Good Software Metering System?

[mark4man]

People,

Have been metering all my final mix bounces in WaveLab to get the peaks & RMS just right before sending a burn off to the CD replication house.

Now I find out that WaveLab's "VU Meter", as part of their Level/Pan Meter (which measures the RMS), doesn't conform to AES-17 specs; & is in fact 3.01 dB lower in it's RMS display!

Can someone recommend me a good (& AES-17 accurate) software metering system?

I've heard a lot of good things about Spectrafoo, but have some budget constraints at the same time. Is there anything as good (perhaps with primarily more metering & less analysis) for less money?

Any info will be appreciated.

Thanks,

mark4man

 

[fenix]

what the hell is AES-17?

I've found most commercial rock cds register an RMS of -9 to -8 in wavelab.