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by Stephen57 » Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:27 am
MattiasNYC wrote: ↑Wed Jun 27, 2018 3:39 am
Stephen,
I understand that you both want to understand what you see in Windows, as well as make your music better, but every single fiber in my body tells me to tell you to just ignore this completely.
I think the odds that someone at Microsoft coded those meters in any way that is meaningful to us musicians are very, very low. It may be that there is some correlation between what you see and how you think different types of music sounds, but by far your best bet is to get good, professional metering and use that instead. Either use built-in metering in Nuendo, or get something like iZotope's "Insight". Learn those meters, and use those to analyze music.
I think you'll be wasting time with these....
+1
Thanks for that. I watched -- posted reference in the lounge -- a talk by Andrew Scheps -- what comes out of the speakers is all that matters. You're saying much the same. Thank you. It really is the truth about this. Ignore it is right thing to do. I think your assessment of the meter is also spot on. I won't get hung up on it.
The meters I'm working with and getting finally more comfortable with are the ones inside Cubase along with some others I have and for use in DAW work. I think I know what we're seeing in the Windows Meter -- very heavy limiting and hyper compression of the source material. Also seeing some very good mixing. But, this Windows Meter really doesn't matter and I'm going to ignore it. Side-effect of this question was getting better at Channel Strip usage. I'll need some other tools as well. Those are there when I'm ready for them. My ears will tell me, in consultation with and my purse of course.
This and these comments by all on this were much better than than the question, ultimately.
Thanks for helping to clear things up. I feel less caught in this "distraction." Lastly, shame on MS for not publishing an easy to find help page on this simple question. No?
Very helpful, all, thanks.
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