New website resources

[SouthSIDE Glen]

New metering and gain staging and audio news tools

I have added two new free web resources to the IRN website.

The first is an interactive aqpp similar to the Interactive Frequency Chart, but this one has to do with Metering and Gain Structure in the recording process. Just click on the appropriate icon on the website to bring it up in a seperate pop up window. (My thanks to many fellow HR forum members for help with much of the information supplied in this app, including, but not limited to [in alphabetical order]: beck, bennychico, evm1024, Falken, Farview, flatfinger, Massive Master, masteringhouse, mshilarious, ofajen, pipeline audio, Sonic Albert, sonixx, snow lizard and xstatic. If I forgot someone's name, it's not on purpose, and I apologize.)

The second is a live newsfeed aggregator news ticker application for recording and music industry news. This application runs directly on the IRN main page. As of this writing, the tickers should be fully functional, but the news will be updated only once or twice a day. As soon as I get one or two final bugs worked out in the script over the next few days, the news will automatically update 6 times a day to ensure the freshest headlines.

Please have at them, and let me know of any questions or problems you may have with these new toys. Thanks, and enjoy!

G.

 

[Sloan]

Cool, I'm checking it out now.

 

[snow lizard]

I found some things I'm not quite convinced of in the Metering and Gain Structure feature.

In the "The VU Meter" blurb around half way down:

The idea here is simple. The individual pieces of gear (EQ, compressors, mixers, etc.) are designed for certain to operate to their specified design at or near their standard line level. They can operate fine anywhere between the noise floor and some point several decibels above line level before the signal starts distorting, but they are for sure meant to operate they way they are meant to at line level.

are typically typically calibrated

In the "Converting analog levels to digital values" section, close to the bottom:

In such a case, one can test their converter by sending a nominal 0VU signal into the analog line input of the converter. (A 1kHz sine wave is perfect for an accurate version of this test, but any signal averaging right near the 0VU mark will surve to get us a "close enough' reading.)

I didn't have much of a problem with anything that wasn't a typo.

This is a good guide to understanding more about signal levels. It's much better than "hot as you can without clipping". Thanks Glen!

Yellow is the new red!


sl

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Me??? Typos???? NEVER!!!!

Tanks four the proof reed, show blizzard. Doze tyops hav now bean korrektud .

I must spread some rep around before giving it to snow lizard again. IOU.

G.