[LAD] audio meters nostalgia

[Florian Schmidt]

On Saturday 12 April 2008, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> The PPM is a pseudo-peak meter. It will indicate 80% of
> the steady-state value for a 10ms burst, and fall by 24db
> in 2.8s. Each scale division (1..7) represents 4dB. It is
> calibrated to indicate '7' (+12 dB on the EBU scale) for
> 0dB FS.

Excuse my ignorance, but what's a steady-state value?

Thanks,
Flo


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