Better audio meters in Vegas, anyone?

farss wrote on 5/23/2010, 4:51 PM
I'm wondering, is there any reason we don't have the excellent audio metering capabilites of Sound Forge in Vegas?
I for one would like to see the same capabilities in Vegas, the phase correlation meter I could live without but a choice of VU meters would be nice. I already have a vintage VU meter VST plugin, the problem is of course, it is a plugin. I can hang a very nice Durrough meter onto the feed to my monitors, again not quite as flexible if I want VU metering on my busses.

Bob.

Comments

John_Cline wrote on 5/23/2010, 6:51 PM
Good idea, I'd like to have Sound Forge 10's metering system in Vegas, including the separation and phase correlation meters.
musicvid10 wrote on 5/23/2010, 6:59 PM
Another "yes" vote from a third old fart. Is that a quorum?
John_Cline wrote on 5/23/2010, 7:12 PM
I'm not an old fart! I'm barely into my first mid-life crisis! :)
winrockpost wrote on 5/23/2010, 7:27 PM
well , gotta have a reason to have both... wouldn't be that hard to make it one program...... I think.... but lots of stuff audiophiles/videophiles wouldn't need..
farss wrote on 5/23/2010, 7:34 PM
As we become older we like to think of every crisis as "mid-life". :)

For those too young (lucky buggers) to know what a VU meter is, no this is not because I miss the old days of oxide and splicing blocks. Rather it's because a PPM gives poor indication of how loud audio is. On the other hand a VU meter alone is pretty useless at telling you if you're clipping.

Bob.
richard-courtney wrote on 5/23/2010, 9:21 PM
I'd love an A-weighted audio level meter so we can set the AC3
dialnorm value correctly.
musicvid10 wrote on 5/23/2010, 9:29 PM
so we can set the AC3 dialnorm value correctly.

If one has done their work correctly on the timeline, that value is -31. WYHIWYG

I agree a little more with Bob's rationale. Those mushy VU meters "were" helpful in letting you know where you were at overall . . .

I would like to see a combo meter that gave me peak dBFS plus active RMS on the same display; is that "best of both worlds" solution too much to hope for??