User Manual

Preparing to Capture Audio
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Opening the Audio Tool
To open the Audio tool, do one of the following:
t Select Tools > Audio Tool.
t Click the Audio Tool button in the Capture tool.
The Audio tool opens and displays meters for two to sixteen channels, depending on the
configuration of your system.
Audio tool. Top, left to right: Reset Peak (RP) button, In/Out toggle buttons, Peak Hold (PH) Menu button. Left
display column: Digital scale (fixed). Right display column: Volume unit scale (adjustable).
Volume unit (VU)
scale (analog) to the
right of the meters
Displays a range of values that you can conform to the headroom
parameters of your source audio.
Meters Dynamically track audio levels for each channel as follows:
• Meters show green below the target reference level (default reference
level is –20 dB on the digital scale).
• Meters show yellow for the normal headroom range, above the
reference level to approximately –3 dB.
• Meters show red for peaks approaching overload, between –3 dB and
0 (zero) dB.
• Thin green lines at the bottom indicate signals below the display range.
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