Young man, I have been working in the broadcast industry for 40 years, and that is the best, and clearest explanation of digital metering I have ever seen. Outstanding! Thank you for this.
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Been pulling my hair out for 2 weeks trying to get my gain staging down between all the different meters, along with the K system. This was a huge help. Thank you man. 🙏
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Hi, beautiful explanation. I didn't understand the last thing: why, if you put higher treeshold, true pick doesn't clipping? Higher treeshold -> less compression -> more clipping, where is the mistake?
Great video! thanks a lot.- i have an tv program audio that they told me that the show has to be between -10dbfs and -20dbfs. wich plugin could help to measure and be sure that I'm in that level.- thanks!
4:18 metering for digital vs analog recording. Soft tape clipping vs hard digital clipping. 5:38 analog VU meter vs digital dBu meter 7:07 caveat: even in DAW, metering might actually be analog
Unfortunately, no. Let me explain. SPL stands for sound pressure level and is the relation of physical pressure in a location. The reference for SPL is 0dB SPL is the quietest sound the human ear can detect. dBFS is a relation to the maximum digital level before clipping so 0dBFS is the highest level and the rest of the values are negative. The big problem here is that dependent on the size of your speakers, size of amplifier, output volume of your interface and distance from the speakers all change the potential SPL. Note that these aren't even all the factors, even temperature and the materials on the walls make a difference to SPL. Therefore there is no way to accurately convert them without knowing a lot more about the rest of the system at which point it is much easier to just measure it with an SPL meter.
what is the difference between VU & RMS metering? some mix engineers i see use VU, others use RMS, so why one over the other, if they both show average level?
On the first dbu diagram you showed, it had +12 above +16 .. that's surely just a mistake right? I've not been doing it wrong for all these years have I? xD
From what I can hear, anywhere near 0dbfs you are asking for distortion. You must consider your converters also. And I hate to point out that +12 dbu would normally appear before +16dbu on a real meter! :-)
In regards to the +12 thing, It's meant to be +6 but it's just a typo in the slide, but you already know that right. In regards to distortion, Obviously, the circumstances matter here. If you are talking about purely one channel as long as you are under 0dBFS you should get ZERO distortion (if everything is set up properly and functioning correctly). If you are talking about the gain staging of an entire mix, running the levels on individual channels anywhere close to zero is asking for trouble. This video is just about individual metering and not gain staging though.
Young man, I have been working in the broadcast industry for 40 years, and that is the best, and clearest explanation of digital metering I have ever seen. Outstanding! Thank you for this.
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Been pulling my hair out for 2 weeks trying to get my gain staging down between all the different meters, along with the K system. This was a huge help. Thank you man. 🙏
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WOWWWWWWWW!!!! What an amazingly explained video on digital & analogue metering. I’ve been looking for a video like this for ever, hanks for doing it:).
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Hi, beautiful explanation. I didn't understand the last thing: why, if you put higher treeshold, true pick doesn't clipping?
Higher treeshold -> less compression -> more clipping, where is the mistake?
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Great video! thanks a lot.- i have an tv program audio that they told me that the show has to be between -10dbfs and -20dbfs. wich plugin could help to measure and be sure that I'm in that level.- thanks!
4:18 metering for digital vs analog recording. Soft tape clipping vs hard digital clipping. 5:38 analog VU meter vs digital dBu meter 7:07 caveat: even in DAW, metering might actually be analog
Thanks a lot.. Perfect Video
Can I convert a dBfs to dBSPL??
Unfortunately, no. Let me explain.
SPL stands for sound pressure level and is the relation of physical pressure in a location. The reference for SPL is 0dB SPL is the quietest sound the human ear can detect.
dBFS is a relation to the maximum digital level before clipping so 0dBFS is the highest level and the rest of the values are negative.
The big problem here is that dependent on the size of your speakers, size of amplifier, output volume of your interface and distance from the speakers all change the potential SPL. Note that these aren't even all the factors, even temperature and the materials on the walls make a difference to SPL. Therefore there is no way to accurately convert them without knowing a lot more about the rest of the system at which point it is much easier to just measure it with an SPL meter.
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So how do I utilize all this information while producing and mixing?
How is it that on the dBu meter it goes from +4 to +16 to +12.
Great vid btw, I'm learning a ton.
Just a typo :)
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what is the difference between VU & RMS metering? some mix engineers i see use VU, others use RMS, so why one over the other, if they both show average level?
On the first dbu diagram you showed, it had +12 above +16 .. that's surely just a mistake right? I've not been doing it wrong for all these years have I? xD
Very usefull. Thank you.
Thx!🎉
From what I can hear, anywhere near 0dbfs you are asking for distortion. You must consider your converters also.
And I hate to point out that +12 dbu would normally appear before +16dbu on a real meter! :-)
In regards to the +12 thing, It's meant to be +6 but it's just a typo in the slide, but you already know that right.
In regards to distortion, Obviously, the circumstances matter here. If you are talking about purely one channel as long as you are under 0dBFS you should get ZERO distortion (if everything is set up properly and functioning correctly).
If you are talking about the gain staging of an entire mix, running the levels on individual channels anywhere close to zero is asking for trouble. This video is just about individual metering and not gain staging though.
@@audioproductiontips Yes I did know it was a typo. Pete, please see my comment on Top Down Mixing video!!
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