Hi Martin,

Thanks for taking my question during the Q&A live Twitch session...

Can the audio meters be made a little more scientific with a dBFS legend? Right now, the audio meters are only colored boxes.

I think audio meter is an old story... we need a better audiometer with legend, and with higher resolution. The little boxes drive me crazy, it's simple not a professional thing. There is many broadcast device and sw with good audio meter... these are good examples.

Having started with Wirecast, I don't think its audio meters are superior to the ones in vMix. They have a different appearance but that doesn't mean better audio levels. Using audio with vMix is much more straight forward than Wirecast.

Please note that I am not an expert in audio, just trying to do my best to get decent levels in vMix. So far I think we've been doing OK, but also that we could do better. As well as more deeply figure out what is going on outside and inside vMix.

One major issue, that currently is unclear anyway in vMix, is the reference leve (0 dB). For an example of the complexity of this question, see http://geoffthegreygeek.com/understanding-decibels-part-2/

Add to that headroom recommendations, see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headroom_(audio_signal_processing).

Then we have differences depending on how audio is coming into vMix. For examples via analog inpus (eg the motherboard's sound card), USB, ASIO, SDI/HDMI, etc.

We tend to use an external analog or digital audio mixer and feed its output to vMix via USB. That mixer board's analog line level out easily becomes too high for the PC's sound card have been discussed elsewehere. As a result the audio in to vMix becomes distorted even though the level is adjusted down in vMix's Audio Input (and/or main out).

What I am primarily wanting is something that would help us align the level of all incoming audio with the level received and shown by vMix's audio meter. For example, in the Behringer XR 18 we use each input's gain to adjust it relative to the input's and LR (output) 0 level. Like if a speaker talks normally into the microphone, the audio level is the same when are sliders are on the 0 level. But then it's difficult to make a similar adjustment in vMix, as there is no corresponding meter there.

Another thing is if we would like to use vMix's compressor, then we can't see how much and when the signal is attenuated when the compressor kicks in.

To sum up, we have and can survive as is. But more info on how vMix handle and display audio levels would be useful.

Thanks.

I've used this as well. They have both simple stereo meters and multi-channel meters. I've actually purchased licenses for both since they are very useful.

It's great to me able to meter multiple sources independent of vMix of Wirecast, even it does require more display space.