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Originally Posted by uptoolate  This is all really helpful info. Thanks.
A few have mentioned that the meters are not acurate in software. As far as getting a high quality meter, and calibrating it. I'm afraid I'm a little in the dark about how to do that.
Are we talking about a dual channel meter?
Where would it go in the chain for someone who mixes entirely ITB?
How would you calibrate it?
What would a good one cost? (not the high end, but one that would be acurate still)
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Check out the thread I posted, Terry talks a little about metering in the digital world as well but in the end the problem is NOT just levels in the box, it starts with level TO the box. As I said, there are problems with the rail voltage of your preamps and other external gear.
The only reason why we used to push things in the analog days were beause of the high noise floor of the tape. Digital noise floor is way way lower so don't use analog thinking in the digital world!
If you want to minimize your issues as Terry says above just keep your PEEK LEVELS around -12 to -18 and that should be enough to keep your gain stage from preamp to converter to plug in to digital mix buss clean.
Good luck.