I recently got myself into a deep-dive regarding metering after watching a YouTube video about using a VU meter for gain staging. Once I started looking into it I immediately started having a million questions and there's a lot of things here that aren't quite making sense to me.
But to keep it simple to start, here's something that I don't understand.
I have a Luna session with a single mono track and the MAIN bus. There is nothing on the MAIN bus, no summing, tape, console, or inserts. On the track I put the eMo signal generator from Waves and set it up with a 1kHz sine wave at a gain value of -12 dB.
Once that is generating a tone I see that the meter on the track shows exactly -12. But the master fader shows exactly -15. Why?
But to keep it simple to start, here's something that I don't understand.
I have a Luna session with a single mono track and the MAIN bus. There is nothing on the MAIN bus, no summing, tape, console, or inserts. On the track I put the eMo signal generator from Waves and set it up with a 1kHz sine wave at a gain value of -12 dB.
Once that is generating a tone I see that the meter on the track shows exactly -12. But the master fader shows exactly -15. Why?
