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Favorite Metering Plugins

Post by Mustang Martigan » Sun Aug 26, 2018 2:25 pm

I've been thinking about picking up another metering plug and I'm curious if y'all have a favorite/go to. My main two are VUMT and bx_meter. I also have some freebies, but I'm drawing a blank on their names.

Besides it being a worthy meter, I like it's GUI and digital meters. There's something about VU meters on a computer screen that doesn't sit well with me. And no, it has nothing to do with being a whinny bitch.."in my day we had tape, ya little bastards"

I want to make sure I have the necessary tools to make all the proper measurements.

Thanks.

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Re: Favorite Metering Plugins

Post by A.David.MacKinnon » Mon Aug 27, 2018 2:59 am

Roger Nichols Inspector is still my favourite.

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Re: Favorite Metering Plugins

Post by Nick Sevilla » Mon Aug 27, 2018 6:33 am

Been using Waves' Loudness meter, PAZ analyzer, and Dorrough.

They do a good job.
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Re: Favorite Metering Plugins

Post by MoreSpaceEcho » Mon Aug 27, 2018 9:34 am

VUMT deluxe and the stock wavelab meters here.

i have almost a whole monitor devoted solely to the VUMT. love it. i don't actually pay much attention to it (or any meters) much at all, but it's pretty and it makes me happy.

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Re: Favorite Metering Plugins

Post by losthighway » Mon Aug 27, 2018 2:31 pm

How many metering plugins does a recording engineer need?

Not being smarmy here, I have levels on my hardware going in, levels on my AD/DA, levels on my software. From there I could see one laser-focused, purpose-intensive tool to help me visualize something I didn't get along the way (probably something with some more frequency specific intel).

But perhaps here is where y'all school me and I learn a new strategy.

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Re: Favorite Metering Plugins

Post by MoreSpaceEcho » Tue Aug 28, 2018 8:19 am

no you're doing it right!

the less meters the better.

except for these:

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Re: Favorite Metering Plugins

Post by Mustang Martigan » Thu Aug 30, 2018 3:57 am

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:
Tue Aug 28, 2018 8:19 am
no you're doing it right!

the less meters the better.
I totally agree. I'm also trying to figure out if the bx_meter lacks any important measurements that would be helpful.

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