Historical Perspective on Metering
Posted on | December 24, 2008 | No Comments
One of the downsides of digital audio is that when it started taking hold, musicians using DAWs became fixated with the digital peak level that was displayed on an interface and quickly forgot about average level. Worse yet, a generation of musicians who have grown up using digital probably don’t know anything but peak metering.
Metering is a huge part of mastering because our ears (and brains) judge sounds by average level and peak level…not just peak level. Having accurate metering is an absolutely essential part of professional mastering.
Since I’ve started featuring video in this blog, I thought this would be a good spot to alert you about a nice video that covers some of the history of audio metering.
Of course it’s also a promo piece for the Dorrough company, but there’s a still a lot of good historical information in it.
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