Fons Adriaensen wrote: thanks - very nice indeed. i have immediately ditched my old reference meter [1] after trying this one. can i humbly request configurable correlation meters for the next release? it would be really useful to have one for each W/X, W/Y and W/Z (for "forwardness", "rightness" and "upness" :) btw: having worked with calibrated monitors for a week now, i can warmly recommend this practise for everyone doing serious audio work. the k meter is really really useful to judge loudness, and it will give you a constant reference which you will internalize after a while. if people can have perfect pitch, why not train perfect loudness? imagine being able to tell your fellow golden-eared friends "not only is it concert a and slightly flat, it's also 76 dB SPL" :-D best, jörn [1] an obscure product called jmeter-0.1.0 :-D -- jörn nettingsmeier home://germany/45128 essen/lortzingstr. 11/ http://spunk.dnsalias.org phone://+49/201/491621 Kurt is up in Heaven now.

Fons Adriaensen wrote: sorry for being unclear, i was joking with words... what i'm looking for is exactly the behaviour i get from a stereo correlation meter (or the W-X one for that matter), where negative means out-of-phase, zero means mono and positive means stereo'ish. my intent is to be able to tell at a glance whether a signal has lots of X, Y, or Z information. for instance, i would expect the Y and Z meters to linger around 0 for an open-air recording of a single musician at the same elevation as the microphone. Z would move to 1 when a plane flies overhead (or a subway rumbles below), and Y would indicate sounds coming from off the median plane. regards, jörn -- jörn nettingsmeier home://germany/45128 essen/lortzingstr. 11/ http://spunk.dnsalias.org phone://+49/201/491621 Kurt is up in Heaven now.