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Best LUFS Meter

Post by jerryjennings » Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:26 pm

I'm trying to use Luna for all my mixing now, and I don't have my Logic loudness meter in there, so I'm going to have to buy one it looks like. Any favorites?
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Re: Best LUFS Meter

Post by lesmac » Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:38 pm

Check out Youlean loudness meter free.

https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/

I have that [because it's free] but use Waves Loudness Meter Plus. It has a true peak limiter built in to catch any overs if you activate it.

https://www.waves.com/plugins/wlm-loudn ... eaming-wlm

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Re: Best LUFS Meter

Post by gitanosoy » Wed Mar 17, 2021 5:26 pm

jerryjennings wrote:
Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:26 pm
I'm trying to use Luna for all my mixing now, and I don't have my Logic loudness meter in there, so I'm going to have to buy one it looks like. Any favorites?
Thanks, J
The Multimeter also has the LUFS on the side, don't know how accurate is it of if Luna doesn't have that either...just throwing it out there.

Curious as to why using LUNA for mixing?

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Re: Best LUFS Meter

Post by jerryjennings » Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:39 pm

lesmac wrote:
Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:38 pm
Check out Youlean loudness meter free.

https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/

I have that [because it's free] but use Waves Loudness Meter Plus. It has a true peak limiter built in to catch any overs if you activate it.

https://www.waves.com/plugins/wlm-loudn ... eaming-wlm
Thanks, I will probably go with the freebee, It actually looks pretty cool, and I don't already own waves loudness meter.
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Re: Best LUFS Meter

Post by jerryjennings » Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:45 pm

gitanosoy wrote:
Wed Mar 17, 2021 5:26 pm
jerryjennings wrote:
Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:26 pm
I'm trying to use Luna for all my mixing now, and I don't have my Logic loudness meter in there, so I'm going to have to buy one it looks like. Any favorites?
Thanks, J
Curious as to why using LUNA for mixing?
I'm trying to learn luna, because I bought the Neve summing and I want to put it to use. They didn't make it a regular plugin that will work in other daw's. I've tried using Luna for tracking and editing, and man. It's just too different from what I've done since 86, which is Logic. So I figure I'll do all the front end work in Logic, and then export processed tracks to Luna for mastering. Not mixing so much I guess, since I'm printing the tracks with plugins engaged. So mainly I'm just running tape, summing, and all the 2-bus stuff in Luna.
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Re: Best LUFS Meter

Post by LarryR » Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:03 am

Another recommendation for Waves WLM plus. It always works very well for me for several years now.

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Post by NMN » Thu May 20, 2021 7:33 pm

jerryjennings wrote:
Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:26 pm
I'm trying to use Luna for all my mixing now, and I don't have my Logic loudness meter in there, so I'm going to have to buy one it looks like. Any favorites?
Thanks, J
I have been using Youlean and it's fantastic. I also like Expose from MasteringTheMix.com. I think it is standalone only and not VST though. It has less features than YouLean but it has the ability to give you quick track comparison and gives some basic tips and guidelines about how loud your track should be based on the type of song.

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Re: Best LUFS Meter

Post by cosmicdolphin » Fri May 21, 2021 1:39 am

jerryjennings wrote:
Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:45 pm
So mainly I'm just running tape, summing, and all the 2-bus stuff in Luna.
That's a hell of a workflow killer ...jeez. I'd never get anything done if I had to swap DAWs to mix. What happens when a library want a few changes ? You have to go back to Logic, then export it all back out to Luna again ? You know there's probably a regular plugin that will run Logic that will sound just as good as Neve Summing without all the faffing around. SOS Mag are listing their 100 top plugins as rated by their review guys this month, there's quite a few tape /summing plugins listed.

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Re: Best LUFS Meter

Post by jerryjennings » Fri May 21, 2021 9:11 am

Yea I've totally get what you're saying. I like the no-fuss no muss aspect of a simple rendering. But it's kind of an investment in time learning Luna, because if they ever get the front end of Luna right, then I'll just do the whole project in it.
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Re: Best LUFS Meter

Post by cosmicdolphin » Fri May 21, 2021 11:49 am

jerryjennings wrote:
Fri May 21, 2021 9:11 am
Yea I've totally get what you're saying. I like the no-fuss no muss aspect of a simple rendering. But it's kind of an investment in time learning Luna, because if they ever get the front end of Luna right, then I'll just do the whole project in it.
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