TT Dynamic Range Meter

This metering plugin is a little bit odd: it attempts to tell you how much dynamics are available in your mix. If you’re not sure wether you’re already running into overcompression or if you’ve got some headroom leff you can use this as a guide being the last effect in your signal chain. I use to keep my tracks around a DR value of ~9.

The main motivation in designing this was to somehow put an end to the loudness war which is an issue in nowadays music. The development involved many quite clever people from the industry, eventhough i wouldn’t say that it should be regarded as the holy grail or second ears it indeed provides valuable information. Especially for people who just start messing around with mixing, compression etc. Read more about it here.

Written on December 29th, 2009 in Gear/Essentials. Tagged with meter, mixing fx