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pilgrims1  
#1 Posted : Wednesday, July 2, 2014 4:45:10 AM(UTC)
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many audio professionals want to view reduction meter.
reason why.... how compressor reducing audio signal for proper make up gain setting.

Additionally...
Reduction meter is essential for audio mixing with compressor.
so....
If we can see reduction meter just beside level meter on Audio Section,
it will be great thing for your customer and you.

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#2 Posted : Wednesday, July 2, 2014 8:04:13 PM(UTC)
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+1 Would be a great feature.
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The audio meter in vMix is post-effects which means it shows how the compressor has reduced the signal.
If this is not what you need, perhaps you could explain in a bit more detail.

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#4 Posted : Thursday, July 3, 2014 2:29:52 AM(UTC)
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admin wrote:
The audio meter in vMix is post-effects which means it shows how the compressor has reduced the signal.
If this is not what you need, perhaps you could explain in a bit more detail.

Regards,

Martin
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The audio meter wouldn't show how much the compressor has reduced the signal but would show what the resulting signal is. What he is talking about how much the signal is being attenuated. For instance, if a channel were to be getting compressed with 5 db of attenuation/gain reduction, the makeup gain needed to keep correct gain staging would be +5db of gain. This would be difficult to monitor without some sort of meter. Especially when working with multiple channels of audio, seeing the amount of applied compression can be very handy.

Here is another example:

The difference between the input and output is 18db of attenuation. So right now vMix is showing the right green meter in the photo below and what the gain reduction would be is the orange meter. The attenuation would be the difference between the input volume and the post compression volume. That's where makeup gain would come into play.

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#5 Posted : Tuesday, March 31, 2015 7:25:16 AM(UTC)
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+1 (can't believe I did not vote on this earlier...)
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