A little unclear on RMS
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:57 am
Har-Bal
I just purchased your product last week and have been getting to grips with it. I think I understand everything except the RMS bit. I have read all the guidance you have written and am still unclear on the RMS piece.
For example:
I load a mixed wave file into Har-Bal, I then load contemporary reference and adjust Har-Bal's lines to match. This is fine. I then do match loudness and it moves the gain up by 4db (can't remember exact figure, but assume that for now). I make a note of it and set gain back to 0dB and export new_eq.wav file.
I then open up SX3 and load new_eq.wav file. I have Waves Platinum edition so I use L2 limiter and set limit to -0.1dB. I am not going to use Compression as only vocals, strings and guitars.
I pull down the L2 left panel slider until it sounds louder but not squashed. But it is as this point I am unclear where the 4dB difference comes in or where I check RMS level. What I did do was to user the PAZ Meters that comes with Waves Platinum and this has an RMS blue meter in the middle, so what I did was ensure the peak of this RMS meter was around -10 to -11dB. Is that enough or have I missed something?
Thanks in advance.
Antony Richards
Carillon P4, 2.6GHz, 1GB RAM (XP SP1)
Aardvark Q10 (7.13)
MIDEX 3 (1.6.1)
Roland SC-88
Cubase SX v3.0.2.622
Halion 3.1.0.947, VG (Electric)
Waves v5.0, RMIV v4.1.2, Autotune 3, HarBal 1.51, Jamstix 1.01c
I just purchased your product last week and have been getting to grips with it. I think I understand everything except the RMS bit. I have read all the guidance you have written and am still unclear on the RMS piece.
For example:
I load a mixed wave file into Har-Bal, I then load contemporary reference and adjust Har-Bal's lines to match. This is fine. I then do match loudness and it moves the gain up by 4db (can't remember exact figure, but assume that for now). I make a note of it and set gain back to 0dB and export new_eq.wav file.
I then open up SX3 and load new_eq.wav file. I have Waves Platinum edition so I use L2 limiter and set limit to -0.1dB. I am not going to use Compression as only vocals, strings and guitars.
I pull down the L2 left panel slider until it sounds louder but not squashed. But it is as this point I am unclear where the 4dB difference comes in or where I check RMS level. What I did do was to user the PAZ Meters that comes with Waves Platinum and this has an RMS blue meter in the middle, so what I did was ensure the peak of this RMS meter was around -10 to -11dB. Is that enough or have I missed something?
Thanks in advance.
Antony Richards
Carillon P4, 2.6GHz, 1GB RAM (XP SP1)
Aardvark Q10 (7.13)
MIDEX 3 (1.6.1)
Roland SC-88
Cubase SX v3.0.2.622
Halion 3.1.0.947, VG (Electric)
Waves v5.0, RMIV v4.1.2, Autotune 3, HarBal 1.51, Jamstix 1.01c