27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
5:57 a.m.
On Wednesday 26 September 2012 23:48:57 Fons Adriaensen did opine:
[...]
All very true. But that's no reason to claim that
something that
just looks a bit like a VU meter but behaves *very* differently
actually is a VU meter. Same for the PPMs.
No argument here. Most are better than nothing, but still lie like a rug
under dynamic conditions.
The code to this correctly has been available and GPL
licensed for
4 or 5 years now (jmeters), so there's no excuse.
I wasn't aware of that bit of code, thanks Fons.
Now that I've been retired for over a decade, lots of that stuff goes right
on by I'm sorry to say. What does it use for its A/D converter? Not all
audio cards have sufficient depth to pull that off w/o the converter
showing what a POC it is if the input level is off 3 to 6 db from ideal.
My audigy2 value I would call just usable with its 24 bit range.
Ciao,
Cheers, Gene
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