Hi to everyone.
I have a question about audio metering in vmix.
I'm using vmix to record video and audio, audio is coming from my mixer. After checking the audio that was recorded i realized it's too high, so i decided to turn down the vmix fader because levels in my mixer are correct. But there's something i don't understand, i assume the scale in vmix meter is dbfs but when i move the fader there's a % number.. what does that % number mean? I decided to turn it down to 0%, but i would like to know what it means.

Thanks!

The fader gain (or more correctly, attenuation) is simply being expressed both in dBs and as a percentage (of the digital voltage). So "100% 0dB" means no attenuation, and "10% -20dB" means that the level is reduced by a factor of 10/100 (1/10) which is -20 in dBs. Dividing the level again by a further 1/10 to 1% of the original adds a further 20dB reduction, hence the display "1% -40dB". Unfortunately, because they are not showing fractions of a percent, the lower values don't make as much sense, given that 0% should equal minus infinity, for example.

So, for the values below around "5% -26dB", you're best ignoring the percentage values and just going off the dB reading.

If you're talking about a knob on your hardware mixer which controls gain (as opposed to the channel fader - which is usually a slider, but could be a knob) then it's entirely possible that the "zero" setting just means the lowest default gain, whatever that is, plus zero dB (i.e. no additional gain) and not a gain setting of "minus infinity" which is what would be required to stop any audio entering that channel. The channel fader will reduce the output of the channel to zero, but I wouldn't necessarily expect the channel gain control to do the same.
Of course I don't know what the mixer is, nor the device you're using to get the output from vMix, or how you're connecting it to the mixer, via what sort of input connection, so really rather a lot of unknowns in order to give a diagnosis.