MeldaProduction

MeldaProduction · Post by **MeldaProduction** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 2:25 pm

Hi folks, silly question, but probably important, at least to some. Here are 3 visuals, notice only the right part, the meters.

Solid:

MTurboReverb06.png

1 pixel:

MTurboReverb05.png

2 pixels (current):

MTurboReverb04.png

DarkStar · Post by **DarkStar** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 3:10 pm

Voters - please make sure that you display the screenshots at 100% size so you can see the differences (the forum software compresses them).

Here's a pic of all three side by side:

>>> http://i.imgur.com/5RswIk8.png

Svama · Post by **Svama** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:08 pm

I think more important is a scalable meter and more values at the side and not showing the lowest amount of gr.

steve2KVR · Post by **steve2KVR** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:24 pm

...seems to me, way too much real estate is devoted to meters in general...I'm only interested in the information available at the very top of the scale, where the "action" is...they don't need to be as wide either, how about more metered parameters instead...in most cases I don't really use them for the instantaneous stuff, but I do use the "over time" display...jmho.../s~

Svama · Post by **Svama** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:46 pm

I'm also thinking with your philosophy of in and out metering it doesn't really need two meters at all. One meter saves place and can show up the different of in and out meter at once.

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:54 pm

steve2KVR wrote:...seems to me, way too much real estate is devoted to meters in general..

Then just collapse them and theyre out of sight

steve2KVR · Post by **steve2KVR** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:56 pm

...yup..."Then just collapse them and theyre out of sight"...mostly how I roll these days

...but "thin bouncing meters" would be pretty good too.../s~

jmg8 · Post by **jmg8** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 8:01 pm

Can people please start voting for solid, or I will go in a mood!

Tagirijus · Post by **Tagirijus** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 8:54 pm

jmg8 wrote:Can people please start voting for solid, or I will go in a mood!

Here I go.

Seriously: I find the solid one way cleaner than the others.

Of course people could discuss the given information instead of the visual representation, but I guess this should / could be another topic.

sinkmusic · Post by **sinkmusic** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 9:29 pm

solid or 1pixel for me.

Svama · Post by **Svama** » Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:34 pm

The Input metering is pre fader, can I change that behaviour? Pre fader metering is "only" usable for live mixing and recording sessions, but does someone use this feature? As I said some comments before in my opinion one meter for IN/OUT is enough! At the end the Output is the interesting and essential metering. One IN/OUT Metering should show up the sum of both.

Svama · Post by **Svama** » Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:37 pm

Is it possible to change my vote?

Tagirijus · Post by **Tagirijus** » Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:53 pm

Svama wrote:The Input metering is pre fader, can I change that behaviour?

Isn't just the "In-Meter" and "Side-Meter" = pre-fader?

Edit: I am stupid... sorry.

... no skill of reading I have ...

Edit 2: Still: why do you want the in-meter behaves like the out-meter, when you do have the out-meter? Or I do not get your problem here, sorry.

Svama · Post by **Svama** » Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:04 pm

No problem, but take an eq and if you change nothing, in and out are the same. Other behaviour on dynamic plugins.
I like the in/out combination of voxengo, Vojtech doesn't like, but it's much easier for gain staging in my opinion.

Tagirijus · Post by **Tagirijus** » Tue Feb 07, 2017 6:27 pm

Svama wrote:No problem, but take an eq and if you change nothing, in and out are the same. Other behaviour on dynamic plugins.

I did and in both cases the behaviour of the meters were the same. Am I still missing something here?

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Poll: How should the meters look

Which one do you like the most?