Metering question

[alesalazarmusic]

I was watching a video and the producer/engineer showed how to set up the "metering" track (but didn't explain why it was needed). Something I haven't been using in my "newbie" recordings. What does metering do?, and why would I want to create a "metering track"?

Thanks for your input.

Ale

 

[Creamyapples1]

He must have been one of those, mix-by-sight guys. Don't pay attention to them. If your meters are in the red, that's usually not good (but not always).

 

[Kingofpain678]

mix by sight? you mean like... mixing songs based on the size of the waveforms of the tracks?

 

[solaris1982]

Not necessarily the waveform size. "Mixing by sight" usually is mixing so that everything is as close to 0db as possible (usually after being smashed into oblivion with a compressor/limiter).

 

[alesalazarmusic]

Gracias

thanks for the reply...don't need the metering is the bottom line...I like it!

Gracias