Chapter 13. Metering; Channel Meters - DigiDesign D-show Manual

Chapter 13: Metering
D-Show provides signal metering on the control surface chan-
nels and meter bridge, and on-screen.

Channel Meters

All control surface channel meters have on-screen equivalents
that appear in both the targeted channel controls and just
above the faders in the channel overview.
Meter ballistics and clip margin can be set for channel meters.
For more information, see "Metering Options" on page 99.
Input Channels and FX Returns
Input Level Meters
Each Input Channel and FX Return channel strip has a 10-seg-
ment bi-color Input Level meter.
Channel Input Level
meter
Channel Input Level meter
The 10 bi-color LEDs on the Input Level meters show input
levels from bottom to top, according to the following scale:
Channel Input Level meter scale
LED Level
1 (top) 15 dB
2 9 dB
3 6 dB
4 3 dB
5 0 dB
6 –3 dB
Channel Input Level meter scale
LED
7
8
9
10 (bottom)
Dynamics Gain Reduction Meters
Each Input Channel and FX Return channel strip has two gain
reduction meters that show the amount of gain reduction ap-
plied by the built-in Compressor/Limiter (6-segment meter) or
Expander/Gate (3-segment meter).
Compressor/Limiter Meter
Channel Compressor/Limiter meter
The 6 LEDs on the Compressor/Limiter meter show gain re-
duction levels from right to left, according to the following
scale:
Channel Compressor/Limiter gain reduction meter scale
LED
Color
(none)
Yellow
1 (right)
Yellow
2
Yellow
3
Yellow
4
Green
5
Green
6 (left)
Level Color
–6 dB Green
–9 dB Green
–12 dB Green
–30 dB Green
Channel Compressor/Limiter
gain reduction meter
Gain Reduction Color
0 dB (none)
3 dB Green
6 dB Green
9 dB Green
12 dB Green
15 dB Green
21 dB Red
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