fader as if you were adjusting the output fader yourself. The purpose of this is in surround, where you one want fader to adjust *all* output channels together. This is the point of the master fader. For normal stereo mixing, the master fader is pointless, irrelevant, and you should leave it at zero and forget about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pauper1 Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 got it !!! manythanx to all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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