Stuck meters

[Peakly]

I haven't checked into the big famous pop music scene for a few months, so I thought I better see how people are mixing now. I brought I tunes over to my rig, and saw the meters and thought I must have something plugged in wrong because they were just stuck at one level. I figured I had some feedback going on or something (I didn't have monitors on yet).

But then I fooled around a little and realized that was the music! I remembered I had my meters set to hold for a second, so I switched the peak hold off. But they still barely moved. I realize this is old news, but when you haven't actually seen or heard it for awhile, it is pretty funny.

Mychal

[Greg Reierson]

If your meters are calibrated for mixing (somewhere in the neighborhood of 0VU = -18dBFS) then mastered songs will look very hot on those meters. If they're calibrated for mastering or just for listening to mastered mixes (somewhere in the neighborhood of 0VU = -8dBFS) you should see some movement.


GR

[Peakly]

Thanks Greg. That's cool. I was commenting though on the fact that it looked almost flatline - and sounded like it. In comparison to something recorded maybe fifteen to twenty years ago, where you can see and hear the patient actually breathing.

Mychal

[Greg Reierson]

Sad but true.