The author is senior technologist at NPR Labs. A new form of audio measurement is poised to invade North American control rooms and studios: loudness-based metering. It is one of the most fundamental ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thanks to the ITU-R BS.1770 multichannel loudness algorithm, audio is the new Cinderella. As ...

MARY GRUSZKA As live audio mixers or post-production editors, we are accustomed to using VU meters or peak program meters (PPMs) to set and maintain desired levels. But now with the CALM Act on the ...

DK-Technologies announces compact audio loudness meter The latest addition to the Danish manufacturer’s range of high-end audio and video metering products is the DK Meter, which has been designed to ...

To engineers in the audio media and broadcasting fields, few subjects are more personal, and partisan, than the transmission level and loudness of audio content. If loudness was no issue we might see ...