Manual

Loudness Pilot – Basic concepts and operation
Loudness Pilot English Manual (2014-10-07) 20
Operating Loudness Pilot
Loudness Pilot is equipped with one or more sig-
nal processing cards. Each card encompasses
four so-called engines.
Two of these engines are running the ALC2
Loudness Correction algorithm (see “Loudness
Wizard” on page 102), while the other two can
run the optional LM2 metering algorithms (see
“LM2 (optional)” on page 96).
As you can easily see, Loudness Pilot is a „head-
less system“ – it has no front panel controls (with
the exception of the Reset button).
Loudness Pilot is operated using the TC Icon
software, which you can download from the TC
Electronic website.
You can use the same version of the TC Icon
software to operate Loudness Pilot and other
professional broadcast products from TC Elec-
tronic (e.g. DB4 and DB8MKII).
Accordingly, a significant part of this manual
covers operating Loudness Pilot using TC Icon
software running on a standard computer, and
the screen shots you see are taken from the
OSX or Windows versions of this software.
Loudness Pilot offers a variety of ways to engage
or disengage audio processing. Processing may
be invoked automatically, depending on format,
level, physical inputs etc., while remote control
can be achieved via Ethernet, GPI, SDI metadata
etc. When setting up the device, make sure to
only engage the methods you wish to use. For
example, if GPI inputs are not used, make sure to
make sure to disable the respective input.
Please invest some time in learning TC Icon’s
basic concepts – you will benefit from it when
operating systems that may include many net-
worked TC signal processors.
Hardware versions
Loudness Pilot is available in five different hard-
ware versions: Loudness Pilot SDI with one, two
or three dual-engine processing cards installed,
and Loudness Pilot AES in balanced and unbal-
anced versions.