hey guys this time on Tim talks audio a question straight off the priests honest
studio one group on Facebook this question came from Jeremy and he was
asking about some of the aspects of the mix window his question was in regards
to this number here and all of these numbers in the meter here so today we're
going to explain what both of these and some other options are inside your mix
window let's start off by getting a bigger view of the mix window so we can
see everything I'm gonna click here to expand and I'm just gonna grab this guy
here stretch them up and same thing here this will allow me to get better
resolution and show you guys with a little bit more detail so firstly
Jeremy's question was about this number here it says minus 3.5 but what does
that actually mean this is the actual level of the slider or fader in the
track below it this fader right here isn't at 0 on the meter here it's
actually at minus 3.5 and this will reflect if I move the fader here and the
fader will jump if I change the number here so if I want to put this back up
and click and drag I can do that and we can see that the number is changing this
even goes into the positives above 0 well slide it back down and I can also
enter in a numerical value let's go with minus 7 and the fader moved you saw it
go from minus 3.5 to minus 7 now we can keep doing this as well let's try minus
25 now it's way down there so the number here is the position of the fader within
the channel let's take a look at the meters now there's a few different
options for meters inside studio one right now I'm just looking at the normal
peak and RMS meter I'm gonna hit play and we're gonna shift over to the main
outs viewed over here now that I've hit play we can see the
dancing around but what does this actually mean well there's a few things
to take a look at you have the left and right sides here that are highlighted in
blue and they're coming up to a certain point this is the peak meter of the peak
rms meter you saw just there the right side was a little hot and then the left
side gets a little hot this is the mix feeding the master bus left and right
and it's peak value the highest point it's hitting this meter on the master
output is going to be post-processing so if I was going to throw on a limiter
which has got a little clip see post-processing
if I was going to throw on a limiter
now I can set my ceiling something relatively low that will see let's say
minus five and really Jack the input now the peaks are not going past negative 5
on my output I'll clear my clip and we'll see that it's not pushing any
harder I'm gonna go ahead and clear these all out and we'll talk about RMS
in our meters here we can see these two slowly moving little white lines on our
peak RMS meter this is the RMS value RMS stands for root mean squared and it is
the effective value of the total waveform and in this case the total mix
this isn't to be confused with Lu FS or loops or whatever you want to call that
but both RMS and Lu FS are a means to find the overall loudness of a song or
mix they're just two different degrees of measurement and how they're measured
so earlier I said that there were more options of our meters let's take a look
on any one of our channels you can right click and choose different options and
studio one has the K metering system built-in you can easily just select K 20
K 14 or K 12 the last option in the peak RMS meter is the V you hold when I
engage this we can now see the peaks being held at their point and they have
a degrade speed as well and that's under they hold length that's all for now if
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