Cakewalk's Metering does it apply today?

[jesse g]

This is an old article from Sound on Sound Magazine that was done by the wonderful Craig Anderton,  who is much respected in the Cakewalk Community.

Reading this made me want to change the way I use my CbB meters.

Cakewalk Metering

[Shane_B.]

CbB's don't really apply to modern standards. I use them as basic input level rough guides but I use 3rd party stuff for mixing and mastering in my tiny little home studio world.

Studio One is set up great for mixing and mastering and to be honest that's what I use 99.9% of the time now.

Because of online streaming service compression and the way most of us share music now it's more important than ever to get levels in a happy place.

[InstrEd]

4 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

levels in a happy place.

Wait you're saying Levels have a happy place?   Is it vertical or horizontal

[craigb]

1 hour ago, InstrEd said:

Wait you're saying Levels have a happy place?   Is it vertical or horizontal

Depends on if you're on the level or not. ?

[InstrEd]

3 minutes ago, craigb said:

Depends on if you're on the level or not. ?

I'm taking the fifth on that one ?

[craigb]

24 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

I'm taking the fifth on that one ?

Wow, that's like the whole booze bottle! ?

[Fwrend]

 

21 minutes ago, craigb said:

Depends on if you're on the level or not. ?

You can always tell when a man is on the level if his bubble's in the middle!

[paulo]

7 minutes ago, Fwrend said:

You can always tell when a man is on the level if his bubble's in the middle!

And you can tell that the stage is level when the drummer is drooling from both sides of his mouth.