User Manual

Monitoring Menus
The monitoring menus determine which bus gets analyzed by the compound meters. When the
compound meters are displayed, the Monitoring drop-down menu that otherwise appears to
the left of the monitoring controls in the Transport toolbar instead moves to a position
underneath the Loudness meters.
This drop-down menu lets you choose which bus you want to monitor as you work. You can
choose one of your mains, or you can choose a Sub or an Aux that you want to focus on for
more detailed work.
The monitoring menu lets you choose which bus
you want to monitor while working
The next drop-down menu to the right lets you choose one of the available sets of speakers
once you’ve configured them in the Video and Audio I/O panel of the System Preferences. This
gives you the flexibility to quickly listen to your mix on a variety of speakers and configurations
to see how it holds up in different situations. For more information on configuring different
speaker setups, see Chapter 3, “System and User Preferences.”
The monitoring menu lets you choose which bus
you want to monitor while working
Control Room Meters
The mustard-colored Control Room audio meters show the sum of all audio channels that are
routed to the currently selected bus being monitored (as selected in the drop-down menu
below). These are peak meters measured in dBFS.
Loudness Meters
The set of meters all the way to the right are the Loudness meters, which consist of a set of two
graphical meters and a numerical readout. These meters let you analyze the “integrated
loudness” of the overall mix, which is the standard to which all contemporary mixing
specifications refer when describing the deliverables you’re expected to provide to the client.
Unlike the RMS audio meters found in the Timeline or mixer which measure audio in dB,
loudness meters do a different kind of analysis, measured in LU (loudness units).
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