blue_luke
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Hi all
A friend of mine and I are designing a 4 ch preamp.
He kind of insist on having VU meters on the thing for each channel, I say, with digital recording systems more common nowadays, we need more of a PPM type of metering.
But then again, I say that we might not even need metering at all!
I use a RME firewire800 converter unit and Nuendo3 software. With this system I have plenty of meters, with quite a few choices of ballistic and resolution.
Some may argue, and I may concur, that getting the signal well controlled between boundaries right at the preamp is the way to go.
Hmmmm.... yeah, I guess...
But getting the proper ballistics from a mid range meter , like the Siffam, needs quite a bit of circuitry.
Anyway to cut the discussion short, I think nowadays, the best metering system in this age would be Bob Katz 'K system' metering.
I have an article on this somewhere, but while I dig for it, is someone have knowledge about this system and even, perhaps, a design for it?
If I remember well, mr Katz system specifies quite a different attack and release time for the ballistic but more importantly, it is referenced to DBFS scale.
Which makes a lot of sense....
Any comments, thoughts, diatribe, criticism or anything on the subject? :
Luc
A friend of mine and I are designing a 4 ch preamp.
He kind of insist on having VU meters on the thing for each channel, I say, with digital recording systems more common nowadays, we need more of a PPM type of metering.
But then again, I say that we might not even need metering at all!
I use a RME firewire800 converter unit and Nuendo3 software. With this system I have plenty of meters, with quite a few choices of ballistic and resolution.
Some may argue, and I may concur, that getting the signal well controlled between boundaries right at the preamp is the way to go.
Hmmmm.... yeah, I guess...
But getting the proper ballistics from a mid range meter , like the Siffam, needs quite a bit of circuitry.
Anyway to cut the discussion short, I think nowadays, the best metering system in this age would be Bob Katz 'K system' metering.
I have an article on this somewhere, but while I dig for it, is someone have knowledge about this system and even, perhaps, a design for it?
If I remember well, mr Katz system specifies quite a different attack and release time for the ballistic but more importantly, it is referenced to DBFS scale.
Which makes a lot of sense....
Any comments, thoughts, diatribe, criticism or anything on the subject? :
Luc